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No Longer a Slumdog<br />

Millions are trapped by their caste, stuck in the mindset that things can<strong>no</strong>t change and<br />

will <strong>no</strong>t change.<br />

<strong>no</strong>thing better for them, that there is <strong>no</strong> hope of change or freedom.<br />

For them, it does feel that their fate truly is “once a <strong>slumdog</strong>,<br />

always a <strong>slumdog</strong>.”<br />

Niran John Das grew up living in this as reality, until one day<br />

everything changed.<br />

I was born and brought up in a Dalit society<br />

where we were very much oppressed and downtrodden<br />

by the higher people. There are a lot of people<br />

who practice untouchability here, who won’t share a<br />

bench with someone from a low caste or share food<br />

with them or anything.<br />

I went to school up to third grade, but I had to<br />

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