SUDIPTO MONDAL is a Bangalore-based investigative journalist who reports on caste, communalism and corruption, and Executive Editor at The News Minute. A graduate of the Asian College of Journalism, he was a former reporter with The Hindu, and the Dalit Camera. Currently he is writing a book on the death of the Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula and the 25-year history of the organisation to which he belonged, the Ambedkar Students' Association (ASA). His reporting has appeared in The New York Times, Al-Jazeera, The Hindu, The Print, Hindustan Times, and many other outlets.