There are many people like me who would think of all these questions when the enumerators come to them. They had no role in chosing their caste. They became a Brahmin or a Kayastha by default. Likewise, their children too did not have the choice of being born casteless unless one identity was completely merged into the other. What should these people do then now?

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A Chennai-based gang of child traffickers, led by a church priest, which was abducting babies in western Tamil Nadu and selling them, has been nabbed. While Father Alphonse was picked up from his church at Padappai on Thursday, two self-proclaimed social workers, Girija and Rani, were arrested from Perambur the same day.

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