Dr Payal Tadvi committed suicide exactly a week ago. She was a postgraduate student in Obstetrics & Gynecology. Investigation is going on about the death. There are quotes from family members that she was being harassed on the basis of caste by seniors. Those seniors have written their side blaming workload. (Please go through the links if you do not know the details) Let us leave them aside and ask ourselves a few questions now. Is their discrimination in medical colleges? There is. All kinds of it. Economic capacity. Skin tone. Age. Seniority. Language. Region. Residence in the state where the medical college is in. Category of seat. Every damn kind of discrimination. There is discrimination in medical colleges. Is their caste-based discrimination in medical colleges? I think the answer is yes. I haven't seen much first hand. But, there is definitely discrimination based on reservation. And since reservation is based on caste, it can indirectly be told that th
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