Audiences in Bombay’s derelict Art-Deco cinema halls often hoot and whistle when their hero vanquishes a villain. Made to formula, Bollywood movies often end with the hero punching up a local thakkur, an upper-caste landlord, for the many injustices he perpetrated against the peasants [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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This is wrong the way Dalits have to change their religion to espace for the torture the rest of society brings upon them. What the this society is doing is illegal in many senses and shouldn’t have to be tolerated. The caste is illegal and no one is better then anyone else on this world.
Excellent article
The fact that such anti-Muslim pogroms take place in India with dismaying regularity is the principal raison d’
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