Thread by @abhijitmajumder

While CAA, 370, NEC, Ram Mandir have been huge wins, Hindus should now address #caste. We have never been scared of introspection, reform.
If identity/occupation based on birth was unjust then, it is downright ludicrous now.
Let’s not leave room for others to divide us.
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There’s an intellectual argument that caste pride stopped Hindus from being mass-converted, but then we lost half of Bharat, namely AfPak, B’desh, NE and Kashmir nearly. It doesn’t wash.
Also, jati-varna being a theoretical matrix of work long descended into birth-bound tyranny.

If there is ever a case of throwing the baby out with bathwater, it is caste. If we try to hold on to it, it will always be exploited by upper castes and colonisers and Hindu society will forever be weak.
Caste has got so ingrained in our DNA that it will need a conscious purge.

Birth-bound caste divisions was and is a ridiculous, deeply damaging idea.
* What’d you call a Brahmin entrepreneur dealing in recycled waste?
* If there is an invasion, would you leave the job of defending the nation to only Rajputs?
* You won’t touch a person because of birth?

From my limited understanding, I can suggest:
* All Hindu gurus coming together to dissolve caste lines.
* Take creamy layer out of reservations to free it up for those who genuinely need it.
* Head priest of Gorakhnath mandir after Yogi is a dalit. More of that needs to happen.

* Need more Dalit leaders who talk about participating in progress rather than just being fixated on victimhood, as Left and Islamists would want them to.
* More tribal, dalit, lower caste icons and nationalists in our textbooks.
Would love your views on how to end caste.