"Everything we start looking from the prism of caste."
Revered all-knowing professor Sri Krish44 Sir is simply unable to get out of his mental rut. Or to discard his distorting tinted glasses. Or to resist waving his rod at others who do not necessarily think like him. Following is an example of his delirium:-
The days of drum beating ones caste telling dalits to get out of their path is over.
(Ignoring the grammatical faux pas) We all know this.
What he really means is that the wonderfully liberating intoxicating days have now come when you publicly can and should condemn a Sharma for calling himself a Sharma, a Pandit for calling himself a Pandit, a Shaastrigal for calling himself a Shaasthrigal, a Kurukkal for calling himself a Kurukkal, et cetera ad infinitum. Not forgetting an irate Iyengar.
According to our professor's credo, all Brahmins should get out of the way when a Dalit approaches, blowing his horn, clashing his cymbals.
"Though there is reservation policy to rectify the economic imbalances in indian society, it perhaps gives a fillip to more casteism."
The professor has apparently never heard of the "creamy layer" -- Dalits oppressing Dalits, SCs and STs oppressing their
fellows, OBCs oppressing OBCs. And all of these oppressing one another whenerver they can.
In his dream world (should be "world of fantasy"), all Brahmins and all caste-Hindus oppress all non-Brahmins and oppress all caste-Hindus who use caste-names like Chettiars, Pillais, Thevars, Mudaliars, Vellaalars; but (hurray! hurrah!) no non-Brahmins oppress Brahmins, not even the Governments both at Central and at State levels, through discriminatory practices and laws such as land re-distributions and "reservations".
Tongue-in-cheek, our professor loftily proclaims:-
People are respected for their knowledge, their outlook, the way they treat all humanfolk.
Obviously "all humanfolk" excludes fellow-Brahmins, especially fellow Tamil-Brahmins.
Should people not be respected for their innate charitable regard for fellow-humans, for their reverence of their past, for their acceptance of the present, for their optimism about the future, for their deep and wide scholarship and learning, for their willingness to share with others, for their standing by their principles, for their courage to call a spade a spade?
By the way, Prof Krish44, you do not look FROM a prism. You look THROUGH a prism, but see nothing. Never attended Physics class at school, did you, Sir?
S Narayanaswamy Iyer