To Touch or Not to Touch… That Is the Question

<p>The implication is that the Dalit student is considered so impure and unclean that the teacher refuses to touch the student&rsquo;s test.</p> <p>I found it difficult to wrap my head around the mechanics of this &mdash; how does a teacher manage to avoid touching this one student&rsquo;s test in a stack of tests returned by all the students in the class? How does the teacher do it day after day in each of his classes without, at the very least, putting a stop to the practice of stacking the tests of all students, regardless of caste, in a single pile? Wouldn&rsquo;t the teacher have to touch the tests to be excluded in order to set them aside?</p> <p><a href="https://nandiniwriter.medium.com/to-touch-or-not-to-touch-that-is-the-question-fe568770b10f"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>