India and Racism

Don't we have racism in India ? Do we treat everyone equal irrespective of color or cast or religion ? Do we give opportunities to everyone based on the credits only ?
Answer to all the question is a BIG NO.........
I, myself felt the racial discrimination due to color or region i belong to. We see lot of political pressure and media focus on Ozs for Racial attacks in auz. But why are we slient towards what is happening within India. Political parties give tickets based on cast vote bank. There are lot of placed where a Black skin gets you nothing, even if you have credits. We have importance to skin color and pple do have assumptions to white skins and black skins. We have proof of fairness cream ads and their sales figure shows how crazy are we towards white skin. We need to replace cast or color or region based systems to credit based system. why are we lacking in it. There are lot of places in UP, Bihar, Orrisa, Tamilnadu where still discrimination against cast previels. We have systems in place, which don't work for the needy. We need a big Overhaul. Biggest Democracy won't work when half of its stakeholders / people don't participate.
When i think of myself, even after getting engineering degree, moving fast in career ladder and with a happy family, i have to struggle to come out of racisial attacks. I often dont listen to them or in other words ignore them, sometimes i treat them as a Jock. But that does not mean that there is no racism. Often pple tease me with my skin color or the state i belong to.
But it take lot of courage and self confidence to overcome these racist and prove to the world that credit matters and human values win over skin color. It is not a single persons journey, this need to be a mass movement to make everyone to see beyond the color, cast, region or religion.