When Kanimozhi referred to the Mahabharata

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DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi remembered Dronacharya’s dakshina when discussing caste in sports in a debate in Lok Sabha last week. Here’s what she had to say…

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00:00When in a village when people cannot touch each other when they can't walk on the same streets

00:05How will these children be allowed to play in a team? They will not

00:30I

00:41Like to talk about another story in drone Acharya's life where a Kalaiva who belonged to a lower caste

00:49tribal

00:51person who learned

00:53To shoe. I mean he was so good

00:56As a

00:59Yeah

01:01he was such a

01:03Good archer and he was better than

01:06Arjuna himself, but because he comes from a tribal community schedule community

01:12he was deprived that and he his

01:16Finger tongue was cut off and that is the Dakshina

01:21Dronacharya the great Dronacharya wanted from his student

01:25So the same caste has not gone away

01:28The same caste politics the same caste oppression is still there in sports today

01:34How many children from Dalit communities how many women get opportunities to play?

01:41When in a village when people cannot touch each other when they can't walk on the same streets

01:47How will these children be allowed to play in a team?

01:50They will not you know that team games like Kabaddi or hockey or yes hockey

01:58You're not allowed to play so what are we going to do to reach out to these to make sure

02:05That I mean, we're not saying you will have to bring in reservation in this also

02:09But at least you must do something to protect these people

02:13To make sure ensure there's justice

02:16to women and

02:18You know what kind of a struggle it is for women to get into sports. It's not easy to convince the families

02:24It's not it's not easy

02:26And when they come into sports the kind of abuse sexual abuse the kind of abuse they have to face

02:34How are we going to protect these women who come into sports and what kind of?

02:40Importance do we give Paralympics?

02:43Nobody talks about it. Nobody cares. I

02:46Think they have

02:48the same right people with who are differently able to have the same right as

02:53everybody else

02:55to express their talent and

02:58trans people

03:00They are not men. They're not women so they have no space

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