The viral video is from Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) where the late actor Irrfan Khan is seen reading out lines of the poem 'Thakur Ka Kuan' written by author Om Prakash Valmiki.
"The stove is of clay, mud is of pond, pond is of Thakur. Hungry of bread, bread is of millet, millet from farm, farm is of Thakur. The bull is of Thakur, the plow is of Thakur, the palm on the plow ours, the crop is of Thakur. Well is of Thakur, water is of Thakur, streets are of Thakur, so what is ours? Villages, Cities, Country?," Irrfan read on the stage during the Jaipur Literature Festival.
The video has lately resurfaced on the social media associating the Hathras case with the poem recited by Khan that talks about the world under the possession of 'Thakur', which usually denoted to 'Upper caste' in India.
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The 19-year-old Dalit woman, who was gang-raped in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, died on Tuesday morning, at Safdarjung hospital in Delhi. The woman was gang-raped in Hathras on September 14, 2020, and was admitted to Delhi's Safdarjung hospital for better healthcare facilities. All the four accused involved in September 14 gang-rape have been arrested.