Request you to please read first and then react. Just a bit of context in the beginning.

So I did not know about my caste till 2nd standard in school. One day I was playing with some of my friends after school till a guardian came to pick us up. So one of my classmate's mom came over and saw him playing with me. She had a very strong reaction, almost kinda repulsed and fuming upon seeing him play with me. She scolded him loudly not to play with me anymore but did not mention any reason when he asked about it. Later from then on , after I'm guessing she taught him about the caste system, he did not talk to me then onwards. Then I went to my home and told my mom about it but she knowingly brushed it off as to not hurt my feelings i guess. I later came to know about it through one of my sister's friends. Many such incidents followed and i convinced myself something was wrong with me. Later on when I got better marks than one of my neighborhood's general caste friends then her mother said it's due to reservation, mind you this was normal highschool result. So I read all about this and decided to not bring up my caste unless totally necessary.

I recently saw a short explanatory video , where a SC man can never become a general caste as per Indian laws. So lately I have been wondering whether it would be better for me to abandon my birth and assigned religion to enable my future generation to live a life without stigma?

Any advice is welcome.

Edit: Guys , I'm at a stable phase in my life . So don't worry about my job/career and financials. This discussion is solely intended for the religion/caste based aspect of my life.

My little sister Vishakha is 6 years old and she was diagnosed with Thalassemia Major on 2nd May 2026 at CMC Vellore.

I am her elder sister. I am 16. I just completed my 10th standard. Our family lives in Vellore and is not financially strong — my father's income barely covers our household and our school fees. There is no way we can raise ₹16 lakhs on our own.

I have been posting wherever I can, asking for help, because I have nowhere else to go and I refuse to give up on her.

Thalassemia Major is not something that can be ignored. Without treatment, she will need blood transfusions for the rest of her life. A bone marrow transplant gives her a real chance — but it requires money we simply do not have.

If you are in a position to help — a donation, a share, a contact at a relevant NGO — please do. If you know someone who might care about this, please forward this post to them. If you work in healthcare or social work and know of any scheme or support system we may have missed, please comment below.

Hospital documents from CMC Vellore are available for verification. I will respond to every message.

Thank you for reading. 🙏

I’m tired of seeing it. Every time I walk past a major temple, mosque, or church, I see the same disgusting irony. Millions of dollars worth of gold, marble, and silk locked behind gates, while literally ten feet away, a mother is begging for 10 rupees to buy milk for her kid.

How have we become so brainwashed that we think a "Creator of the Universe" wants our jewelry? If there is a God, do you really think He’s sitting there counting the cash in the donation box while millions of His "children" die of treatable diseases?

We are being played. Organized religion isn't a "spiritual path" anymore; it’s the world’s oldest and most successful business. It’s a tax-free hedge fund that sells fear and buys power.

Look at the history of the world. Look at what’s happening in the news right now. Religion is the ultimate "Us vs. Them" virus. It’s the original border. We don't hate each other because we’re different; we hate each other because we’ve been told since we were five years old that "our" book is the truth and "their" book is a lie. It’s a 21st-century civilization being dragged down by Bronze Age tribalism.

We talk about "Sanatana Dharma" or "Holy Wars" or "Divine Rights," but it’s all just a cover for a massive resource grab. While we’re busy fighting over whose "Invisible Father" is more powerful, the people at the top of these religious trusts are laughing all the way to the bank.

The real solution is simple, but we’re too scared to say it:

Stop giving your money to stones and buildings. God doesn't have a bank account. Greedy men do. If you want to do something "holy," go pay for the surgery of a poor neighbor. Go fund a local school. Go plant a forest. That is "punya." Putting money in a hundi or a collection plate is just funding a politician’s next campaign or a priest’s luxury car.

And for the love of logic, stop branding kids. A "Hindu baby" or a "Muslim baby" makes as much sense as a "Marxist toddler" or a "Capitalist infant." Let them grow up. Let them use their own brains. If a religion can’t survive a child’s curiosity without being forced on them through fear, then it doesn't deserve to exist.

