{"id":1162,"date":"2017-03-13T22:52:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T17:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2017-03-13T22:52:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T17:22:29","slug":"25-year-old-dalit-mphil-student-jnu-commits-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/25-year-old-dalit-mphil-student-jnu-commits-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"25 year old Dalit MPhil student from JNU commits suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muthukrishanan Jeevanantham (Rajni Krish), a 25-year-old 1st year MPhil student of Centre for Historical Studies at JNU, has reportedly committed suicide at a friend&#8217;s house in Munirka Vihar in Delhi. Last year, on 17 January 2016, yet another Dalit Scholar, Rohith Vemula had committed suicide in University of Hyderabad. Another JNU student, Pallikonda Manikanta, wrote the following at 6:43 p.m on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bahujanjnu\/posts\/1211572448898012\" target=\"_blank\">his Facebook profile<\/a>. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1164\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/25-year-old-dalit-mphil-student-jnu-commits-suicide\/selection_13_03_2017_015\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1164\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_015-1024x269.jpg\" alt=\"Rajni Krish committed suicide. Not able to inform anything. DNT know wat to write. V r at munirka vihar\" width=\"640\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_015-1024x269.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_015-300x79.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_015-768x202.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_015-696x183.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_015-1068x280.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_015.jpg 1207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rajni Krish committed suicide. Not able to inform anything. DNT know wat to write. V r at munirka vihar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At 7:05 p.m. Pallikonda wrote again on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bahujanjnu\/posts\/1211583472230243\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> stating that Police were taking away Krish&#8217;s body and that his family&#8217;s contact numbers were needed urgently.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1165\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/25-year-old-dalit-mphil-student-jnu-commits-suicide\/selection_13_03_2017_016\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1165\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_016-1024x212.jpg\" alt=\"Hcu friends , we are in need of contact numbers of krish&#039;s family. Urgently. Plz help. Police are taking the dead body\" width=\"640\" height=\"133\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_016-1024x212.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_016-300x62.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_016-768x159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_016-696x144.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_016-1068x221.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_016.jpg 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hcu friends , we are in need of contact numbers of krish&#8217;s family. Urgently. Plz help. Police are taking the dead body<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Krish&#8217;s last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=1945753072314475&#038;set=a.1514316712124782.1073741838.100006394021489&#038;type=3&#038;theater\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook post<\/a> on March 10th, 3 days before his death, he had written about the inquality in admission procedure and how students are denied a place to protest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"important\">\nThere is no Equality in M.phil\/phd Admission, there is no equalitiy in Viva \u2013 voce, there is only denial of equality, denying prof. Sukhadeo thorat recommendation, denying Students protest places in Ad \u2013 block, denying the education of the Marginal\u2019s. When Equality is denied everything is denied.<\/div>\n<p>In yet another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=1827889954100788&#038;set=a.1375126126043842.1073741825.100006394021489&#038;type=3\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook post<\/a> on July 26, 2016, he had written about how difficult it was for him to get into JNU.<\/p>\n<div class=\"important\">\nThis is my 4rth year visit to JNU.<br \/>\nThree times I wrote JNU &#8211; M.A Entrance<br \/>\n2 Times I wrote JNU M.phil\/PhD Entrance<br \/>\n2 Times I attend the interview\u2026<br \/>\nYou know what\u2026.<br \/>\nFirst two times I did not learnt English properly<br \/>\nBut I tried because I just don\u2019t want to give up..<br \/>\nEvery year to visit JNU I worked many menial jobs<br \/>\nSaved the money like ant\u2026 and begged people to get money..<br \/>\nI never eat in train.<br \/>\nfirst two time I visited from Tamilnadu<br \/>\nAnd next two visit from HCU<br \/>\nEvery year people used to wish me \u201cthis year you will get it\u201d.<br \/>\nI tried too, because<br \/>\nI just do not want to give up, and I always think,<br \/>\nHard work never fails..<br \/>\nEvery year I used to sit under Nehru statue, and I used to ask Nehru..<br \/>\nPlease Nehru Ji, we all from our family voting for congress..<br \/>\nWhy you don\u2019t want to educate me?