Salaam
Maybe start international sporting events by taking a knee against the caste system in India? If it's good for the goose it's good for the gander. I don't know if taking a knee is effective against racism but the Indian team thinks it is and so they should try that?
What do you think the US should do to address the racism within itself?
Taking a knee is a symbolic gesture, actually legislative and constitutional enactments supersede them, wont you agree? I'm not debating the efficacy of the current system, simply asking again what in your kind opinion should be done that has already not been done legislatively and socially.
Having a pre existing ill does not disqualify one from speaking out against the others.
Like it should publicly dismiss its co-party chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, who wants the Manusmriti to become the Indian Constitution. The Manusmriti is a foul, anti-human book, probably 3000 years old, which is called the guide book of an ideal Hindu society and prescribes the caste system and other such anti-human things. The government should also publicly dismiss its co-party member of parliament Sadhvi Pragya who once wondered in a public function that if the three Upper Castes ( Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Vaishyas ) don't mind being assigned their socio-economic positions why do the Lower Castes ( Shudras and Dalits ) mind being assigned their names and their consequent socio-economic positions. That will be a start.
The current system of Reservations for the Lower Castes is a half-hearted effort. It hasn't eradicated casteism in the seventy years of Independence. So adopt Communism with sincerity. People can still believe in God but not take their religious beliefs to anti-human, oppressive, disharmonious and obscene levels. Doing such will eradicate casteism automatically.
Fortunately or unfortunately, our constitution has no punitive damages for being a dull witted racist or a manipulative one. What should be done and what can is hampered by the system made by our founding fathers. In their wisdom, they recognised what could be changed and what should be kicked down the line for the wisdom of the parliament to decide, in that at least they were wise enough to recognise operational limitations. Stupidity is an inherent right for those free to speak.
I read up on your posts, I admire them, but in my opinion they are an idealistic solution with no leverage to adapt to the nitty gritty of actual polity and our populace. The human nature is too varied and inherently self serving for an utopian system to establish itself or survive. it simply does not survive contact with actual operational problems in the long term. its been tried countless times and mayhap our version might be the most correct implementation in the spirit as well as application, but data indicates otherwise. Many have tried it, many have failed. The current system is not a perfect one, it barely gets the job done and is often at whims of populist measures, but its a complex problem to solve with no perfect answers.
IF one could conjure up the apple of Eden as a panacea for all ills and asked people to eat it sincerely and obtain their salvation. We would still manage to find a way to bungle that up. Asking anyone to do anything sincerely from a rambunctious bunch like us, simply becomes an excuse later to justify the eventual pitfalls of whatever plan is in action, a system that ignores the base quality of its constituents is incapable of addressing their problems effectively.
For a start.. stop voting for leaders who believe in this non sense.
So long as the people of this subcontinent blame their neighbours for the ills that affect the common man, leaders such as that are going to keep popping up. Patience, education and awareness seem to be the way forward, alas we are ruled by emotions easily swayed by populists, simply changing the leader is not going to help because the problem has its roots on both sides, not simply one.
We're not so different in that way, our chequered history is replete with examples wherein when one wishes for peace the other usually has a leader that is least bothered with it.
