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"No bachelors please"

Oxford dictionary defines discrimination as  "The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people" Since we were kids we all have been reading about discrimination prevailing in the world. It took different forms through different times and ages. It was against the blacks in America, lower casts in India or the Jews in Europe and women all across the world. And in retrospect, this has always come to a bad end, where we eventually realize our mistakes and have to correct them.  You will see that discrimination still persists in our society but on a much smaller scale than before. I would attribute this to the rise in education levels and increase in sensitivity in people and rules put in place to ensure this does not happen.  As a child, I had always only read about different kinds of discrimination so never really got the concept. Well, unfortunately, I got a taste of what it feels like to be treated differently in the world in the last couple