Our Rohit Vemulas
A colleague has destroyed careers of at least three students. This is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Two of the boys had confided in me. One wanted to join me for his research work and that was his mistake. The professor brought his grade in high energy physics paper down and pushed him out of consideration. He was stoic while reporting to me but I think he was fighting his tears. He is from the majority community. Second one must have said something positive about me and the professor brought him down, failed him, in the paper that he was teaching. Years after this boy is a man and he is writing very delusional emails to me, to that professor and to Nobel Laureates. Third is the case of a girl that I came to know from others. He saw to it that she did not get her MSc degree. My guess is that she must have resisted the trap of his charms and paid dearly and disappeared from the scene. I do not dig into his activities but he keeps a complete tab on mine. Of course our students have the protection of Islamic ethos from extreme steps. This is true even for non-Muslims students. The delusional one did ask me to help me but I did not intervene because the professor is extremely crafty and the student is very fickle minded.