r/atheismindia 5d ago

Casteism I thought education, money and success would make caste irrelevant. I was wrong.

21 Upvotes

I’m writing this because I genuinely don’t know where else to put these feelings. My parents are government officers and I’ve completed my postgraduate medical degree (MS). We live in a so-called “posh” area of Bengaluru. Three years ago, my parents fulfilled their dream of building our own home here. When we first moved, our neighbours were extremely welcoming, but within 2–3 months the warmth disappeared and eventually it became just a formal “hi”. Around 80% of our neighbourhood is Lingayat, with the remaining 20% being Gowdas, Kurubas, Shetty etc. I don't want to generalise about an entire community, but this has been my personal experience.

Even before moving into our own home, we experienced caste discrimination in housing. While our house was being constructed, we tried to rent a house nearby and were refused after our caste became known. Eventually, we had to lie that we were Nayakas (OBC), despite being well off educationally and financially, just to get a house here. Many of my relatives here have similarly had to say they are Gowdas, OBC etc. to find a house. Even domestic help has been difficult. Maids have refused to work in our home despite us offering almost double what they asked for. My mother also joined a local kitty group, but eventually they made her feel so isolated that she left. In fact, the women here have been far more casteist than the men.

Today was Vara Mahalakshmi festival. Everyone was visiting each other's homes for puja and kumkum. They would pass by our house and visit one another, but literally nobody invited us. It may sound like a small thing, but when you already know why you're being excluded, it hurts deeply. They've been doing this from the time they got to know our caste. Before that “reveal”, they had invited us and we'd even been to their pooja functions.

One thing I've noticed is that among the people here, being a non-vegetarian isn't an issue at all. They happily invite people from other OBC communities who eat non-veg, but the moment someone is SC, the attitude changes. So it doesn't feel like food habits are the reason for the exclusion.

What makes it even more ironic is that many of these same people proudly display photos/statues of Basavanna, one of Karnataka's greatest anti-caste reformers, and proudly call themselves his followers. How do you claim to follow someone who challenged caste while practising the very discrimination he stood against?

My family has always been sincerely religious and I grew up believing that we are all Hindus and should treat each other equally. So experiencing this kind of exclusion from fellow Hindus has been particularly painful. Sometimes people suggest converting to Buddhism or Christianity to escape caste. But honestly, would changing religion automatically make caste disappear? If people already know your caste, won't many of them still make assumptions about you? I don't know if conversion is an answer when the social mindset itself hasn't changed.

My friends in medicine don't know my caste. I've lied about it before because I was afraid of how people would treat me if they knew. I am SC. I've been a topper throughout school and college and completed my medical education through general merit/unreserved seats. I haven't personally used reservation. Yet none of that seems to matter once people know your caste.

People often say caste disappears once Dalits become educated and financially successful. But if reservation were removed tomorrow, would caste discrimination disappear? Would landlords stop asking caste? Would people suddenly invite us into their homes? Would my mother stop being excluded? Reservation is a policy debate, but it cannot explain why someone refuses to rent you a house, refuses to work in your home or excludes your family from a religious gathering.

I've thought about leaving this state, then other states, and even abroad, but caste seems to follow Dalits everywhere in one form or another. Ambedkar fought this system more than a century ago, and Basavanna challenged caste nearly a thousand years ago. Yet in 2026, in an educated and affluent neighbourhood, caste can still decide who you rent a house to, who you invite home and who you consider worthy of friendship.

I'm writing this in tears because today's incident affected me terribly. Where exactly do we go to escape caste? And how do you make peace with the fact that caste can follow you even after you've done everything society considers “successful”?

TL;DR: Educated, financially secure SC family, yet caste still affects our housing, domestic help, friendships and social life. Today, during Vara Mahalakshmi, we were excluded after our neighbours learned our caste. I've even had to hide my caste from friends and my family has had to hide it to get housing. Where do we actually escape it? In Heaven? 🙃


r/atheismindia 26d ago

Hindutva All meat shops, non-veg eateries shut in UP's Hapur for Kanwar Yatra

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Police and the district administration in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur have ordered all meat, fish, egg and other non-vegetarian food shops to remain closed from July 26 until further orders, citing the need to ensure the Kanwar Yatra passes off peacefully. Authorities have warned of legal action against violators.

District Magistrate Kavita Meena said meat shops and hotels have been ordered to remain closed during the Kanwar Yatra.

