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Broken People, Broken Promises

Dalits face a new threat from India’s Hindu nationalists.

By Jehangir Pocha

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 during the preceding three hours. When the battered villain finally begs for mercy between sobs of guilt… 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.   
     

    United States Posted by Inernational Government Student on Jan 24, 2003 at 5:00 AM

       
      Excellent article

    United States Posted by khan mahdi on Jan 27, 2003 at 7:06 PM

    The fact that such anti-Muslim pogroms take place in India with dismaying regularity is the principal raison d’Ítre for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.  The of government-sponsored oppression of the “scheduled castes” and of Muslims and other minorities suggest India is much more a fascist state than a ‘democracy’. 
     

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