Re:How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon...
by iamshs on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:40AM
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Nepali dalits in Australia couldn't find a priest in her own hometown to do last rites of their parent -
"We thought the Brahmin priests could perform the ritual, without coming into our house but they refused," he says. "All they offered was a very short naming ceremony."
"Eventually we found a priest from Adelaide who directed me over the phone to perform the ritual. I felt it wasn't my father-in-law who died, it was me who was dying."
"We thought the Brahmin priests could perform the ritual, without coming into our house but they refused," he says. "All they offered was a very short naming ceremony."
"Eventually we found a priest from Adelaide who directed me over the phone to perform the ritual. I felt it wasn't my father-in-law who died, it was me who was dying."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-11/caste-system-of-india...