The experiences of Dalit, Adivasi, and Other Backward Classes (OBC) students and professors across the country highlight how upper caste friends and colleagues make them feel worthless.
Despite constitutional and legal assurances of equality, caste-based discrimination remains a social reality and educational campuses are not immune to it.
Even though the practice of 'untouchability' has been prohibited in India under Article 17, Dalits continue to face widespread abuse across the country. And there have been instances where attempts of Dalits to tread upward...