Why Ms. Kangana Ranuat is Right about Caste & Modern Indians
Dear Ms. Meena Kotwal,
We are all having selfish genes. Therefore your letter to Ms. Kangana Ranaut is justified.
Ms. Kangana Ranaut said the caste system is rejected by ‘modern Indians.’ But she is not talking about you and those who want cast system stay on forever. So she is right. Why do you want cause system to stay on because you can use a reservation and get benefits that you may not deserve if caste is not used?
India’s caste-based reservation reached over 50%. Those who have got merit in reserved castes can compete and win seats in open quota too, further, even after 2–3 generations of using a reservation system, the elite of the so-called underprivileged block access to reservation for million of our won disadvantaged brothers and sisters. Those who get seats with mediocre marks get jobs with average qualification to teach disadvantaged children; thereby, they get mediocre educational and can not move up, leave alone compete with merit.
Your personal story is only an emotional point, but not an answer to Ms. Kangana Ranut’s point — ‘nation suffer mediocrity and brilliance finds a reluctant escape.’
Your assumption that sewers are all cleaned by Dalits is wrong — read this article.
As for the caste-based atrocities are concerned, you are right; they are happening. So much so the Supreme court has to intervene about the abuse of SC/ST Prevention of atrocities act.
Please analyze the available murders data for 2017, 34,511 in India, and then make a statement about cate based murders.
You have used Mr. Rohit Vemula’s name, who faked his Dalit status, death as an institutional murder. You may be right as it was not a simple suicide if you can analyze the ‘scratched paragraph’ cut in his presumable suicide note.
One can sympathize that you were a victim, but look at millions of people who are victims of the reservation system and can not get deserving seats and job and being pushed to the lower strata of society — who should they blame?
Finally, to reservations to end, the change must come from those who are benefitting and leave it after one generation and let the other underprivileged get it. If not, you will also follow the same path as the native Indian in the USA, whose progress is not on par with the rest of the country even after 170 years of special status.
‘I hope all the responses you have received will help you think about’ how to discuss these matters constructively.
Sincerely,
Srinivasa K. Rao, Ph.D.
New York | Srao123@gmail.com | 25th August 2020.
