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@ABiggerSpalash @harshmadhusudan Caste is nothing but calcified professions. Doctors marrying doctors and engineers marrying engineers testify that the caste system will always exist—just not the way the propaganda machine spins it. Choosing common ground for marriage is not wrong, be it caste or language.

I am a product of an inter-caste love marriage. I was unaware of this fact all my life and learned it very recently. I was surprised because it's not like both my families are super-progressive. I asked my parents if the caste question ever arose. Not even once, they said. Then it struck me why that was the case. Both my parents were Maharashtrians living in Indore (a minority). Their parents were just happy that both families were Marathi-speaking and that was enough to establish a common ground. Caste identity didn't matter. I see inter-caste marriages happening all around me these days. Almost of all them are migrants from other states to Mumbai, Bangalore or Delhi. Urbanization, and migration delineates caste identities, and we need more and more of that. The solution to our social problems in economic. Create more cities, create more jobs, and see caste evaporate slowly. The solution to all our problems is 8%+ GDP growth for the next 20 years. Everything else is a distraction.

@jagatmindri ನಿಮಗ್ಯೇಕೊ ಮಾತೆತ್ತಿದರೆ ಇಸ್ಲಾಮ್ ಅನ್ನು ಮುಟ್ಟುವ ಕಾಮನೆ ಇರುವಂತಿದೆ! ಇರಲಿ. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸಮರ್ಥನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯಿದೆ. ಮಡಿಯ ಸಮಾನವಾದ ಆಚರಣೆಯೆಂದರೆ ಹೆಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಬುರ್ಕ ಹಾಕಿ ಮುಚ್ಚುವುದಲ್ಲ, ಗಂಡಸರು ತಮ್ಮ ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಪಟ್ಟಿ ಕಟ್ಟುಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು. ಮಾನಸ್ಸನ್ನು ನಿಯಂತ್ರಣದಲ್ಲಿಟ್ಟು ಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು. ಇದರ ತದ್ವಿರುದ್ಧದ ಕ್ರಮವೇ ಬುರ್ಕ!

ಒಂದು ವಿಡಿಯೋ ಹೀಗೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಫೀಡ್ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂತು. ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಓರ್ವ ಧರ್ಮಗುರುಗಳು "ಮಡಿ" ಬಗ್ಗೆ ವಿವರಣೆ ಕೊಡ್ತಾ ಇದ್ರು. ವಿಶೇಷ ಅನ್ನಿಸ್ತು. ಅವರು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದು ಆಲೋಚನೆ, ನೋಟ ಮತ್ತು ಸ್ಪರ್ಶ ನಮ್ಮ ಮನಸ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಬೇರೆ ಬೇರೆ ಪ್ರಭಾವ ಬೀರುತ್ತದೆ. ಉದಾಹರೆಣೆಗೆ ನಿಮಗಿಷ್ಟವಾದದ್ದನ್ನು ನೀವು ಕಲ್ಪನೆ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡಾಗ ನಿಮಗೆ ಏನು ಅನ್ನಿಸುತ್ತದೋ ಅದಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಆನಂದ ಅದನ್ನು ನೋಡಿದಾಗ ಆಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಸ್ಪರ್ಶಿಸಿದಾಗ ಇನ್ನೂ ಜಾಸ್ತಿ. ಒಬ್ಬ ತಾಯಿ ತನ್ನ ಮಗುವನ್ನು ನೋಡುವುದಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಮುಟ್ಟುವುದರಲ್ಲಿ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಇಷ್ಟ ಪಡುತ್ತಾಳೆ. ಇದರ ವ್ಯತಿರಿಕ್ತ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಕೆಟ್ಟದರಲ್ಲಿ ಆಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಸ್ಪರ್ಶ ಕೆಲವು ಕಡೆ ಸಲ್ಲ. ಭಗವಂತನ ನಾಮ ಸ್ಮರಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವಾಗ, ಭಗವಂತನ ಸೇವೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವಾಗ ಬೇರ್ಯಾವ ಕಾಮನೆಗಳು ಸಕ್ರಿಯ ಆಗಬಾರದು, ಬರಬಾರದು ಎಂದು ಸ್ಪರ್ಶವನ್ನು ತ್ಯಜಿಸುವುದು. ಇದು ಮಡಿಯ ತಾತ್ಪರ್ಯ. ಈ ವಿವರಣೆ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿದೆ ಆದ್ರೆ ಇಲ್ಲೊಂದು ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ಇದೆ. ಯಾಕಂದ್ರೆ ಈ ಸಮರ್ಥನೆಯನ್ನೇ ಇಸ್ಲಾಮ್ ಪಂಡಿತರು ಕೊಡುತ್ತಾರೆ ಬುರ್ಖಾ ವಿಚಾರದಲ್ಲಿ. ಅವರು ಇನ್ನು ಒಂದು ಹೆಜ್ಜೆ ಮುಂದೆ ಅಂದ್ರೆ ನೋಟದಲ್ಲೇ ನಿಲ್ಲುತ್ತಾರೆ. ನೋಟದಿಂದಲೇ ಕಾಮನೆಗಳು ಹುಟ್ಟುತ್ತವೆ ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಅದನ್ನೇ ತಡೆ ಹಿಡಿಯುವುದು. ಕಲ್ಪನೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಹಿಡಿತದಲ್ಲಿ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಮುಂದಿನ ಹಂತ ನೋಟ ಮತ್ತು ಸ್ಪರ್ಷ ಇವುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಎರಡನೆಯ ನೋಟವೆನ್ನೆ ಹಿಡಿತದಲ್ಲಿ ಇಡೋಣ. ಹೆಣ್ಣಿನ ಅಂದ ಕಂಡರೆ ತಾನೇ ಸ್ಪರ್ಶಿಸುವ ಆಲೋಚನೆ? ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಆಕೆಗೆ ಮುಸುಕು ಹಾಕೋಣ. ಹೀಗೆ ಧರ್ಮಗಳು ತಮ್ಮ ಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತಗಳನ್ನು ತಮ್ಮ ನಿಲುವುಗಳನ್ನು ಸಮರ್ಥಿಸುತ್ತವೆ. ನೀವು ಯಾವ ಧರ್ಮಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿದ್ದೀರೋ ಆ ಧರ್ಮದ ವ್ಯಾಖ್ಯಾನ ನಿಮಗೆ ಸರಿ ಅನ್ನಿಸುತ್ತೆ. ನಮ್ಮ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಎರಡೂ ಇವತ್ತಿನ ಕಾಲಘಟ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಪ್ರಸ್ತುತ. ನಾವಿಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾವುದೇ ಧರ್ಮದ ಟೀಕೆ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಾ ಇಲ್ಲ, ಯಾವುದೇ ಸಂಪ್ರದಾಯಗಳನ್ನು ಟೀಕಿಸುತ್ತಾ ಇಲ್ಲ. ನಮ್ಮದು ಈಗಿನ ಕಾಲಘಟ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಏನು ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತ ಎನ್ನುವ ಚಿಂತನೆ ಅಷ್ಟೇ. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯಗಳಿಗೆ ನೀವು ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರರು. ನೀವು ಮಡಿ ಆದ್ರೂ ಆಚರಣೆ ಮಾಡಿ ಬುರ್ಖಾ ಆದ್ರೂ ಹಾಕಿ ನಿಮಗೆ ಬಿಟ್ಟದ್ದು.

