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Rudraneil Sengupta
Freelance Journalist
Rudraneil Sengupta is a journalist and author based in New Delhi.
April 03, 2023
The hip-hop artist Arivu was in his final year of engineering college when it hit home that he was a Dalit — one of the "untouchables" in India’s deeply entrenched caste system.
He had led a relatively sheltered childhood, born and raised in a small Dalit-majority town called Arakonam, 70 km from Chennai, the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.