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    Mission - The Instrument of Liberation
    (Tangaza University College, 2003) Don Bosco, Mawdsley, J.
    From my childhood, I have had a special attraction, a thirst, for justice. I was born into a caste minded society. There was pressure in relating to people, in making friends. Am I allowed to relate with this person or not? Is this person of the same caste as I, or is she or he from a higher or lower caste? These were constant questions I had to face. Though I loved to relate with everybody, it was not easy. If I related with everybody what would be the consequences? Whether the person would be accepted by my family or whether I would be accepted in that person's family, was my fear. I could see caste tension everywhere. It extended throughout society, starting with families, and spreading to Temples, Churches, market places and even to the cinemas. Great discrimination existed between the rich and the poor, the high caste and the low. There was also a gap between people from different States (regions) of the country. People from one state had some reservations about relating with people from another state. This is more or less an ethnic problem. These discriminations not only existed in secular society but also among the religious. The caste system found nourishment in the seminaries and in religious communities. The bishops were chosen according to the caste of the majority. The minority, obviously, had no voice.. These discriminations and injustice also existed outside India. I found them also in the Philippines. There was great division between the rich and the poor,