[Assam] becoming Anti-Dalit; Watch "CNN / CBS : Dalits in India" on Google Video

[umesh sharma]

some might like to read or see movie  " To kill a mocking bird" a book read by ALL high school students in USA -of an era not even century ago --when Blacks were the Dalits of USA. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/context.html
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird 
   
  Further, unlike Dalits of today in India (atleast a few of whom have become state chief ministers/governors) they could not even vote to elect their own (till 1965). CNN documentary goes on to show that most western media reports show there is no hope within the Eastern system of religion or philosophy or society system --as the reporter shows while interviewing a Catholic nun -who says the same. 
   
  Caste is no worse or better than race -- change the class -and all changes.
  The CNN reports sugggests that within India an untouchable can never hope to do any better -- what about USA opening its doors to them as refugees? How did Dr Ambedkar change his status -- thru education --isn't that his motto?
   
  Umesh
  PS: However, I have a personal experience how some  upper caste youth force others to support their anti-dalit cause. When I joined college in 1990 July I was forced to joing the anti-reservation rallies during Mandal Commission agitation in Delhi University. Our seniors in the hostel (mostly from Bihar) made us all newcomers join  the ruckus.

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14 min 18 sec - Jan 18, 2006
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