@ashwinravi99 Duh, @ashwinravi99, it's nobody’s choice to whom they are born! Stop apologizing for your parents’ greatness. Stop explaining your existence. Looks like your parents and teachers missed teaching you some valuable lessons.

Have said it once, i will say it again! Who i was born to wasn’t my choice, thankfully I was born to parents that are beyond great. Leadership is feeling empathetic towards another person’s struggles and enabling growth beyond barriers & that’s what my parents & teachers have taught me. I want to live till the day, we stop talking about lineage or caste 🙏

@NalinisKitchen Reservations are given to achieve systemic “positive” discrimination. Those who are opposing caste-based-reservations are in fact opposing discriminatory policies!

Those who oppose reservation have never faced discrimination.

@Zaina19922 @SupriyaShrinate The ignorant kid does not even understand what “equality” means in the absolute sense! His logic for justifying reservations is entirely baseless! He thinks it's fashionable to blame the ancestors, as it indirectly validates his belonging to an “upper” stratum of society!

@onlylajik @SupriyaShrinate Agree no one owes guilt for ancestors. Still, if the kid supports reservation from experience, is it really self hate or just practical?

This boy’s clarity of thought and honesty of expression on caste-based disparities are commendable. Hats off to you, young man! He is so right. Reservation is not a poverty alleviation programme but a means to bring equity and equilibrium to the social structure. 🫡🫡

@svembu The more you open your mouth, the lower your reputation gets. Bharatiyas “achieved outstanding success” because America values merit. Your 2-bit brain can't even maintain context between two tweets, where you defend reservations in India by comparing them with Affirmative Action.

Open letter to Indians in America. -- Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat: Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way. Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned. You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict. Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect. Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself. As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal. Respectfully Sridhar Vembu

@svembu Is this a testament to your knowledge on the recent affairs on american “affirmative action” or your understanding of the politics of ever-increasing reservation quotas in India? Its a reflection on your analytical ability when you are comparing between India and the US! @svembu

This topic of reservation comes up often in these threads. People don't seem to realise that American universities have had strong Affirmative Action and Asian American kids (including Indian American kids) need far higher grades and test scores to get into top Universities. This is absolutely true in California even now - even though the law prohibits it and the Universities will deny it! On the other side, Zoho has thrived in Tamil Nadu and both AIADMK (MGR initiated the massive increase in reservation quota in early 1980s in higher education) and DMK have long maintained the same reservation policy here. It is a political non-issue in Tamil Nadu. Zoho has benefited from and has in turn benefited all the communities in Tamil Nadu. When private sector investment is strong (as has been the case in Tamil Nadu) reservation policy in education can help to create a bigger talent pool. When private sector investment is low, society becomes a zero sum game. This is why we must work to boost private sector investment in a big way, rather than fight about reservation. I repeat: Universities in California have very strong Affirmative Action programs too. And California also has had strong private sector investment.

