People say caste is finished while arranging their children’s marriages by it. A psychological reading of why a system can die officially and survive completely.
Everyone believes in merit until you ask who got to prepare. A story from Haryana, and what it does to the argument.
Related arguments that started somewhere else.
One is an argument about why anything exists at all. The other is a personality with opinions about your clothes. We use the same word for both, and that confusion does most of the damage.
Nobody wakes up choosing cruelty. It arrives in small permissions, each one reasonable on its own — and the psychology behind that is more disturbing than any villain.
Intelligence is not a defence against bad ideas. It is often the delivery mechanism — because a clever mind builds better justifications for whatever it already wanted to believe.
