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hariharan1972
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Few years back, there was this tamil movie titled "12B" in which the plot is something like this :
The protagonist, played by Shyam leaves home for an interview and misses the bus, 12 B by a whisker. As he is standing in the bus stop frustrated, the movie maker opens a new thread in the plot in which the hero manages to catch the bus.
The movie then moves on to "compare" the life and times of the hero who misses the bus and the hero who manages to catch the bus.
Moving the plot to the nation, the purpose of this thread is to wonder, just wonder, what India would have been if we didnt have the caste system.
Mind you, i am not making any case for anything, i just want to "crystal gaze" as to how India would have been:societal-ly sociologically, economically, culturally, ethnically, religiously if the caste system was not / is not in vogue.
I repeat the purpose of this thread is not to justify the system or write against the system - many avenues are available for both - but to just share a sketch or a vision of a India different from today's India.
Over to you all !
The protagonist, played by Shyam leaves home for an interview and misses the bus, 12 B by a whisker. As he is standing in the bus stop frustrated, the movie maker opens a new thread in the plot in which the hero manages to catch the bus.
The movie then moves on to "compare" the life and times of the hero who misses the bus and the hero who manages to catch the bus.
Moving the plot to the nation, the purpose of this thread is to wonder, just wonder, what India would have been if we didnt have the caste system.
Mind you, i am not making any case for anything, i just want to "crystal gaze" as to how India would have been:societal-ly sociologically, economically, culturally, ethnically, religiously if the caste system was not / is not in vogue.
I repeat the purpose of this thread is not to justify the system or write against the system - many avenues are available for both - but to just share a sketch or a vision of a India different from today's India.
Over to you all !