Anger, they say, is a convenient emotion. My brahmin bashing is almost Brahminical in tone etc. But I think I need to put it in context. My existence, virtual and real, has always been dotted with the worst kind of Brahmin supremacist crap. A silence around it would be a more convenient position to take. But each time one encounters bigotry, anger erupts. Sample this, a world famous english writer in my friend list pours his grief on the rapes (he calls them lynching) and equates the horror by relating an incident of what happened to someone else he knows (presumably upper caste) where a man assaulted her on Delhi streets. All he says because of Hindu masculinity. Not once in his purple prose and crafty sentences does the world caste or Dalit appear. I do not want to ignore what happened to his friend or lose any sense of horror at that either but when I pointed out the blatant erasure of caste the writer casually brushes aside the word and reduces it to a simple gender issue and insinuates essential-ism on my part. If that were not enough, the comments on his wall (mostly by savarna women and men) reveal the worst kind of casteism where after someone bringing Mayawati in the discussion another replies: Speaking of, Mayawati is a good example of Hindu masculinity. So my dear well-wishers, there might not be further anger from me if you helped in sharing this anger, in exposing hypocrisies so rampant around us. Ms Roy could have just written an introduction on this naked casteism we all see around instead of donning the messianic role that no one really wants. Till then you will see more anger from me. And no apologies for that.
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 22:18:24 +0000
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