☕️ Sip 1 - The Bitter Beginning
☕️ Sip 1 - The Bitter Beginning Where Caste First Touched Humanity A Special Note to the Reader If you feel this reflection sounds unfamiliar or distant, pause for a moment and ask your father, your grandparents, or an elder in your family. Ask them how water was drawn, how food was served, how temples were entered, and how silence was maintained. You may hear stories that were never written in textbooks, but were lived quietly, accepted normally, and remembered painfully. Let's have a Sip In many villages, caste was not taught - it was absorbed. Before a child learned alphabets, they learned where to stand, which well to avoid, which vessel was “not for us”, and which space was forbidden. Water flowed, but dignity didn’t. Temples echoed prayers, but not equality. Land decided power. Birth decided worth. Silence decided survival. This was not hatred spoken aloud. It was discrimination practiced daily - so normal that questioning it felt abnormal. Those at the bottom didn’t always ...