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Sep 7 6 tweets 2 min read
#CastelessSociety
 As she graduated from the University of Oxford with a master’s degree in Comparative Social Politics, Juhi Koré took to LinkedIn to write a note on her late maternal grandfather.

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"her grandfather, who belonged to a lower-caste family in Maharashtra, had to fight for his right to study throughout his childhood."

Juhi’s grandfather made a deal with his parents that he would work on the farm from 3 am so he could make it to school for the second half of the
morning. Unfortunately, even after walking for nearly 1.5 hours every day, without even a good pair of shoes to wear, the young boy was not allowed to sit inside the classroom."

Despite all the bullying from his upper caste peers, discrimination from his upper caste teachers,
and not being allowed to sit inside the classroom, his determination and resolve led to him not simply passing his exams, but outranking all his classmates,”
"Juhi’s grandfather learned English and pursued a law degree while working full-time as a cleaner in a government building to make ends meet. “Many years later, [he] attained his master’s while working (in that same building) as a high-level government official,”
"Juhi celebrated her grandfather for turning “his reality of not being allowed to sit inside the classroom to having a granddaughter walk through the halls of the best university in the world”.

LET US ALL VOW TO ELIMINATE CASTE FROM OUR HEARTS AND MINDS RIGHT NOW.

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