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quota protest
by Gina on May 01, 2006 01:29 AM

All one sided reports or opinions! Just goto rural India or districts nearby cities. News of BC students barred from going to schools, food cooked by BC chefs rejected for supply and lowercast girls stripped and raped by uppercast goons are common. Bigotry based on caste has been in place for nearly 3000 yrs. Till the concepts of democracy and public accountability came to our culture after freedom, the backward caste was helpless and treaded as lesser beings. Constitution enabled equality and has tried to end this mindless and humiliating treatment of backward caste. The quota system has failed in last 50 yrs because there is so much of hidden, subconscious and implicit bias against it. Whats wrong with upper caste mindset? Those crying foul in the name of merit are hypocrites. Most of them will leave India after they finish their degrees. Protesting upper class must remember that the India historically and demographically belongs to lower class people as much as they do. Racism in West and Casteism in India are two sides of same coin. Outcry in Media makes a thing clear that if quotas had not been in place, the backward caste had been suppressed and humiliated even today.

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