A must watch video for everyone who is in favour of or against reservation for SC/ST in India.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKZxAAAiJdg
It shows how rampant is the practice of discrimination on the basis of caste. How the innocent dalit children are being discriminated in schools, how young minds of upper caste children are being filled with the poison of untouchability. How dalit children are forced to sweep the class rooms and clean the toilets. And how Maha Pandits of Kashi are defending their caste system and upper castes students demanding roll back of reservation policy.
It seems a never ending saga.
But I have different question, can't there be alternative ways of doing the much despised menial jobs in this age of technological innovations. Can't the jobs like lifting and skinning of dead animals be done through machines. Can't the sewer blockages be cleared without forcing a man to take a dip in the dirt. Can't the musahaars be taught a better way of life. Can't the dalits living in discrimination be encouraged to move out of such slavery.
I think all this can be done. But the people like us who are out of clutches of such slavery have become slaves to new life style, new friends, new culture and new self egos.
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