I am a hindu brahmin and never in my 34 years of life have i thought to even mention that i am a brahmin. Mentioning it now makes me think that may be i am endorsing casteism even though the the truth couldn\'t be any further. I cringe reading that a demented VHP parasite stated that cow had higher stature than dalits. What on earth is happening? Are we strangling our own culture and creating a chasm which no amount of time could bridge? I am sure this issue would be a trump card with the conversion fanatics and so called missionaries.I can understand that reservation in some sense has divided the country between dalits and non dalits. We cannot however rule out that reservation has definately served it\'s purpose to a large extent. I might have put foot in my mouth with this statement but i think backward classes have definately risen from adversity to a certain degree. Isn\'t that good? I know this had happened at cost of meritocrisy having taken a back seat but then remember we have persecuted dalits for so long that the payback time was long overdue.