<br \/>\nAnd last interview, after 11 minutes<br \/>\none madam told me I am speaking \u201csimple language\u201d<br \/>\nThis year in the interview 8 minutes I spoke, I answered all the question\u2026<br \/>\nThree professors told me that \u201c You spoke Well\u201d<br \/>\nNow I realized that<br \/>\nI am the only one from Government arts college<br \/>\nCame to study in central university<br \/>\nand I am the only one from salem district<br \/>\nGot selected in JNU<br \/>\nI am the only one from HCU got selected in Modern Indian history<br \/>\nThank you so much my supervisor B Eswar Bonela, He really found research<br \/>\nScholar inside me, He encouraged me to write my own proposal Which I wrote 38 times<br \/>\nthere is lot of people to thank<br \/>\nFor this historical moment,,, that is why I am going to write a Book<br \/>\n\u201cA JUNKET TO JNU\u2019\n<\/div>\n<p>Many people wrote heartfelt condolence messages on his Facebook Profile.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/25-year-old-dalit-mphil-student-jnu-commits-suicide\/selection_13_03_2017_020\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1168\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_020-1024x786.jpg\" alt=\"I knew you and I were both pretending you were ok day before yesterday, Krish Rajini and I had hoped that pretence would carry you, you said now that you were reunited with your guitar everything would be ok, you said the dark circles under your eyes was lack of sleep and you had grown scarily thin because of working out, then I knew you were pretending so I said macha you have to compile your writings and produce a book, it will be a big thing and we have to organize a book release, so you said yes I have to first do my studies, first time in this kind of higher education institute no?.. and I remember first time we met was not in hcu but in jnu when you had come for admission, you really wanted to be in jnu.. and your writings show your disillusionment growing with time.. I don&#039;t know what to say.. then you took selfie with us.. I thought ki ok we will meet soon, he says he will come visit me in haryana, He will be ok till then.. and now that same living nightmare is happening of running through the list of my suicidal friends and the calculation of whom do I need to call everyday.. whom can I call just once a week.. because I think they are better.. as I am typing one daily call level of suicidal friend is calling.. so I better stop..\" width=\"640\" height=\"491\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_020-1024x786.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_020-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_020-768x590.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_020-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_020-696x534.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_020-1068x820.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_020-547x420.jpg 547w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_020.jpg 1491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/25-year-old-dalit-mphil-student-jnu-commits-suicide\/selection_13_03_2017_018\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1166\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_018-1024x338.jpg\" alt=\"Krish Rajini you gave me strength that day when I was sitting near ad-block feeling low, because of my father&#039;s death. Now you have submitted to death. I have lost a dear friend and comrade in you. Can&#039;t forget the ever lively and funny that you were. Your death will not go in vein dear. Rest in Power dear.  \" width=\"640\" height=\"211\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_018-1024x338.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_018-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_018-768x254.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_018-696x230.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_018-1068x353.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_018-1271x420.jpg 1271w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_018.jpg 1498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/25-year-old-dalit-mphil-student-jnu-commits-suicide\/selection_13_03_2017_019\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1167\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_019-1024x292.jpg\" alt=\"In December, The last time I met you Macha, you were shouting &#039;Neruppu Da&#039; (I am fire Da). You are fire Krish Rajini and you will be remembered as fire! Brahmanvad, Jativad, Manuvad will burn in your fire!\" width=\"640\" height=\"183\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_019-1024x292.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_019-300x85.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_019-768x219.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_019-696x198.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_019-1068x304.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_019-1475x420.jpg 1475w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_019.jpg 1507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/25-year-old-dalit-mphil-student-jnu-commits-suicide\/selection_13_03_2017_021\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1169\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_021-1024x236.jpg\" alt=\"Krish Rajini now who will tell those stories of sorrow,pain, love and unfinished journeys? You simply buried thousands of unheard, unrecorded stories. I thought you will become an earthy story teller but you became a story..\" width=\"640\" height=\"148\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_021-1024x236.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_021-300x69.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_021-768x177.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_021-696x160.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_021-1068x246.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_13_03_2017_021.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muthukrishanan Jeevanantham (Rajni Krish), a 25-year-old 1st year MPhil student of Centre for Historical Studies at JNU, has reportedly committed suicide at a friend&#8217;s house in Munirka Vihar in Delhi. Last year, on 17 January 2016, yet another Dalit Scholar, Rohith Vemula had committed suicide in University of Hyderabad. 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