Got it. Thanks. venantius ______
>GL responds: >I don't know how this discussion is related to the above title. It does >not even apply to what is the custom in Goa? (Which I do not know!) > >However the courts in the case below are not addressing 'the child's >future'. The courts are addressing: Can a child deemed an upper caste >(and perhaps lived the live of an upper caste) legitimately represent >and serve the people of the lower caste. Further of course the court >recognizes caste and in fact Indian law recognizes caste. That is why >there are reserved seats whether it is for political represention or >education or jobs, etc. > >People are known to work round the intention and spirit of the law to >suit their own purpose. And others use the rules to their convenience. >This is like the Goan school-drop-out who gets a preferential beachside >shack then rents it to a bhailo to run it while the drop-out continues >to be KIPPERS (kids in parent's pockets eroding retirement savings). > >At the last Illinois senate election in the USA, a republican / >conservative 'afro' candidate (previously a presidential candidate, UN >representative and considered an intellectual) accused his rival of 'not >being black enough'. (The father was black Tanzanian and mother was >white American). When asked to explain, he said that his opponent (even >though consider himself 'afro' and married to an 'afro' girl) had not >gone through 'the slave understanding' that US blacks experienced. Of >course that lame explanation backfired and he lost pretty badly! > >Venantius J Pinto: >The case below is interesting and is also politically motivated. >Although, the court says that the child is entitled to the fathers >caste; it should not immediately follow that the court is insistent-- >that the child's future, be determined by accepting the ruling prima >facie. > >The courts way of approaching the case is also a way of saying that >caste does play a role in ones life. This leads to all kinds of further >questions. > > >TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 2005 02:46:13 AM ] > >NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has ruled that a child born out of wedlock is >entitled to his or her father's lineage. > >By holding this in a petition involving the caste status of a legislator >elected from a reserved constituency in Andhra Pradesh, a Bench of Chief >Justice R C Lahoti, Justices G P Mathur and P K Balasubramanyan upheld >an Andhra Pradesh High Court judgment which had set aside the election >of TDP candidate Sobha Hymvathi Devi. >She had contested the 1999 assembly election from the Sringavarapukota >constituency reserved for Scheduled Tribes on the ground that her mother >belonged to the Bagatha community, a notified ST community. Gangadhara >Swamy, who lost to Sobha, had challenged her election on the ground that >she did not belong to the Bagatha community. > >>----- >Cip Fernandes: QUESTION >The children of Hindu parents, (one is Brahmin and the other is Sudra), >what caste these children inherit? ... and why? Just curious, 664 West 163 Street, #57 New York, NY 10032-4527 USA PH/Fax: +1 212.928.3955