Whatever be the case violence is not the solution...burning a few trains and damaging buses will take none anywhere...be it dalits or whoever. Before even the govt gives them reservation its mandatory to give all the needy basic education so they can get "civilized" and not act in this fashion. The author has given a one-sided view of the story portraying a highly oppressed dalit class....however this maybe as far as remote villages are concerned. In a city like mumbai they are given an equal footing in everything... I even suspect that the widespread violence is more of a political game and handiwork of a few anti-social elements giving it a "dalit" colour to safeguard themselves against the law...as the name always attracts sympathy from the political class....the reason being that they need to go begging for votes to the same set of people once elections are in.
