Indian Oxford graduate garners praise over the post on grandfather’s caste struggles on LinkedIn

Wednesday 14th September 2022 07:07 EDT
 
 

Juhi Kore, an Indian graduate from Oxford University wrote a touching note to honour her grandfather who battled caste-based discrimination all his life to gain an education. She said her grandfather was no longer around to cherish their “shared dream of him attending my Oxford graduation ceremony in person”.

She told The Independent that his death devastated her and she wanted to pay tribute to him by penning a LinkedIn post that has since gone viral.

“Since his passing, I’ve been thinking about how to best honour his legacy and my graduation seemed like a fitting opportunity,” Ms Kore said.

“I was absolutely devastated after he passed away as I hadn’t seen my family and him for almost two years, before he passed away.”

The post on LinkedIn has received around 32,000 reactions and hundreds of comments from people. She was taken aback. 

“I’m so overwhelmed by the support I’ve received and absolutely did not expect this kind of attention,” she said.

She said it is “heartbreaking” and frustrating to see incidents of caste-based violence and abuse in modern India.

“It’s absolutely frustrating that as a country we’ve come such a long way and yet we haven’t been able to get past such incidents,” she said.


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