Towards a civilised India!

As regards the evolution of a civilised and peaceful society in India, we must start with the following steps:

1.  Within the Hindu fold, priesthood in all the temples must be opened for all the castes. Present conspiratorial measures to sabotage the steps taken so far towards this end by the vested interests, must stop.

2. There must be compulsory conscription, and the people of all castes must be made to work as common soldiers. The resultant situation must be such that when there is war, there must be a possibility that the people of all the castes would be in the war-front as soldiers facing the enemy. In the ancient era, the kings were also in the battle field. Because that situation is not prevalent at present, the Central Ministers and Central Bureaucrats act rashly and irresponsibly in military matters. They must know that there is a possibility of their wards too to be in the battle-field, when they egg on the nation towards war, without exploring all the other avenues of solving the issues. Country would not have lost thousands of soldiers, if we had had this approach, in the past 60 years.

3. The revelations by Mr. Vinod Mehta, Mr. Kuldip Nayar, Ms. Coomi Kapoor and the excerpts from the book of Mr. Sankaran Nair, would show that RAW was not doing work which was nationally important but only what was politically convenient to the powers that be. I refer here to the powers-that-be not only in politics but also in bureaucracy, controlled by the Brahmins. All this emphasise on the need to have a multi-religious and multi-caste body to monitor the functions of these secret organisations. We cannot afford to allow the Chanakya formula to man the organisations meant for espionage. Chanakya had ordained, “Those of Brahman caste and learned in the Vedas, as well as ascetics, shall only be subjected to espionage”- Page 251-ibid-Book V.

4. Similar need is there to monitor the MEA, MHA too besides the Income Tax department.

5. Surnames should not be used.  In the South, people have generally desisted from using their surnames, even though it was inherited. For example, former President called himself just as R. Venkataraman by his first name and not by his caste. The same was the case with K. R. Narayanan. As surname is the indicator of caste, one must feel, at least, shy, if not ashamed, of using his surname. “David Ben Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel during his speech in the General Assembly of the United Nations, recalled the genocide of Jews by the Aryan Hitler and said, “I AM PROUD THAT I BELONG TO THE PEOPLE THAT WAS SLAUGHTERED, RATHER THAN TO THOSE WHO SLAUGHTERED OR STOOD BY INDIFFERENTLY”. But, it is only in India we find the people who are the descendants of the oppressed for millennia, shying away from using their surname while the people who are the descendants of the oppressors using their surname with pride (and prejudice too). Human values are upside down in the Indian polity.

6.  If Hindu religion reforms itself by making priesthood open to all, there will be no need to fear other religions. So there would be no need to retain the people classified as SCs, STs and OBCs within the Hindu fold, by force, as is done now, without permitting them absolute religious freedom to convert to the religions of their choice, especially when the reservation is intended only to provide a safety net only from the after effects of the age-old tyranny of the higher castes. The oppressors who resist this proposal do not listen to the sage words of the Hon’ble Supreme Court, which said, “Advantages secured due to historical reasons, cannot be claimed as fundamental rights”. The benefits of reservation will continue, then, for the suppressed classes even if they migrate to any other religion, and it will not be the business of the State to tell people how they should try to attain heaven, if at all religions do that.

7. Sadistic and conspiratorial inclusion of more and more higher castes into the OBC List without providing for proportionate reservation for all the castes and religions in India, must stop forthwith. Fortunately, this is not being done in the case of SCs and STs, till now. The country must march forward in the direction of allocation of all the posts in Government and the seats in educational institutions, exactly in accordance with the proportion of every caste and religion in the entire population. We can call it allocation and not reservation.

8. Introduction of the unconstitutional and peculiar income criteria for reservation must be done away with when even in the USA the Affirmative Action is based only on race and not on income. Besides, it is said that in Paycevanish Brahman 3-1/11 it has been mentioned that ‘Even if a Shudra acquired wealth, he must always remain a slave. His main job is to wash the feet of the higher caste’. While I am taking steps to recheck this statement, the fact is that even the richest Sudra cannot reach the Sanctum Sanctorum in the temples or become priest. So, the creamy layer concept must go.

9.  All the languages of the nation must be given equal status.

10. All the political parties and non-governmental organisations must be made to publish in their websites the names of the donors who pay more than ten rupees. This will prevent all the unscrupulous elements becoming politicians. The details of all the expenditure incurred by these political parties and NGOs must also be made public in the website. The income-tax department, which has to monitor all these issues, must be monitored by a multi-religious and multi-caste body.

These are the essential steps towards reconciliation and there will, then, be no inter-caste and inter-religious rivalry.