From: INSIGHT <insightjnu@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:12 PM
Subject: The Death of Merit: Manish Kumar (IIT Roorkee) [A New Documentary]
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The Death of Merit: Manish Kumar (IIT Roorkee) [A Documentary]
Manish Kumar Guddolian, 20 years of age, was pursuing his IInd year, Integrated Dual Degree Programme, Department of Computer Science & Information Technology, at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee.
The only son of a Junior Warrant Officer at Indian Air Force, Manish committed 'suicide' by jumping off from 5th floor of his hostel on 6th February, 2011.
The documentary is based on the testimonies of Manish's parents and other family members who have yet to come in terms with his death and are fighting against the collective might of IIT Roorkee and Roorkee Police that, as usual, want to relegate their child's death to 'a weak student getting depressed for not able to cope up with rigorous academic environment of highly competitive IITs' .
However the truth is Manish committed suicide, unable to bear the constant castetist assaults and abuses by his own batch-mates, criminal attitude of his hostel warden and IIT Administration that instead of acting on his complaints forced him to live outside IIT Roorkee, and perhaps also due to the complete shattering of his faith on IIT Administration that was supposed to treat all its students as equals and without using caste-lenses.
Watch the documentary at www.thedeathofmeritinindia.wordpress.com
--
Palash Biswas
Pl Read:
http://nandigramunited-banga.blogspot.com/
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