The lowest castes, or untouchables, were marginalized and faced persecution.
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What if that company is Google, one of today's untouchables?
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He lost that year to Sean Connery in The Untouchables.
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He had been counting heavily on the support of the untouchables.
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Patricia Clarkson made her film debut in 1987's "The Untouchables."
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"Well, you should check out the film 'The Untouchables,'" Tapper countered.
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Dozens voiced complaints over how castes and the so-called untouchables are portrayed.
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The victim is a member of India's Dalit community, once known as untouchables.
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Gotti and Capone got more publicity because Capone was [portrayed] in The Untouchables.
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"They were covered up, the untouchables couldn't be touched," Mr. López Obrador said.
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Rating: 6/10"The Untouchables" (103)I mean, he certainly looked the part.
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Indian villages depended on untouchables to provide field labour and clear away human waste.
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They are dalits, once called "untouchables", at the bottom of the Hindu caste system.
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Mrs. Indira Gandhi won the support of 80 Congress party members representing India's untouchables.
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What he could not seem to do was let untouchables themselves take the lead.
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But, it won't make a splash in the media cos she's one of the untouchables.
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None of the riots has been started by Dalits, who were traditionally known as "untouchables".
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Only solution, if no Gibbons firing, is to trade your 'untouchables' Osuna, JD, Stroman, Smoak.
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Sean Connery in Untouchables with [Kevin] Costner, Indiana Jones, even Bruce Willis in Die Hard.
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Villagers are loth to empty latrine pits manually, a task relegated historically to dalits (formerly untouchables).
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Vigilantes have disproportionately targeted Muslims and Dalits, formerly known as "untouchables" in the Hindu caste system.
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Dalits, who are often referred to as untouchables, occupy the lowest rung on India's caste system.
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The Untouchables, Ballroom group from Miami, Florida 6 Feet Deep, Urban Dance group from Phoenix, Arizona
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Yet he still characterized untouchables as "helpless men and women" who required a savior — namely, him.
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Leaders of the untouchables proudly renamed themselves Dalits and demanded an end to their daily indignities.
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They tried — unsuccessfully — to trade for untouchables such as Utah's Donovan Mitchell and Sacramento's De'Aaron Fox.
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The caste system places Brahmins at the top and Dalits, once known as "untouchables," at the bottom.
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In India, a resurgent Hindu nationalism asks the upper castes why untouchables should benefit from affirmative action.
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Most have targeted Muslims and Dalits (formerly known as untouchables), who traditionally skin the carcasses of cows.
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Assigned from birth to an inferior station in society, the untouchables are the victim of institutional discrimination.
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The untouchables were the ones who did the dirty work, such as skinning animals or cleaning toilets.
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He'll also star opposite Bryan Cranston in The Untouchables, a remake of the 2011 French film The Intouchables.
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In this predominantly Hindu, caste-based society, Dalit people - or "untouchables" - are near the bottom of the rung.
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"People who are untouchables, the lowest caste, are basically not allowed to participate fully in society," Wood said.
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Although "The Untouchables" dealt with material that was three decades old, the show had an urgent contemporary feel.
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India's eternally deprived are the Dalits, or untouchables, who form more than 12 percent of the Indian population.
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It had trouble winning votes from Dalits (untouchables) and others at the lower end of India's caste hierarchy.
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Alec MacKaye (Faith, the Untouchables, former 93:30 staff): 9:30 Club was not welcoming at the beginning.
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India has quotas for dalits, formerly known as "untouchables", who are at the bottom of the Hindu caste system.
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Once known as untouchables and reviled as ritually unclean, this sixth of India's population has never been more integrated.
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While government policies toward Dalits, once called Untouchables, have changed drastically in the past 50 years, cultural prejudice persists.
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" In "The Untouchables," a bullet-riddled Sean Connery fights for his life as Robert DeNiro's Al Capone enjoys "Pagliacci.
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Rating A film director since the late 1960s, he's been responsible for big hits (Carrie, The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible).
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In the 1970s she created "Ranmalpur," a short piece based on the killing of five Dalits, or untouchables, in Gujarat.
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The Untouchables actor died on Monday, June 24, in Los Angeles, a representative for Drago confirmed to PEOPLE on Wednesday.
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Alec MacKaye (Faith, the Untouchables, ex-staff del 25:2000): El 210:215 Club no era muy acogedor al principio.
