A little over two years ago, in December 2013, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen was invited by the University of Hyderabad (UoH) to accept an honorary doctorate and deliver a talk on an esoteric subject: "Are Coffee Houses Important for Education?" But protesting students — mainly dalits — would just not allow Sen to talk on this subject. Holding placards and armed with black bands, the students declared that the Nobel laureate rather speak on discrimination against dalits on university campuses even as cries of "Jai Bheem" and "They want us to die" rent the auditorium.



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