Impure justice

Removal of a Dalit family for a religious rite in Siraha is one of innumerable cases of discrimination.

The lot of Dalits in Nepal hasn’t changed much. From entrenched untouchability practices in both rural and urban areas to heinous crimes such as lynching of Kavrepalanchok’s Ajit Mijar in 2019 and Rukum’s Nabaraj BK in 2020 for daring to love beyond caste boundaries, the society continues to strip them of dignity and freedom. Given these atrocities, the constitutional guarantees of non-discrimination and equality, and tall claims of the eradication of untouchability ring hollow.