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The lowest ranked group is not included in the four-level hierarchy, and they are simply called Dalits or untouchables.
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India has about 200 million Dali, who were previously known as untouchables, and many suffer social deprivation and economic exclusion.
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Politics is no longer about argument or discussion; it's about trying to put your opponents into the box of the untouchables.
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" Another, tweeted directly at Chicago-based Tronc, was a clip of Sean Connery in "The Untouchables," saying "That's the Chicago way.
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But instead of acting with integrity, Labor has mimicked Mr. Netanyahu's strategy, treating us not as valued allies but as untouchables.
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Even minority groups within the Hindu community, such as lower caste Hindus previously known as "untouchables," have faced violence from hardline nationalists.
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The party has made special efforts to woo Dalits, or "untouchables", who make up a crucial bloc of voters in Uttar Pradesh.
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People in the Dalit caste, previously referred to as the "untouchables," face rampant poverty, abuse and violence from those considered above them.
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Some talked about increasing quotas for women in government posts and improving access for Dalits, low-caste Indians once known as untouchables.
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Many were working in local restaurants, some as cooks, where former "untouchables" were now allowed to touch the food of higher castes.
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"Your life is your caste, your caste is your life," Gidla writes, in this memoir of her family's existence as untouchables in India.
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The first beneficiaries were "scheduled castes and tribes", in particular untouchables (now known as Dalits)—those at the bottom of the social order.
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There is no role for prejudice in any faith tradition, least India's predominant Hindu religion, to which the untouchables have contributed so much.
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The Dalit community forms the lowest rung of the Hindu caste (or varna) system, the "untouchables" who are, historically, India's most oppressed peoples.
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Filmmakers such as Brian De Palma and Terry Gilliam have paid homage to its scenes, most notably in The Untouchables (1987) and Brazil (1985).
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The underside was as gritty as Mumbai, with no one on the N-Judah streetcar except untouchables, Walker Evans photographs retouched with murky color.
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He details Gandhi's exhaustive campaigns to allow untouchables into temples, and his many attempts to persuade other Hindus of his caste to accept them.
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Anandiben Patel resigned as chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat, where dalits, formerly untouchables, have been protesting after violent attacks on their community.
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Tensions between higher castes like Brahmins and lower-caste Dalits — a community of people once known as the untouchables — have been escalating in recent years.
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Dalits, formerly known as untouchables in the Hindu caste system, are at the bottom of the social hierarchy in neighboring India and face widespread discrimination.
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Indian asylum seekers range from Sikhs claiming political persecution to lower caste "untouchables" facing death threats for marrying outside their class, according to immigration lawyers.
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Whoever did it was never caught, despite Eliot Ness — leader of the famous "Untouchables" who took down organized crime during Prohibition — being on the case.
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Varna religious tradition dictates that the dirtiest and most difficult work in Hindu society is relegated to "untouchables"—making many Indians even today vulnerable to slavery.
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But shockwaves from the violence, which pitted higher-caste agitators against an annual gathering of out-of-caste Dalits (once known as untouchables), have spread far.
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In fact, India's 14% Muslim minority is, by most measures, little better off than the 17% who are dalits (the lowest caste, formerly known as untouchables).
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That means there are clear links between Dischord bands — Minor Threat begat Fugazi, from the Untouchables were born Youth Brigade — that illuminate the history of punk.
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Roy's idealism fits snugly with her unabated dedication to the others of Indian society—from tribal Maoists to Kashmiri rebels to Dalits (untouchables) to slum-dwellers.
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The two children belonged to what are known officially as "scheduled castes", but also called "Dalits", or "untouchables" for their position in India's ancient caste hierarchy.
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He pressed for Hindu-Muslim harmony, for the interests of Dalits (formerly "untouchables"), for women's equality and the shunning of industrialisation in favour of village-based crafts.
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Think Robert De Niro in "The Untouchables," baseball bat in hand, speechifying about teamwork, before brutally executing an "unloyal" deputy with a heavy blow to the head.
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As a baby in the jungles of Orissa, the child of untouchables, Pradyumna Kumar (who goes, for obvious reasons, by the nickname PK) received a bewildering prophecy.
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What started off as an adventure to reach the nearby border of Pakistan soon ended at an isolated village of "untouchables," a community often referred to as Dalits.
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India banned caste-based discrimination in 1955, but centuries-old biases persist, and lower-caste Dalits - once called "untouchables" - are among the most marginalized communities in the country.
