He added, "Today no leader in India would dare to make a public endorsement of untouchability.
Forty years after Gandhi be gan his campaign to purge In dia of untouchability, the evil clings.
Hiding behind the smoke screen of untouchability is something religions have been allowed to get away with for too long".
Challenging the Hindu practice of untouchability, Nepal outlawed discrimination against the lowest caste today, saying that it would move to end the caste system altogether.
Only then, when the medieval practice of untouchability and caste is honestly a thing of the past, can we truly celebrate India's freedom.
After independence, social discrimination was prohibited, and the practice of preventing access to religious, occupational, or civil rights on the grounds of untouchability was made a punishable offense.
In 2006, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh caused a stir when he compared the system of untouchability to South Africa's era of apartheid.
His shameless sense of untouchability meant that over an agonising six weeks in court, victims heard their claims first denied and then trivialised by their abuser.
But last year's attack in Riyadh shattered whatever sense of untouchability that existed, and Tuesday's explosion suggested such violence may become a more frequent threat.
To gain the confidence of savers, in 2001 the Argentine government had passed what was known as the Law of Untouchability of Deposits, declaring that the currency of a bank deposit could not be changed.
Few Indians in his time denounced more strongly, or worked harder to end, the practice of untouchability, the appalling sanitary conditions in Indian villages and towns, the distrust between Hindus and Muslims.
