{"id":2680,"date":"2023-09-10T04:07:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T11:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/?page_id=2680"},"modified":"2024-04-03T09:48:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T16:48:04","slug":"param-kainth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/research\/caste-in-canada\/param-kainth\/","title":{"rendered":"Param Kainth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paramjit Kainth was born in India, and has lived in Vancouver, BC since 1992. He belongs to what he calls a \u201cso-called low caste,\u201d which he describes as \u201cman-made in India.\u201d This is, he says, an \u201cugly scar on the human face in India.\u201d Were he to belong to a so-called &#8220;high caste,&#8221; he says, he would be treated well, and otherwise is \u201ctreated like an animal.\u201d He tells us that \u201cso-called high caste people bring that garbage to Canada too.\u201d He believes that Canada is a beautiful<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>country but that those people who discriminating based on caste should be punished. For this reason, he argues, a law should be made against caste discrimination, alongside other forms of discrimination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Short Promotional Video, 1<\/strong>: How prevalent is casteism in our society?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interview with Param Kainth, Short Promotional Video 1\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YBUdJhPbvbo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Short Promotional Video, 2: How have the Buddha&#8217;s teachings inspired other Gurus?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interview with Param Kainth, Short Promotional Video 2\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/awGSpThkTZI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full interview, Part 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interview with Param Kainth, Part 1\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FrVqv_0Vht4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full interview, Part 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interview with Param Kainth, Part 2\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GyEZ80KsvfI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/research\/caste-in-canada\/\">&#8220;Caste in Canada&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/research\/caste-in-canada\/about-caste-in-canada\/\">About the project.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Banner image:<\/em> Collage of photographs, from left to right, interview of Surjit and Manjit Bains with Dr. Anne Murphy (courtesy of Jai Birdi); the Guru Ravidas Sabha Vancouver (courtesy of Anita Lal); Kamaljit, participant in the project; portrait of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar by Raghavendra Rao Karkala, now in the collection of the University of the Fraser Valley Library (acrylic on canvas); Mohan Lal Karimpuri, author and activist; Vipasna Nanal, project participant and video interview editor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramjit Kainth was born in India, and has lived in Vancouver, BC since 1992. He belongs to what he calls a \u201cso-called low caste,\u201d which he describes as \u201cman-made in India.\u201d This is, he says, an \u201cugly scar on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/research\/caste-in-canada\/param-kainth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12791,"featured_media":2888,"parent":1765,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2680","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3025,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2680\/revisions\/3025"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}