Why is being a Dalit a curse?
Why they don't deserve the right to lead their
lives with dignity? Why are they humiliated even after sixty years of independence? Why are we not ashamed of ourselves for denying our fellow Indians the right to equality?
A Dalit woman and her daughter were stripped and beaten up by the upper caste people in Ajmer. What was the crime for which the two women had to suffer such
gross humiliation in front of the entire village? The only mistake that was on their part was the mother resented some upper caste people from taking away her sixteen year old daughter forcibly. A resentment which infuriated the upper caste people to the infinite extent of stripping the two helpless women in front of the entire public.
The question that arises in my mind is that does belonging to a higher caste grant you the right to perpetrate such ghastly acts against the lower castes.
If you are born as a Dalit then what is your fault? When God considers every human to be equal who are we to create boundaries based on caste. What is this kind of dharma that rips off the humanity present in us and makes us ill treat our fellow beings and creates a monster out of us.
I don't understand this caste system. I don't understand
why this system should get the right to create inequalities, sufferings and miseries.
Laws are there in the constitution to protect the Dalits. But it is only for namesake. Dalits are always ill treated, sometimes it gets noticed and sometimes it doesn't. Politicians derive political mileage out of the incidents, convince the Dalits that they will get justice, gain votes
and then forget the promises made.
This malaise of caste system is so deeply rooted in our psyche that we refuse to come out of it. But one thing we forget is that India will never be completely free until every individual in this country is free, equal and secure.