Race,Caste,Culture & Society

We call ourselves educated and sophisticated but there are many such issues where we are ignorant or rather choose to be so and CASTE is one of them.

There have been many such incidents in the past both in my personal life as well as that of my friend's where friendship and love had to be shunned,all in the name of caste.And the majority of them that spoke like this are the ones who have traveled across the globe and did their masters.So,the question is,why is it that we...who consider ourselves much more forward in our thinking when compared to our older generations fall short when it comes to caste & culture?This has been one topic I had always been wanting to pen out but it took a note from a friend on FB to pour out in writing.

It is sad that even today we believe that one's identity is determined by the caste he belongs to and not to the individual capacity a person has.It might be surprising to a few to learn that there people out there,even today to whom their caste is more important than the person itself.Its such a pity!But most of them are like this because of the so-called society and the rules & restrictions that it imposes.The same society which is willing to rub shoulders with anyone for the sake of money would never agree if someone broke their so-called rules.And I say "so-called" coz there are no rules....its just an imaginary protocol that people have been following for generations and are accustomed to doing so that they cannot imagine beyond it.Are we really that naive or plain stupid to think that caste and race give us an identity?

This is a small blog dedicated to all my friends and the brave others who have broken barriers to prove their point in this hypocritical society.Kudos to you guys and you have earned my immense respect.