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Castism is best visible in kind of laws govt pass… For example farm laws, while the elites of india needs jats, gujjars, and yadavs, … As a soldier to die for them on border…. But these same people have to protest for 2 months to stop the farm laws…. They hiring room will hire them as guards and hitmen…… But never allow them to sit beside them
A Reserved category Getting admission -40/800 is privileged life. General Category with 700/800 does not get admission to Medical science is discrimination. Studying hard and learning English and contribute to society. Stop crying.
Hello Vaibhav,
From your point of view will great grand sons of various reserved category IAS Officers after availing 300 years of reservations will be fit in urban societies or not ?
The writer seems to be living under a rock or rather a self created bubble. The earlier arguments used to be centered around the lack of a level education field. Reservations settled that. That it destroyed a merit based system and that the actual effects will appear with a lag is apparently irrelevant. Now the focus is on what exactly? Language, attire, self confidence, culture fit??
By that logic, the Author is equally guilty of having passed the “culture fit” test to be writing here.
Even if all savarns are killed or banished , the leaders & propagandists of shudras will blame savarns for problems arising out of poor education system & poverty.🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Don’t solve the problem; just find an enemy figure to hate🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
To the author: drop the act. Stop using language, culture, and every social category you can find as a weapon to build your career. It’s time to try a different approach—one that’s actually wise, sane, and decent. Start by showing some real compassion and respect to your fellow Indians for a change.
Mr. Ambedkar, whom this author shamelessly appropriates, built his legacy by actually doing the work. He mastered English, crushed it academically, and beat every standard of merit put in front of him. He didn’t sit around complaining that language was some tool of oppression; he weaponized it himself by storming elite institutions through sheer intellectual force. Using him to argue against the very excellence he lived out is total intellectual fraud. It’s a complete insult to what he actually achieved.
Merit and standards are real. Companies hire people for their skills, how they communicate, and how they fit into a team. People look for compatibility in marriage. Teams need to actually function together. That isn’t “casteism”—it’s how every civilization has worked since the beginning of time. Trying to frame this manufactured drama as “scholarship” is just calculatedly dishonest.
Then, throwing in random attacks on Hindu festivals while talking about hiring bias shows the real goal here. It’s not about justice or fixing things; it’s about social poisoning. There are no solutions offered because the author isn’t identifying a real problem. The only agenda is to create division and mess things up.
People across every spectrum have grown sharp enough to see straight through this dangerous, hollow and toxic atrocity literature. This writing is just dangerous vile rabble-rousing that deserves condemnation and censure.
PS: Ambedkar, the blogger’s own cited hero, either championed English as the great equalizer, OR championed Sanskrit, the very language this author implicitly dismisses as a Brahminical tool. Either way, Ambedkar’s actual positions completely demolish this author’s narrative.
The author conflates caste with class. All the instances he cites are of class based exclusion. A Brahmin whose dress and accent do not conform to upper class norms will be just as excluded as a Dalit. References to karva chauth are irrelevant. Patriarchy is not exclusive to upper caste women and is in fact more tenacious, as indeed is caste itself with all its ugliness, among the intermediate backward and lower castes. The most charitable view that one can take of his passionate but ill-premised outburst is that it is couched in the very eloquence which he says the upper castes use to keep out the lower. One supposes it has helped him escape the fate of his long oppressed brethren.
Hello Vaibhav,
You claim to have experienced incidents, in urban environment, of discrimination because of the cast, disguised in not being “polished” or “culturally fit”. But such refusals are experienced by all casts in corporate sector. So stop crying for wrong reasons.
Now let me give you real life experience, in the urban world (what you call – the lived experience). We have raised our kids without putting an iota of emphasis on cast or religion. Then kids grew and went to college, desiring to study a certain subject where the seats are limited. When the admission list is declared, they see some of their friends with much lesser marks got admitted and our kids (of course Savarna) could not get through. THAT WAS THE DAY THEY BECAME AWARE OF THE CAST OF THEIR FRIENDS, who were till then just friends with equal social and financial standing in their friend circle. We had a big debate in our house about the reservation policy and cast.
