Sujatha Gidla was born one of India’s “untouchables” – destined for a life in the slums struggling to get by. She talks to host Krys Boyd about how an education helped her to rise above her lot in life – and about how in India, you can’t ever fully leave your caste behind. She tells her story in “Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
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