The Shame of India

Presentation:

It’s a press article entitled The Shame Of India. It was written by Liz Stuart, I would add that it published in the Guardian Weekly which is a British Newspaper. It’s actually a digest of articles from the Guardian and the Observer, the Washington post and Le Monde. Eventually it was published on January 10th 2002

Summary:

This article describes a Dalit’s man’s life. The journalist reports on the Caste System in India. For this reason, we can say that the article is based on a testimony. Actually, the burning issue is social division and discrimination in India. We are given information about their social status. They are (Dalits) not considered as part of human society. Morover she insist on the fact that they represent 20% of the total population. Their everyday living conditions are appaling/miserable. Then the other focus is on MacWan. The key information about him is that he’s an activist he has been fighting for Dalit’s civil rights since 1981. As for his family background we can say that he come a very underprivileged family and yet he managed to carry on further studies. Nonetheless, one day he was on the verge of give up his fight since he was sick and tired. However a dalits mother gives him the right way once more. MacWan is the leader of a domestic and international lobby given that he believes the cast system is the shame of India.

Structure:

My commentary will be splet int 3 part.
1 -11 : “Indian’s hidden apartheid”
12-25 : “Dalit’s everyday lives” “A shameful discrimination”
22-end : “MacWan’s fight” “A grass-root activist”

Commentary:

(Part I) The role played by this part is to expose and denounce the social situation of Dalits in India. She points out the fact there are consider as a minority group and yet there 250miliion Dalits in India. This figure is very impressive and even flabbergasting. It corresponds to 25% of the total population which amounts to 1 billion people. I’d like to