In an editorial dated 01 Sep 2022 the New Indian Express has raised an important issue about the final aim of reservation – whether to remove social and educational backwardness or end untouchability. Because of the judicial mill grinding frustratingly slow; the fact that in the fast changing internet manipulations access to important materials already […]
Posts Tagged ‘castes’
India: Relatives Hack Newlyweds to Death for Being Different Castes
June 17th, 2022 Awake Goy
An Indian woman and her husband were recently “hacked to death” in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state by the woman’s brother and another male relative after the couple secretly married despite their divergent caste backgrounds, the Times of India reported on Tuesday. Views: 0
Rigsthula – How the Castes of People Were Fathered by a God
June 21st, 2021 Awake Goy
By Henry Adams BellowsFrom The Poetic Edda [1936] The Rigsthula is found in neither of the principal codices. The only manuscript containing it is the so-called Codex Wormanius, a manuscript of Snorri’s Prose Edda. The poem appears on the last sheet of this manuscript, which unluckily is incomplete, and thus the end of the poem […]