As you like it..

The practice of caste system in India is supposed to be eradicated by now according to the Indian Constitution when framed in 1950. But it has been successfully dividing us from the past six decades into 200 odd castes according to the present day government records.


Let us first look at diffrent perceptions of 'caste' in modern India!



Politicians: For India to develop we need to uplift the lower 'castes'... Positive discrimination of depressed 'castes' help them stand on par with the so called higher 'castes'... Reservations for scheduled 'castes' and backward 'castes'.. blah blah



Religions: 'Caste' is an imaginary division based on the work of a person in ancient India. (it sucks because there's no guarantee that we are gonna do the same job like our dads) Its in our culture so just follow! .. they are dumb so are we..



Youth: I lost my college seat in reservation quota.. f**k 'castes'.. I scored low in the entrance test but still.. My 'caste' is low too :) .. we are in love but our people are against inter'caste' marriages.. damn!! Some minister is gonna recommend my project because he is of my 'caste'.. cool!!



What's going on?!:

I am not here to talk about the untochability problems or fight against the discriminations shown to some section of people somwhere. In modern India, untouchability exists at a very very very very low extent.



New tensions are created because of the positive discrimination policies. The high caste communities feel discriminated by the government policy to reserve positions for the Backward Classes. In many cases a large number of high caste members compete for a few places reserved for them. While the Backward Classes members do not have to compete at all because of the large number of reserved places for them compared to the candidates. Sometimes in order to fill the quota, candidates from the lower classes are accepted even though they are not suitable. Sometimes some reserved positions remain unmanned because there were few candidates from the lower classes causing more tension between the castes. Between the lower castes there are also tensions over reservation.



But these were implemented with a good intention, right?! But then..

1.With all this positive discrimination policy, most of the communities who were low in the caste hierarchy remain low in the social order even today. Rich gets richer poor gets poorer :P



2.The political system which perpetuated the continuance of the caste system and succeeded in creating vote banks on the strength of which rulers are elected .. ;)



3.No child is being discriminated or favoured on that caste basis.Thats true but as soon as it turns into an adult, caste echoes in every nook and crany in the form of qoutas and reservations. :S



This delivery mechanism for helping the underprivileged and oppressed sections is so faulty that the number keeps growing despite billions and billions are spent for that cause. Ultimately the day has arrived for stopping this division of people into lower and higher castes. May be the society should now be categorised into 'havs' and 'hav nots' without any official names as such. People legally below poverty line can always seek government's help that way and the government would also be in a position to judge the deserving people and help them as caste would no more affect its power.



But i know that these are possible only on my fantasy island :(



There should be nothing like 'caste' for the future generations that throws them either to the top or bottom of the society just because of their birth in some clan which is totally not in their hands. I dont think that should be a part of anybody's identity. Government may not bring these ideal conditions due to various practical reasons. Atleast we can unofficially eradicate that word from our lives by trying to accept everyone equally. We need not go out and integrate the entire society but can stop those thoughts of differentiation from coming out of our minds. Lets think globally and build a broad mind. I urge you to continue your thinking please. Do we really need someone else to solve this problem?