This is not related to the casteism which Aamir Khan talked in his show last week. This is something, which I have been noticing since long time but recent incident made me facing this dirty face of Modern Casteism.

Recently, I happened to visit a Police station near my home.  Some evilhead person was pelting stone at basement of our building since last few nights. Building watchman was not able to find who is doing it.  One night it broke Rare window glass of my neighbor’s new Car. We decided to file a complaint in nearby police station to have a stop on stone pelting . It was 10:30 PM , I went to police station along with my neighbors.   As it was late evening, we thought there will be less crowd. But there were more than 50 people around the officers in police station.  They all were talking in Telugu ( local language in AP ) and I was not able to make out why so many people are there.  Any ways, we have been asked to give a complaint in writing  and my neighbor got busy in writing the letter. Meantime, I was trying to understand the environment in the police station.

There were two Sofa and Chair kept in front of Officer In-Charge’s Room for visitors.  There were few guys sitting on those and few were standing near to those. All those were appearing some businessmen.  Waiting for their leaders  who were in meeting with Officer.

Next to them, a lady was sitting on floor with two kids and her husband. It was easy to understand from their look that they are very poor. Husband’s shirt were ripped off so appearing like he was beaten by someone and came to file complain. Kids were very sleepy and were finding difficult to sleep on the cold bare floor.  Few minutes later, a police man came and asked businessmen to go out and wait.  Now chairs are empty so poor kids sit on the chair …but Policeman asked them to not sit on chair .

Then policeman came to us, and when he understood reason of us being there, he asked us to wait on those chairs .

I got a place to sit …. But I was not feeling good sitting there and thinking, why those kids ( or the family ) were not allowed to sit on those chairs ?

It is just because they  were poor ? yes.. this was the only reason.  This is very common behavior across the world  and This is the Modern Casteism; Poor , Middle Class, Rich, Super Rich.  Poor are being considered as untouchable.  They were asked to sit on floor. The family had small kids , they were waiting there since long time . On all grounds, they were supposed to get the chair before us.

We waited there for more than an hour.. all this time, the kids were trying to sleep on floor.  There was so much of delay and it was late night.. the family left the place as no one was willing to understand their pain . They came to Police station in search of Justice  and they had to leave without meeting officer.

This is very ugly face of modern casteism.  Poor people in the society is being denied for their basic rights.

So called “Open Minded” /”Broad Minded” /”Progressive”/”Modern” people of the society are raising their voice against Casteism. But they are ignoring the Modern Casteism and sometimes even they are promoting it.

I know one thing for sure .. Neither of these casteism are good for society and we must get rid of both. I don’t know .. and I’m still thinking .. which Casteism has to be attacked on priority.