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sunson

Caste Away

Aug 11, 2009 13:22

We recently constructed a Rain water harvesting pond at our farm. The construction took 6 long days of which the first 4 days I happened to be there to oversee the acitvities. It was a fun filled activity - needed operations planning, materials/people management and more importantly making optimal use of the expensive JCB (oh and I got a cool ( Read more... )

nature, caste, pond, farm, thanjavur, agriculture

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anonymous August 11 2009, 17:17:15 UTC

With the glorious land reforms(which were partly good and effective) of Indira Gandhi regime, I bet that the lessor would also belong to a backward class and most probably be a SC(belonging to a superior sect maybe)!

ravi

redslime August 12 2009, 04:14:49 UTC

hmm, this is why there are revolutions I suppose. With no paper he can't exactly sue. If these actions are common, is murder also common?

sunson August 13 2009, 04:47:00 UTC

I believe, a revolution is in the making. There have been many revolutions in this region before. My own "caste" (the superior brahmins) used to do this: The lower caste man must enter "our area" only after his footwear has been removed and kept on top of his head.

I guess, People would have continued taking the humiliation forever until Mr.Periyar started creating the first Dravidian revolution. There was a massive revolution against the highest caste Brahmins at the end of which, the balance shifted. The brahmins were humiliated and there was "justice" but no change in the minds of the people. However, I'd say, revolutions only change balances - those who lost will always be licking their wounds planning their next move.

There must be a fundamental change in mindsets - to that of understanding our place in the grand scheme of things. Without that silly differences will only seem important.

redslime August 14 2009, 01:33:27 UTC

There must be a fundamental change in mindsets.

Yeah maybe, either that or a large die back of the human species.

That's sad sarathmenon August 12 2009, 08:17:39 UTC

I don't have an answer to the solution to this problem. Maybe if education becomes pervasive and common place by his next generation, his kids could have a better chance. It's not the ideal solution, but since there has been no progress over the last 60 years, I don't see anything else radically changing to help people like these.