Here are two incidents, A & B, I want to let you know. This may help to understand something about caste in today's context:

A) In 2013, the Adilabad unit of Samatha Sainik Dal organised a summer camp and invited me as one of the speakers. After I spoke for half an hour, I thought I should interact with students instead of a one-way speech. So, I asked them about their life goals and what they wanted to become. Most of those students are from Mahar, Mala and Madiga. The students started talking about their life goals

1) I want to become a mechanic
2) I want to become a conductor
3) I want to become a teacher
4) I want to buy an auto
5) I want to become a constable
6) I want to become a cinema actor 

B) Today, I met with a friend teaching in a private corporate university like Symbiosis. He was talking about his interactions with the students in the corporate university. When asked the students about their life goals

1) I want to clear the IAS exam only to prove to my parents that I am not less than my brother, and leave that position and travel around the world
2) I want to become an official in the United Nations
3) I want to become a faculty member at a university in America 
4) I want to settle in Australia 
5) I want to become a faculty member at Oxford University 
6) I want to become a judge because all are judges in my family 

What is the difference between the goals of SC students and those studying in a corporate university, and why? Here, I say, the situation that none of the SC students had goals to become IAS, IPS, MLAs, MPs and Judges, etc. Do not accuse those SC students for having their goals so small. In my understanding, no one in their families, until now, has become a conductor, teacher, or constable. Those untouchable families lived as agricultural labourers and other menial workers. I am unable to forget those answers from our students. Do those two incidents say something about caste in today's context?