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One More Look at the Caste System

“You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”—Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (IV.4.5)

Let us classify the castes (simplistic?) according to this principle:

If your deep, driving desire is for:

Knowledge and wisdom — then, you are a Brahmin

Power, authority, leadership — then, you are a Kshatriya

Money, resources — then, you are a Vaishya

Enjoyment — then, you are a Shudra

Someone commented: If so, a vast majority of the people in the world would love to be Shudras, isn’t it?

I replied: True, but without the acquisition of the other goods that the other higher castes are seeking, that enjoyment is precarious, hard to obtain, and cannot be sustained…and that does NOT mean the other castes are NOT enjoying…the Brahmin gets enjoyment from knowledge and wisdom, and that very knowledge and wisdom can bring in its train power, leadership, authority, money, resources, and enjoyment…but NOT necessarily in the measure in which the other castes are seeking them, but the Brahmin would have understood the significance of contentment, and therefore even if he has in less measure the goods that other castes have, he will still be as happy. But, every caste will have access to the goods of all the castes lower to it but very rarely access to the goods of the castes higher to it, if I can put it simplistically.

Baba Adhav the grassroots campaigner and leader of the socially oppressed passed away at 96

An intrepid and committed social reformer and organiser of the urban working class, labourers, domestic workers, waste-pickers, Baba Adhav of the “Ek Gaon Ek Panavtha” (One Village One Water Source/Well), who challenged the caste system, died in Pune on Monday December 8

SabrangIndia
December 9, 2025

https://sabrangindia.in/baba-adhav-the-grassroots-campaigner-and-leader-of-the-socially-oppressed-passed-away-at-96/

How a seventy-year-old Presidential Order still shapes Dalit life after conversion

Even after embracing new faiths, Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims continue to face caste-based exclusion. Yet a 1950 Presidential Order blocks them from constitutional protection.

by Khalil ur Rehaman
The Leaflet
December 6, 2025

https://theleaflet.in/equality/how-a-seventy-year-old-presidential-order-still-shapes-dalit-life-after-conversion

The first Bhojpuri film "Jaya" talking about Dalit interests premiered in Patna.

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/bh_dalit_bhojpuri_film_jaya_premier

#bihar #patna #india #news #press #movie #movies #cinema #premier #bhojpuri #film #films #dalit #caste #castesystem #socialissue #socialcause

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Sidebar: wouldn’t it be nice to have been born with the proverbial silver spoon in your mouth that allowed you to afford access to the freaking #Yale #ChiefExecutive leadership institute?

#CasteSystem #discrimination #weath #Education #EducationDivide #WealthDivide #privilege

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Sidebar: wouldn’t it be nice to have been born with the proverbial silver spoon in your mouth that allowed you to afford access to the freaking #Yale #ChiefExecutive leadership institute?

#CasteSystem #discrimination #weath #Education #EducationDivide #WealthDivide #privilege

[@ifilljustice come back to #mastodon]

Why there should be no place for a ‘Brahmin conference’ at Indian universities

An idea that creates an exclusive group that does not allow others entry should not be given space at educational institutions, writes Apoorvanand.

#delhi #DelhiUniversity #brahminism #IndianUniversities #casteism #CasteDiscrimination #brahmins #caste #education #CasteSystem #india

https://scroll.in/article/1067884/why-there-should-be-no-place-for-a-brahmin-conference-at-indian-universities

Recounting Ambedkar’s Logic for Conversion

This Dalit History Month, revisiting Ambedkar’s arguments around conversion to Buddhism, and why conversion is a radical solution to the caste system. Joel Ernest Gonsalves writes.

#DalitHistoryMonth #BRAmbedkar #conversions #caste #buddhism #hinduism #dalits #ambedkar #SocialJustice #casteism #CasteSystem #india

https://thewire.in/caste/recounting-ambedkars-logic-for-conversion

Banaras Hindu University researches Manusmriti ‘applicability’

Banaras Hindu University is researching the continuing “applicability” of the Manusmriti, which codified what became the caste system and gave women the status of family property, with government funds earmarked for worldclass academic projects.

#UttarPradesh #BHU #manusmiriti #education #brahminism #casteism #CasteSystem #sexism #misogyny #untouchability #CasteDiscrimination #hindutva #BJPStates #india

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/banaras-hindu-university-researches-manusmriti-applicability/cid/1919602