Dear our esteemed trustee (aka Kalpana
Sharma),
It’s
been seventy odd years that you and your clan have been hiding behind Gandhian hypocrisy,
in the meanwhile singing shenanigans for modern values and didactic persuasion
for less privileged. The arrogant concerns have become not only a wonderful career
but also much influence and money, the smack in egalitarianism has been cashed
with international invitations and so on as spokesperson for beloved us –the Indians.
I thought of taking you head on and
bring you down to some rustic reality that the common people have been facing
for thousands of years. You may feel discomfited by this sudden turn of events
and eviction from ordained comfortable perch –that gives you the view and
insights that we common people are least likely see or experience. It’s the glimpse that your elevated concerns have
purposely missed, it’s quite normal from where you are placed, commonly called Gandhian
blinkers, trustees are known to suffer from it. In a civilized world there is an understanding, that you may miss or probably will never get it, and that is, you cannot take high moral grounds if you yourself are placed in unethical framework. It is a simple logic and in a stricter understanding an appallingly unethical behavior. It’s unacceptable, its opportunist. To start with why are you slaving for a set up which is run by Kasthuri & Sons? Didn’t your heightened feminist concerns never find anything wrong with this, questioned it? I know you are only a slave but you could quit. You have that right. Carrying on, as if there is nothing amiss, is shameful. In short, you should be ashamed of yourself.
On
related thought, that is, the matter of shame, why are you carrying the burden
of Sharma? Who gave you this title? You
must ask your father: what kind of culture he has passed on to you? Since the
impact is much telling in Hindi let me translate it for you: apne baap se ja ke poocho ki ye kahan ke
janwari sanskar diya hai? In the context of things this isn’t rude at all,
ideally being rude is much milder response to these haughty vulgarity. Your heightened
concerns for the world, and the women in it, will have to take a pause. The identity
you carry and not so subtle impact it has is questioned. Your sanskarist baap nor his forefathers might
have told this, nor did you care to think about: this identity of yours is a
symbol of untold atrocity and represent unethical worldview. It symbolizes untold
misery to common people, as also the sense of crude sort of entitlement that it
seeks over others. It is the beginning of the end. And as you are probably
aware, and choose to ignore as part of traditional apathy, this is what eventually
percolates down to Badaun. It is a rape of civilizational values that your identity
represents. It has reduced this society to brutalized social contexts, for which
you will have to take responsibility. You just cannot pretend ignorance nor can you run
away from
the realities of your identity, that you have preferred to flout.
No
civilized person or community will carry these burdens nor condone it. It is surprising
that your overactive medulla oblongata never condescend to these matters. It must
be the tradition in the family that Kasthuri
& Sons so very well understands. It is in the same context, and understandably
so, that you may not find anything amiss in matrimonial columns nor the casteist
articles that Kasthuri & Sons so gleefully promotes as part of family tradition.
I understand that the price of potato and onion is increasing and so is the
flight charge. It must be tough. In the meanwhile dear self ordained trustee how
about bundling up your concerns and drop it into the nearest nallah, we have had enough of you and your kind.
Warm regards
I
remain depalan (it takes about 100R to change the surname and join the civilized!!
Incidentally the outside world is also catching up to this reality. So your egalitarian
concerns will be closely scrutinized, it’s already showing huge ethical holes
that no amount of feminism or secularism can fill. As Crude Woman says “ghatiya
hue tho kya hua secularist tho hai!!”)
