Even After a Century, Water Is Still the Marker of India’s Caste Society
For Dalits, water is not a natural beauty, the nectar of life or a life-nurturing agent, but a ‘caste burden’.
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For Dalits, water is not a natural beauty, the nectar of life or a life-nurturing agent, but a ‘caste burden’.
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 at Haryana’s borders.
As we celebrate the birth centenary of Tukaram (Annabhau Sathe) we not only see the relevance of his writings at that time but even today.
Rachakonda Viswanatha Sastri (Raavi Sastri) (30 July 1922 – 10 November 1993), India’s Gorky, was a great Telugu writer whose birth centenary celebrations are presently going on in Telugu states. Reviewing the works of Ravisastri is like doing a social audit, said one judge.
Gujarat’s Dalit rights leader Martin Macwan announces plan to begin a yatra to Delhi starting August 1 and hand over a huge 1,000 kg brass coin to the President for placing in the Parliament building as a reminder that even 75 years of independence India is not untouchability free.
His vision of working-class unity with an anti-caste core may or may not be realisable, but it is an important line of argument and action at the very least.
Dakshayani Velayudhan was the only dalit woman in the Indian Constituent Assembly. In this interview, her daughter and policy analyst, Meera Velayudhan remembers her mother and the varied ways in which she shaped the history of not just her community but also the nation.
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