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Self in Others: Empathy and Compassion

Editorial Staff - 02/11/2017 0

Omprakash Valmiki’s Joothan is an autobiographical account that talks of growing up in a village near Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh in an untouchable caste Chuhra. A teacher with a different life-history undertakes a journey with Valmiki, and rediscovers the relevance of empathy and compassion.

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