Mihir S Sharma: Rohith Vemula's timeless timeline

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Once, when illustrious men died, the generations that followed them would scour their letters and their diaries for signifiers of greatness. We live, today, in a very different world. Few people under 40 have real diaries; even fewer write letters. What will we leave when we pass on? Surely, people ask, intellects wasted writing posts on Facebook and 140-character snark on Twitter will be remembered less than those in the past who put pen to paper? Perhaps not. Consider, for example, Rohith Vemula. The graduate student at the University of Hyderabad who killed himself in January this year ...

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Mihir S Sharma: Rohith Vemula's timeless timeline