KATHMANDU: A 14-year-old boy has used rap music as the tool to raise a voice against the existing practice of untouchability that denies Dalit people social equality.

Sakshat Pant, a ninth grader of Gyanodaya Bal Batika School, today released his first rap video titled ‘Tara Ma Dalit’. The rap song is an imagination of the cruelty by so-called "upper caste" people against a Dalit boy and conveys strongly that the lives of Dalits matter.

Inspired by Navaraj BK of Jajarkot, who was killed by a group of "upper caste" locals of Rukum West in May this year, the music video begins with the introduction of a Dalit youth who was murdered for trying to reclaim his rights.