1) Do you consider training dalit and tribal youth to become priests a reformative and a revolutionary step? Justify your answer. Also examine how does different sections of society view this step that’s being initiated at a conservative religious institution such as the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD). (250 Words)

1. Yes, it is indeed a revolutionary step, atleast we are thinking about it. Few years ago, we could not even think in this direction. When a beurecrat tried to do the same, he was outcasted, he was transferred.
2. It is justified on morality grounds. We are not living in the vedic age where listening of vedic chants are prohibited for women and lower caste people. we are at 5000 years ahead from that period. In this age of Artificial intelligence, there should be no bar fro dalits in such matters
3. It is also transformative. Deomgraphic dividend turns into a disaster, if employment falls. Atleast, this gives them  way of living.
It is difficult to change societal mind set. The varna system is so deeply ingrained in the minds of people that it is difficult to reform. So there is resistance from the scoiety. But at the same time, ethics, morality and what is right as per the constitution, is far ahead than societal resistance.So, ethics morality has to win , even of it faces resistance from the society. if the latter would have won, then there would be no
1. Industrial revolution
2. Failure of communist movement in Yugoslavia
3. No triple Talaq law, we have seen in the recent past