What should have happened when India
got the so-called independence (a case of transfer of power by colonial power
to primitive castetva forces) has taken more than seven decades is in itself a
statement on nature of society as also how much the casteist forces were incapable
to understand or comprehend the enormity that egalitarian nature of democracy
presented. The magnitude of mindset that was expected from these leaders fell
well short in the hands of mediocre minions incapacitated of any independent thinking
or moral context (ofcourse Nehru made valiant efforts, so did Ambedkar, but overwhelming
uncouthness of so-called leaders representing the unfortunate society didn’t allow
democratic values to percolate). These were third rate people thrusted into
leadership not by chance but through well-crafted primitive nature of society,
the impotence of which people have suffered for centuries that it was couched
in faith made the exploitation sinister. True to their nature, instead of
seeing the enormous exciting opportunity democratic institutions provided, these
men with limited intellect went about consolidating regressive ways always searching
new semantics to couch their depravities to showcase the West (the fattened
fluffs suffering colonial angst are the easy compliant target) and using
hapless people as conduit for their masquerade to awestrike the world. Meanwhile
were trying out new tricks, like nepotistic
socialism, to lick and fill the enormous belly that was used to easy digestion
and long siesta of speculative grandeurs of limited minds. This being the overwhelming
nature of leadership its no wonder despite high mythical claims and as overseers
of the world Indians fall short on almost all parameters of international standards.
With some rare exceptions (who almost always end up fighting the system or have
their own value systems) there seems to be lack of any understanding on what
contributes excellence. There is always a stampede for shortcut that sanctum scums
have elaborately prescribed, now the market charlatans have taken the baton.
Now that the society is valuating
itself on much critical and egalitarian standards it needs to be celebrated. Meanwhile
why are some squatting in sanctum as birth right is another crucial issue. This
would have been dealt by any decent society at the outset. Such discrimination
at the site of faith is unthinkable in any egalitarian society. Crucially it
was likes of Gandhi who severely undermined the movement towards just society. Being
a by-product of casteist worldview the cunning fellow consistently sided with
castetva forces as the egalitarian movements and traditions were scuttled and
sidelined for good. So what was
mainstream before independence became a subaltern struggle while the barren
ideals were attempted into castetva frame in the best tradition of plagiarism
that can be traced to before Buddha (thus elaborate Sanskrit is quoted as
evidence of traditional wisdom wherein these didn’t have any connection with
reality and frame that holds, it becomes a joke, the attempts as zen like
thinking from amazing insular, for instance vasudevam kuttubakam). This had a serious
ramification as casteists acquired a blueprint for guilt free exploitation with
Gandhi as compelling mascot that could be pulled out when there was a need for
high moral grounds while they up their game with semantics acquired as liberals.
Its unfortunate, the amazing level of depravities that this society is enmeshed
in, and then there are scoundrels posturing as leaders who perpetuated this all
these decades and benefited, fully aware the untold misery it is causing on
exploited and brutalised common people.
Meanwhile it is unfortunate the
dissenting voice in the verdict. This judge is an insult on sensibilities, who
seems to lack basic understanding of justice, dignity and liberty, most significantly
the social context and exploitative history of this society. One wonders what
kind of social milieu this woman represents, upbringing in oppressive patriarchy, where the education has failed, as also how she comes to hold such crucial
position. Like Kavanaugh in US these kind of petty people at the high places can only
do damage. Ideally they shouldn’t be in such positions of influence. Last but
not the least is the position taken by the state government that is reflective
of egalitarian traditions of the society.
