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Afra,
This is in response to your message on caste system. Caste system is
everywhere in India.
Do you think there's no caste system in Goa. My late mother's ex-maid told
her (she must be in her late sixties now) that when she was young and went
to school, she was kept separately from other students as she was a
scheduled caste. This was in my father's village, Moira.
Maybe the situation in Goa has changed now. But, I don't think that any
Hindu Brahmin family in Goa will employ a scheduled caste Hindu to work in
their house. I apologise if I'm wrong.
I had the problem when we lived in Gujarat much much before the riots. I
employed a scheduled caste, and the women in the society where we lived
remarked 'Your husband is of a very high caste family, how do you employ a
scheduled caste'. I sweetly smiled and said, this is 'Ghandiji's state'.
Lets not discuss caste system, because all human beings are equal.
Ana Maria de Souza-Goswami
