Hashtag #Casteism#
I remember as a kid when in school my dad never filled in the " caste" column while filling up my details in the blue calendar which we got every year. No one had any objections to it. Just giving your religion info was enough. Fortunately I was brought up in a family where surnames of friends and acquaintances were never a criteria to carry forward a relationship with them. So were we more humanely evolved then, or is today's progress taking away that realisation that we all, at the end of the day are just homo sapiens. During earlier times caste defined the profession which a family must have chosen to earn a living for themselves. So we had Kshatriyas, Brahmins, kshudras and then gradually the more closer to their profession ones like the lohars, shimpis, nhavis etc. The Parsis too still have surnames like batliwala, sodawala etc in sync with their businesses. Having a sense of belonging to a particular community because they ...