KATHMANDU- August 1: A 14-year-old boy has used rap music as a tool to voice against the existing practice of untouchability that denies Dalit people\u2019s social equality.<\/p>\n
Sakshat Pant, a ninth grader of Gyanodaya Bal Batika School, today released his first rap video song titled \u2018Tara Ma Dalit\u2019<\/em>. The rap song is an imagination of the cruelty by so-called upper caste people against a Dalit boy and conveys strongly that the lives of Dalits matter.<\/p>\n Inspired by Navaraj BK of Jajarkot, who was killed by members of so-called upper caste people of Rukum West in May this year, the music video begins with the introduction of a Dalit youth who was murdered for trying to reclaim his rights.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a boy born and brought up in a non-Dalit family who was taught both at home and school that all people are born equal, the killing of Navaraj disturbed me very badly. It made me a self-declared anti-caste activist. Thus I wrote down my feelings and decided to convert those lines into a rap song,\u201d said Sakshat. \u201cI have a deep interest in hip-hop music. So I chose this medium of music to share my feelings on caste-based untouchability.\u201d<\/p>\n The music video ends with the demand for freedom from caste-based discrimination and equality for Dalits. \u201cI am so happy to make my singing debut on a song that is about caste-based discrimination. I don’t want what happened to Navaraj to happen to other Dalit boys and girls. Now I will take this step forward by continuing to voice against different forms of social ills existing in our society,\u201d said Sakshat.<\/p>\n While Sakshat himself is the lyricist of the song, singer Aditi Adhikari has lent the chorus. The music is composed by Aman Pradhan and directed by Rahul Pradhan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KATHMANDU- August 1: A 14-year-old boy has used rap music as a tool to voice against the existing practice of untouchability that denies Dalit people\u2019s social equality. Sakshat Pant, a ninth grader of Gyanodaya Bal Batika School, today released his first rap video song titled \u2018Tara Ma Dalit\u2019. The rap song is an imagination of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n