it's enrollment day at Delhi University Kel PAAD checks the documents of her students for the upcoming semester she had to go through 17 job interviews before landing her teaching job here 8 years ago she says her struggle was more a result of her last name than her Talent OR qualifications in the Indian cast system a surname can reveal a lot about your background so I tell my students directly that panis are from the lower casts the dlats and even among them we the bikis are the lowest the students then turn quiet some of the students start to behave strangely because of their upbringing they would shout abuse from the back talk rudely very bad behavior Kel PA learned to fight early in her life her parents could neither read nor write but the 40-year-old teachers Sanskrit today traditionally a Preserve of ancient brahmins the scholars and members of the upper past already as a child Kel felt she was different her school uniform was blue and not pink like that of her classmates as a darlot she was not allowed to touch the water trough which others would drink from her father taught her to stand up when someone from a higher cast entered the room one time they saw us taking a bath in the the pond and as we were about to leave they called their brothers and other relatives who came and started beating us and asked us how dare we take a bath in the pond they declared the water in the pond impure Untouchable today kosel PA looks proudly at the accolades she's won for her fight for darlot rights she's already been invited to the United States four times to talk about the plight of D in India a country that wants to be seen as Cosmopolitan and Progressive even today darlot are not allowed to enter temples Antiquated modes of thinking still Prevail even in this age of modern technology when such things happen today I feel really angry not just towards the government but also towards Society Viv Kumar has been researching the topic for years he says about 120 acts of violence take place every day against darlot this despite laws against discrimination and quotas for darlot and universities and government jobs how a president from the theit community will change this I don't think that this is going to change because he doesn't have any power directly intervening in the upliftment of the delets he will have to suggest and if the cabinet acts then and then only things can happen back at the University Kel PA tells her students what to expect from the course next year she hopes the new daret president will take action and change India's deep-seated attitudes