Copy of a message: Thanks, Siddharth. My times were much harder. Even now most of us are suffering even more. But not many are seen exhibiting the types of guts I have been showing in spite being often alone in most of the districts and departments in which I remained posted. Not only I could conduct myself in unprecedented manner in an hostile atmosphere, and usually with a success. I happened to try the strategy of confronting my prejudiced bosses whenever I suspected their move designed to harm me and of demanding explanations from them as to what were they expecting from if not an abject slavish behaviour. I had also been telling them that I would remain disciplined and yet I would not tolerate unjust treatment even at the cost of losing my job. I also reminded them in connection with any x=excess directed against me I felt justifiably protected by the same disciplinary rules, which were being used to unduly harm me. My strategy itself involved great danger but I told myself that if the nature had made me an officer, it can be presumed that it also did not expect me to remain a slave like my unfortunate brethren. I did try to explain my problem to Dalit politicians in initial stages but when I found that they were behaving like worse slaves than the ordinary rural Dalit, I stopped going to them. This action of mine was taken as an affront and they also behaved like my enemies almost throughout. The conclusion arrived at was that we do not have leaders who can be accepted as our ideals like Babasaheb Dr. B R Ambedkar. The Constitution is a sure bar against the emergence of such ideals. This weakness was invented by Poona Pact, whose spirit was accommodated in the Constitution. Could Dr. Ambedkar be oblivious of that possibility while framing the Constitution?
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:55:30 +0000
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