The depravity of Kasthuri&Sons is an unending pit, that
they mask their depravity with characteristic ease is what defines deviant
elite of this amazingly putrid society in more than many ways. Lump of humans coalesced
in their primitive norms and values that masquerade itself into subtleties of
higher being is a habit that is common in this part of the world. They have
been negotiating these deviances, that violates basic human rights at every
step, with self-assured ease, unchallenged by strict scrutiny or basic sense or
thoughts of compassion (in this crude world words like compassion remain words
and thoughts or else you need nothing less than a mahatma or miracle). With firm
grip on narration the voices of brutalised protests are dealt with ease of neglect,
if it gets louder stamp it, ignore or else push it as subaltern, finally if nothing
works, as an act gallant, include in as any
contrarian view. The unity in diversity primetime show continues. The avuncular
benevolence is the focus here, the tradition of tolerance is throttled in from
nowhere, the halo is much more than aggregate of the society can even muster. These
therefore is added as necessary embellishments to the main narration, meanwhile
brutalities is sought to be packaged as benign traditions.
It is in this context that Kasthuri&Sons use their
slaves to croak. They seek to distinguish "pride, preference and prejudice", elucidate
their primitiveness in garb of choices and diversity. They assume the role of benevolent
guardians. Only fascist, likes of Nazi (a narration that West understands quite
well), comes close to this sick world that seek nuances in utmost bleak
reality. Mozart in concentration camps is chilling. It’s a reminder of brutalities
that depraved mind seek to savour, its degeneration of humanity at a colossal scale.
In this brutal world where ethical norms are ambiguous it is the question of
where you are placed. Kasthuri&Sons (by them, I mean the primitive Indians who
seek to give moral bearing to the horrifying realities) are direct beneficiary of
the primitive framework, the assiduously accrued spin offs have been capitalised
with much ease. Hence “taking pride in or
preferring a particular caste, either in the case of marriage or while voting
for a candidate during elections, is not necessarily considered prejudice in
India”. According to the logic of this world, anti-semantics or racism is matter
of choice, it is how you play it. The key word is “not necessarily considered
prejudice” it’s a leeway towards liberal, a hint towards rapprochement, a higher
self, a space for experimenting with truth. In this world of ‘not necessarily
considered’ what is not ambiguous is the smoke from the chimneys, that people
are being burned alive. Read the audacity in these lines “…this is only limited good news, because it unfortunately aggravates the
prejudice against Dalits and Adivasis”. Unfortunately?! So these are
matters of fortune. Hence Nazis not so bad treatment of non-Jews treatment (I was
reading Jehovah's Witnesses were among the few who could leave the concentration camps by renouncing their religious beliefs) but “unfortunately aggravated”
atrocities against Jews. Systematic annihilation of humans, systematic brutalising
of people is, according to Kasthuri&Sons part of fortune. 
Nazis had their own
logic while Kasthuri&Sons trace their hogwash on acts of previous birth. Amazing
travesty these people. What makes it grievous is that they are very much aware
and are in the midst amazingly brutalities in the name of caste, particularly
in TN. That what Kasthuri&Sons consider as identity is tethered to untold
misery, a framework that degrades and decimates humanity in individuals, seems not
their concern. It is the easiest route to power structure. We are being
informed that we are living a life of ‘identity over system’, they quote fellow
Gupta (sideshow intellectual alibi). I need to bring in here: the humanities
and so called art stream in Indian context are worse than the science rot
(engineer/doctor). What goes in the name of sociology/anthropology consists of
books that spread amazing nonsense. There is difference between documenting and
expressing ‘pride,
preference and prejudice’. Most of these texts are written from colonial angle
that quite well morphed casteist/racist ideas, indeed most of these books
cannot be part of any civilised setting, forget school or colleges. Likes of
Dipankar Gupta comes out of these holes tethered to brutal framework, hence can
only see things as ‘phenomenon’ and will go back to their caves for further
research. Our man has a tough life rollicking between Gandhi and MN Srinivas. I
am not going further into these, the muck gets deeper but yes will remind a
note of protest I wrote on my visit to Tribal museum at Silvassa.
International community needs to take these transgressions
of human rights in all its seriousness. The brutalities is institutionalised to
such an extent that there is a persistent effort to see it as normal. So far it
had some success since the brutal elite had firm control over narrations hence
they twisted depravity as some wonderful exotic tradition. The intellectuals, particularly
in West, too have been complacent hence coopted into this nonsense. Casteist/racist
based references should not tolerated and must be dealt severely; since Indian
society is in the morbid grip of primitive who have stakes it is for the international
community to initiate actions. In the meanwhile shops run by likes of Kasthuri&Sons
should be denied dealing with civilized world, they shouldn’t be allowed cut paste
from reputed columnists. International newspapers and the columnists concerned
must take a stand on this. Newspapers that promote primitiveness in its pages
(while actively censoring news related to or from the perspective of brutalised
sections) through write ups/views that masquerade choices and matrimonial ads
that seek to anchor these must be dealt severely. Their attempts to play
benevolent figures in international scene are a sham and an escape from home
truths. They try to portray themselves as liberal, egalitarian…by hitting gravy
pointers.
PS: Spotted: Kasthuri&Sons at marina beach pleading amused
passerby ‘Kapathingo french muslimgale kapathingo’. A century back they would
be riding on downtrodden, literally, as they espoused grand ideas, now it’s a subtle
metaphor. The myriad ways of the deceitful world. Meanwhile if anyone is
interested all the justification and reasons can be traced to family vagina (in
the streets of Delhi they have much better way of elucidating this), the
distinction
between pride, preference and prejudice.
