Caste angle in school shooting must be investigated

It is ironical that India's first incidence of high school shooting happened in a school with the name of "Euro International". That is not to suggest that Europe has any chance of catching up with the US in this regard.

The incident is indeed very tragic and had it not been for the Gujarat elections, we would already see the American gun control debate imported into India, just like anything and everything from the American liberal playbook is directly incorporated into the Indian political debate by our leading news channels, however absurd or irrelevant it might be.

Is this incident an outlier? Will we see a lot more of school shootouts? Common sense suggests otherwise. As a matter of fact, the best response to this incident would be to ignore it. Don't splash it on the media 24x7. High school bullying is a fact. If indeed high school bullying led to this, we will see some copycat action pretty soon.

At the risk of sounding politically incorrect, can we really ignore the caste angle of the shooting incident? Is it possible that the constant casteist rhetoric is taking a toll on young and impressionable minds?

As a side point it may be noted that the chairman of this so called elite school happens to be a Yadav, just like the chief perpetrator, the angst ridden young man who committed this fatal act of youthful folly. Whether or not these facts (access to school, socio-economic indicator, gun licenses) matter in the larger scheme of things is another issue altogether.

Hate us, call us names, but candle light vigils is not going to fix this, nor will bashing capitalism. Just like 60 years of intellectual overload hasn't fixed any of our country's problems.