@roypranesh Apparently #OpSindoor was a friendly game with our ever friendlier neighbor!

Presenting India's new bold ANTI TERROR DOCTRINE 'We must not forget that terrorism has no nationality and no theology.' Defence minister Rajnath Singh at SCO meet. Parliament attacks, Akshardham, 26/11, Uri, Pulwama, Pahalgam were law & order issues!

@IndianInfoGuid Those in power never seize the opportunity to unite the people and instead resort to identity-based, vote-bank-appeasement-driven politics for their gain. Yet they have the gall to urge citizens to unite and see themselves as part of a shared common national journey!

🚨 Ajit Doval urges citizens to unite, and see themselves as a part of shared common national journey

@DefenceMinIndia “Terrorism has no nationality and no theology” then why was #OpSindoor carried out against Pakistan? @PMOIndia @BJP4India

It was a testimony to our zero-tolerance outlook towards terrorism and its perpetrators, which was endorsed by this esteemed Forum. But the real test of our collective credibility remains in consistency. We must not forget that terrorism has no nationality and no theology. No grievance, real or supposed, can become an excuse for terrorism and humanitarian loss: Raksha Mantri Shri @rajnathsingh

Just a couple of days back, on 22 April, we remembered the victims of the heinous terrorist attack in Pahalgam. The carnage in Pahalgam had shook the entire humanity. During Op Sindoor, we demonstrated our firm resolve that terrorism epicentres are no longer immune to justifiable punishment. Last year the Tianjin Declaration brought out our firm and collective stance against terrorism: Raksha Mantri Shri @rajnathsingh

@sabakaul1 Sri Krishna says he created 4 varnas based on guna & karma, NOT birth. Caste is calcified professions to prevent extinction. It has no link to Gita/religion; it's a social construct.

Arjuna was not a brahmin, yet he was taught the deepest Spritual knowledge-the Bhagwat Geeta directly by Krishna If Varna were fixed by birth Arjuna (a kshatri, would never been chosen for recieving the highest Wisdom. The fact that Krishna taught him Shows Knowledge was never restricted by Caste. Dharma recognises ability, sincerity and discipline and not Birth.

@PoornimaNimo Rahul Gandhi says all sorts of nonsense because he is desperate to come to power. Now, why would a 3-time ruling “nationalist” party resonate on the same level of stupidity and desperation? Why were the heads of nationalists completely covered with duct tapes on the #UGC issue?

Rahul Gandhi wants 90% reservation in Private Jobs. All those General Category warriors who warned the public that their kids would face discrimination in colleges due to the new UGC guidelines...taped their mouth. Pin drop silence.

@PoornimaNimo Rahul Gandhi wants 90% reservation, BJP wants 85% reservation. So, in comparison, voting for @BJP4India is in the national interest. GC non-warriors’ logic.

@RahulGandhi The only right the BJP has snatched away is your perceived birthright to become PM of India. Fool!

पश्चिम बंगाल के भाइयों-बहनों, विचारधारा की इस लड़ाई में BJP को सिर्फ कांग्रेस ही हरा सकती है। वो अधिकार छीनते हैं, हम दिलाते हैं। वो संविधान मिटाते हैं, हम बचाते हैं। वो भारत की विविधता मिटाना चाहते हैं, हम बंगाल के साथ हर संस्कृति, हर भाषा का सम्मान करते हैं। आइए, कांग्रेस को भारी मतों से विजयी बनाकर बंगाल में न्याय, सम्मान और प्रगति की सरकार बनाएं।

@sabeer But you were alive during the 26/11 though right?

Partition happened in 1947. I wasn’t alive then - and neither were most of us. Carrying forward inherited hatred between nations, for events we didn’t cause, is childish. The future belongs to individuals who choose understanding over division.

@neha_laldas While the IT cell gaslights GC by saying voting for Congress is bad, @BJP4India is closely copying the @INCIndia’s manifesto.

"हर महिला को 3000 रुपये, हर गर्भवती महिला को 21000 रुपये, हर बेरोजगार को 3000 रुपये, हर महिला को मुफ्त बस यात्रा?" तो पूछना ये है कि ये सारे फायदे मुस्लिमों को भी तो मिलेंगे?? कि नहीं??

@singhakash3444 The mighty Hoysala Kingdom of the South was founded by a Jain warrior!

@RahulGandhi So even in a women’s only bill, there must be discriminatory policies based on caste? Considering historically women were oppressed by MEN across all the societal layers, MEN still want to control how women are divided based on caste?

यह महिला आरक्षण बिल नहीं है - इसका महिलाओं से कोई संबंध नहीं। यह बिल OBC विरोधी है, यह बिल SC-ST विरोधी है, यह बिल Anti National है - दक्षिण, उत्तर-पूर्व, उत्तर-पश्चिम और छोटे राज्यों के खिलाफ है। हम भारत जोड़ने वाले न किसी का हक़ छिनने देंगे, न देश को बंटने देंगे।

@sureshsambandam Dronacharya allowing Ekalavya to learn is like India giving BrahMos to Pakistan. At least draw parallels correctly!