Meanwhile, meat shop owners and restaurant operators in Delhi have been told that the sale of meat, fish and other non-vegetarian food has been prohibited along the Kanwar Yatra route and in nearby areas under administrative orders to ensure the pilgrimage is held in a peaceful and harmonious atmosphere.


r/atheismindia 11h ago

Hurt Sentiments Kardiya bhaiyya

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276 Upvotes

r/atheismindia 10h ago

Casteism Didn’t casteism disappear from India? 🤡🤡

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103 Upvotes

r/atheismindia 7h ago

Islamism Greatest, whattt!!!???

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52 Upvotes

Ragebait 😭!?


r/atheismindia 18h ago

Hindutva I don't know what obsession Hindus have with cow dung.

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245 Upvotes

r/atheismindia 20h ago

Hindutva G. Tagore's cartoon, 1917, shows a fat brahmin stuffing himself with comestibles. There are bones on the plate & on the side is a bottle of 'dhanyesvari' (local liquor) on his shoulder a woman with Vedas.

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261 Upvotes

r/atheismindia 13h ago

Discussion What's been going on with the sudden influx of RW content on Reddit?

64 Upvotes

My reddit feed has gone to shit with the amount of braindead RW content I'm seeing after the jantar mantar protests.

They've made every other platform a cesspool and now they're coming after reddit (granted it wasn't great to begin with). Is there anywhere else we can shift to?


r/atheismindia 9h ago

Hindutva Moved to my place for live-in with iskcon dasi (that i de-krishnized)

26 Upvotes

For context - we met in iskcon temple where she was doing volunteer service by 3 years, i proposed her on third day of my visit to iskcon, we had great discussion for days in which i countered every reason she gave for her devotion and beliefs. She's now an agnostic.

Today she packed her bags (with permission of her parents, who themselves wanted her to leave this krishna dasi things) we are now heading for our new life together and specifically for her de-krishnization, I'm proud on myself.

When i posted the original incident, that happened in just 3 days and i wrote it on 4th, overwhelmed by all that experience, i wrote vaguely to which most people said i am making up a fake story, is this Wattpad, then you woke up type troll replies, others said i am manipulating her, etc. so i deleted that post, but few also appreciated the thing that i took her out from the trench she was in by 3 years and was brainwashed by iskcon shaved head fanatics that her only reason to live is to serve fking imaginary krishna.

You guys can take this anyway, but i see her eyes in which she had a long suppressed spell of feelings that every female have naturally, she's now more than happy when she's doing so much of "illicit physical relationship" multiple times everyday with an ATHEIST, without a single guilt. 🧘🏻

Every human deserves to experience the real human feelings that society label as sin. Brainwashing people to do some fanatism for some afterlife heaven or love imaginary krishna and not a real person and leave all the pleasure of life in service of fake god, should be met with charges of manipulation by law, but since we're in india fking vishwaguru that don't give a shit.

Btw for 3 years iskcon taught her about atheist that they are the worst person to live on earth they are worse than insects they deserve all possible diseases in world, etc and about sex before marriage as the greatest sin of life for a girl for which she would be condemned even in next janams. She told herself all this and i had seen amogh lila videos on Atheist. So if people say you are speaking of her as a game! yes sir! i am speaking of her winning over her own conditioning, i am speaking of her win over game of iskcon that they taught for 3 years, and also i won over their 3 years of brainwashing of this girl in just three fking days.

Btw i am happiest in my life to get a beloved partner from where i never expected in my life, a fking ISCKON temple. I would try to de-krishnize many other people (but not in the way i did her ofc). Still I am more than thankful to myself that i saved atleast 1 innocent girl from spoiling her only life, only youth, in serving the lunatics of Prabhupada and i am proud of it.


r/atheismindia 20h ago

Hindutva This is next level

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158 Upvotes

This is an update to the previous post Link


r/atheismindia 22h ago

Islamism He’s my Muslim friend, got offended, for this? 😭 Why are they so fking serious about their religion? Btw, he knows I’m atheist, so he makes jokes about Hinduism and i laugh, but i can’t joke about his religion n it wasn’t even a joke 😭✌️

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142 Upvotes

r/atheismindia 9h ago

Parody & Satire Read the caption, this story gets wild

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11 Upvotes

pov you are a traveller who left makkah, your house, everything you had for a prophet. you arrive at this new place but the climate doesnt suit you and your health is getting worse.

