The country’s culture, marked by customs and traditional practices which have endured over centuries and followed to an awe-inspiring extent as evident all over the country, is testimony to the resilience of its past generations in the face of a plethora of threats by marauding aliens, one among them identified as iconoclasts causing destruction of whatever symbolised the land’s culture across different ethnic sections of the population, and also cutting across diverse economic classes in the range of high-net-worth-individuals down to the abject poor with the ill-defined middle class in the middle. The unwelcome disparity between the high in society and the low in the population in economic terms has been bestowed attention by the top brass in the Government, given their declared resolve to move towards the illusive inclusive society. A slew of measures initiated by the incumbent Government at the Centre as well as many State Governments, including Karnataka, in the nature of largesses to benefit the economically distressed urban and rural sections has virtually heralded action to realise the dream of inclusiveness.
The hierarchy factor differentiating the various sections of society on economic and social counts seems to be the major undoing of the land’s people and getting rid of that is a pipe dream that the country’s Constitution has tried to address by identifying some social sections for favoured treatment in admission to educational institutions and recruitment to jobs in the Government. The action appears to be in fluid state until this day, even as it is being debated in many circles.
