With a mission to create awareness and get caste-system abolished in India, KK Sarachandra Bose a Kerala-based lawyer and Social Activist is on a journey from Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) to Delhi.
Bose’s ‘Bharat Yatra’, had reached Raipur on Monday. Talking to media persons here, Bose said that his journey would take about 40 days to reach New Delhi.
Accompanied with his 34 volunteers, Bose has been addressing people and also freely distributing copies of his book, ‘Caste Away! India, Hinduism & Untouchability’.
His ‘Yatra’ has so far covered places such as Nagercoil, Tirunelveli, Puducherry, Chennai, Bengaluru, Kurnool, Hyderabad, Hospet, Goa, Pune, Mumbai, Silvasa, Daman, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Indore and Bhopal, he informed. “I have been receiving an overwhelming response from all sections of the society, including the media, he said.
After completing journey at Delhi we would have covered about 14,000 km, he said. A native of Mezhuveli in Pathanamthitta district Bose has been practicing law in the Gulf countries for three decades and is member of International Bar Association (IBA).
He informed that he would be distributing 10,000 free copies of his book that has been completed after research of 40 years of. “I have handed it over to the President of India, the Prime Minister, Members of Parliament, besides Chief Ministers, legislators, Judges of the Supreme Court as well as Several High Courts,” Bose told reporters.