Two instances of brutal attacks on inter-caste couples in Telangana have once again illustrated how caste continues to define everything in India. Breaking unwritten caste rules is met with terrible retribution. That caste discrimination has been outlawed seems to have made no difference on the ground.
Caste is racism and is what keeps people apart despite sharing space on the subcontinent. The abomination of the caste system, which is rooted in Indian society, remains an erasable blot on Indian democracy to this day. Caste is antithetical to humanity and as long as it exists we cannot claim to be human in the true sense.
G. David Milton,
Maruthancode, Tamil Nadu
