The self-styled social justice intellectuals and parties do not want an India without castes, they want castes without Dharma. This may be profitable to some in the short run but it is suicidal for all in the long run. – Ram Swarup, (12 Oct 1920, Haryana - 26 Dec 1998 )

Ram Swarup was a Sankhya philosopher, Yogi, and Guru of historian Sita Ram Goel. Together they founded the publishing imprint #VoiceOfIndia in New Delhi, to give Hindu intellectuals a voice when the mainstream media refused to give them any time or space.

As @Koenraad_Elst

rightly said “In the long run, Ram Swarup will probably prove to have been the most influential Hindu thinker in the second half of the 20th century. He has, at any rate, been a crucial influence on most other Hindu Revivalist authors of the last couple of decades”.
To know what

kind of Intellectual Giant he was, I’m rewriting what he wrote to @IndianExpress , on 13 September 1996. Please do read.

Today casteism is rampant. It is a new phenomenon. Old India had castes but no casteism. In its present form, casteism is a construct of colonial period, a

product of imperial policies and colonial scholarship. It was strengthened by the breast-beating of our own “reformers”. Today, it has acquired its own momentum and vested interests.
In the old days, the Hindu caste-system was an integrating principle. It provided economic