Who am I, why don't my friends make me sit with them or let me eat with them, after all what is my identity, I keep hiding my identity from school to college and from office to outside, after all who am I. Is there blood of a different colour in my body, do I look different from them, why am I always sad, why people do not drink water from my hands, why do people not eat food in my house, why people of all religions and castes always consider me good, why even an illiterate person discriminates against me even though I am educated. Why is the groom not allowed to ride a horse in the weddings of our caste, why are we not allowed to enter temples, why do people become impure by touching us, why when our special friend comes to know about our caste, he starts keeping distance from us, the answer to all these whys is that I belong to a lower caste.
I belong to a lower caste, what is my fault in this? Who is made a caste, and why are we suffering in all this? After all, for how long will we tolerate this insult? When will we get our respect or will we continue to die like this by being humiliated? Why are lower caste girls always raped? Do they have no self-respect? Why is every labourer treated differently in the name of casteism? Because they are people from a lower caste. Be it school or college or company, government office or anywhere else, we are humiliated everywhere because we belong to the left caste. I want to ask all those religious people who call yourself protector of the religion that in your religion all this is happening with the people of the left caste and you are watching with your eyes closed, then stop calling yourself protector of the religion. In this story, I have used the word small caste several times so that you people understand clearly about whom I want to talk.
My intention is not to defame any caste or religion or to insult their self-respect but to give self-respect to those who are being oppressed in the name of their caste.
Still, if anyone has felt sad after reading my story, I apologize with folded hands.
I belong to a lower caste, what is my fault in this? Who is made a caste, and why are we suffering in all this? After all, for how long will we tolerate this insult? When will we get our respect or will we continue to die like this by being humiliated? Why are lower caste girls always raped? Do they have no self-respect? Why is every labourer treated differently in the name of casteism? Because they are people from a lower caste. Be it school or college or company, government office or anywhere else, we are humiliated everywhere because we belong to the left caste. I want to ask all those religious people who call yourself protector of the religion that in your religion all this is happening with the people of the left caste and you are watching with your eyes closed, then stop calling yourself protector of the religion. In this story, I have used the word small caste several times so that you people understand clearly about whom I want to talk.
My intention is not to defame any caste or religion or to insult their self-respect but to give self-respect to those who are being oppressed in the name of their caste.
Still, if anyone has felt sad after reading my story, I apologize with folded hands.
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