In India, hip-hop artists are using the genre 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 our Planet Hip Hop series, Sushmita Pathak reports from New Delhi on this growing movement of “anti-caste rappers.”
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