India, July 6 -- "If an untouchable caste intentionally touches a high-caste person, then he or she is to be put to death" (Vishnu Smriti 5.104 and Angiras Samhita 1.39)

O Hindu,

They did not fall like accidents. They were arranged: Dalit bodies laid out In the neat geometry of hate.

Keezhvenmani, Karamchedu, Tsundur, Bathani Tola, Laxmanpur Bathe, Khairlanji: Names that are not taught As "history," Only whispered as warnings, In our Dalit ghettos.

We grew up On these maps of massacres, Of carnages, Worse than the holocaust, And worse than the October 7, Worse than Jewish life. Villages in our textbooks, Marked not by rivers or crops, But by the places Where our people Were lined up And cut down Like weeds.

They came in broad daylig...