Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 150
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 151
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The Necessity of Addressing Caste Discrimination and Atrocities as Collective Trauma -Prashant Bhaware

The Necessity of Addressing Caste Discrimination and Atrocities as Collective Trauma -Prashant Bhaware

Share this article Share this article
published Published on Apr 3, 2022   modified Modified on Apr 4, 2022

-TheWire.in

Methods of transitional justice, such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up in South Africa after apartheid ended, can help address collective trauma and restore the psychological health of society.

When the Khairlanji Massacre took place in 2006, I was in a boarding school, in class 8. When I heard about it, I asked a friend who, like me, belongs to the Scheduled Caste community, what exactly had happened.

He told me that four members of a family from the Scheduled Caste community had been brutally attacked in Khairlanji village near Nagpur in eastern Maharashtra. Two women had been raped, brutally beaten and lynched to death, while the two sons of one of the women were also killed in front of the whole village.

When my friend told me about this atrocity so explicitly, I was terrified, unable to come to terms with the fact that a group of dominant caste people had attacked and brutally murdered a family from my community in such a heinous way. Whenever I hear about caste atrocities, I feel disturbed; I find them hard to comprehend and make peace with.

How caste works

The caste system, which is more than 3,000 years old, is a vertical hierarchical social structure of what B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of the Constitution of India, called “graded inequality” in his 1936 essay, Annihilation of Caste. It divides Hindus into four varnas, i.e. Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra, with multiple castes within each varna. In this social stratification, the Brahmins, the most ritually pure, are at the top and the untouchables who are outside this four varna system, are at the bottom, considered to be the most polluted ones.

Please click here to read more. 


TheWire.in, 3 April, 2022, https://thewire.in/caste/the-necessity-of-addressing-caste-discrimination-and-atrocities-as-collective-trauma


Related Articles

 

Write Comments

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close