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Article

15 Dec 2011

Author:
P. Vaidyanathan Iyer, Indian Express

Dalit Inc. ready to show business can beat caste [India]

Two days from now, a 1,000-strong club of Dalit entrepreneurs will showcase their wares...in Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla complex…It will tell the world that Dalits, given the opportunity, will beat the caste order with capitalism...Hobnobbing with the Dalit entrepreneurs at the DICCI Trade Fair 2011 will...be...the czars of India Inc., Ratan Tata and Adi Godrej...[F]or Dalit entrepreneurs, taking a photograph with Tata and Godrej over lunch and tea is an aspiration — and proof that they have arrived,” said Chandrabhan Prasad, mentor, Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DICCI)...