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38: Ratnakumar - Changing Self, Changing World

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The Importance of Caste Discrimination in India

From my childhood I faced the caste discrimination that we were not allowing to buy something from close contact. The people from upper caste, they didn't allow us to just make contact, bodily physical contact. So at most we are created more anger and hatred towards the so-called upper caste people. And I used to fight with them with a team. After my ordination in 2015, I think 2015, when I was in Maharashtra, one of my kajin who took me to that meeting, he went to a barbershop, barbershop saloon for haircutting. And he didn't allow to cut his hair. He came back to my village where we live. Some of

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