This blogger seems to
have bumped into the holy grail of amazing depravity entrenched into
social framework and attitude herein something I had always suspected but
couldn’t put the pulse on. It is too layered, and imagine if it is so hidden
with complicated nuances that needs deliberate, sometimes intense, focus as
also awareness of social realities, to decipher these crude world, then how are
outsiders, particularly West, ever going to come anywhere near. The reason why
Indian elites are having it so easy, pirouetting nonviolent concerns, hawking
peace, piggyback riding Gandhi (man of the century, we are told) with charming,
sometimes hilarious, ease. Positioning as representatives of society that
exalts its wondrous ‘unity in diversity’ as entitlement. They are adept in
their ways, the camaraderie is telling.
Where
as the rightist elements in the elite are adept in taking high moral grounds
their brethren show their visceral dislike by taking higher liberal grounds,
tethered as they both are to squatter’s depravity and hypocrite home truth.
This is an arduous task as they have firm control over narration as also
seeped into popular idioms and equally entitlement driven progenies controlling the scene. The mediocrity
of this society is astounding, India’s demographic dividend will very likely
spread this nonviolent pus and gangrene the world, if preventive actions are
not taken. I am now quite clear that wily exaggerated concerns for minorities,
very narrowly defined to religion, with crude mullahs and elitist Christians,
is to elicit compassion as valuable trait as also garner benefits herein. They
prey on divisiveness and keep it alive. Casteism, and the incredibly primitive
world it creates, therefore is valuable form of divisiveness that also seeks to
define their entitlements. Amazingly this depravity is also sold as secular liberal values. For
this very reason India is very well an Incredible India! It is a society of
amazing primitiveness that has been packaged with compelling pointers as humanity’s saviour. An incredible hogwash.
I have everything
against Kasthuri&Sons (there is no disclaimer), and they are only the tip
of iceberg of pretentious mediocre elite who have been orchestrating nonsense
in the garb of high concerns meanwhile quite viciously degrading society. Their
appalling ways have been source of untold misery to common people, astoundingly
they were able to work it out into liberal values and impress. Kasturi&Sons
can easily be generalised, others to a large extend are too crass, the reason
why I point to them. The high priest of Indian media, you may take that
literally (surely that’s what they act and proudly stake claim), the
entitlement driven fourth estate. As I write these the common people in Nepal,
facing the worst of tragedies, have found time to ask Indian media to get out.
That probably is the luxury we in India don’t have, we have to tolerate this
disgraceful media, hooligans as conscious keepers. They milk the tragedy with
amazing crassness, the one I witnessed in Haridwar (mentioned in the earlier
blog) is the template that replicates. Clearly they work well in market
environment and transactions. Meanwhile Mr. Ramdev, was caught pedaling
‘Putrajeevak’, literal translation means ‘producer of male child’. Obviously it
is appalling, to make the matter worse he is the brand ambassador of a State
(Haryana) that has the worst sex ratio, as also the region known for entrenched
male chauvinism. Ramdev, instead of apologizing, went on the offensive. It seems it is a Sanskrit word, hence god
ordained sanction. Yoga is good for body but is not known to increase intelligence
that needs an entirely different process, logic and understanding being critical.
Reading scriptures (in Sanskrit) is not known to make one knowledgeable on
worldly/relevant/contemporary matters. What is clear is Putra means male child,
Putri means female child. So these products only consolidate heinous worldview
and crude gender insensitiveness. Crap talk of justification doesn’t help, I am
not giving too much social sensitivity to Mr. Ramdev, he seems too naïve and
very much entrenched to traditional ways that is tutored. Also, we cannot ask
for some product to be withdrawn and some people to mend while ‘liberal’ exuding
market can have its primitiveness intact as choice. Kasturi&Sons don’t seem
to have problem either. Don’t focus on semantics is their refrain, they don’t
see the irony of the name. They cleverly understand that too much probing will
very well lead the path to home truths. Nevertheless they seem concern of the
effectiveness. Extending the logic I am concerned about effectiveness of all
products that is peddled. I am very concerned about exploitative and racist
products that degrade environment and society. Pointing to Mr.Ramdev is
beginning of liberal classism. Nowhere in the world smoking could be studied
from caste-religion divisions, Kasturi&Sons keenness on these divisions
is legendary. Papa Kasturi must be contented man in his miserable grave. 
