
Today in the Mission Yearbook: July 8, 2013
INDIA (continued) - Triumph of spirit over injustice was celebrated in Chennai at the Second Dalit Graduation Celebration on January 23, 2012. After 2,000 years of denial of education to Dalit people, the celebration was highly charged with emotion, just like the Black Grad graduation at Pomona College in Claremont, California it was modeled on. The huge hall at Loyola College reverberated with the beat of the parai, traditional Dalit drums. Two hundred graduates in all fields, from more than eight universities, were honored with certificates and medals by a Tamil Nadu government minister. .
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