“INDIA” which is developing but the worst reality of modern, independent India is the unjustified significance given to caste still in the 21st century, which marks as to perform illogical even in the face of natural disasters. The condition where we should stand together, we began to marginalize by caste.
So-called “Heart of India” Madhya Pradesh’s village Tikamgarh, is the village which not only affected by the caprices of nature in the form of drought but is also the victim of its own narrow-mindedness.
Tikamgarh’s fields have stopped blooming; the thirsty lips and faces of villagers relate the sorry state of water. Although, natural calamities like drought is not the biggest of their glitches.
Their appeals fell on deaf ears, as the hard working Dalit borrowed Rs.5000 for the construction of hand-pump and they gave it to the village head “Sarpanch”.And the matter come in light when the country are facing the problem of drought, but it is not only the drought which trouble them so much, amid the good times,it never had a water sources, after the frequent requests, the peals was just ignored.
Since, the March 2015 rainfall also wander way in their favour as a result the yield has gone down by almost 50%. Etcetera scanty income these people, living in Dalit colonies had has disappeared.
At last no choice left for them, they would have to walk to the neighbourhood that has a source, where they come to face the wgly reality of “Caste discrimination”. Sadly that source also has dried up.Dalits and Yadavs too have to turned to a well, where Dalits use it for drinking and Yadavs use it only for bathing and washing.
Helplessly, they don’t even have money for borewell dug.The poor and the troubled of this nation have nowhere to go in calamities like these.
On concluding, it is said that no matter how much we try to repudiate caste-based discrimination, but the reality is it is spread everywhere. And it is not only the rural Indians, or who is uneducated but also educated urban Indians.
Hope, the Country will be developed in the real manner on developing their narrow-mindedness.
~Kajal Thakur
