An unopen letter to Kasthuri & Sons slave

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!!”)

The tradition of Badaun

After close observation of the happenings in Indian society, and the way matters pan out as mainstream concerns, I have gathered that common people never really mattered in scheme of things. The elitizens have firm hold on narrations, the hold is very much a control, though it has framework of modern pointers but remains very much feudal. It is not as ruthless as it was few centuries back, maybe because we now live in civilized society, transgressions will be obvious. So the elitizens have managed to give themselves semblance of modernity, the structure that perpetuates these heinous behavior is intact, in lawless section these turn violent, with patriarchal ways barbaric Badaun is the result.

 I was reading Guardian Newspaper “…Dalits, formerly known as "untouchables", still face systematic discrimination across India. Though in urban areas "caste" identities are weakening, they are still strong in rural areas and particularly in northern parts of the country…” This is precisely what I was mentioning, the twist in the narration “though in urban areas "caste" identities are weakening”, now where did the writer get this perceptions from? Our man seems to be tutored by few drawing room talks over wine and chicken tikkas. A cursory study –which he may not have inclination nor intend, it’s a general apathy that elitizens are able to induce, will show him that everyone carries their identities on their sleeves literally, that includes Pankaj Mishra, who contributes in the same newspaper. If the rape victims father carried Mishra identity things would have moved much faster, and maybe the poor kids would been saved, indeed in most likelihood would not have even happened (statistically 4.3 dalit women are raped every day, this from what is reported, these are most marginalized section so one can safely say the reality should be much bleaker. Further, rape doesn't include other forms of abuse or even neglect). These incidents will never happen in elite circle of cities, indeed it is inconceivable, nor is there any concern, things in here works with contacts, deals are done with sleaze, nepotism the prime mover. Since Indians pride their extended families, concurrently the misery also has more reach. Baba Ramdev was quoted as saying “picnic and honeymoon at dalit’s house”, clearly he didn’t intend it but what he said is part of common culture that finds it way in collective expression. Ditto when Sashi Tharoor mentions “cattle class”, the semantics have deep import that interlocutors may not realize. 

Badaun is a mindset that is spread across India, in smaller towns were the mobility is limited these take heinous forms, Dalits and tribes face atrocities on regular basis. While in big cities –where mobility is high, it morphs into amazingly crude behavior towards others, particularly marginalized, and disregard for rules and fairness. This also includes arrogance of elitizens who fancy themselves as enlightened guardians. I don’t give damn about Kasturi&Sons and quote them to bring out a general value base of this section. They could easily change the name, and be gender sensitive, but will not. They will quite cleverly promote regressive values and make money but want the poor people to change. This gives them the necessary control over others, as guides, the ‘trustees’ (Gandhi wasn’t naive). 

What we see across the country as heinous crime against marginalized and weak, emanates from the framework that temple squatters left. This cannibalizing society is their contribution. That they still dwell in temples across the land is perpetuating the framework. As people prosper and are socially mobile, they don’t have an egalitarian world to enter. So they end up miming the elite, who, meanwhile have moved a step further away by emulating west.

 The fellow at Guardian should do a crash course on idea of India, particularly from his brethrens in Kasthuri&Sons, who seem to be the trustees. They are much vicious than the rapists, they are the ones who are preparing the ground work for these to take place, they are the ones who give credibility to these systems, it is a tradition that has given them the power, the con act is smooth. Things are dealt with such subtlety and deftness that Western media will never ever be able to decipher nor will ever get the hint, add to it the camouflaged cultural undertones and values derived. Western media, incidentally, happens to be an important pointer for Indian elite to sequester their egalitarian acts and gain credence as spokesperson for Indians. The grip is such that hapless victims are reduced to mute spectators, as they are numbed from the concoction of fate, fear and absolute hopelessness.  There isn’t any empathy, even expectations of justice is fruitless, as it is biased and primitive (the reason why police or judicial reforms are delayed, has this deep bias).  

Badaun rape case is systemic reactions of heinous Hindu culture and tradition that has permeated into all religions; therefore it should be classified as crime on humanity. This blogger reiterates that India should be declared a racist country and Indians with casteist references in their identity should be denied visa. So far the elitizens have very cleverly masqueraded these as cultural diversity, and were able to twist the narration. International community will have to take this seriously, it is a systemic atrocity sanctioned by tradition (and in mainstream version of Hinduism) and practiced for thousands of years. This primitive society doesn’t have a place in civilized world.     

 Post script: It is not surprising that Nehruvian gentries, never really thought much about land reforms, without which freedom and democracy doesn’t make any sense. Nor the laws were reformed. When it comes to common people there wasn’t much concern. As is the tradition of Indian casteist culture they on delved big ideas (that was very much hinged in western thoughts and pretensions, though egalitarian but never sought to be practiced, ofcourse West had these standing on racism and slavery). Nehru despite all his achievement stands condemned for not initiating land reforms as also for not banning caste, his thoughts therefore fail in scrutiny on these counts. B grade Nehruvians since then have become a bane, it is reduced to their self serving worldviews and accented english indulgence.  

