Unrest?

In college I would be comfortably and sometimes conveniently hidden from the constant chaos coloring newspapers and endless speculations on the "condition" of my country. Well, my world is whirring with activity all over again, as I just have to step out to find "unrest" walking on delhi streets. I'm talking about the Delhi "bandh" thanks to the sudden commotion by a certain Gujjar tribe of whom I've never heard about (and I'm sure not many others have either).

Why does our country need to compartmentalize our society, our people into different categories? I'm tired of hearing this question and the million answers to it. Most of the answers make sense, but nothing is ever done. Ultimately, the Gujjar's will be given Schedule caste status too, and I'm wondering what's stopping them from doing that anyway!

Is labeling people serving the right purpose? or is it just convincing them of their weakness? I've never understood socialism. In part, it is fair to protect the poor but the whole concept of protecting the poor or minority is to protect them from being wiped out by the leading power (ie. our government) or the majority in our country. Well the ironic part is that the majority of our government are minority/schedule castes/tribe or their supporters anyway! So are they really a minority?

The concept of socialism has been confused with broken pieces of communism, which have manifested itself into today's social and economic issues.. its festering product. It just defies the purpose of an economy. Economic principles somehow just fall out of sync with the ideals of socialism that are expressed into action in our country today.