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133/ Overcoming the Trauma of Caste w/ Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Rhythima Shinde and Vivek Ramachandran

The Fire These Times

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The Power of Naming

There is a deep taboo of talking about caste, naming how virulent and pervasive it is in our communities. So for your audience that has never heard about the term caste or the term Dalit, you know, caste is a system of exclusion. People who had done crimes in past lives were seen as wretched and therefore deserving of being born as untouchable Or spiritually defiling to other people because of those crimes.

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