IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode’s suicide has revived questions about caste discrimination, merit and student rights in India’s elite institutions. As allegations of harassment and casteist abuse emerge, the larger concern is whether campuses meant to nurture talent are becoming hostile spaces for marginalised students
Washington, D.C.: While the caste system originated in India, diaspora communities in the West have imported discriminatory practices and implemented them in their adopted...