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Koragas:
The tribal T
community he Koragas, who live in Karna-
taka’s Dakshin Kannada and
that fights rigid caste discrimination. The elite society doesn’t even
Udupi districts and neighbour-
ing Kerala’s Kasargod district, are
a living example of the country’s
for a cause consider the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group
(PVTG) as human beings, forget about their human
rights.
For several decades, the Koragas are silently toler-
ating the inhuman torture as they haven’t mustered
courage to speak against the social stigma or free
Upper caste Kannadigas use the services of themselves from the shackles of “slavery”. Here, the
Koragas for the Ajalu practice even in 21st lethal mix of regressive tradition and superstition
continue to subjugate rationality while the Koragas rot
century. Despite the Karnataka Koragas in the hell hole called society. Their pain and sufferings
(Prohibition of Ajalu Practice) Act, 2000, the continues.
More than seven decades have been passed since
Koragas are treated as inferior human beings India achieved freedom from the British but the coun-
— forced to eat leftover mixed with hair, nails try has failed to end atrocities committed against the
or any other inedible or obnoxious substance, schedule tribes on ground zero. The Koragas continue
to be oppressed and discriminated in villages, schools
reports shamshad ali and they are left with little scope to pursue their dreams.
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