Manual scavenging, a form of untouchability, still persists in the so-called ‘New India’. This ‘New India’ isn’t devoid of caste-based discrimination as much as we’d like to believe otherwise. The official definition of “manual scavenger” is very broad and specific but in the short term, a manual scavenger is a person who handles and cleans human excreta. This activity is carried out in unsafe...
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