You are the last bastion for this country for it to remain a country so. You are our last bastion of hope, which we now hope shall not be breached by all these Don Quixote and Sancha Plazas. The fabric of unity of this country was sought to be breached by further dividing it in to castes and creeds as if we did not have enough of this SC/ST reservation business. Even this reservation was thought of as an experiment and the founding fathers of this noble book of constitution wanted it to be done away with after ten years. Babasaheb never sought any reservation for himself to become brilliant lawyer. By seeking such favour it becomes an ultimate stigma to a human being from which you cannot expect the human spirit to rise to higher domain of excellence. The country after independence and owing to the industrialization and rise of cities, middle classes and economic forces was itself creating an egalitarian society. Now only those who did not work hard enough were to be left behind but what we did was legitimized the CASTE. The very evil which was sought to be abolished acquired legal status. Owing to city life, it hardly mattered to whom with you dined or wined, the traditional notion of not sharing roti & beti were seen to be overcome at least in the metros and some cities, even the religious beliefs were going into the private domains, wherein the society started becoming tolerant and we have successful marriages of even star personalities to that proof. Creation of nationhood requires all this feelings of caste, creed to be seconded only than you can see the individual perform for the larger good of first the nation and then for humanity. Only an economic criterion should be the guiding factor for any positive discrimination if required by the state. Otherwise we shall a stamp of caste on every individual with a legal sanctity and the vision of realizing a caste free society will only remain a dream for eternity.
