"Professor Surya taught us resilience, integrity, and courage. Today, we stand by him with unshakeable respect, gratitude, and solidarity," the students and alumni told OpIndia
Professor Doolla's suspension from the key administrative position was communicated to students via an email by IIT Bombay Director Professor Shireesh Kedare on Monday.
The dexterity at which a caste discrimination spin has been given to the suicide of a Dalit student who was caught cheating during the exam at IIT Bombay, has reignited the debate around the Leftist ideological takeover of India's premier technical institutions.
In 2023, the Centre revealed that 61 students had died by suicide across IITs, NITs, and IIMs during the preceding five years. A closer look at the caste-based breakup of these 61 deaths dismantles the idea that suicides are exclusive to any single community.
A source who was on the IIT-Bombay campus told OpIndia, "A lot of students, about 200-300, are here at the main gate. They are trying to block the road and the main gate, and get the administration to listen. And they are asking the Director to come and hear them. This is happening right now."
After Arman Iqbal's role in the unfortunate death of Darshan Solanki emerged, the leftist cabal that was lampooning the ‘caste discrimination’ theory went into hiding.
The cybercriminal posing as IIT Bombay professor had assured that on 28th August, there would be a meeting in Pune to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU). However, the meeting did not happen.
A poster of the contentious workshop was shared on X (formerly Twitter) by columnist Harshil Mehta, which depicted a so-called 'pyramid of capitalist India.' One section of the pyramid, which read 'We fool you', had caricatures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.