'The One Who Suffers Understands the Pain': Huchangi Prasad
The devadasi system is the product of an unequal society with its age-old caste hierarchy and oppression.
Writer, activist, and poet Huchangi Prasad talks about his life and struggles as the son of a devadasi (girls dedicated to the local deity and exploited sexually), the condition of devadasis in Karnataka, and his poetry which is rooted in this context. The devadasi system is the product of an unequal society with its age-old caste hierarchy and oppression.
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INDIAN CULTURAL FORUM
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