☕️ Sip 2 - The Raw Aftertaste: Power, Politics & Silent Humiliation
🫖 Sip 2 - The Raw Aftertaste Power, Politics & Silent Humiliation A Special Note to the Reader If this reflection feels uncomfortable, it is because it speaks of moments we usually hide behind silence. Ask an elder how behaviour changes during elections. Ask how respect appears temporarily and disappears quietly later. You may discover that equality is sometimes performed, not practiced. ☕️ Sip 2 As villages develop, caste does not disappear. It changes its expression . Roads are built. Schools open. Speeches speak of equality. Yet inside homes, cups are still watched. Water is still offered carefully. Questions are still asked — not aloud, but indirectly. During elections, caste boundaries soften. Hands shake. Smiles widen. Voices promise unity. After elections, old rules return silently. This is casteism at the bottom of the stem - less visible than the root, but equally bitter. Humiliation here is rarely violent. It is symbolic . A cup washed again. A place not offer...