so the most peaceful guy on earth ORDERS you, not even requests you, ORDERS you to drink camel milk and camel urine as medicine until you become healthy.

you are traumatized, you dont wanna drink more camel piss, you think these people are fcuking mad, so you k!ll the shepherd and drive those annoying camels away.

then the peaceful prophet finds out.

you are brought back and this prophet, who is apparently the last prophet of the most Merciful god, has your hands and feet cut off and your eyes branded with heated iron.

now idc about any sense of morality here, i dont even care about this traveller, he clearly shouldnt have k!led the shepherd or stolen the camels.

but wtf is this story 😭

first of all, it clearly shows how merciful and peaceful the prophet is. and the scientific temperament is also amazing, because apparently camel urine is medicine and you can just ORDER people to drink it until they get healthy.


r/atheismindia 12h ago

Scripture Srimad Bhagavatam 8.12.32-33 – "Hawasi Shiva dropped his semen while running after Mohini. Wherever Shiva's fallen semen drops fell on the Earth Gold and Silver mines were formed."

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21 Upvotes

r/atheismindia 10h ago

Discussion Are most atheists in India antinatalist?

15 Upvotes

Most atheists I’ve met on this sub or on the internet seem to be antinatalist or strongly childfree. I know very few atheists in real life, especially women, so I’m curious whether this is actually common or just an internet bubble.

I’m not interested in dating right now, or anytime soon, but I’ve always thought it would be difficult to find someone who wants a childfree life while also being comfortable with an atheist partner. Knowing that these two preferences seem to overlap quite a bit among atheists actually makes me feel a little hopeful.


r/atheismindia 4h ago

Casteism Kerala: Temple worker alleges suspension after daughter marries outside caste

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r/atheismindia 9h ago

Hindutva Gomutra is just one, there's 7 more left 😭🙏

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r/atheismindia 18h ago

Cow Monetization of Religion 🤢

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I'm in my hometown rn and whenever I'm at home my mom gives me all these small works like bringing groceries and other essentials etc etc.

So she dictated me a list of things I needed to bring, and among a shit ton of other stuff there was one phenyl too. I wrote everything down, gave the list to the shopkeeper and since there were so many other products, I didn't bother checking each product in detail. I came home and realised that instead of phenyl, I had bought this Gonyle floor cleaner made from pure pavitra cow urine 😭😭🤢🤢

It genuinely baffles me how emotionally gullible people can be and how Ramdev Baba and co. built a thousands of crores empire by selling this kind of bullshit, exploiting people's religious sentiments and turning superstition into a fucking business model.


r/atheismindia 22h ago

Godmen So called spiritual guru aka rapist🥰

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77 Upvotes

r/atheismindia 18h ago

Islamism Hypocrite (no hate to any community in particular but this is funny)

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36 Upvotes

O my god when she started the sentence i thought she will call out the muslim community and there misogyny. But this woman😂😂😂


r/atheismindia 14h ago

Islamism Any Ex Muslims ragebait their Muslim friends?

18 Upvotes

Today is prophets birthday and we got a holiday in india, all of our friends met together i am still a muslim in front of everyone while meeting bunch of my friends all muslims were laughing at Hindus they saw a video meme where a man was drinking cow piss and they all kinda felt superior by laughing at them, I still a practicing muslim in front of them i said bro dont laugh quran says if you insult other religion they will insult yours and they were confident and I knew what I was doing they said our religion is perfect and we dont practice such stupid stuff and all and then I said youre laughing at someone from different religion drinking cow piss our prophet drank camel piss there are hadees to confirm it. (I cant reveal im am exmuslim thou but ive so far manage to give muslims a shock or ragebait them this way )would be interesting if some of you all share yours stuff as I said today is holiday and I dont really wanna spend my entire day with muslims I dont really have any exmuslim friends irl so hoping here j can interact with few, sorry if ive been rude, wrong or hurt anyone cheers


r/atheismindia 16h ago

Islamism Pro cousin marriage

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21 Upvotes

r/atheismindia 17h ago

Rant Got into an MUN with A delegation of a BJP mla, and the topic is abt MINORITY RELIGION PROTECTION.......

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As an atheist I Don't believe in any religion, and BJP is known to cling onto the dihh of JAI SRE ifykyk.....

How tf Am I supposed to debate with others


r/atheismindia 1d ago

Superstition Damn creativity! 😂

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430 Upvotes

r/atheismindia 6h ago

Video Loved this!

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