Varna and Caste System: Varna is Merit Based, not Birth Based

It is not just the Western Indologists and anthropologists who have foisted the birth-based caste system of India, the traditionalists and scripturalists, who treat the Word of scriptures as inviolable, actually pitch their voices alongside. That this is done in spite of the express Indian philosophical tradition of treating the experiential/empirical evidence as the higher one is lost on the traditionalists. Professor Subhash Kak joins Sanjay Dixit to not only discuss the untenable position of the Westerners, as well as that of the traditionalists.