Tuesday, June 10, 2014

"Touching story of Untouchable"

Hello Readers,
This is my first post. And i don't know what to share with you all. So i am sharing my experience with untouchables.
When I was in 5th class, i visited my village. One of a typical villages from Bihar, India. I was there during my summer vacations. One day I was suppose to attend a marriage of a relative. In Bihar, people are still so backward that they still believe in so many myths and cast. Some people were of high cast and they were privileged where as some are considered as UNTOUCHABLES.


Let me tell you first who are untouchables and their condition in 2014 in Bihar, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and other tier 3 rural areas. People don't want to talk to them, neither they want to give them any work. Even if these untouchables are so willing to work but then also they won't and the reason is very simple, because people don't allow them to work.

When i was in marriage, after dinner i went to bed. But i was not able to sleep because of xyz reasons. Just to get some fresh air, i went to terrace and i saw a family cleaning the dinner mess and taking them with themselves. The worst part was that they were taking the food materials dropped on floor while we were having our dinner. In morning i asked my mom what i saw last night, and mom replied, "they are known as untouchables". It was really embarrassing for the mankind because we all are the reason for their condition. Our society created this cast thing and some people are still suffering from that system.


I was a fifth class student who could not do any thing that time. But that day i decided, i would definitely do something to change their condition. As day passed the memories started fading and i completely forget that incident.
Last year Diwali 2013 I visited Bihar again. This was an amazing and prosperous moment for every one since Diwali is considered as major festival for HINDUISM. I saw people visiting temple and offering their prayer and these POOJA Items to God. I was looking all the procedures followed by hindu's and their way of showing respect and joy to GOD. It was really good to see them doing this. Obviously it shows how great our INDIA is with so many different cultures and religions.

Everything was going in flow. People came and visited their God, offered their feelings, and returned. But then i saw someone moving around that temple touching thee walls. He repeated this for seven time, showed his respect to God by bending his head and folding his hands. He was looking at temple walls. Probably he was complaining why God even created him in untouchable cast. The only thing he would be wishing that time about caste system would be WHY ME??


So my question is very simple to every one. Is this his mistake why he born and brought up in such family? 
Should he not be allowed to go to Temples and offer his prayers?
Is it not his fundamental rights?
And are we as a society trying to abolish them and make them feel downtrodden every day?
When God created us the same, why we are making this earth hell for them who we call UNTOUCHABLES?

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