Brothers Offer Haircuts At Doorsteps In Karnataka After Salons Refuse Service To Dalits

Two brothers belonging to a Dalit family in Kappasoge village, Mysuru in Karnataka are spreading social harmony in a different way. They are preserving the dignity of the Dalit community in Kappasoge plus nearby villages like Kuruhundi, Gowdarahundi and Madanahalli, as per TNN.

After Dalits were barred from haircuts at the salons, KP Mahadeva and KP Siddaraju started offering services on doorsteps.

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What happened?

Salon owners worry that cutting the hair of Dalits means that upper-caste clients would stop coming.

Mahadeva and Siddaraju have been doing this for eight years and plan to open a salon if they get financial aid.

"We have 30 guntas of dry land. We work as agriculture labourers or take up electrical jobs on holidays when there is no request for their services," Mahadeva said while speaking to The New Indian Express.

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This is what is going on

Rs 40 is charged for a haircut and Rs 20 for a shave.

"Despite being in the profession for over eight years, our repeated pleas for loan to set up a shop have fallen on deaf ears of local politicians. However, we do doorstep until when there is potential to set up shops in Dalit dominated villages which have no salons," he added.