[WSMDiscuss] Caste- A Deeper Malaise

[Umakant]

Dear Friends

Greetings! Themillennia old caste system continues with its nefarious designs ofdiscriminating, excluding and even resorting to violence without anycompunction against the low caste Dalits, Adivasis (indigenous people). Thoughthe form and degree/magnitude may vary from place to place, but the bitter truthof casteism reigns everywhere in this sub-continent.   

 

Do pass it on toothers in your circle/network. 

 

ATROCITIESAGAINST DALITS: A Deeper Malaise

ILANGOVANRAJASEKARAN, Frontline Magazine, Print edition : May 22, 2020

https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/article31536337.ece

 

Thecoronavirus scare has not deterred casteist forces in Tamil Nadufrom committing atrocities against the marginalised, especially against Dalits.While the quantum spike in COVID-19 cases is worrying for health officials, thesharp escalation of caste-based atrocities is disturbing, say sociologists. 

 

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‘Stigmatised,ostracised’: Sanitation workers in Tamil Nadu battle COVID-19

Bharathi SP, The NewsMinute, May 06, 2020 

https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/stigmatised-ostracised-sanitation-workers-tamil-nadu-battle-covid-19-124052

 

In recent days, manysanitation workers have tested positive for COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu. Withcontract jobs and no pay during recovery, the workers battle societal stigmaand ostracisation.

 

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When ItComes to Dalit and Tribal Rights, the Judiciary in India Just Does Not Get It

Anurag Bhaskar, Opinion, The Wire, May 03,2020 

https://thewire.in/law/when-it-comes-to-dalit-and-tribal-rights-the-judiciary-in-india-just-does-not-get-it

 

Instead ofquestioning why the abolition of untouchability has failed in India, the apexcourt has upheld and reiterated false stereotypes against Dalits and Adivasis.

 

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TheHistory of Caste Has Lessons on the Dangers of Social Distancing

Charu Gupta, K Satyanarayana and S. Shankar,Opinion, The Wire, May 01, 2020 

The History of Caste Has Lessons on the Dangers of Social Distancing


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Social distancingsignals a separation, an alienation, founded on nearness and farness, inclusionand exclusion, inside and outside, purity and pollution, home and world. 

 

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With Regards

Umakant,Ph. D 

New Delhi

 










My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can lose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality. 
B.R.Ambedkar
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