usha manohar wrote:MG Singh wrote:This is an evergreen topic and has become relevant now with the coming General Election in 2019. Once again Caste and clan combinations are being worked out. I was watching a discussion on Bihar and Karnataka and the dominant theme was caste and the permutations that will bring victory. India will forever remain mired if it does not throw cast away. But it cant happen and some times I am glad that my son is in school in UK. India is a terrible place but I do wonder why Gandhi did not eradicate it? The change by RSS in support of caste reservation is baffling. Will India have a messiah ? I don't know.
Karnataka has regional differences , religious issues and caste issues and the politicians are very happy to play one against the other as and when they feel the need to do so.. The present Chief minister Kumaraswamy and his father Deve Gowda are experts in such divisive politics while calling themselves secular whatever that means in their dictionary !
The word secular is not understood. The English state is based on Christian thought, yet everybody calls it a secular state. Similarly ancient Indian Hindu kings though processing Hinduism were definitely secular. Secular as defined by Congress is appeasement of minorities. India can be a Hindu Rashers and yet be secular however our political parties have corrupted this word. The way out is as said by Subramanian Swamy - declare India a Hindu state. I will add, remove word caste from the constitution.
I was stumped and asked her if it is possible to know this and she said , of course the church and all of us keep a record of our ancestry. I also came to know that it s pretty much the same case with traditional Muslim families.