Dravidian Model: ‘Don’t Cook, Upper-Caste Children Won’t Eat’, Dalit Woman Removed From Govt School Kitchen In Karur Over Caste-Bias

Dravidian Model: ‘Don’t Cook, Upper-Caste Children Won’t Eat’, Dalit Woman Removed From Govt School Kitchen In Karur Over Caste-Bias

A case of alleged caste-based discrimination has surfaced from Karur district, where a Dalit woman employed under the Tamil Nadu government’s breakfast scheme was reportedly barred from cooking at a government school after objections from a section of parents belonging to dominant castes. The incident has reignited concerns over the persistence of caste-based exclusion despite decades of DMK’s Dravidian model governance that they claim to be bas…