I'm getting responses on my Twitter timeline, "rice bag". The reference is to the fact that my ancestors three years ago allegedly converted to Christianity to get rice. I'm glad they did coz they also got education. That's why I can speak of injustice on social media.

If not, I think I could have been in the situation we see Manisha and her family is in. I'm sure anyone with a little commonsense will agree that my grandparents and great grand parents were right in their decision. So I hope I have correctly conveyed why Dalits in India convert.

Also the sheer effrontery of these privileged people who think that people should starve and stay illiterate and live out their lives as unfree citizens for generations even in a 21st C India with a Republican democracy, while they mock oppressed citizens

of the country for doing what they can, using legal and constitutional means to improve their lives. So we're damned if we do and we are anyway damned if we don't.

Corrigendum: in the first tweet, read "generations" for years.

And all RW trolls active on this thread please note: I'm no apologist for any of the churches or any corrupt or venal person from any religion or any institution. So any taunts on those counts may be directed to.tuw concerned and not to me.