The Baglady's Myth and Amar Chitra Katha of discrimination

India’s caste hubris has come full circle. From the Brahmin imperiousness of Vedic times to the Baglady of Uttar Pradesh, India has acquired a new mythos. Of Mayawati, who built Dalit Versailles’ in Noida and Lucknow as tributes to the dispossessed; statues holding handbags that symbolise the corrupt power politics of UP; the Dalit Durga who will one day ride the tiger that is Indian democracy all the way to Indraprastha.

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