On June 30, 2015 we shared the story of over 'Sociology in Contemporary India' is an interdisciplinary subject for honours' students in many DU colleges.

Last year, students staged a protest at the Dean of Students' Welfare's office asking for re-evaluation and publishing the new results promptly so that there would be a closure, and to help those who are planning to pursue post-graduate courses.

Delhi University's examination head Satish Kumar had said the authorities will look into the matter and error, if any, will be rectified. University published the revised results after re-evaluation in mid-July 2015, and only 6 more students had passed the exam.

It's been over eight months since the incident and the media has forgotten the issue. But the students have not! They are the ones who went through various struggles, including clinical depression, for they could not chase their dreams, thanks to that one paper they failed in.

One of those 400 students, Apaar Sharma wrote an open letter on Facebook yesterday, addressed to the family and friends of all those Sociology professors of Delhi University, who failed them last year.

Apaar Sharma in the letter grieved about the 'injustice' that came in the form of an academic failure that affected more than 400 final-year students and highlighted what all the students went through.

With entrances and interviews of post-graduate courses around, the students were burdened with an additional tension of even being eligible to sit for those. The students made rounds to their colleges and teachers promised they would write to the University. They filled the re-evaluation form but urgently needed the revised results to appear for the entrances for further studies.

"The re-evaluated result is declared months after filling the form. If we waited for it, we would have jeopardized our admissions in the master's course," wrote Apaar, a student of English Literature in Shivaji College.

After visiting the Department of Sociology and Vice Chancellor's office, they still did not get respond. "We emailed to the Vice Chancellor, the Chief Justice of India and the Prime Minister to take cognizance of this grave injustice but no one extended a helping hand," said Apaar in the letter.

The students went on a protest under the raging sun seeking the revised results in 7 days. They were 'cordoned off' by the police. "My body ached and I wanted to cry because a feeling of despair consumed me that nothing right was happening," he grieved.

The dean paid heed to the issue only when the students protesting hindered the process of new admissions in DU. Malay Neerav, the Joint Dean of the Student's Welfare and Media Co-coordinator of Delhi University, assured the students the re-evaluation will be given priority and the results will be out in a week.

Malay Neerav, even promised the tensed students a letter stating the revised results are in process so that they could produce it at the time of interviews. But things didn't change. Apaar writes, "We realized the University had made a fool of us and had curbed the protest so it could carry out the admission process without any hassle from us".

The results were not out even after a week.

Citing an example of the emotional turmoil the students, he mentioned about a friend who cracked the written examination and interview for post-graduation course in the prestigious National Institute of Fashion Technology. But her world went upside down when she was refused the letter promised earlier.

"She couldn't help but cry in the Dean's office as the man before her refused to give her the letter he had promised a week ago. She had to withdraw her admission from NIFT."

After re-evaluation, only 6 more students passed. The students who wanted to pursue a masters in English could not sit for the exam. "They had to take up jobs in call centres and start-ups," said the letter.

Apaar took admission in Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, but he will not receive his journalism diploma if he is unable to present the graduation degree before mid-February, this year. "I cannot even explain how frustrating it is that our lives have shrunken around a single issue and now it has begun to define us," wrote the troubled student.

He has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court against University of Delhi.

"Social media is used as a medium of self-expression and my friends have lost this ability. They are insecure and lack confidence... It may seem innocuous or even ludicrous but it has deeper psychological implications," reads the letter.

Apparently, a student attempted suicide and was in ICU for almost a week because of this issue.

"The examiners who checked our copies and failed us even though we had written ample to pass, are not just respectable professors in an elite university - they are also murderers of our careers, our ambitions and our dreams."

He speaks for hundreds of students who were unable pursue their post-graduation this year, and for those who couldn't stand it and went into depression.

"I'm telling you all this because you should know that they have blood on their hands. They are responsible for a 21-year-old who tried to kill self and struggled between life and death in a hospital ward."



Delhi University, we hope you're listening!