5-10% upper castes have all the wealth?
If that was the case there ll be blood flowing in the rivers tomorrow.
Yeah i m Brahman from Tamilnadu and i have travelled all over the country and i know the status,inequality exists but not on the basis of caste,i can assure you that.
I dont think anyone gets rich simply on the basis of caste,in the old world the upper caste were rich because they had all the land and after the land reforms they are all gone.Today the biggest issue in the country is corruption and abuse of power,not caste.
From what we all know,there is reservation for every caste and even more so for the Dalits.In my state there is 69% reservation.Much more than the allowed 50%.
And secondly,u said india lives on 0.4 dollars per day,so how much is that in rupees?iwe take 40 rupees per dollar,it is 16 rupees.I highly doubt that statistic and even if u beg,u ll make more money than that.
Now,i ll tell u abt the indian system.a peasant living in a village tills the land and eats the produce,i dont knw how much he makes but he is not starving.This how most indian people live and they get food.
People who eat once/twice a day?You know what they eat?I know rickshaw drivers in Bihar who drink sattu powder with milk twice a day and pull rickshaws,u know what sattu is?
It is calorie rich,fat rich food which gives u taqat to last a day of hard work and they are not complaining.
According to you,if i go eat junk food paying 100s of rupees 4 times a day,i am prosperous but if i eat healthy sattu twice a day,i am starving.
And most of the lack of progress is in the states of UP/Bihar/Bengal/Orissa/parts of MP/AP
You come to any part of south india and nobody is starving there.who why are they not starving?
I ll talk about my home state TamilNadu,TN is a water starved state depending on few rivers for agriculture and we are the only place in India which dont get rainfall when the rest of the country gets,many parts of the state are very dry with no scope for agriculture.
But,TN is amongst the most industrialized and progressive states in the country.The people of TN are there alla round in every profession and in many countries.
This is because TN which had 50% literacy or even less during 1947 now has nearly 80.3% literacy and no religious violence or divisions.
This is because we had a mid day -meal scheme where kids were given food and a lot of freebies during the 1960s and 70s to attend school,getting educated was in the mind of most people,especially the dalits.
Today u can see TN a state with maximum backward castes and maximum reservations being a top state in the country on all accounts.
No need to talk about AP/Karnataka and Kerala.They are doing great too,Maharashtra and Gujarat are doing great too.
Punjab,Haryana,Himachal are also awesome.
That leaves us with the remaining states where it is a matter of governance.
I agree on only one thing,Government has failed in investing in Education and Health properly,like those gusy who are still uneducated even after 1991 liberalization are losing out on opportunities.
Now please dont tell me that this is the fault of the upper castes,it is a collective failure.
And Brahmans all across the world are amongst the least influential,poor minorities.
Hindu caste system denies education to no-one,dont talk mythology here.
And whatever education they denied back then is pretty much useless now.
In my state there are many people of other castes who are more intelligent than many brahmins and that includes dalits too.
So,now u r going to judge India from tabloids like TOI and NDTV,are not u guilty of giving them importance and attention in the first place and now complaining again.
And i dont know where u live/lived in india but i have lived in Madras/Bangalore/Hyderabad/delhi/Mumbai/Guwahati/Indore and travelled to all corners of India and i stand by what i say.
i dont know if you are a dalit,but in case you are,there is so much oppurtunity for u in India and if u r wasting all that and cribbing on the internet,then u r the loser.
simple as that.