Caste is a system of discrimination and humiliation. Caste doesn't have any model but many social scientists tried their best to model it as homo hierarchies (Domount), discrete continuous process (Dipankar) and other would tell it is a four varna system. There are number way to illustrate it, but for me it is caste is living thing, it accommodates, integrate, assimilate with the different way of experience that all segment of people experiecne. However, the flock of women, dalit, tribe, gay, lesibian, transgender, bi-sexual would be experience lots of things in their life. Caste is really a humiliating and discrimination system which does not allow the rational, scientific knowledge to come into play. The Indian today also hold the playcard of caste in all animist believe, let it be a religious belief, cultural activities, political fields. The caste has become some where down the line also a vote bank, a mobilisation factor in election politics. The Castes play everyday life of individual both front stage and back stage of individual and group life as Goffman would argue. The caste has so intrinsic that it squeeze to all sphere of life and play out in different forms of experience in terms of humiliation, discrimination and others. For example what happen in Jharkhand a boy, age 23 who died recently because sharing a pics which contains meet (none know that is beef) in whatsapp messenger. The people who oppose to beef put a straight forward that it is beef pics and the boy was arrested by police and brutally beaten up at premises of arrestation, police station, in jail and during inquiry and later the innocent boy dies who was a single child of parents who hope to grow, putting lots of hope on boy that one day dream will come true and we will live life as other live meaningfully. That doesn't happen. In this context, what i feel is caste and hindutva ideology is always provok to; i am not telling that hindutva ideology is wrong but hindutva fundamentalist or extremist is wrong. They should consider the boy as a child, human, as son; they should beat up for silly reason rather make more proper investigation and look the matter clearly and act upon it. I am shocked and sorry to tell. Today I don't think so we are modern, because we don't have the rational thinking, we become inhuman, we believe religion which alway threaten to each other in the name, and we fortet to realize that we are human, son, daughter, wife, husband and neibhbourhood. Therefore, I request, be rational, forget the animist thinking, think scientific and systematic way what is good and what is bad. Forget the caste, religion and superstition and live the life as enlighten human being.
