Yerukala Warriors

While I was doing Google on Yerukalas I stumbled across this link many times. But I never really observed that small detail.

http://www.osmania.ac.in/KArjunarao1.htm
http://www.osmania.ac.in/KArjunarao.htm

I bet you would not be able to guess what I am going to write about.

Enough suspense, I am more interested in the column called Social Status. Dr. K. Arjuna Rao is an Associate Professor, Department Of History in Osmania University. He has several degrees to his credit. He has a M.A in History, M.Phil in Modern History and Ph.D in Modern Period. In spite of all this education and all these credentials, he couldn’t avoid that Social Status column in his Curriculum Vitae.

Even after many glances, I couldn’t really grasp the effect of this attribute in his CV. Curiously, with all due respect to all the respected Professors, I started looking at other Professor’s CVs in the same website. I am surprised to find that not even a single other CV has got this attribute. For example, http://www.osmania.ac.in/Economics/m_narasimhulu.htm.

I looked further, in other institute websites. I could not find even a single university where they have shown the Social Status.

I heard and know that Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in spite of all his credentials and degrees had to face this social stigma. But I didn’t expect to see an Associate Professor of Osmania University having his caste mentioned in his CV. I wonder whether it is official policy to show the Social Status of Professors of Scheduled Tribes or is it stupid dumb arrogance.

I have been thinking very hard to find one right reason to justify the purpose to include a attribute like that in any CV.