The Caste Gali is a powerful, intimate, and deeply human story of a boy born at the edge of society-far from the temples, the wells, the playgrounds, and the privileges reserved for others. It follows Mohan Ram, a child of a forgotten lane, whose world begins in a place where dignity is a luxury and silence is survival.From the mud walls of his childhood home to the suffocating corridors of his village school, Mohan grows up witnessing the quiet brutality of caste-served not through open violence, but through subtle exclusions, withheld smiles, skipped turns, and denied humanity. Yet, in this atmosphere of resignation, he discovers a spark: the writings of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, whose words crack open the darkness around him and show him a world where equality is not a dream but a right.As Mohan steps into the city for higher education, he imagines a freer world-only to find that caste does not vanish in classrooms lined with English textbooks. It simply changes shape. In polished seminars, whispered hostel conversations, and coded academic judgments, he learns that discrimination can be gentle on the surface and deadly underneath. But he also meets others like him-students who refuse to bow, who read Ambedkar by lamplight, and who slowly teach him the power of voice, solidarity, and intellectual rebellion.Through every failure and triumph, Mohan carries with him the eyes of his mother, the silence of his father, and the unfulfilled dreams of generations before him. He walks from village lanes to university corridors to government offices where caste wears new uniforms-learning each time that survival is not enough. One must rise.Told with haunting honesty and heartfelt tenderness, The Caste Gali is not merely the story of one boy but the mirror of millions whose stories remain unspoken. It is a tribute to resilience, to memory, to Ambedkarite thought, and to the quiet fire burning in those pushed to the margins.This novel reminds us that while oppression is inherited, so is courage-and sometimes, a single line from a borrowed book can change the entire destiny of a life.