Casteism larger than life

It all began with a spark. A spark which I had never expected! I was shuffling through the news channels, when my eardrum rang to one of the random voices. It was one of country’s eminent journalist reporting some major political movement at some part of the country. What really matters is not news here, but the news sense applied at that case. It was just some political moves and what made me surprised was the way he was shuffling the political names. The names were directly being related to their caste. I mean,

it was some political movement of great importance, yet the only thing on which he was drawing the conclusion was based on caste. Even the anchor note followed in the next screen, continued the analysis and started projecting the possible outcome. I was amused, how big this caste system was even though at that stage it affected almost entire population of the state.
Well, it was not the first time that I was amused. Been brought up in a family where Casteism was never prioritized at my home, I never knew my caste… until I was in class 9th. (I know this can be amusing to some of my readers, but that is a vague truth). With time I found more and more people showing interest on my title rather than my name. As I ended up my school life at tenth, I discovered that my full name was asked only to confirm the caste I belong to. Even this is just a small example. I have seen people deciding working capabilities by a simple logic. Which caste I belong to? Oh! Sir, can you please explain, how at all you justify that? How can one’s work be decided by one’s name? This fact haunts my mind with utmost disgust.
If this is how we decide human beings, then dogs are better, at least we decide them with their work, not by the place or family they are born in.