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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | In this Punjab village, Sikhs are shedding their caste biases during the Covid-19 crisis -Arjun Sharma

In this Punjab village, Sikhs are shedding their caste biases during the Covid-19 crisis -Arjun Sharma

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published Published on Apr 15, 2020   modified Modified on Apr 16, 2020

-Scroll.in/ India Spend

In Qila Nau, Jat Sikhs are sending food to the homes of Dalits, who are not allowed to enter langars or touch vessels in their gurdwaras.

Jagjit Kaur, 35, a Dalit resident of Qila Nau village in Faridkot district of Southwestern Punjab, has not cooked a single meal since March 25, when the nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 began. Her husband, a mason, has been left jobless by the outbreak like millions of informal sector workers in India, and the family has no money or rations.

This family, like many Dalits in rural Punjab, would have starved if the five gurdwaras in Qila Nau had not shed entrenched caste practices among Sikhs to reach out to the marginalised community. All of them are now sending food to the homes of the indigent Dalits struggling for food and essentials.

“Almost all of them are daily wage labourers and are dependent on money that they earn every day,” said Saudagar Singh Ghudani, the general secretary of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, a labour organisation. “If this situation continues, it is the Dalit workers who will suffer the most.”

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Scroll.in/ India Spend, 15 April, 2020, https://scroll.in/article/959164/in-this-punjab-village-sikhs-are-shedding-their-caste-biases-during-the-covid-19-crisis?fbclid=IwAR2bdD91g-S35ctLTPydM9Dkfd-DMv6RT0Djp3mRr4lpNRVQrNrfr_bJwco


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