"The suicide of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit research scholar at the University of Hyderabad, is yet another tragic testimony to the feudal passions of caste that roil India’s institutions of higher education, which are known to harbour delusions of being meritocracies." -THE HINDU Few months back, IIT Madras administration was also alleged by media houses for discrimination based on caste. Does casteism exist in premier institutes of higher education?