While the debate over caste census is heating up Amitabh Bachchan made his stand clear. According to him his father, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, never believed in caste. He says, "My Father never believed in caste and neither do any of us. He married a Sikh (Teji Bachchan), I married a Bengali (Jaya Bhaduri), my brother a Sindhi (Ramola), my daughter (Shweta) a Punjabi (Nikhil Nanda), my son (Abhishek) a Mangalorean (Aishwarya Rai)… in his autobiography he (Harivansh Rai) had expressed that future generations of his family should marry into different parts of the country. So far that tradition has been kept alive!!"
Amitabh Bachchan recounts an incident when the enumerators came to his house.
"From the morning a consensus on the census. Officials from the BMC, the Bombay Municipal Corporation, troop into Prateeksha to detail in on information that shall for the first time in India develop for every citizen the UID – a Unique Identity Card.
"All kinds of information is sought name, place, age, dependents, place of birth, house, residence years and on. I wait for them to come to the crucial controversial one – caste. They don’t."
Census enumerators came to the Bachchan household. They wanted to know Amitabh’s view about the issue of caste census. Amitabh wrote on his blog, "Wary of the sensitivity that this has raised recently by politicians, they keep away from it. They reason that they would wait for some government decision on this. I tell them irrespective of what the system decides, my answer is ready – caste, Indian."
Way to go Amitji. There are few things our politicians can learn from you.
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