The village elders ruled that the boy had touched the pole connected to the idol of Sidiranna, a prominent south Indian village deity, during a procession and the idol …
Tag: untouchability
Dalit Villagers Wanted to Present a Coin to the President. The State Stopped Them.
Thousands of Dalit people funded a symbolic gesture of gifting the Indian parliament a 10-tonne coin calling for the realisation of Ambedkar's dream of untouchability-free India. They were stopped …
The Color of My Blood
The poet writes about caste discrimination.
The Idea of a Republic is Just an Abstract One
The state of the nation is such that we have devolved from “for, of, by the people” towards “far, off, buy the people”.