The near lack of sensitivity in Chithralekha Case, one of the most grotesquely played out abuse of human rights recently in Kerala that has caused a poor dalit woman to flee her home and hearth, has to be reiterated here; notwithstanding the illfeeling it may generate inside the collective ego of this space.(Pardon me, if I have fiound such thing at least in my imagination, in case it is not there.) Sooner do we realize that Keralam is still a place inhabited by a people overtly and covertly casteist, and ridiculously gendered, the sense of complacency flies. This also seems to hold equally for our purportedly superior ability to articulate and express ourselves as a civil society. You cannot exclude dalits, and you cannot escape from being asked questions on and on , about your attitude to caste and gender,though you may continue to linger on 'issue based' and pragmatic methods of agitation in the field of HR.
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