Shudra

The line that divides the Shudra and the Rest

The economists may call it the poverty line in jest.

The Human Development Index can somewhat measure it.

It is a denial of human rights too, some know it.

In the name of Shastras majority sanctifies the subjugation.

Courts take a long for any adjudication.

Is there any ablution that offers some solution?

The deep-rooted disease of the mind defies any resolution.

Rama perpetuated it; Krishna didn’t deal with it

Gautama defied it; many a leader succumbed to it.

Science can’t explain it; education cannot liberate from it.

Is it a case of what it is, it is! I call it casteismitis.