India is the only country in the world where a particular section of the society is traditionally responsible for keeping the habitation clean by removing the waste products of the society including the human excreta. This is a disgrace to the country, and instances are not replete even to day when one can see people carrying Night-soil in buckets on their heads or removing human excreta by physical touch. Who are these people ? Why are they compelled to do such type of in16 August 2002human and dirty work and how long these neglected sections of society will remain under such bondage ? Is...