Surname is an identity. Should it remain with us?
Few weeks before I was visiting some place with one of my friends. I always choose to go some new place in the weekends. While we were talking, he mentioned about how he wanted to get rid of the stamp put on by the system of caste system on his identity founded thousands of years ago. I had a similar kind of thought which I sometimes discuss with my friends. When this topic bounced back to me I picked up my laptop. Stratification and classification of people is very common in Indian society and people are very deeply connected with the system. It is a major thing on the basis of which a lot of things depend in the society starting from respect, accessibility, ownership, participation etc. People get excluded positively and negatively because of this system. Caste is such an important part of the identity of the person that whenever people meet for the first time and have their first conversation they make it sure to put a question to know th...