http://eng.feministblogs.org/t... Untouchable (Achut) What is this you have brought me, untouched by your brothers and sisters?   Take it back, I do not want such things, you cannot worship while hating yourselves, you may not enter my temple if you shut its door to others. Go away, oh sinners, go away, fools and savages, your offerings I reject. Do not bow down at my feet, my body is burning, burning. The waters you bring are defiled, far worse than pus or mucus. If you truly wish to worship, bring before me the man whose rights you've usurped through all ages, touch first his feet against whom you have sinned, him you have called untouchable. Only then may you come to my temple, only then are you blessed as men, only then will you cease being thorns preventing our nation's progress, only then will you be straight. (1955; from S. Shreshtha [1964] 1978)