Social Prism

                                                      CHILDHOOD MEMORIES -1              My both parents are followers of Dr. Ambedkar who is a great revering and towering figure for Dalits in India. My father was a small Government employee in the PWD department under the Harayana government. Our home town is MEHAM in the ROHTAK district of the state of HARYANA   My father-the first person from whom I have developed sociological leaning -was a great anti-caste leader He was agnostic and had a rational outlook. Although my mother is an illiterate lady but many a time, she puts a great deal of thought into and even takes the lead role in making her point very clear over a wide range of social issues. She is really like an iron lady.               The atmosphere of my family was always charged with social-political debates So, despite not having any strong economic background, I got a lot of opportunities to read a great amount of non-fictional socio-political literature about social r

          Both Racism and casteism are among the highly evolved system of social stratification which has an overpowering effect on the daily lives of many people. Racism has its origin in around the sixteenth century but casteism is a two thousand years old phenomenon. It is not very hard to imagine the psychological burden on any anti-caste activist or any oppressed, who has to take such long memories of oppression in his or her mind to fight back against caste oppression. Unlike caste, the Race of a person can be easily identified by the colour of their skin.           Hindus have their own version of ‘JIM CROW LAWS’ written in the Religious text of Hinduism. According to one of the hymns of the tenth chapter or mandala of ‘Rigveda’, the people of four-class varnas originated from the body of the Supreme Creator -Brahma that is Brahmins i.e. priestly class from the mouth, Kshatriyas i.e. warrior class from the shoulders, Vaishyas i.e. merchant class from the thighs and Shudras i