Polemics

As the global warming crisis accelerates in 2025, the impact of climate change is no longer a theoretical concept—it’s a living, breathing disaster reshaping the world. While industrialized nations continue to invest in cleaner technologies and environmental strategies, developing countries like India, Africa, and Southeast Asia are bearing the brunt of this crisis. Unfortunately, these regions are not only suffering from the consequences of global warming, but they are also being exploited by multinational corporations in the name of "economic development," selling off their land and natural resources at the expense of future generations.

The Selling of Land to Industrial Giants: The Price of "Progress"

In India, the caste system is more than a rigid social stratification—it is a dynamic process of cultural conditioning that shapes the self‑perception of its members. For lower‑caste individuals, messages of subordination are internalized through a complex web of social institutions, religious doctrines, economic policies, and everyday interactions. This paper narrows its focus to examine how cultural conditioning has produced a pervasive internalized sense of inferiority among lower‑caste individuals. Using Freud’s psychoanalytic framework to explain how the ego mediates instinctual drives (Freud, 1927) and Ambedkar’s powerful critique of caste (Ambedkar, 1936) as primary sources, we integrate a variety of secondary perspectives to explore the multifaceted dimensions of this phenomenon. The central research question is: How do psychological processes, cultural norms, economic barriers, political policies, symbolic language, educational practices, media representations, and family influences interact to create and sustain a self‑perception of inferiority among lower‑caste individuals?