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India's constitution, drafted in 1947 by B.R. Ambedkar, a formidably educated Dalit lawyer, outlawed caste-based discrimination and made provisions for the advancement of untouchables through affirmative action.
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The entertainment industry is currently undergoing a wave of allegations about sexual misconduct, with many powerful men once thought untouchables losing their positions in a matter of hours.
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A mob assaulted a group of Dalits (the castes formerly known as untouchables) last month in Mr Modi's home state of Gujarat, thinking they had killed a cow.
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While the BJP does not bank on the support of many Muslims, it does want to secure the votes of the Dalits, a caste formerly known as untouchables.
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He is a well-known champion of Dalits (the group formerly known as untouchables), a prolific writer with a wide audience, and an unrelenting critic of Mr. Modi.
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NEW DELHI — Hundreds of thousands of India's Dalits — once known as Untouchables — skipped work and poured into the streets this week, waving the dark blue flags of Dalit resistance.
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Ennio Morricone, the legendary composer of such film scores as "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and "The Untouchables," finally won an Oscar, his first in six nominations.
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New York has fallen 10 games back in the National League wild-card race but has a few untouchables - including Michael Conforto, who belted his 393th homer on Sunday.
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" In an administration reportedly roiled by power struggles, the tableau might suggest something more like Robert De Niro as Al Capone, playing ball with his "team" in "The Untouchables.
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Tapper tried to contradict Pierson's definition of "bringing a knife to a gun fight" by citing "The Untouchables," a 1987 mobster movie starring Sean Connery that uses the colloquialism.
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There are well-known classics like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Untouchables, Goodfellas, and, for the Christmas season, It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street.
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If the Democrats actually nominate Bernie Sanders, it will be the equivalent of bringing "a knife to a gunfight," as Jim Malone, Sean Connery's character in "The Untouchables," famously said.
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The political undertone of the film coincides with real India-wide protests in the streets outside by Dalits (formerly called "untouchables"), revolting against centuries of repression from the upper castes.
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By the time Thoreau came to Walden on July 4, 1845, most of America's untouchables were gone, but the traces of former slaves, squatters, immigrants and day laborers were everywhere.
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In "The Untouchables" (1987), Mr. Drago played Frank Nitti, a white-suited henchman for Al Capone (Robert De Niro), armed with a gun permit handwritten by the mayor of Chicago.
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All but capping off the horror of Dirty Sixth is Red River Cultural District, which, while still crowded and full of untouchables, is somehow, magically, ten times better than Sixth Street.
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"Refugees are marginalized to such an extent, that they are Hong Kong's own version of Untouchables," Tibbo said in a presentation at the hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in December 2016.
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Mr. Ness, a Prohibition-era leader of the "untouchables" team that went after Al Capone's bootlegging operations, served as Cleveland's safety director at a time when the city was quite dangerous.
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The American authorities think the extraditions served a critical purpose at a historic juncture, "demonstrating to the Colombian people that there are no such things as untouchables," as one put it.
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Billy Drago, a prolific character actor who was best known for playing villains, notably in Brian De Palma's "The Untouchables" and Clint Eastwood's "Pale Rider," died on Monday in Los Angeles.
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No one wanted to go near these untouchables, aside from foreign journalists, and I have wondered ever since what would happen to these little ones ensnared in a hell they didn't make.
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There are certain untouchables on The Walking Dead, admitted or not, and I truly don't believe the show is ballsy enough to kill Daryl and risk alienating a vocal portion of its fanbase.
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One strong local party relies on Dalits or untouchables as its base; its chief rival, which currently runs the state and has forged an alliance with Congress, draws support from mid-ranking castes.
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Yes, the system that forced so-called "untouchables" to clean public toilets was outlawed; yes, the importance of one's caste was eroding as India grew more middle class, especially in the big cities.
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Many of the same players who had won the Africa Cup of Nations ended up living in abject poverty, national heroes reduced to outcasts and untouchables over the course of a single year.
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On DVD "The Untouchables" — the period crime show that ran on ABC from October 1959 through May 1963 — was widely and with good reason considered the most violent dramatic series of its day.
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Indian society has been bogged down by casteism for generations, where certain sections of the society, also known as Dalits or untouchables have suffered from low-grade work, discrimination and poor educational opportunities.
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The most compelling political relationship Guha reveals is the antagonism between Gandhi and the aforementioned B. R. Ambedkar, the pre-eminent politician of outcaste Hindus then known as "untouchables" and now as dalits.
