If IITs had more Dalit professors, would Aniket Ambhore be alive?

Some high-caste professors consider Dalit students 'uneducable', wrote educationist Kurmana Simha

In March 2012, Sanjay and Sunita Ambhore, parents of Aniket Ambhore, 19, a first-year electrical engineering student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B), received a letter informing them that their son–admitted on a scheduled caste (SC) quota–had failed two courses.

Concerned, the Ambhores–Sanjay, a bank manager, is a dalit from Akola district, Maharashtra, Sunita, a junior-college lecturer, is not–met one of Aniket’s professors, who told them their son could not cope with IIT workload and would be happy in “normal” engineering colleges (with lower standards). He implied, they said, that scheduled caste students took up