Thenmozhi Soundararajan 's parents are from a village in rural India and experienced inter-caste violence there . Her father is a doctor and her mother was the first woman from her family to get a college education . She learned from her mother that she was a Dalit while at school . She had been reading about how the Bhopal disaster affected Untouchables , asked her mother some questions and was told that she , too , came from the community
Bhopal disaster
Bhopal disaster
Thenmozhi Soundararajan