Quatrain LXXVIII -- EMPOWERING INEQUALITY
Now, even if you score better
Perhaps, it won't even matter
Either money should do the trick
Or getting borned of a rich 21st century Dalit prick
Perhaps, it won't even matter
Either money should do the trick
Or getting borned of a rich 21st century Dalit prick
posted by Mayabhushan at 5:22:00 pm
8 Comments:
dont think its fair to blame the dalits,etc... it isnt their fault that they are used and abused - over and over again - by the great leaders of this nation.
That's rude, Bhushan. Nothing's as black or white as you make it to be...
But its the truth. The poor dalits dont even get proper primary education, let alone going on to join IITs. The only dalits or backward classes who benefit are the rich people who can send their kids to good schools.
If the government really wanted to do something for them, they should improve primary and high school education. Pay the teachers well and make sure that every kid gets good education. Encourage them to compete with everyone and excel. If they are poor, they should be given scholarships and a lot of encouragement.
The only people who suffer now with the reservation are the students who slog and slog only to see that all their efforts are useless. They dont have any seats for them. Then also the reputation of the institutes will suffer. Already there is a shortage of teachers. With the increase in seats, the level of education will deteriorate. Once the institutes lose their charisma, even the professors who join there by their own interest because of their respectability will search for other opportunities, anyway they are not paid as well as the industry does.
This is a no win situation for both the backward classes and the hardworking students.
Why does the question of a 'rich' dalit prick so much? Should 'dalit' be a legitimate term only in poverty? What does the phrase 'score better' mean other than scoring over everybody else's social, cultural and moral rights over centuries of oppression? For upper caste hindus today, talent is merely a social commodity. Earlier it was meant for ensuring patronage and power. Today when they are faced with questions of political and economic empowerment of the dalits they talk of 'primary education'. But Mr. Whosoever-you-are - it is you who need a good primary education on your history. If dalits are a vote bank - your grandfather was responsible for it. Today accept this vote bank and kick on the ass of your grandfather's memory if your ass really pains for the injustice meted to dalits. If dalits are given opportunities because of political gains - it just goes to show how important they have become as a conscious historical group which will vote according to their demands - something unthinkable in their entire history - and am sure they will laugh their way through the "vote bank" politics - and its indeed a new historical privilege for dalits to become a vote bank - who for all these years didn't have any "holy" bank to gather water from. so let it be an unholy bank of politics from which they would at least get something to gain dignity and a single foot into the mouth of upper caste history. All these silly moral hang-ups which a self-deluded middle class (upper caste of course)indulges in about dalits being used for politics should go to bed early and recite the 'gyatri mantra'. If you haven't read the history of the dalits and if you haven't read a single page of Ambedkar - please shut up on this issue. I am waiting for more and more corrupt dalit politicians, more and more mediocre dalit students - to make up for centuries of corrput and mediocre upper caste bastards both in the seats of power as well as in the seats of knowledge. Does two wrongs make a right? Another clever middle class question. He thinks he is so wise. Well, wise one, supposing i tell you - it does! or - it might you know! or - well, why not try it? - then, wise one, your wisdom will tremble and flicker, because when the wrong's from your side it should always be forgotten but now when it might just be someone else's privilege - you are peeing in your pants.
Exasperatedly,
Manash.
2:28 am? Sahi baat hai manash, "Dalit-prem" do peg baad hi theek thaak umad aata hai. Saath ek packet masala chana ho to aur bhi beheter.
I didn't mean anything personally Bhushan. It wasn't "addressed" to "you" so to say. But your comments were in bad taste, personal rather than engaging, and really takes the lid off your own pretentious world view(s). Smart liners are not always axiomatic. Your pop-corn comments are at best good tabloid. Hey! I have the right to engage with you harshly as a friend I suppose but only till you allow some objectivity and not get personal. But yes - if my drinking is responsible for a certain kind of love - however delusionary according to you - then i guess most upper caste hindus drink to hate more consciously. I would rather love in my delusions than hate in my clearsightedness. I know of the mosnters rationality breeds to threaten others' lives. At least my drink only threatens my own.
Manash.
likte jao... in bad taste or otherwise. And to put it on record, the last comment wasnt meant to slight your drinking. Drink to your death man for all I care, just make sure you finish that novel before you do.
I think we should all write in bad tase - or else we'll be chewed up like good meat by those who are fortunate enough for such stuff. We have to be like the flu meat whom people will dread to try and yet can't escape the temptation. We have to be tempting that's all. My only problem with your writing here is that you are saying the obvious in a more creative manner of speaking. I mean the irony is there but it is on surface - it doesn't sink into the subject matter and come out with a shocking statement on the phenomenon you are exposing. It merely reveals what the phenomenon is - it doesn't hold it by the tail and give it a whack! This is what i would like to see. And yes - we would all like to feel good sometimes and your last response was nice so to say - so hence, will surely try and finish the novel before being more indulgent on mere drinking which is mere nothing. Keep going buddy...
Manash.
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