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Prof Rafi remembered by students of sociology department on first death anniversary

Srinagar: The students and scholars of Kashmir University’s Sociology Department on Tuesday assembled to pay tributes to professor Rafi, who was killed on May 6 last year in district Shopian in a gun fight with the Armed forces.

Reports said that many students spoke on this occasion on the theme “We Remember! We Resist!”, which was organized by the students of the department in memory of slain professor.

Rafi was awarded the PhD by Kashmir University in November 2017, on his thesis on ‘Globalisation and Emerging Trends in Consumerism: A Comprehensive Study of Rural and Urban Kashmir’ and was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology.

Rafi had qualified the National Eligibility Test (NET) twice and was also a Junior Research Fellow (JRF).

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