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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

We can't deny the existence of caste in India. We have to live with it.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

Caste is a delicate issue. It's ubiquitous, and we are full of it. We should start to change things from individual level. But when you go to people and deny caste, they may not react favourably. I think if a decisive percentage of people, especially elites, start marrying out of their caste, we may see a casteless India in a generation's time.

Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement.

I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.