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Ashutosh Varshney, a professor of international studies at Brown University, called the decision "very mystifying," offering the example of Kumari Mayawati, who was born a Dalit, in a caste of so-called untouchables.
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NEW DELHI — A Dalit was elected India's 14th president on Thursday, a rare achievement for a member of a community once known as "untouchables" and one of the most deprived groups in India.
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Since the constitution banned discrimination against untouchables 298 years ago, and with quotas for state schools, jobs and elected offices giving Dalits a leg up, gaps in education, income and health have steadily shrunk.
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Morricone's fertile '80s period continued with scores for Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, which was again nominated for an Oscar and what might be his dramatic triumph, the score for 1986's The Mission.
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As a boy, I read a book about the Untouchables of Eliot Ness, and I was magnetized by the Chicago gangsters of the time—Al Capone, Pretty Boy Floyd, John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly.
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An unofficial fifth varna were the Dalits, or untouchables, a group so low that its members are assigned jobs like cleaning latrines, sweeping the streets, tanning hides and handling the remains of the dead.
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"This election is a contest between those who benefit from the 'Gujarat Model' and those many who do not," says Jignesh Mevani, a lawyer and an outspoken leader of Gujarat's Dalits (formerly known as Untouchables).
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He becomes drinking buddies with the leaders of the Camorra, earning their patronage and protection, but it's only in good fun: "It all looked like something out of The Untouchables, Al Capone," he tells Kapadia.
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Partly drawing on the memoirs of the Treasury agent Eliot Ness and named for his incorruptible special unit, "The Untouchables" first appeared as a two-part drama broadcast by CBS's "Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse" in April 1959.
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The book also describes how Bhimrao Ambedkar, an architect of India's Constitution and one of the most prominent leaders of Dalits, formerly known as the untouchables in the Indian caste system, embraced Buddha and renounced Hinduism.
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For the Albanian government it is a question of law and order, and of credibility in Europe—particularly as it seeks to join the EU. Mr Tahiri says mafiosi should know there are "no more untouchables".
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Ms. Kumari — a native of the Tharparkar district in Sindh Province, a traditional Pakistan Peoples Party stronghold — comes from a family of peasants, and as a Dalit is a member of the so-called untouchables caste.
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Her faked deli orgasm is still up there with Sonny's getting whacked at the tollbooth and the baby carriage bumping down the staircase in "The Untouchables" — the famous passage that's always more perfect than you remember.
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The untouchables, whose special role — whose hereditary duty — is to labor in the fields of others or to do other work that Hindu society considers filthy, are not allowed to live in the village at all.
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"Communal forces are becoming stronger," she told 300,000 cheering supporters, as she kicked off her election campaign at a sprawling park she built to honor lower caste Indians, previously known as "untouchables", in Uttar Pradesh's capital Lucknow.
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"He has smashed ahead so vigorously that the name of his series, 'The Untouchables,' might refer as well to the show's rating success," Richard F. Shepard wrote in a New York Times profile after the first season.
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In Punjab Province, former "untouchables" accelerated their conversion to Christianity, taking given names common among their Muslim neighbors while replacing the caste surnames with appellations like "Masih," the Urdu word for Jesus in his role as Messiah.
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My own dominant-caste grandparents, who grew up in Kerala, were devotees of temples where "untouchables" were not permitted to pray until 1947, when laws on temple entry began to change in parts of newly independent India.
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Morricone's previous Oscar bids include his work for "Bugsy" and "The Untouchables", but it is perhaps his loss for his critically-acclaimed "The Mission" score — when Herbie Hancock scooped the honor for "Round Midnight" — that is the sorest.
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Capone was a cunning and vicious adversary who rose to the top echelon of La Cosa Nostra in less than a decade, creating an everlasting legacy of gangsterism in popular culture that lives through Hollywood movies like Scarface and The Untouchables.
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Yadavs resent the affirmative action programs India has adopted for the untouchables, as well as the big companies that have pushed Yadavs and others off their land to make way for the industrial developments that are transforming India into an economic powerhouse.
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The lower castes, also known as Dalits, one of the most marginalized groups in India's complicated caste system -- a community of people once known as the untouchables, who were often denied the right to education and employment through systemic discrimination and abuse.