To probe further, last
Sunday Kasturi&Sons were in true colours. A mediocre Tamil novelist
Jayakanthan was the man in question. He is being sought to be compared with
legendary revolutionary Periyar, every attempt is made to degrade Periyar this
being latest. It is also an attempt to refurbish squatter’s view and camaraderie
herewith. The squatter columnist was in
free flow. Incidentally some people defecate around railway tracks for lack of
toilets, they are none too happy and show discomfort. But some happily defecate English
words, sometimes long sentences (signs of too much garbage in the system), they
call it columns, therefore columnists, these are sometimes also referred to as
senior journalists. They look extremely satisfied with their daily defecation,
they also get paid. Then there are novelists
whose defecations are legendary just that they quite skillfully skirt Indian
realities. The depraved columnist at Kasthuri&Sons claims “An incident in a
literary conference over half a century ago is etched in Tamil cultural memory.
It’s a meeting in which two personalities laid bare the cultural fault lines in
Tamil society.” Really Tamil cultural memory!! Tamil fault lines!! Or is it
between the civilised and uncivilised. And goes on with his defection meant to
salvage pride of squatters in best tradition of humbleness and Machiavellianism,
meanwhile trivializing the struggles of common people from the horrendous
reality for which likes of him and his masters (i.e. Kasturi&Sons) are very
much responsible. “Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
would have been the most unlikely candidate to inaugurate such a conference.
But there he was! With over a half-century of selfless political work in the
cause of political and social emancipation behind him, he still continued his relentless
rationalist campaign despite being shy of 82. His subversive views on
god and religion notwithstanding, Periyar’s challenge to the existing
Brahmin-dominated order had won him much support even among the believers.”
Even among believers?! It is assumed that squatters worldview is that of believers
hence any challenge to this primitiveness is posited as challenge to faith. Clever,
no wonder Kasturi&Sons saw some talent in this recruit.
“Periyar commenced his speech disavowing any literary credentials. He
was no ezhuthalan (writer; the one who wields the pen), he insisted, but a
karuthalan, one who dealt with ideas — a pregnant neologism coined for the
moment. Delivered in the spoken register, shorn of rhetoric, it was a
characteristic performance. His critique of caste, religion, Brahmins, god, and
their baneful influence on Tamil language and writing was replete with proverbs
and spiced with an earthy humour. Without burning the Puranas and epics, he
asked, how was Tamil literature to flourish? Was it not the duty of writers to
debunk such fanciful writing and lead the people on the path of reason?” Note
even god doesn’t have capital letter! Amazing glimpse of worldly humbleness. Periyar’s
disavowing of any literary credentials was deliberate snub at so called writers
and artists who tend to take high ground on the basis of creative freedom, and in Indian
reality as also in its mediocrity puts it in frame of shockingly absurd if not
irresponsible.
“When he rose to speak, Jayakanthan clarified that he had no wish to
contest Periyar. But considering that Periyar advocated reason as the
touchstone of all thinking and action, and wanted to decimate the ancient
wisdom of the Hindus, Jayakanthan declared that he too would employ reason to
refute him. Invoking the great Siddha poet Sivavakkiyar, he argued that
rationalism could follow not only the atheistic route but take recourse to
belief as well. Drawing on pop anthropology, he provided a defence of Hindu
Puranas. Rather than blame Brahmins for the ills of Tamil society, Jayakanthan defended the pristine and
ancient varnashrama ordering of society, and argued that it was because
Brahmins had failed in their duty that India had fallen to its present state!
Finally, he declared that, as a writer, he would brook no instruction on what
he should or should not write”. Note the emphasized words are that of the
writer, ofcourse there is futile bid to elevate the mediocre novelist (clearly a man with such derogatory views shouldn't be even be considered for Jnanapith awards, it is unfortunate but then the list of highest awards is about high end camaraderie of mediocrity the reason why it is nowhere near any international standards) like Jayakanthan
as some kind of titan. Obviously a much aware and civilized publication wouldn’t
allow these kinds of primitiveness. These are little traditional ways
Kasturi&Sons work out their little world, and yes this is 21st
century, and yes they also see themselves as guardians of worldly peace, and
have strong views on how France should deal with crisis. The depravity of it
all. Nepali people don’t know that Indian media is only a small fraction of Indian
reality we face on daily basis that has been cannibalising common people for
too long. In the meanwhile it’s time to be high on liberalism and preen in some
classism.
