Modi as PM doesn't in anyway take down the Caste based system in India...it emboldens it. Just as a lower Caste Ambedkar as President tries to give affirmative actions/positive discrimination to SC/ST/OBC caste hasn't made the caste system any less obvious and that it is gone.
This is like trying to lessen an anomaly(Caste/Apartheid) through creating another anomaly(quota's)...talking about quota's and all.
... @Jackdaws
India is becoming a country of many apartheids, many segregations
India was among the foremost of countries to denounce the iniquitous system of apartheid in South Africa.
Indeed, Nelson Mandella who eventually freed his country from the yoke of racial segregation drew a large part of his inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi’s struggle to liberate India from the British raj.
So it is a cruel irony that today India is in danger of becoming a country divided by not just one but many different forms of apartheids, many different segregations.
India has long prided itself on its spiritual eclecticism, its expansive ability to accommodate diverse faiths and beliefs.
Today, with religious majoritarianism as represented by the forces of Hindutva gaining momentum, there is increasing segregation along communal lines, an apartheid based not on race but on creed.
Religion apart, there is also dietary apartheid: people who eat beef, for instance, or are suspected of eating it, can face lethal violence.
With crimes against women, from rape to acid attacks and so-called `honour killings’—on the rise, there is a growing gender apartheid which victimises feminity.
The continuing persecution of dalits – which often takes the most brutal and vicious forms – and the increasingly aggressive demands for community-based reservations and quotas underlines caste apartheid.
The growing intolerance of any kind of dissent – which is an essential component of democracy – is proof of an ideological apartheid. Anyone who dares to disagree with the prevailing opinion of the day is deemed to be a seditionist and a traitor.
Rationalists who question religious myths, left-wing intellectuals, secularists (who invariably are referred to as ‘pseudo-secularists), and all advocates of free speech are lumped together as anti-national elements.
There was a time, not so long ago, when India could proudly claim that in its diversity lay its unity.
Today in its threatened and jeopardised diversity lies a forcibly imposed and specious unity, which seeks to disguise the many apartheids that lie beneath.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...country-of-many-apartheids-many-segregations/
