Islamabad: During fascist Narendra Modi’s regime, even in this modern age, India is still divided by its shameful caste system with stories of injustices by upper-caste Hindus against Dalits and other low castes cropping up every other day across India.
As per an analytical report, 75 years after independence from the British, caste system is still alive and kicking in India where caste-based oppression and violence is an everyday reality.
Heinous caste-based crimes often go unpunished in India, the report said and added that low-caste women are subject to sexual assaults more often than others. Since Hindu caste system is the oldest form of racial discrimination in the world, low caste Hindus are forced to perform most menial and degrading jobs across the country.
India’s so-called democracy has not only failed to eradicate caste system, it has even entrenched and modernized it, the report maintained and argued that Dalits are considered ‘untouchable’ under Indian caste system. Dalits are not allowed to enter temples or own apartments in upper caste neighbourhoods indicating that Indian society has miserably failed to integrate Dalits and people belonging to the other communities.
The report said that Indian caste system is an example of how humans attempt to impose superiority and suffering on others by virtue of their birth.
International organizations are mostly silent to raise the issue of Indian caste system, caste-based discrimination in India – a challenge to modern world. Web Desk
