Showing posts with label Caste. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caste. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Metal, Glass And India

Women belonging to the aristocractic Nair cast...
Women belonging to the aristocractic Nair caste of Kerala ,India (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The caste system is like this dark, opaque metal that hammers away at the Buddhist egalitarian glass of social equality. The glass has broken so far in India. The metal has broken India’s backbone. There is no internal unity, no internal cohesion, no internal strength, and the caste system is to blame. A conscious effort has to be made to create a casteless Hinduism in India. And then in India the metal becomes transparent. You end up transparent like glass and strong like metal. And then India becomes strong.

This is not an argument against cultural diversity, only against inequality.