Caste has killed public spirit. Caste has destroyed the sense of public charity. Virtue has become caste ridden and morality has become caste bound.There is no sympathy to the deserving, no appreciation of the meritorious, no charity to the needy. There is sympathy but not for men of other caste. These words by BR Ambedkar, the father of our Indian constitution, vividly describe how caste system and casteism has eroded the morality of the Indian masses. One can feel the pain and anguish in Ambedkar's words for this discriminatory social hierarchical order . Casteism is the major contributors for pervasive open defecation in rural India. Somehow the popular government programme Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan (SBM) fails to address the elephant in the room. In fact majority of the people aren't even aware that SBM is more about open defecation problem, they generally tend to associate it with general cleanliness of the surroundings. But blame should also be equally shared by