
Dividing people,was once brought for easy administration for the government officials, but nowadays people are divided for the sake of votes and for selfish purpose. We are just their bait. We say Hindu, Muslim, and Christian in central. When it comes to state we say Tamil, Hindi,North Indian,South Indian,Kannada,Marathi, Telungana, North Tamilnadu and south Tamilnadu. And when it comes to districts we say caste.
This division among people has been great advantage for the politicians, but a major hurdle for the welfare projects. Recently before election, I met a person, with great enthusiasm he said I’m going to vote for this particular person, I just thought that this guy had an ideology which is very much similar to that of the person, but later he said that he is voting because candidate belongs to his clan. A candidate is supposed to judged based on the previous performance, but people started judging a candidate on the basis of his birth.I like to remain, once caste of a person was decided on the basis of his profession, but as the age passed, because of some deceptive human being, it got changed to ‘caste on the basis of the birth’. And even now we are following the same human injustice, but we forgot all our ethics which is one of our cultural asset which supposed to be followed. This grew up, and it reached the highest point by the region based politics. We started quarrelling on the basis of differences, which was once considered to be our strength. We started saying “No water to particular states” and “No place in society for certain sect”. We called people “untouchables”, even dogs never do all these things but we naïve human beings do all these things. Even crows eat together but we don’t! Why is there a strong discrimination?
Last week was a black mark for the whole Indian community, because of the clash which happened in Punjab, which happened because of a small incident in Austria. My regards towards the Punjab totally changed because of the caste conflict. Our division was shown clearly shown to the world community by this. This is instigated me to write this article.
After thinking about all these things, I still have the hope. Demographics show that in India more than 70 percent of the people are within the age of 18-35 and India is considered to be young. And this condition will prevail only till 2050 and after that India is going to be the home of aged people. So, it is 'change now or never' situation. I’m proud to be living during this part of the time, coz we are going to be the people who are going to change the whole scenario of this country. It is said so because, if the 70 percent of the population changes, then our next generation will be following us as we are following our parents. And so we can change this whole world and make it a better place for living. This article is definitely not for people who love all follow caste, but for remaining, who still long for the change. Just stay away from your parents even if they follow all these caste system, as far as this issue is concerned (Never meant it literally), let us lead a new life and show a new path to the rest of the world.
I like to conclude by saying that,” never cast for any caste”. We are supposed to be united on common grounds like 'Indians', but not divided. So, never let anybody divide us.Make a better future, coz “we are the change!” Let us give them a loud and clear message, “Stop dividing!”
Jai Hind.
With hope and optimism,
Alagiri.