Our system stands upon 4 strong pillars: Politics, Judiciary, Media, and the Caste System.
Although 4 pillars are withholding the pressure, there is one important pillar that can make the entire system tumble down. That pillar though mentioned in the end (Aap chronology samajhiye!) still bears the entire burden of our current judiciary, media, and political landscape and that will be THE CASTE SYSTEM.
This article will focus on this most important pillar proving why the other 3 are dependent on this pillar. And for the sake of a better understanding, I will be using regions, races, and religious communities, as a part of the caste system.
But please don’t deny that our system doesn’t have caste system as a pillar, because we know that none of our political leaders ranging from Nehru to Modi could have won the elections just based on their promises of development or Ache Din. Well, the caste vote bank has always played a major role in bringing the Ache Din back perhaps, they never came back.
It is interesting to note that the caste system plays such an important role in our system, yet these different castes are not respected and with conspiring methods, the caste system is used as a weapon of self-defense. But this shouldn’t happen in the world’s biggest democracy where secularism is imbibed in the constitution or I should say, “Secularism is just imbibed in the constitution for namesake”, because every day someone dies in our country because of these caste-related issues.
Let’s start from the start, shall we?
Dr. Ambedkar gave birth to our constitution by meticulously adding an act to save the minorities because he thought it might uplift them, perhaps there could be a vested interest as he didn’t want bad things happening to people which could have happened to him because of his caste. Although I don’t remember anything bad happening to the person who got continuous scholarships from the kings to acclaim numerous degrees from foreign universities.
But I don’t blame Ambedkar for safeguarding the rights and interests of the minorities because the situation was bad 75 years ago and the situation is still the same or is it worse? Well yes, because now we don’t have trains burnt in religious violence, but we still have everyday lynching which may have killed more people than a pandemic. But no, that’s an exaggeration and we never exaggerate!
An adequate portion of the part played by our politicians to politicize our caste system was always based on just the person’s caste and never based on their family’s financial economics. And our dearest father of the nation, Mahatama Gandhi didn’t leave any page unturned to uplift the untouchable classes by terming them as Harijan and to safeguard the interest of these Harijan he replaced Indira Nehru’s last name with Gandhi so she could continue the legacy of using the Harijan as vote bank for Congress.
Too much political history was involved, but the judiciary wasn’t behind in any way by supporting the minorities and encroaching the rights of other citizens. But it was recently when the Supreme Court tackled the Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2018, a law for atrocities against minorities which could probably put anyone behind the bars.
Even having one of the biggest judiciary systems in the world (well at least the system is big yet we have awkwardly less number of judges), we still struggle to find the justice and that’s simply because the conclusive evidence is never present, neither when nobody was driving Salman Khan’s car nor when he didn’t kill the black buck and definitely not when Kasab’s death was on hold for killing hundreds in 26/11 attacks. Why? Because the judges didn’t have the right evidence and also because our judiciary works on evidence and sadly not on common sense.
As a matter of fact, the judiciary doesn’t consider the news reports as evidence, but they easily get biased when a News Channel airs a show of former judges a day before Aarushi Murder Case and state a useless judgment that the parents killed the daughter because CBI said in the lieu of evidence that only parents could have killed their daughter. Or in other some cases, no one killed no one! Remember, “no one killed Jessica for ages?”
Our judiciary system doesn’t consider anything, but evidence and yet one of the best judges in the world get influenced by the so informative media. But that works only when a Hindu is bailed when he is charged with lynching a Muslim for allegedly storing beef.
If a man dies in a car accident, then the media will not take the pain to disclose his caste, but if a drunk man dies in a car accident then the media will make sure to enlighten us all with the truth about that person’s caste. This gives our parents the chance to say, “Ye saalo ki jaat hi aisi hoti hai – These rascals’ caste is like that!”
It was so easy to blame Jamaat people for organizing an event at Nizamuddin during a pandemic, but nobody talks about the oh so sweet, Hindus, who went to temples on Ram Navami despite of the lockdown. Indeed people belonging to the Tablighi Jamaat have lynched doctors and frontline workers but is it not possible that the news about other caste was never published? Why? Because we are building New India, which is not newer India, but we are becoming Hindustan / Bharat again.
Well, there was fun in provoking the lynching cases by media so much that beef was banned in our country, but less fun to unearth the names of Hindus who own one of the most profitable companies which produce and export beef. That would have made it even bigger breaking news to get the ads. But they ignored it because our system has the strongest pillar of the caste system which must be supported.
Caste System is not just 1 out of the 4 pillars, but it is the first pillar that was built, and all other pillars followed it!
Now that’s a lot of stuff going on in the name of CASTEISM..
The Shameless Indian 