I can understand Dalits burning trains. I can understand reservations being doled out like sweets. I can understand politicians acting like all they wanted was the welfare of people while in fact filling their pockets. What I cannot comprehend is the sentence : "Let a Brahmin do the dirty work".
I am a brahmin. I am from the upper caste. I am 21 years old. And I have never ever held any kind of prejudice in my mind against the so called lower castes.
Who gives the author the right to hand out justice to Brahmins? I once read an article in a famous daily by some communist leader who maintained that Hindu Brahmins should never be forgiven for their deeds. My question is : Which demographic section of the society is free from its own skeleton in the cupboard? Is it the Muslims, who have subjugated the native Hindus for a thousand years? Or the Rajputs, who partnered with the British? Or the communists, who have never ever took a stance that would appeal to a logical mind? The need is not to hand out verdicts. We cannot look at the past to make our future. If the Dalits want to come out of their dark age, it is themselves who have to light the lamp.
