Nepeji, I appreciate your honest intent towards rectifying the social disparity which, I believe, is the crux as far as the solution for the imepediments to the social development is concerned. Your idea of "decastification" certainly sounds promising to begin with, however, I have few queries to be answered. You said: The idea was to let anybody to choose/change any surname any day of their life so that, as more people do that, a particular surname remains no longer limited to a particular caste. The idea is to confuse the caste. Of course a person who is proud of his/her caste and does not want any outsider to use that caste will not be happy with it. ================= and you also said: the scope of my proposal is limited to CASTEISM =============== Now, as far as I have understood, if the purpose of CASTEISM (in your own word) is to generalize the society in terms of surnames, would not it mean that the effort is to allow people of lower caste to be able to use the surnames of higher caste so that they don't have to live a derogatory life in an unjust society anymore? So where are we heading towards? The big picture is certainly heading towards anti-racism, isn't it? So, I guess the scope of your proposal in NOT just limited to CASTEISM only. Secondly, I don't think the concept promises easy implications. You said that the idea is to confuse the caste. I am afraid, we may end up giving too much liberty to ill-minded people if we legalize the concept of "confusing the caste" within a society. What if a person asks to change the surname back and forth? How many times is he allowed to switch his surnames in his life? A "pode" in our society may change his surname but he cannot change his occupation, because that is what he knows probably how to do. If he had more education, then probably he would have more options. Moreover, even if he changes his surname to let's say "Upadhyaya", our unjust society will never ever give him the respect which he deserves as a human being. I believe, the most important thing is the mindset of the society. If a person from a lower caste is educated and capable enough to become the head of the state where he is born, then why can't he be? Until and unless the social mindset cannot justify a person by his deeds and not his caste, all efforts, I am afraid will remain in vain. Lonely...