The caste/'profession' gets defined by birth and worst still since India does not have the concept of dignity of labor, certain professions got labelled as extremely lower category. People who were born into families practicing these professions were then forced to lead a life full of insults, humilition, fear, opression and torture. If they were talented in other areas (more cushy professions) then opportunities were stolen from them, unjustly, causing mental anguish, pain and emotional truma not to forget extreme poverty. Haven't you read about the story of Eklayva from Mahabharata? It's a shamelful event and Guru Drona must have been a first class racist who would have put Hitler to shame.
RE:How the caste system hurts crorers of Indians
by MGR Fan on Dec 02, 2007 08:47 AM Permalink
ANyway read mahabharata and you will know how Drona died in the battlefield. And he died fighting against his own favourite disciple right?
That is the message of Hindu epics, you get punished for your misdeeds. I think you dint catch the message..
RE:How the caste system hurts crorers of Indians
by Kumar on Dec 01, 2007 11:55 PM Permalink
Now even when someone from the lower caste gets into a better profession or business (like Dr. Ambedkar did) the people from upper caste having bigoted mindset cannot tolerate this. Very strangely, instead of feeling joys that fellow citizens are getting out of poverty and misery, these bigoted individual continue to taunt, hurt and insult even innocent people. When the bigots do these evil acts, not once do they considor how wrong and unjust their acts are. Why? Becuase bigotry and racism have made them like animals, feeling no compassion, empathy and having no lack of justice. They cry about the Mughal atrocities on Hindus but show no sensitivity to their own atrocities of many more native Indians. Shame!
RE:How the caste system hurts crorers of Indians
by MGR Fan on Dec 02, 2007 08:50 AM Permalink
This piyush mishra does not represent crores of other upper castes of present day India of 2007... just as one dawood ibrahim does not represent millions of Indian muslims.
Try to understand the fact that you cannot generalise a entire population based on acts of some individuals. Hitler used to do that and you know the end result right?
RE:How the caste system hurts crorers of Indians
by ved prakash on Dec 02, 2007 09:16 AM Permalink
IF only it was merit in rise of professions.The realty is gross incompetent people keep on rising till retirements in coveted jobs setting poor standards of in work culture discipline and organisational structure,dalit entering a lowest ladder with low level of qualifications keeps rising bypassin everyone else till he has got to retire ,by that time he is much more equal among equals and owns property and assets unimagined in his or any non dalits lifetime .God Bless caseism.Same is even more true for so called backward classes.
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by Deepak Joshi on Dec 27, 2007 12:46 AM Permalink
its a shame that we have this caste system. its rooted so deep that we can see how much this second generation of dalit cast in new india hate others. its all because of the of opression by others for centuries..
