The Shame of India

This text is a press article entitled The Shame Of India. It was written by Liz Stuart and was published in The Guardian Weekly which is a British Newspaper. It’s actually a bunch of articles from The Guardian and The Observer, The Washington Post and Le Monde. Eventually it was published on January, 10th 2002. This article describes a Dalit’s man’s life. The journalist reports on the Caste System in India. We can assume that the article is based on a testimony. Actually, the burning issue is social division and discrimination in India. We are given information about their social status. Dalits are not considered as part of human society. Morover she insists on the fact that they represent 20% of the total population. Their everyday living conditions are appaling and miserable. Then the other focus is on MacWan. The key information about him is that he’s an activist he has been fighting for Dalit’s civil rights since 1981. As for his family background we can say that he comes from an underprivileged family and yet he managed to carry on further studies. Nonetheless, one day he was on the verge of giving up his fight since he was sick and tired. However a dalit mother gives him back the desire to keep fighting. MacWan is the leader of a domestic and international lobby given that he believes the cast system is the shame of India.

Our commentary will be splet in three parts. The first one is about the Indian’s hidden apartheid, the second one about Dalit’s everyday lives and their shameful discrimination. The last part will be about MacWan’s fight.

This article is to expose and denounce the social situation of Dalits in India. The journalist points out the fact that they are considered as a minority group and yet there’s 250milion Dalits in India. This statement is very impressive and even flabbergasting. It corresponds to 25% of the total population in India which amounts to 1 billion people. Moreover India has the 2nd biggest