{"id":58257,"date":"2023-09-11T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/sep\/11\/nepal-celebrated-dalit-activist-on-her-lifelong-battle-for-equality"},"modified":"2023-09-11T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T07:00:14","slug":"i-will-fight-until-i-die-nepals-celebrated-dalit-activist-on-her-lifelong-battle-for-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58257","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I will fight until I die\u2019: Nepal\u2019s celebrated Dalit activist on her lifelong battle for equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being denied water as a child set Sarswati Nepali on a path to end caste-based discrimination. She has since been honoured by the US government and become an inspiration to women<\/p>\n<p>Dashing home to get a drink of water during school breaks was Sarswati Nepali\u2019s first taste of injustice. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/mar\/10\/caste-aside-hide-names-to-curb-dalit-job-bias-in-india-study-says\">Born into a Dalit family<\/a> from Baitadi, a district in the far-west of Nepal, she was not allowed to drink from the same tap, cup or bucket as other pupils.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to run to my home, which was 25 minutes away, to drink water during the school break because as a Dalit I was not allowed to touch the water in school,\u201d says Nepali, 41, now one of Nepal\u2019s most prominent activists for Dalit rights. \u201cMany times I had to leave my classes because I was thirsty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/sep\/11\/nepal-celebrated-dalit-activist-on-her-lifelong-battle-for-equality\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being denied water as a child set Sarswati Nepali on a path to end caste-based discrimination. She has since been honoured by the US government and become an inspiration to womenDashing home to get a drink of water during school breaks was Sarswati Nep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1128,59,53,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dalits","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58258,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58257\/revisions\/58258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}