Friday, May 06, 2005

The caste system and its evils? Look at the arranged marriage system instead!

To follow up my post on how much we need a liberal Indian youth, I just want to put up a hypothesis :)

If we were to push back caste out of the minds of young people into obscure record books, I think we could start doing that by asking people to find their own spouses.

I would put the arranged marriage system on top of the list of things that sustain the caste system.
The arranged marriage system creates an entity with a specific caste identity, in simple words, children from same caste couples know what their caste is, unlike those born of people of different castes.

and nothing can be more effective than a simple age-old solution that asks people to simply fall in love! - I think it would take a pretty narrow mind to be able to 'manage to fall in love' with someone from the same caste, sub-caste and gothram etc.

And the best part is that you can see change happening from the very next generation.
So what's the objective ?- To simply encourage people to fall in love, leaving behind all their identity garbage!

That simply explains why Caste is so unnatural, it comes out of something that is very artificial - a relationship that is arranged.

So all that I ask of you - to contribute is to simply let yourself go free and fall in love!

And we'll start killing a system from its roots, so that it dies a non-violent death - and its a system that fully deserves to die.