On Sunday 23 Nov 2008 9:24:55 am Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: > Cheeni *in a hurry, need to expend more thought on this*
In a country where there are several hundred million "forward caste people" including all TamBrams and a huge proprtion of SilkList - declaring the whole group as bigoted and intolerant seems to be quite OK. At the drop of a hat I can pull out several media articles in which it is as perfectly politically correct to be scathing and derisive of "the forward castes" of India and pretend that they, as a group have nothing good in them. In fact writing something good about forward castes is a problem. The minute you do that you become a "Hindutvadi", a "fascist", a "bigot' and a "racist" in India, if you hail from a "forward caste" background you have to play that down, unlike a non Forward Caste (FC) background that must be flaunted to get reservation and sympathy as a person "oppressed" by the FCs But yet, when it comes to cursing Hindutva - it is the "forward castes" who are to blame. shiv