Stop taking undue advantage of the reservation policy. Let it pass on to those who really need it.
Let me put here some loose translation of an article written by Madhu Kamble in Loksatta a few years ago:
“Don;t haves” from the depressed classes must get the benefits of reservation on priority. Second generation of those who got the reservation should compete in the open class and forfeit the reservation….tendency to hold on to the cast for reservation is strong. It’s an obstacle in ending the casteism.
You have said that “…..In corporate India, polish is often a coded admiration for upper-caste habits of being”. I agree that it would be very tough for someone who comes from a very poor (very less money) background (there are also many poor Savarnas, amazing isn’t it?) to become “polished” in the “corporate world”. Of course, “culture fit” is applicable to not just Dalits, but to all castes. Basic fact of life.
So what is the solution? Should corporates (Private companies) offer reservation to the SC’s/Dalits/Oppressed castes? Or perhaps, the governments (state and central) across all states simply go ahead and offer 100% reservation to the oppressed castes? Even that, I am afraid would not satisfy the likes of you.
Obviously, the only ones suffering in India are the Dalits. All Savarnas (according to you, Savarnas=Brahmins) are very rich and powerful. Corporates are brutal, they insist only on performance and nothing else. Even a Brahmin would be dismissed for lack of performance.
Did the Dalits suffer? yes. Did other castes including the “Savarnas” also suffer? yes. But what do I know? I am just another bigoted “Savarna”.
If a serious conversation about caste needs to be had, then both the avarnas and savarnas need to sit together and acknowledge that mistakes have been made on both sides.
Putting the blame on one caste alone is counter productive and ruins everything. Perhaps the author should also read more about the Cisco Sundar Iyer case where a software engineer (Savarna) was accused of being discriminatory towards an Avarna employee. In the end, the case was dismissed.
Of course, the author would not even read about the Cisco-Sundar Iyer case because it does not suit his agenda.
Castism is best visible in kind of laws govt pass… For example farm laws, while the elites of india needs jats, gujjars, and yadavs, … As a soldier to die for them on border…. But these same people have to protest for 2 months to stop the farm laws…. They hiring room will hire them as guards and hitmen…… But never allow them to sit beside them
A Reserved category Getting admission -40/800 is privileged life. General Category with 700/800 does not get admission to Medical science is discrimination. Studying hard and learning English and contribute to society. Stop crying.
Hello Vaibhav,
From your point of view will great grand sons of various reserved category IAS Officers after availing 300 years of reservations will be fit in urban societies or not ?
Absolutely brilliant article! Every point so well put!
The writer seems to be living under a rock or rather a self created bubble. The earlier arguments used to be centered around the lack of a level education field. Reservations settled that. That it destroyed a merit based system and that the actual effects will appear with a lag is apparently irrelevant. Now the focus is on what exactly? Language, attire, self confidence, culture fit??
By that logic, the Author is equally guilty of having passed the “culture fit” test to be writing here.
Well said👏🏼
Even if all savarns are killed or banished , the leaders & propagandists of shudras will blame savarns for problems arising out of poor education system & poverty.🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Don’t solve the problem; just find an enemy figure to hate🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
To the author: drop the act. Stop using language, culture, and every social category you can find as a weapon to build your career. It’s time to try a different approach—one that’s actually wise, sane, and decent. Start by showing some real compassion and respect to your fellow Indians for a change.
Mr. Ambedkar, whom this author shamelessly appropriates, built his legacy by actually doing the work. He mastered English, crushed it academically, and beat every standard of merit put in front of him. He didn’t sit around complaining that language was some tool of oppression; he weaponized it himself by storming elite institutions through sheer intellectual force. Using him to argue against the very excellence he lived out is total intellectual fraud. It’s a complete insult to what he actually achieved.
Merit and standards are real. Companies hire people for their skills, how they communicate, and how they fit into a team. People look for compatibility in marriage. Teams need to actually function together. That isn’t “casteism”—it’s how every civilization has worked since the beginning of time. Trying to frame this manufactured drama as “scholarship” is just calculatedly dishonest.
