I subscribed to BookBub sometime ago and had ignored all that they sent to my mailbox so far. Over the weekend opened some of them and I was confused as to what preferences I had chosen. I've got only Romances recommended so far and it's amazing how many novels people can write involving mostly ranchers and cowboys as heroes and ladies in distress(financial trouble, loss of father, brother, lover, husband etc) as heroines and all of them by 'best-selling authors'! Nothing on software guys, though.
Read somewhere later that Michael Holding was a computer programmer when he joined WI cricket team and that kind of compensated.
I think the Dalit oppression in India is no less than any holocaust. To keep someone suppressed and oppressed for generations and worse, to make so many people believe that they are really inferior to others is so damn inhuman. Imagine the kind of kick upper-castes would've got - with successive levels of superiority - treating them like slaves. I remember even the smallest improvement in their conditions being talked of with so much of heartburn and near-hatred. But then, what does a Dalit do when he comes into mainstream(what's the right word?) ? Does he try to help others who have filled in his old space or does he just 'mind his business'? Class has become a very strong caste now and I think that's part of the problem that they have to overcome.
Read somewhere later that Michael Holding was a computer programmer when he joined WI cricket team and that kind of compensated.
I think the Dalit oppression in India is no less than any holocaust. To keep someone suppressed and oppressed for generations and worse, to make so many people believe that they are really inferior to others is so damn inhuman. Imagine the kind of kick upper-castes would've got - with successive levels of superiority - treating them like slaves. I remember even the smallest improvement in their conditions being talked of with so much of heartburn and near-hatred. But then, what does a Dalit do when he comes into mainstream(what's the right word?) ? Does he try to help others who have filled in his old space or does he just 'mind his business'? Class has become a very strong caste now and I think that's part of the problem that they have to overcome.
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