A very good morning to one and all present here. Today, I will be giving a short speech on the topic of �Untouchability�.
Wikipedia defines the term as follows: �Untouchability is a form of a social institution that legitimises and enforces practices that are discriminatory, humiliating, exclusionary and exploitative against people belonging to certain social groups.�
Untouchability is a social evil. It is a crime to consider it a sin to touch a fellow human on whatever basis that might be!
Mahatma Gandhi, an icon in the struggle against untouchability has once said, �Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.� Even today thus, the struggle has not ended.
We proudly proclaim that all humans are equal when in many places in India, tea shops still have separate glasses for lower-caste people! Let us vow to put an end to the evils of untouchability and end this long struggle!
Thank you.