Teacher not allowed to use chair because of caste

For five years, Seema Kumari has taught Science to children aged 3 to 12 at a government school in Bihar's Gopalgunj district.

She sits on the floor while she's coaching her students. In her classroom, there is no chair for her. "I am from a lower caste. That's why they don't let me sit on a chair. I have gone through a lot of agony because of this discrimination," she says, matter-of-factly. Read more at: Teacher not allowed to use chair because of caste

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A Dog too has a Caste

New Delhi: In India’s hierarchical society even an unsuspecting dog must have a caste. So it seemed when in Mirchpur village of Haryana, some dogs of a Dalit ‘basti’ dared to bark at Jat boys. There was an angry backlash by the Jat boys and counter protests by the Dalit owners of the dogs. Read More................A dog too has a caste

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6-yr-old thrown in fire for walking on 'upper caste' road

A six-year old Dalit girl (low caste girl) was set on fire by a man in Mathura because the girl and her mother chose to walk through a path reserved only for upper caste villagers. Read more......................................6-yr-old thrown in fire for walking on 'upper caste' road

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Weird act of a Lady Teacher

In India, in many area's, society is divided on the lines of Caste. Society is divided among the upper caste people & lower caste people. Upper class people look down upon the lower caste people. But what would you call to the act of an upper caste lady teacher at a Zilla Parishad higher middle school in 'Surewada' village in Maharashtra state of India, who sprinkled ‘gomutra’ (cow’s urine) on students and inside the classrooms to “purify’’ them and drive out an “evil spirit’’ from the premises.

As per one Times of India report:

"The ZP school runs classes from first to seventh standard and has 210 students, including 20 Dalit students. Last month, Tilottama Tembhurkar, headmistress of the school, who belongs to a ‘lower’ caste, was transferred but not relieved of her charge. However, teachers from the upper caste believed that Tembhurkar’s presence was inauspicious for the school.

In the last week of March, Tembhurkar handed over charge to senior teacher Sharad Kaitade (an upper caste). In early April, when he formally took over as the school headmaster, Kaitade allegedly performed a puja in the school and asked a lady teacher Madhavi Raut to sprinkle gomutra inside the classes and school premises.

Raut promptly went around the school premises and classes sprinkling cow urine—while the students were appearing for their annual exam. She entered the class where Dalit students were also solving the question paper.

Raut allegedly asked the Dalit students to get up and sprinkled ‘gomutra’ on them, saying it would “purify’’ them. However, while doing so, some of it fell on the answer sheets and the students’ faces too. Feeling humiliated, the students narrated the incident to their parents, who along with other villagers, registered a protest with Kaitade. "

Oh God! What a weird act which happened in this 21st century scientific age!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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