PROGRESSIVE RATIONALIST

Why were women Enslaved? Is an anthology published in 1942, written by Periyar E V Ramasamy. He was called Socrates of South East Asia by the UNESCO. He was a radical feminist and a social reformer who fought for the liberty against the social hierarchy and dominance in the name of religion. In this book, Periyar speaks about different concepts that are the reasons for the enslavement of women. He speaks about Chastity (purity). He smashes the society why there is chastity only for women and not for men. "The chastity is to be damaged not only when a woman is raped but also when she has sex outside the marriage", society says. There is no concept of Chastity naturally, it is built by the society against women to make them slaves of men because a woman shouldn't break a marriage if she doesn't like her husband and also she shouldn't marry another man after her husband's death to preserve her chastity. The book gives

MANUAL SCAVENGING Manual Scavenging is the unsafe manual handling of raw faeces of humans.   The International Labour Organization describes three forms of manual scavenging in India:   Removing human excrement from public streets and dry latrines (meaning simple pit latrines without a water seal, but not dry toilets in general) Septic tanks cleaning   Gutters and sewers cleaning This practice is prevalent in other countries in the names of night men, night soil collectors, gong farmers, dunny men and so on. But most of those countries have found alternatives and preventive measures to this excruciating job. HOW IT BECAME SINNER’S JOB IN INDIA? There are evidences for the existence of manual scavenging in ancient India where slaves are used to do this work. As the time and civilization grows, this practice has also grown up with the society and became as caste based occupation still remains inerasable from the country. Cleaning the faeces of co- humans makes this job vulnerable and mos