In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Cassius and Brutus have an enlightening squabble about friendship where Cassius accuses Brutus of being too critical of Cassius’s faults while Brutus points out that friendship does not mean being blind to the other’s shortcomings.

The Cassius argument is a dangerous argument because it implies that love means closing your mind. The new head of the Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR), Professor Y Sudershan Rao has this to say about the caste system in a blog he wrote a few years ago: “The caste system was working well in ancient times and we do not find any complaint from any quarters against it.”