Today, India is one of the most powerful developing nations. Being so, it enjoys a prominent status as the largest democratic nation-state in the world. In spite of its impressive developments, however, India continues to confront human rights problems with respect to minorities. Now, it is the time for us to sit back and think, what is wrong with the Indian society even after nearly seven decades of Independence? We cannot blame political parties or other organisations for the prevalence of caste or caste-based discrimination; the prejudice is in our mind.
It is a social evil that has been prevailing in Indian society for long.
After seeing it all the time, we all very well know how much it takes to accept a tag of being a “Dalit” or belonging to a lower caste and being treated unequally. D.R. BR Ambedkar once rightly said, “On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality, and in social and economic life we will have inequality. In politics we will be recognising the principle of one man, one vote, and one vote, one value. In our social and economic life, we shall, by reason of our social and economic structure, continue to deny the principle of one man, one value.” The next question that comes up is, how long shall we continue to live this life of contradictions?
Unless the mindset of India changes and we begin to treat each other as fellow beings rather than as superiors or inferiors, this deep-rooted social evil is not going to disappear!
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