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Opting to go lower caste
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Mar 2, 2016
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Podcast episode
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The human stories behind the headlines. In this edition, we hear from India, where protests deprived ten million Delhi residents of their water. Members of the Jat caste want to force the government to reclassify them as lower-caste, so they can get quotas for government jobs and study places. Used Field Marshall for sale - the things you find on eBay in Egypt, when locals take the president at his word.
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Released:
Mar 2, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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