Rohith Vemula’s family embraces Buddhism
The mother and brother of Rohith Vemula, the Dalit research scholar who killed himself at Hyderabad University earlier this year, on Thursday embraced Buddhism officially at a ceremony in Mumbai. "We are against the caste system in Hinduism and have, therefore, decided to embrace Buddhism which does not have such an oppressive system of castes," Rohith’s brother Raja Vemula said.