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India Untouched - A Review

But the reason I appreciate the craft is that it completely justifies and illustrates its purpose with very well depicted instances. Personally, it has been a great eye opener for me as I had never expected such forms of untouchability being practiced in our country. Belonging to a higher caste and living in a city where such discriminations are approximately nil, I have never been exposed to such ills in the society. The documentary has interviewed Rajput farmers who proclaim that the Dalit should always be afraid of them and no Dalit should sit in their presence. Even the police is under the Rajput and is of no help to the Dalit. Also, there are incidents of brutality and violence against the Dalit like the cases of burning their hands and rapes to ˜show them their position'. Such incidents greatly influenced me creating a feeling of hatred and anger against such people. What influenced me more is that the practice of untouchability is inculcated even in the children from a very tender age. .
             The documentary also illustrates that it is not so that the religions other than Hinduism have remained untouched with the issues of caste discrimination and untouchability. It exposes the continuation of caste practices and untouchability in Sikhism, Christianity and Islam and among the Communists in Kerala. Even within the Dalit there is a notion of untouchability practiced by sub cast Dalit against lower sub casts, for example a Harijan boy refuses to drink water from a Valmiki boy. Also the documentary has interviewed an urban Dalit doctor and his wife who is a lecturer at a college .Thus the documentary illustrates not only the rural Dalit problems but also the urban ones. The interview of a Dalit girl form Jawahar Nehru University shows the practice of untouchability even in such reputed universities of India. Thus, all such accounts made me realize the hollowness and ills of the Indian culture and society which we are so proud of.


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