In India, however, dormitories remain segregated along caste lines and personal choices like food and sexuality is heavily policed. Dorms become a space to promote hatred, humiliation and fear to Dalit students instead of becoming a collaborative space of diverse ideas confronting the caste problem. One hardly notices dominant-caste students advocating for social change and becoming the banner holder of the annihilation of caste movement. Sensitization of Dalit lives and problems relating to caste is not in the purview of the university administration and neither in the student groups. A Dalit
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