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Eradicate castism from India
by Sam on May 03, 2007 11:47 PM

Hindus cannot be united against injustice until castism is removed from India.

It is upto the so called 'higher caste', especially the Brahmins to abolish any form of castism from Hinduism.

Merely blaming politicians for everything is not a solution. Why are we being hypocratical? We tell muslims to correct wrong teachings within Islam but have done little to abolish castism within India. Merely saying that the scriptures doesnt talk about caste/varna etc is not enough, my brothers. If the religion has not created it, but the people following it have then it is upto the same people to abolish it.

Any normal person can reason that caste system "based on birth" was created by the so called higher caste, in order to maintain their status in society. Every indian should work to abolish it..but more so the brahmins. Instead of blaming reservation..which itself is bad..abolish castism itself..where is the question of reservation then?

Some simple ways of abolishing it although there might be more ways

1. Make it illegal to ask anyone or mention in any document ones caste
2. Ban mentioning caste while seeking marriage proposals in newspaper/websites.
3. Anybody should be able to be a priest not just a brahmin
4. Ban surnames that identify with caste

Unless these things are done with serious efforts and just given lip service... or one or two symbols of abolishing caste..forget about any form of national unity...We need modern thinking and action..Brahmins(especially the youths) wake up!


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