In the latest reported incident of atrocities towards people from the Bahujan community, a group of Dalit and OBC students were forced to clean the septic tank at the Morarji Desai residential school in Kolar district. The principal and a few staff were arrested following the incident.
Caste and all the problems associated with it continue to be an ugly reality in Indian society even today, eight decades after Dr. B.R. Ambedkar wrote about the annihilation of caste. A structural problem, it often goes unnoticed or gets brushed aside, thanks to the extent of its normalisation and a certain gaze through which people have been conditioned to view.
