What Is Your Caste? Dear Dr. Udayakumar

I have read your work for the first time after hearing praise of it from friends and family. I picked your article ``What is your caste`` almost randomly from the list of your articles posted on Chowk.

Although there are several questions that came to my mind while reading the article, I will only ask one in recognition of the preciousness of time for you Sir.

You propose a system of calculating eligibility for the truly oppressed/disadvantaged by allocating points for various factors such as family education, gender etc. You have concluded that this system of calculating eligibility will result in the eradication of discrimination. Sir, I want to ask you, is not giving a female more points than a male a clear example of `discrimination`. Is your approach to elimination of discrimination, not a based on discrimination itself? More like a circular argument? At best, your porposal can be called a system of bringing social justice to those who have been treated unjust in the past but in the longer run, this system will result in problems of its own.

A concerned Subcontinental.

With regards,

Sajida

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