The Daily-Wage “Untouchables” of KP Sports: When Silence Becomes Policy
Musarrat Ullah Jan , KikxNow , Digital Creator We grew up hearing that caste discrimination belonged to history books, that it was a social evil confined to another time and another society. We were told that in the subcontinent the lowest rung of that system was the Shudra, people who worked the hardest, were paid the least, and had almost no rights. We were also told that modern states, modern laws, and modern institutions had buried such thinking forever. Time spent at institutions like the Asian College of Journalism in India teaches one thing very clearly. Class does not disappear with education or slogans. There is always an elite class that dominates space, decision making, and narrative. That by itself is not the real danger. The real danger begins when people who rise from lower levels forget where they came from and start reproducing the same cruelty they once resented. It is in this context that a prophetic saying of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) ...
