We Were Never Equal

This story does not begin with violence.
It begins with silence.
With the kind of silence that fills classrooms when a question is never answered.
The kind that settles in streets where injustice is witnessed daily but discussed only in whispers.
The kind that slowly teaches young minds that survival is safer than truth.
We are told, repeatedly, that we live in an equal world. That laws are blind, opportunities are fair, and voices are heard. Yet somewhere between promises and practice, something fractures. Not loudly, not all at once—but gradually, invisibly—until inequality no longer feels like oppression. It feels normal.
We Were Never Equal is not a story about villains wearing obvious masks.
It is a story about systems that smile.
About power that speaks the language of fairness while practicing division.
About how injustice survives not because it is strong—but because it is rarely challenged.

NovelToon got authorization from Prof. Ishwar Singh to publish this work, the content is the author's own point of view, and does not represent the stand of NovelToon.