New Delhi (AFP) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid an emotional tribute Friday to a young scholar from India's lowest Dalit caste who committed suicide last week, a death some have blamed on social discrimination.
Modi said India had "lost a son" when Rohith Vemula, a 26-year-old doctoral student, was found hanged Sunday after he was barred from some parts of Hyderabad University campus.
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