Then, throwing in random attacks on Hindu festivals while talking about hiring bias shows the real goal here. It’s not about justice or fixing things; it’s about social poisoning. There are no solutions offered because the author isn’t identifying a real problem. The only agenda is to create division and mess things up.
People across every spectrum have grown sharp enough to see straight through this dangerous, hollow and toxic atrocity literature. This writing is just dangerous vile rabble-rousing that deserves condemnation and censure.
PS: Ambedkar, the blogger’s own cited hero, either championed English as the great equalizer, OR championed Sanskrit, the very language this author implicitly dismisses as a Brahminical tool. Either way, Ambedkar’s actual positions completely demolish this author’s narrative.
Brilliant analysis and true scenario in today’s corporate world of diversity and equality culture
The author conflates caste with class. All the instances he cites are of class based exclusion. A Brahmin whose dress and accent do not conform to upper class norms will be just as excluded as a Dalit. References to karva chauth are irrelevant. Patriarchy is not exclusive to upper caste women and is in fact more tenacious, as indeed is caste itself with all its ugliness, among the intermediate backward and lower castes. The most charitable view that one can take of his passionate but ill-premised outburst is that it is couched in the very eloquence which he says the upper castes use to keep out the lower. One supposes it has helped him escape the fate of his long oppressed brethren.
Hello Vaibhav,
You claim to have experienced incidents, in urban environment, of discrimination because of the cast, disguised in not being “polished” or “culturally fit”. But such refusals are experienced by all casts in corporate sector. So stop crying for wrong reasons.
Now let me give you real life experience, in the urban world (what you call – the lived experience). We have raised our kids without putting an iota of emphasis on cast or religion. Then kids grew and went to college, desiring to study a certain subject where the seats are limited. When the admission list is declared, they see some of their friends with much lesser marks got admitted and our kids (of course Savarna) could not get through. THAT WAS THE DAY THEY BECAME AWARE OF THE CAST OF THEIR FRIENDS, who were till then just friends with equal social and financial standing in their friend circle. We had a big debate in our house about the reservation policy and cast.
Stop taking undue advantage of the reservation policy. Let it pass on to those who really need it.
Let me put here some loose translation of an article written by Madhu Kamble in Loksatta a few years ago:
“Don;t haves” from the depressed classes must get the benefits of reservation on priority. Second generation of those who got the reservation should compete in the open class and forfeit the reservation….tendency to hold on to the cast for reservation is strong. It’s an obstacle in ending the casteism.
Hey Vaibhav/ The Print, will love to write a rebuttal on your article. Please share your mail id.
Dear Author,
You have said that “…..In corporate India, polish is often a coded admiration for upper-caste habits of being”. I agree that it would be very tough for someone who comes from a very poor (very less money) background (there are also many poor Savarnas, amazing isn’t it?) to become “polished” in the “corporate world”. Of course, “culture fit” is applicable to not just Dalits, but to all castes. Basic fact of life.
So what is the solution? Should corporates (Private companies) offer reservation to the SC’s/Dalits/Oppressed castes? Or perhaps, the governments (state and central) across all states simply go ahead and offer 100% reservation to the oppressed castes? Even that, I am afraid would not satisfy the likes of you.
Obviously, the only ones suffering in India are the Dalits. All Savarnas (according to you, Savarnas=Brahmins) are very rich and powerful. Corporates are brutal, they insist only on performance and nothing else. Even a Brahmin would be dismissed for lack of performance.
Did the Dalits suffer? yes. Did other castes including the “Savarnas” also suffer? yes. But what do I know? I am just another bigoted “Savarna”.
If a serious conversation about caste needs to be had, then both the avarnas and savarnas need to sit together and acknowledge that mistakes have been made on both sides.
Putting the blame on one caste alone is counter productive and ruins everything. Perhaps the author should also read more about the Cisco Sundar Iyer case where a software engineer (Savarna) was accused of being discriminatory towards an Avarna employee. In the end, the case was dismissed.
Of course, the author would not even read about the Cisco-Sundar Iyer case because it does not suit his agenda.
For once, I expected this to be about what’s sometimes called the ‘language caste system’, but no, it’s ‘The Caste of Merit’, rehashed 🙁