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I would not know for certain why i was born a brahmin.
If i had the power to be otherwise before birth perhaps i would have altered it.
the super brahmins these days , call them by any name, have a fine , cushy life.
some of them do not work , they need not.
some of them deserve not their promotion.
but they get it.
For the sins of my ancestors 40 or 50 generations ago i am suffering.
and more than all, pl remember brahmins do not jell with each other.
they have their divisions, subdivisions and sub-subdivisions.
and most of them are incapable of violence.
so their vulnerability is yet more.
in the beginning the non-brahmins would scoff at them and leave it at that.
later they were victims of violence or worse.
from madras presidency as it was known then waves of hatred reached the present day karnataka .
then the reservation bug hit us.
the bug became a bear and was on the point of swallowing everything.
the courts had to step in.
reservation, i understand, was never meant to last for ever.
now there is no hope of this shadow on merit as perceived by the intelligentsia receding.
yet you find brahmins occupying key positions everywhere , some of them in leading corporate entities here and abroad.
i do not hold a brief for brahmins , they have their weak points. one of them is that they get satiated easily.
in my limited way i am doing some research.
there is never enough land or wealth for non-brahmins.
For a brahmin who is one both by birth and inclination material possessions matter for the sole reason that they could promote societal causes.
kumaraswamy's diatribe against brahmins is in bad taste.
for the simple reason that it is more a political ploy .
caste based politics is the name of the game now.
there is a scramble to please the backward segments and the backward in the forward segment.
i am praying for the day when the beneficiary or the intended beneficiary spurns these freebies ,
as the parsis did .
Will that day ever dawn!
