In Focus-Parley | Are legal guarantees insufficient in abolishing untouchability?
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In Focus-Parley | Are legal guarantees insufficient in abolishing untouchability?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 202645 min
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In August this year, the performance of a "purification" ritual by certain Hindu groups in Uttarakhand, at the location where Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, who belongs to a Dalit community, addressed a public rally, led to a national conversation on the practice of untouchability. This discourse was shaped as Opposition Congress leaders accused the ruling BJP dispensation of practicing caste discrimination and the Uttarakhand BJP chief defended the ritual saying it was meant to "cleanse" the area of the ideas that Mr. Kharge was espousing at the rally. After a sustained campaign from opposition leaders and civil society actors, a...

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This is In Focus, the Hindu's current affairs podcast. Today we'll be speaking about the law and untouchability and and social crimes and the law's ability to deal with certain social behaviors such as untouchability and the paradigm of purification and pollution that society in India seems to be focused on

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will be going through the law's ability to deal with certain behaviors such as this is it enough and if it's not enough then what more or what else should society be looking towards in addressing these issues We have as guests noted scholar, political theorist and author, Valerian Rodriguez and the leading Supreme Court advocate Disha Vaticar, who has been at the forefront of some of the

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most important questions of discrimination on the Basal caste and gender in Supreme Court as of now. My name is Abhinay Lakshman and I'll be hosting this session. Welcome, Valerian sir, welcome Disha.

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