A sorry and a thanks we owe them

I woke up to some vedic chanting in a distant temple this morning. I'd forgotten to keep my alarm, but this was such a pleasant one! I sat to study but my concentration was slowly drifting towards them. I was thinking about one of the greatest classes of people this country has ever produced – the Brahmins.

Clear eyes, serene features, peaceful face - you can mostly spot them from a distance. Go to the US and people will tell "You vegetarians from India are really smart people". A Tambrahm is a popular term even there. You can't stop admiring Brahmins for their shrewdness. This country owes a major pie of its knowledge to them, for they were always the knowledge powerhouse of the Indian society. But their contribution is often undermined, for they're not the majority. Nor do they enjoy any kind of good will from the rest of the nation, for humans don't like someone else to remain at the top all the time.

They've struggled hard to reach here. They still keep struggling hard, unfortunately they don't often get what they truly deserve. They live in a country that is scrambling to achieve comprehensive inclusive growth and thence are forcefully discriminated for the so-called welfare of this society. Discrimination though, has been a necessary evil since time immemorial. Regrettably, it's an eye for an eye now! Remorsefully, the wrong eye! Still, just look around, you'll find them holding lead positions in government organizations, private companies, educational institutions and wherever little our discriminatory reward system has allowed them to enter into. We surely owe them the deepest sorry for what we're doing to them right now and an even deeper thanks for all that they've done for us so far.

I hope that one day the children of the brahmin family and the children of the tribe family can hold hands together like brothers and sisters, and step in to shaping India's future, spreading shock waves around the world.