{"id":16944,"date":"2020-01-16T16:19:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T10:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=16944"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:41:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:41:45","slug":"so-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/so-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Think There is No Caste-based Discrimination in Nepal? Think Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Having heard again and again from fellow Nepalis — both on and outside of social media — that there is really no or very little caste-based discrimination in Nepal, on June 7, 2018, I made a series of tweets starting with that fact (see image above). Then over time, underneath that thread, I documented news articles that reported on discrimination faced by Dalits, the lowest caste in our social system, the caste system<\/a>. The last addition I made to the thread was less than a week ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discriminatory behavior againsts Dalits runs the whole gamut of teasing and humiliating<\/a> them to refusing to rent out rooms to them to refusing to custom non-traditional Dalit businesses ensuring their failure to thrashing them for minor \u201cinfractions\u201d or \u201ctransgressions\u201d (some made up) to raping them to even murdering them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here to begin with are the first two tweets from the original thread. The second one is about a Dalit MP struggling to find a house owner (and NOT a tenant as I mistakenly say in the tweet!) open to taking her in as a tenant. I have heard about this from Dalits directly as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here's a recent article detailing how a #Dalit<\/a> MP has struggled to find a tenant to rent to her. She shared this with her fellow Parliamentarians. #Nepal<\/a> 2\/n https:\/\/t.co\/hxFq6eghHI<\/a><\/p>— Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.) (@Dorje_sDooing) June 7, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>