[nukkad] There is no caste system in India.

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THERE IS NO CASTE SYSTEM IN INDIA

There is no caste system in India. There was long ago but there is none now.

Few days ago CNN aired Kate Blewkett's film shot on site in India called the
Carpet Children. The film will hit Cinamex any day now and we can all get to
see how this is so tragic and wish this would go away. They were talking
about what else is made by tiny hands. Beware of the Caucasian female
shopper waxing Socratic.

Of course CNN is biased and ran the story on the heels of the Indian bribery
scandal, giving Kate as much as 15 minutes of prime time, the compere almost
preempting every word she would say. Seemed like sensationalism and a hint
of prejudice, which is very well possible. We are wise, an ancient culture,
and have given the West Yoga, and Gurus galore who unload piety in Ashrams
from California to Calgary, of course there is prejudice.

Mitesh Badiwal writes in his paper, Child Labor in India: Causes,
Governmental Policies and the role of Education,
(www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Library/9175/inquiry1.htm) "India is the
largest example of a nation plagued by the problem of child labor. Estimates
cite figures of between 60 and 115 million working children in India -- the
highest number in the world (Human Rights Watch 1996, 1)."

Almost all kids in bonded slavery or child labor are, what shall we call
them, economically challenged? The majority come from the earstwhile Shudra
castes like Chamars, leather tanners; Mochi, shoe crafters; Lohar, black
smith; Suthar, wood workers; Teli, oil vendors; Ghanchi, oil extractors;
Banjara, nomadic wanderers; Machiyara, fish curers; Kannabi, road makers;
Bhil, dislodged indigenous tribe, you name it.

So what is these fit into the Scheduled Castes of old? So what if it is rare
for a Brahmin child to be found in bonded labor? Whatever you say, everyone
emphatically states there is no caste system in India.

So that settles that.

Feels good, huh?

Plutonius Arianus.
















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