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On July 3 Obara purchased a chainsaw, cement mix and other tools from a hardware store. That afternoon, the manager of Obara's seaside condominium in Miura called police to report a tenant who was behaving suspiciously. Even in the terse language of police reports leaked to the media, the...
Because they think that Estrada was their man, and they see him as a victim of what they call the "power elite" - people like Arroryo, the wealthy daughter of a former president, who comes from the caste of people who have always run the Philippines. The intelligentsia and the middle...
The tussle between Ambedkar and Gandhi for the leadership of the untouchables takes up a good part of the film. The problem was more than just a clash of personal ambitions. Gandhi was a conservative reformer against untouchability, but he valued the Hindu caste system and opposed inter-caste marriages...
The word means "village people," but that prosaic definition masks the discomfort still felt by a minority that had been branded an untouchable class during Japan's samurai era of the 17th century. In those days, the burakumin were social outcasts: the butchers, tanners and waste-handlers who fell to...
Distrust of government officials permeates India. And any inadvertent act or omission is viewed with suspicion, even though incompetence is often the culprit. When the census began on February 9, President K.R. Narayanan was the first to step up. As a member of the scheduled castes, he is required to...