Test: Equality in Indian Democracy- 1

India is a federal parliamentary, secular, democratic, republic in which the President of India is the head of state and the Prime Minister of India is the head of government. 

Universal Adult Franchise means that the right to vote should be given to all adult citizens without the discrimination of caste, class, colour, religion or gender. It is based on equality, which is a basic principle of democracy.

The caste system is an ancient, age-old belief system that plagues India even today.
It is a system that has divides Hindus into rigid, hierarchical occupational groups called “varna“.

This Varna system includes four Varnas: Bhramin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra, in descending order of purity. 

Dalit, meaning "broken/scattered" in Sanskrit and Hindi, is a term mostly used for the castes in India that have been subjected to untouchability. 

The author of Joothan is the famous dalit writer Om Prakash Valmiki who describes about his life as a dalit.

Omprakash Valmiki is one of the most famous Dalit litterateurs in Hindi and he portrayed the life of Dalits with an authentically Dalit voice.

In a secular country, unequal treatment on the basis of religion is not acceptable by the constitution but many people still practice it and in the process hurt other people’s dignity.
This is what happened with the Ansaris. The Ansaris felt that their dignity was hurt because they were being treated unequally on the basis of differences of religion as many people refused to lease their apartments just because they were Muslims. 

Parliament is not a public place. If you want to go to parliament you should be a VIP or staff of parliament.

The first mid-day meal plan was introduced in the state of Tamil Nadu in India under then Chief Minister K Kamaraj in 1962–63.
The Government of India initiated the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE) on 15th August 1995.

The United States of America, the african-americans whose ancestors were the slaves who were brought over from Africa, continue to describe their lives today as largely unequal.

• In late August 1619, “20 and odd” captive Africans first touched the soil at Point Comfort (now Fort Monroe National Monument), part of England’s new colony in Virginia. These men and women had been stolen from their homes in Africa, forced to board a ship, and sailed for months into the unknown.
• The first Africans in an English colony, their arrival is considered by many historians to be the beginning of a 400-year story filled with tragedy, endurance, survival, and a legacy of resilience, inequality, and oppression.