FPJ-Edit: Empowerment of Dalits needs more than tokenisms
If there is one New Year resolution the nation must make, it must be to strive to eradicate the caste system. The shameful incident in a government school in Uttarakhand where the cook for the mid-day meal scheme – a Dalit woman – was sacked because upper caste students refused eat the meals prepared by her shows how deeply entrenched the caste system is.