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

What a ‘Phenomenal woman’!! Deeply saddened. 

Election Commission needs to be stricter

People are participating and exercising their voting rights in a democracy in the faith of not only getting their representation as also with the expectation that their voting should be kept secret. This privacy is to be maintained and safeguarded by the EC. How many vokkaligas or chokkaligas or other crap liggas of what religion, voted for whom and from where shouldn’t be in the public domain. When the person’s identity is kept secret then how is that a community’s voting pattern deciphered and revealed? This is a mischief which the elite then use to create divisions among the society. It is a simplistic version of how and why people vote, an exaggeration that undermines common people and their aspirations. This assertion of elite, who have a tight hold on narration, is then sought for manipulation and bargaining, at the cost of common people. People are therefore pigeonholed and ghettoized, their aspiration stifled. They are seen as zombies without any say on their will. It undermines the intelligence of common people. This attitude of elite section is nothing new but the EC shouldn’t be alibi to it. EC have duty to perform.  

Also during the counting process why are the areas of the constituency revealed? The mediocre market media then speculate in terms of which section, which subcaste, which god damn what, controls or not controls the areas and then predict the pattern. These obnoxious people are also journalists, and as the case is come from same milieu, so give them assured status to their demented views. Their limited view on common people is therefore understandable. These mediocre people also have discussion wherein they utter high sounding words like jathiwad samikaran and other nonsense, as they try to understand common people but as always through their blinkers. It is not amazing that they never really get anything right. Further it is much easier to work on these speculations as it is devoid of any ground work, since that would require traveling to remote areas and spending time to understand people. Simplistic version works within the traditional framework –this is something they have been trained in and entitled to, so the views from this hole their sacrosanct obsession. People have moved on. 

EC commission has failed to keep the privacy of common people, and playing into the hands of elite manipulators and helping them inflate their bargaining chip. This is not the role of EC. This intrusion into the rights of common people is to be taken grievously. It is undemocratic.   

An unopen letter to Gandhi’s grandson

The market liberals, right on money to save the nation, have this to offer from their backyard. http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/a-suitable-boy-and-girl/article6020584.ece please read this before you come to this column. 

Kasturi&Sons are incorrigible casteist buffoons is known, they run their legacy from holes of family burrow (which incidentally is by product of these advantage) is also quite known. That they quite blatantly aspire to be bigtime saviors is unpalatable, and should be exposed. Their feudal hold is rather weak, running a media house is nice substitute. I guess it comes with inbreeding, these higher nuances from primitive framework.   The world should know their true color. 

Incidentally Gandhi’s grandson also had something to say from the same space ironically on the same day. It’s understandable that his Gandhian angst will not see anything wrong in these caste propagating columns. It is what they call Idea of India. He is feeding on his grandfather’s name is not quite unclear, he has gained quite a lot from these subtleties and so has become an alibi for self serving do-gooders. Incidentally I don’t think even Nehru in the first election got 100% vote, despite crudely feudal setup, so his clever double edged views are rather trite. Nor did it prevent, much later, Rajiv Gandhi from playing communal card, that has since severely bruised Indian society. Mr. Modi has the mandate to rectify these mistakes, clearly feudal crap nonsense that has been imposed in the name of secularism should go. My concern though is crony capitalism and impact on fragile environment, which ofcourse Gandhi’s grandson will not find of utmost importance. 

Fatherhood of the nation cannot hide nor can deny Gandhian hypocrisy –that Indian elite found these as signs of mahatmahood is quite in place with the way the society is structured. It is therefore incumbent on Gandhi’s grandson to explain why he is writing articles in the newspaper which carries these blatantly casteist articles.  He must be aware of the history and crude world it hinges on, and untold miseries it spreads. I am quite aware why some Indian writers prefer international newspaper of repute, Indian media is mediocre and self serving with few exceptions here and there –who also work under constraints. Indian elite are quite average people, and the views of Indian intellectuals among the international community are also quite insignificant. Indeed India itself is quite insignificant in the world community, sucking the national resources and exporting therefore increasing GDP will not change this reality. It is skewing what is crude into vulgar. It is a society that lacks empathy, and every structure hinges on this. Kasturi&Sons are hypocrites but they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with these, and their subtle positioning (that comes with inbreeding) should be exposed. Studying in the best of educational institute in the world and exposed to best of what world has to offer has only made them cunning, this also very much an Indian idea. So as they learn they get more cunning, the new gadgets are used to spread these deviance and manipulative intent.  

Gandhi’s grandson has lots of explaining to do, his higher concerns can wait. If he is claiming Gandhian legacy (which ofcourse he is, otherwise I don’t know where does he figure in billion people) then he has to explain whether he is also party to furthering Gandhian hypocrisy. He must apologize for using this newspaper for expressing his views and so has become part of regressive mindset. Atleast his other sibling was better he was only peddling luxury pen. Gandhi’s grandsons are known to carry Gandhian legacy bit too far!!