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Considering that journalists have been killed looking into Prigozhin's other businesses, Sobol's doggedness recalls Eliot Ness's pursuit of Al Capone in "The Untouchables" — except, unlike Ness, she has no knife, no gun, no badge, no law, and no federal government to aid her.
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The U.S. film studio famous for producing classic shows such as "I Love Lucy", "Star Trek" and "The Untouchables" said on Friday that it had agreed a deal to take a controlling stake in Vonetize, the share price of which jumped 75 percent on Sunday.
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At an Untouchables-style White House luncheon on Wednesday, meant to threaten Republican senators into not abandoning Obamacare repeal, Trump told his guests that the best option available to them was still to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in a single bill.
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In a country known for impunity, all of a sudden the untouchables were being touched and the telenovela-esque drama of it all was so tantalizing that many in Brazil and abroad were content to turn a blind eye to problems of procedural integrity.
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They qualify for many of the same constitutional protections and benefits aimed at low-caste Hindus like Dalits, or untouchables, and those from what are officially called Other Backward Classes, according to Surinder Singh Gajraj, an official with the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Group will discover the fate of its de facto leader on Thursday as South Korea's Supreme Court rules whether to uphold the bribery conviction of Jay Y. Lee, in a scandal that unseated the president and trained public ire on corporate untouchables.
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Eboshi, for example, with her slick of red lipstick and swishing silks, might be a perfect villain — she doesn't hesitate to kill gods, fell trees and mine virgin land — and yet she also employs and cares for society's untouchables: lepers and formerly indentured brothel workers.
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The journey begins with tears, as boys and girls as young as 4 say goodbye to their parents at Shanti Bhavan, a boarding school that provides a free education for children of Dalits: the "untouchables" in the caste system that still shapes Indian society.
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SEOUL, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Samsung Group will discover the fate of its de facto leader on Thursday as South Korea's Supreme Court rules whether to uphold the bribery conviction of Jay Y. Lee, in a scandal that unseated the president and trained public ire on corporate untouchables.
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The catalyst for the strike was violence against members of the lower-caste Dalits, or so-called untouchables, that occurred when several hundred thousand gathered on New Year's Day at a monument southeast of Mumbai to commemorate the victory 200 years ago of a British-led force against high-caste Hindus.
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Hughes (whose directing credits include the features "Menace II Society" and "From Hell" with brother Albert) has shot the documentary in a brisk, cinematic fashion, using rapid cuts between interview subjects and the musical score (which includes the theme from "The Untouchables") to add a sense of urgency to this unfolding history.
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In a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, David Feige, a former public defender and director of the documentary Untouchables, laid out how public registries and other post-punishment restrictions for sex offenders have often been justified by a woefully exaggerated statistic that 80 percent of sex offenders re-offend.
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But along the way, the saffron scales seem to fall from his eyes as he describes the rise of Hindu nationalism, with its anti-Muslim violence, and the failure of liberal Hinduism to apply more than an ineffectual Band-Aid to the deep, septic wound of the people once called Untouchables, now known as Dalits.
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Untouchables is a fine film, but I'm not sure it requires as much analysis as some of De Palma's perhaps lesser-known films, and several of his more recent projects (particularly the intriguing but flawed 2007 Iraq War drama Redacted) are underserved in the end, as if Baumbach and Paltrow realized they were approaching a stopping point.
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There are many clumsy examples of this — like, say, the terrible movie spoofs that believe simply restaging some famous scene counts as worthwhile humor — but there are also many very good ones, as when director Brian De Palma turned an elaborate action sequence in his 1987 film The Untouchables into an extensive reimagining of the stairway massacre in 1925's Battleship Potemkin.
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"There is a direct link between the growing nationalism of politics in India, especially of Hindu nationalism, the gang mentality, the idea that the 'other' is a fair target and attacks on Muslims and Dalit (India's lowest caste known as 'untouchables')," says Ruchira Gupta, the award-winning campaigner and founder of Apne Aap, an NGO that campaigns against sexual violence and trafficking in India.
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" Put the two men's records, their reputations, even their respective books, side by side, and it's hard to imagine two more polar opposites than Trump and Comey: They are as antipodean as the untethered, sybaritic Al Capone and the square, diligent G-man Eliot Ness in Brian De Palma's 1987 movie "The Untouchables"; or the vengeful outlaw Frank Miller and Gary Cooper's stoic, duty-driven marshal Will Kane in Fred Zinnemann's 1952 classic "High Noon.
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