It was in April 2015 that journalist Nikhila Henry became friends with Rohith Vemula on Facebook. As she says, his online commentary from 2008 to 2016 covered everything from Gaza to Ghaziabad. In the process of editing this collection — Caste is not a Rumour: The Online Diary of Rohith Vemula — Henry realised that it was impossible to restrict his writings to a chronological framework, and so divided his writings into subjects and worldview.