Hi Sanny
I have fallen behind reading Goanet posts but thanks for providing
information about Stalin's film on caste in India. All the evidence is that it
is as bad, and possibly worse than it has been before. Last week, the Economist
had a substantial article on caste and its implications for business.
What puzzles me is how it is possible for so many to pretend that it does not
exist or that its intensity has diminished. As you will know, I have been a
consistent critic of caste among the supposedly Catholic Goans. However, I have
noted that fewer are now flag-waving their Brahminess or othe caste
designations. The message that casteism is racism is perhaps finally sinking
into the Catholic Goan consciousness.
In the UK we are periodically informed about the goings on in all parts of
the world and India and caste and dowry deaths featured in some of our
documentaries recently. We also saw a horrific one about China and the effects
of the one child policy.
Do keep us informed about some of the truly disgusting practises in India and
I will in turn report about some pretty lousy things in the West from time to
time. It is only exposure to these evils that helps to bring about change.
Regards
Cornel
Sanny de Quepem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
PANAJI: After shooting in eight states and across four different religions, a
new documentary film suggests that caste-based discrimination is alive and
kicking in different pockets of India. 'India Untouched', a 108-minute
documentary by Stalin K....
Director Stalin, a Gujarat-based human rights activist, spent four years
travelling across India to study what he called "the continued oppression of
Dalits, the socially disadvantaged who suffer under a 4,000 year-old" system of
discrimination.
Asked what led him to make the film, Stalin said, "Denial! I was sick and tired
of people denying the existence of caste or caste-based prejudices.
