Thursday, August 18, 2011

Fwd: Dalit Dreams of a New Nepal



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From: Shiva Shankar <sshankar@cmi.ac.in>
Date: Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:14 PM
Subject: Dalit Dreams of a New Nepal
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Dalit Dreams of a New Nepal

http://winterends.net/nepal-stories/108-dalit-dreams-of-a-new-nepal

"... There has been a huge gap between Dalits and non-Dalits. For 3000 years, we have been forbidden to have an education, or to excel in any aspect. There are about 10 or 15 medical doctors in Nepal from the Dalit caste, meanwhile there are 5000 or 6000 from the non-Dalits. When the Maoists won the Constituent Assembly, Dalits entered the government. Before that there were none. ...
        We want to abolish untouchability forever. ... The peasant struggle, for example, cannot be successful without confronting the caste system. ...
       We are hopeful that in ten years we will have abolished the caste system. ..."




--
Palash Biswas
Pl Read:
http://nandigramunited-banga.blogspot.com/

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