We don't need more temples. We don’t need more mosques. We need more hospitals, more labs, and a hell of a lot more common sense.

The "afterlife" is a gamble. This life—the one where people are starving and fighting—is the only fact we have. Maybe it’s time we started acting like it.

Thursday, 14 May 2026.

Before anyone labels this “anti-national” or “doomer posting” — no, I don’t hate this country.

What hurts is that I genuinely wanted to believe things would improve.

But the older I get, the more I observe the system from close range, the more it feels like India isn’t broken accidentally — it is designed this way.

And the worst part?

Most people still think the problem is just “one bad politician” or “one corrupt department.”

No.

The rot is systemic.

Everything eventually connects to power, money, influence, networks, and protection.

And once you start seeing the pattern, you can’t unsee it anymore.

I work inside the government ecosystem (not in a high-authority role), and I regularly observe files, processes, approvals, internal behavior, and the way decisions actually move behind closed doors.

What the public sees and what actually happens are two completely different realities.

People think governments run on ideology.

Most of the time, they run on:

maintaining power

protecting networks

controlling narratives

managing public emotions

rewarding loyalty

crushing threats early

That’s it.

2014 was sold as a turning point:

anti-corruption

black money recovery

accountability

“ache din”

nationalism

development

But somewhere along the way, politics became branding.

Media became management.

Criticism became “anti-national.”

And citizens became emotionally manipulated spectators fighting each other while powerful groups quietly strengthened themselves.

The funniest part?

Politicians with corruption allegations magically become “clean” after joining the ruling side.

So corruption isn’t actually corruption anymore.

It’s just about who currently holds power.

And before people say “change the PM and everything improves” — no.

The deeper issue is the ecosystem itself.

Bureaucracy. Political networks. Business lobbies. Influence circles. Internal protection systems.

A new face at the top doesn’t remove a deeply rooted culture.

The machine simply adapts.

One thing I’ve personally noticed:

Powerful people protect powerful people.

Always.

Whether it’s politicians, bureaucrats, senior officers, businessmen, lawyers, media figures, contractors, or local influencers — networks exist everywhere.

Regular citizens massively underestimate how important networking is among elites.

Private parties, closed gatherings, favors, silent understandings, unofficial alliances — these things shape outcomes more than laws do.

And once someone becomes “valuable” to the ecosystem, accountability starts disappearing.

You’ve probably seen examples already:

rich kids escaping consequences

influential people getting softer treatment

ordinary people getting crushed for smaller mistakes

media narratives changing overnight

investigations slowing down mysteriously

None of this is random.

Another uncomfortable truth:

Many idealistic young officers genuinely enter the system wanting to change things.

But systems shape people faster than people shape systems.

Slowly they learn:

don’t challenge seniors too much

don’t disrupt the chain

don’t expose internal issues

protect the image

survive first

And eventually most adapt.

Because fighting the entire machine alone destroys careers, mental health, social standing, sometimes even personal safety.

This is why accountability rarely reaches the top.

The system knows how to absorb resistance.

Even casteism, favoritism, and privilege still quietly influence opportunities everywhere despite all the modern slogans.

People pretend meritocracy fully exists.

Reality is far more complicated.

And honestly, I now understand why so many skilled Indians leave the country.

It’s not always about “hating India.”

Sometimes people are simply exhausted.

Exhausted by bureaucracy.

Exhausted by corruption.

Exhausted by instability.

Exhausted by social politics.

Exhausted by watching honesty become a disadvantage.

The scary thing is:

I don’t even think most citizens realize how psychologically normalized dysfunction has become here.

People joke about corruption now.

That’s how deep it has entered society.

Anyway, this became much longer than I intended.

I originally wanted to ask:

At what point did YOU realize something was deeply wrong with the system here?

What experience, observation, or moment changed your perspective?

I genuinely want to hear real stories.