Saw this e-mail first up today morning:
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From: Rutwij Diwanji
Date: Dec 17, 2006 7:53 AM
Subject: Holy India!!!
There are two groups belonging to the higher caste that are currently on strike in India.
- One is group of priests of Jagannath temple for allowing Dalits to enter the holy temple.
- Other group of fledgling IIT Kanpur students for allowing Dalits to enter the holy institution.
What a travesty..............
Super Thought!!! Way to go RDX!!!
2 comments:
Though its true but there is an irony involved.
In the first case its the move that shows the deep inequality and that religion ,though unconstitutional, is still prevailing above law.
And in the second case its a kind of fight for equality and against special previlages to a particular section of society.
Ironic It Is. And that's the beauty of life and living it - Isn't that ironic also?
On a more serious note - What does this really reflect on?
* Ubiquitous Prevalence of Casteism: Casteism, in India, is really one of those very few things that hasn't really been dealt with (actions backed by words) right since independence. (Perhaps, there never has been a will on the part of the governments to do this, for their own vested interests??) How else can we explain the phenomenon where 60 years after independence we are faced with such trivial issues (I am talking of Jagannath Temple Dalit episode).
* Mass Mobilization: Reservations based on castes is a testament to the vote bank politics that the politicians are embarking on. If the products from the top educational institutions aren't really deserving enough, then what's the point of educating them? Because such people might not be capable enough to take a stand (thereby inspiring people) and might fall prey to the mass mobilizations by joker religious fundamentalist organizations that don't have too many things to do apart from urging people to disallow dalits from entering a temple or issuing a fatwah against some painter or ransacking a hospital who might have killed a leader or ....
Lots of other things that can be touched. But, I'll leave it here for now.
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