A Dalit scholar’s death and Brahmin dominance at India’s premier science institute
For last week’s Common Ground story, Nolina Minj visited Vidyasagar University in West Bengal’s Midnapore district. Thirty years ago, a trailblazing Adivasi scholar named Chuni Kotal had died by suicide while enrolled in a master’s programme at the university, and Minj sought to understand if and how the campus had changed in the intervening years.
