Hip-hop artists in India call out caste discrimination

In India, artists are using hip-hop to stand up to one of the world’s oldest forms of discrimination: caste. In recent years, a new wave of Dalit artists is wielding some of the same musical elements that Black artists began channeling decades ago to call out prejudice and injustice. As part of The World’s Planet Hip Hop series, Sushmita Pathak reported from Delhi on this growing movement of “anti-caste rappers.”Original air date: Jun. 15, 2023

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