"Earlier, people were changing their religion but now people are changing their castes also", said a vacation bench of Justices Markandeya Katju and Deepak Verma. [italics mine]note what the judges said: now people are changing their castes also. what does the headline say? SC surprised at people changing castes frequently.
judges find people, not a person or two, can change caste. progressive reporter notes, without surprise, people change caste frequently. what the judges or reporter didn't say explicitly: we always knew people from the lower castes were great whiners.
elsewhere, a story on some rigid dalit believers in caste who would rather change their religion than their caste, frequently.
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Inter Caste conversion - good novel idea.
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events.php?group=FDRI+%2F+Berkeley+Seminar+Series+on+Indian+Democracy
anon,
the link doesn't work.
I have noticed a series of funny rullings and/or statements by judge Katju lately. He wrote an incredibly ignorant article on caste in The Hindu too.
anon,
thanks, i have it. you were referring to the event 'justice and the law, i guess.
prabin,
yes, thanks for the pointer. i faintly remember having read parts of the articles you refer to..yes, he's.. funny.
referring to the Berkeley Seminar Series on Indian Democracy .
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