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we too go to the other caste/religion’s temples/church/mosque and we too attend each other’s festivals and funerals.. actually we are like a family, but some times it may be due to the politics or it may be due to the wrong teachings at certain religious schools change a little amount of people.. but over all i would say there is a good harmony..

coming to the caste system.. Dr.B.R.Ambedkar wrote out constitution saying that there must be reservation system in education/employment/sports etc., etc., almost everything for a period of 10years from the day we got freedom.. but it has been 60 years but every government that comes will just extend 10 more years and 10 more years and 10 more years..

i don’t deny the fact that there are still some people who are backward at certain places, but at the same time i won’t totally agree with a reservation based on caste.. a reservation should be based on economic status of a family. if the family is poor, if government support them then it is reasonable. here there are any poor people those who belongs to higher castes and just because they are from higher caste they have to struggle a lot in order to finish their studies/ to get a job..

simple example: let us say i am from a higher caste.. i got a score of 120 out of 200 in a competitive test and there is another guy from backward caste who secured 60 or 80 out of 200.. but our reservation system will give him a seat in computers engg. with fee wavier and monthly scholarship, and i will only manage to get a civil engg seat under payment quota.. what if i am from a middle/lower middle class family? who will pay my fees? and how i can complete my 4years education by paying thousands of rupees? at the end.. a merit candidate will end up doing a veterinary course and a fellow with little knowledge will come out from the college as a neurosurgeon.. :) is this reasonable? is this logical? and by the time we come out from the college, there will be a government job waiting for them under reservation quota and for me nothing.. :)

So, don’t just imagine that all the lower caste people are cleaning someone’s house for 2cents a day.. those days are gone.. Now modern india in two words.. “Majority People are minorities” and “higher caste people are lower in the eyes of governments and political parties” because at the end all they want is votes.. and that is why those reservations will never end..

BTW.. You must go to India once in your life time and make sure you have atleast 30 to 40 dyas time.. that is the minimum time you need if you want to touch the corners of india.. at least most places if not all the places..

So, don’t just imagine that all the lower caste people are cleaning someone’s house for 2cents a day.. those days are gone..

Those days are NOT gone in rural India. You're talking about urban India in places like Bombay, Bangalore, Madras, Delhi, etc. but the lower caste people in many villages are still treated as untouchables, who are made to clean toilets and catch and eat rats. In the cities, YES, I'll agree, most people don't know or care about caste.

india's way too vast (1 billion people, 800 languages, multiple cultures and religions and classes and races) to allow for a single statment. Nathan is wrong to say that caste still is a factor and you're wrong to say it isn't. What is right is to say that "in some places"....

Even your 30/40 days is not enough for a continent like India -- you in the south, are Dravidian speakers have your own culture and even your history is completely unlike that of say the Punjab. Hindu rulers ruled in most of the south until recently, while the north had to suffer the traumas of Muslim invasions. Islam in the south came peacefully, in the north it came at the edge of the sword, hence the difference in perceptions. The Tamils were attacked by the Mughals and Marathas, so, most likely when the British came to Madras, they just saw the BRitish as another bunch of foreigners, no different from the Marathas, Sikhs or Mughals, no different looking than them either.