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Yashica Dutt on Coming Out as Dalit

Ideas of India

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What Are Some of the Experiences of Discrimination That Your Grandfather Had?

The identity of being a bungy person in that time invites many kinds of violence. My grandfather is now in his late eighties, and his career has been fraught with instances off cast discrimination. I can tell you how my great grandfather was forced to scrawl in the mud and learn how to write the letter because he wasn't allowed to touch a slate. How when we moved into a middle class colony in 19 seventi 19 eighties, before i was born, the discrimination that we faced from the neighbors. It's really difficult to capcilate one or two high lighted experiences of discrimination when your entire existence as a dullet person who is not in the cast ordained professionAs

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