It definitely seems as if Dr Ambedkar is responsible for the mess we see ourselves in today, being a Buddhist how he could take the liberty to mess around with an issue that would impact the nation for decades together ,in a negative manner ! He made suure that India permanently remains a developing/backward nation that can only underperform.

Reservations by caste not only a blow to the merit, it divides the country in to parts resulting in caste wars.

The persons to be blamed for reservation mess is Mandal and V P Singh, not Ambedkar who did it for the most deprived and persecuted SC/ST and that too for 10 years. Why bring his religion. Can it not be kept out if discussions.

vijay wrote:

The persons to be blamed for reservation mess is Mandal and V P Singh, not Ambedkar who did it for the most deprived and persecuted SC/ST and that too for 10 years. Why bring his religion. Can it not be kept out if discussions.

His beliefs have an important bearing on what he wrote. He framed the constitution in a way that allowed the government to expand the definition by including powers to identify OBC. Arun Shourie has written extensively on Ambedkar and I have read somewhere that Ambedkar denigrated Hindu gods and bore a grudge against  Hinduism. All this is very relevant to the discussion

rambabu wrote:

Reservations by caste not only a blow to the merit, it divides the country in to parts resulting in caste wars.

 Yeah sir reservations openly means that the politicians are dividing the country in to certain parts from where they can get vote by manipulating in the name of reservation

MG Singh wrote:

vijay wrote:

The persons to be blamed for reservation mess is Mandal and V P Singh, not Ambedkar who did it for the most deprived and persecuted SC/ST and that too for 10 years. Why bring his religion. Can it not be kept out if discussions.

His beliefs have an important bearing on what he wrote. He framed the constitution in a way that allowed the government to expand the definition by including powers to identify OBC. Arun Shourie has written extensively on Ambedkar and I have read somewhere that Ambedkar denigrated Hindu gods and bore a grudge against  Hinduism. All this is very relevant to the discussion

Of course religion plays a dominant part in caste reservations....Here is a very interesting link that gives some points of views expressed by people close to Ambedkar and others..

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Ambedkar-hate-Hinduism

Now great leaders of past wil be judged by their religions. Pygmies of today can do so because of severe limitations imposed by themselves due to their own narrow thinking. What a fall but sad and reflects the emergence of a different India.

There is a serious problem with upper caste and lower caste Hindus. They are now identifying the deities also according to their castes. The goddess Durga belongs to upper castes. She is alleged  to have killed the lower caste god (considered demon by Durga worshipers). 

I fear that in addition to infighting between different religions, we may also have to face the issue of caste war based on mythological characters.  There is no escape from respecting diversity. There will always be diverse religions and also Durga as well as mahisasur devotees. Let them not fight even if the god (or demon) was killed by Goddess Durga. 

There never is and never has been any doubt that Mahishasura was an evil force and a demon and it is only now with left support that such communal divide taking gods name has been happening in our country . All hindus who are aware of their culture and know the mythology know this for a fact so let us not simply go by some tom and dick ,harry and left ideas and say left is right and right is left ! Some people can go to any length to defend the wrong doings of their party even disowning scriptures !