TESTIMONY

Recently,I had come across a news item in a local daily, where a photograph of a Dalit youth appeared- a victim of police firing in Ehumalai, Tamil Nadu- dead and carried away by four policeman, each one of them holding the limbs of the body stretching it as,' a cart pulled by weary unwilling bull'.Even the last respects normally adhered to by common man was found lacking.The deep-seated allergy and imbibed casteist approach towards the underprivileged, thriving within the State Apparatus, bore testimony to such ignominy.The so called disciplined force once again stand exposed.

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