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THE IDENTITY WEAPON

   Hey there, It's me back to the game after more than a year. A lot has changed. So did I. The thing that has sparked interest in me to get back to writing today is the political similarity of different geopolitical grounds at so many levels. This is not some new theory of mine that I propose. its just a world view of the juncture that we're at and I'm not blaming anyone for doing it. And yes its not about AI.    The word identity politics has been around since the last decade in India, thanks to Prashant Kishore. Today, the world, politically is at a crux where there are best of many sides playing against each other. But one remained emerging victorious. There is a pattern established to emerge as the winner. That is the game of identity politics.   People identify themselves with many things. from religion, caste, Sex, occupation, region, the language they speak, some people also say that they are an Indian first in an attempt to put the nation first. When I ...

There is no Caste in Blood

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   Sawasdi 👋 Hello. I'm writing again after two months because I was in a block for one month ( which by the is my longest block I ever had ) and the second month because I was in this hostel ( cum jail, whatever you'd like to call it ) where I had no access to the internet. Which again gave me a totally "Different Perspective" of where the society stands. To start with, I've been living under a rock that there is no discrimination on the basis of caste and friends don't become friends in the name of caste. But I was wrong. There is stuff like that.   Let me get started with this. Everyone asked me about the caste which I belonged to except two people. It doesn't stop there. People start calling you with the caste's name and not with your name. Then they start judging you because you belong to the same caste on the basis of something done by a person who belonged to the same caste as you do. I didn't choose to be born in this caste and its fine if...

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