| Summary/Abstract |
This paper is being written against the backdrop of the traumatic
incident of Rohith Vemula’s suicide (17 January 2016)1
that has unleashed
in the media, on the one hand, a national debate on the implications of
being a Dalit in India at present, whereas, on the other, it has blazed a
trail of mutually competing, contesting, converging, condemnatory and
opportunistic views and voices sometimes marked by either grotesque
display of political correctness and sheer opportunism ranging from
revising the ogre of the caste-system and its inner contradictions,
“instant vilification” of almost all Hindus, Hinduism and the ruling party
of the day, the BJP, for all the ills and evils emanating from the castesystem,
conduct of the political establishment and the brazen
politicization of the Rohith-suicide case etc.
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