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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