Racist System

One day, I went to a cyber café,

To fill a form to get admission to a school.

I asked the café owner,

“What are my category and caste?

The form has a column about these. 

All the applicant in the café,

Have their caste credentials,

Issued by the racist system.

I don’t know my caste and category.

My poor father listens to all this conversation,

“Beta, if you don’t have any certificate,

From this racist system, nor we know;

About our caste and category.

It must be ‘upper caste,’

And ‘general category.”

Listening to this,

The café owner took a long sigh,

And muttered,

“Admission not possible,

Go back to your village,

And plough your fields.”