For a land that is filled with the hatred of castes, with honor killings occuring regularly with fathers exulting over the blood of their daughters they took with their own hands, where handsome and dashing men and women talk only to women and men after they have checked out their castes and bank balances...you get to hear of some people who dare to defy orders.
And when they come from as meek a profession as mine, its all the more adorable....
Funny land this, as if deciding that happiness in a relationship would be directly proportional to wealth accrued, here they have to be Yadav calling Yadav, Chowdhury calling Chowdhury or Mittal calling Mittal.....
We are in 2010 for chrissakes. And here love comes laced up with caste tags. God be with the ones who bend the rules.
Someday more of this will change the world.
Sucharita,we may be in 2010,but something never change.Caste tag is related to identity assertion in feudal society.As regards love,i feel hatred's astronger emotion in this world.We love to watch love stories in movies.As for real life,we prefer our own ghettos.
ReplyDeleteThis was shortly followed by the admission of a 18 year old girl who was forcefully fed poison by her brother, uncle and aunty who suspected her of being in love with a guy from another caste...I could not save her...she died before my eyes...
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