Imagine being a Dalit woman today.
You’re still mourning the brutal lesson in caste supremacy from 2006 Khairlanji, when a girl, her mother were paraded naked, raped & murdered.
And you hear another Dalit teen succumbed to the same brutality by ‘upper’ caste men, the same day.
You know police refused to file a report both times.
The Media ignored, until Dalits agitated, forced them to listen.
Then organized panels inviting upper caste women to discuss how ‘rape is a social evil’.
People registered shock, wondered how this happened, then moved on.
Forgetting this total control is what Dalit bodies are sanctioned for.
You realize between then & now, not much has changed
Even as a Dalit woman in India is raped once every 8 hours
As ‘upper’ caste men rape Dalit women for days, knowing most likely they won’t be punished.
That despite the Jigishas, Deltas, & countless others whose names you never hear.
People still tell you ‘it’s not about caste’.
Until you set your grief aside & scrape your trauma to prove them wrong.
And do it all over, when another Dalit rape sets a new limit of brutality.
Thanking the stars for that small chasm in reality, where by a twist in fate, that wasn’t you.
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