Breaking barriers: TN hosts inter-caste tea parties
The Tamil Nadu police in a bid to break caste barriers is organising inter-caste tea parties in villages across the State. Such parties are hosted by the local police, for the whole neighbourhood. It's a seventy lakh rupees government-funded scheme. In many villages in Tamil Nadu, the tea shop has been the hotbed of caste discrimination, with practices like the two tumbler system, the use of separate tumblers for upper and lower castes.
