Thread by @shrikanth_krish

The lady misses the point

The emphasis on sAttvIka AhAra actually is a vehicle for upward mobility and weakening of caste in contrast to a set up where caste barriers are insurmountable through personal behavior

https://twitter.com/vasudha_ET/status/1157614639296868352

Vegetarianism and other forms of personal austerity have in fact weakened caste in their own way by serving as agents of sanskritization

Contrast this with a world where barriers across communities are iron clad with no scope for upward mobility by changing habits

I have known many people who tell me..

I can marry the person I am dating from a different caste. Because she shares my habits and is also vegetarian / teetotaller etc..

So by making the behavioral standard supreme you are weakening the ethnic criteria for marriage

Liberals may not like this

But its a start to engineer piecemeal social change.

Traditionalists may not necessarily like this either

Because the behavioral standard then trumps your lineage.

It makes both liberals and Trads uncomfortable. And I like it