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Quite different from the Paul George murder case the media have no complaints about the investigation regarding the murder allegedly committed by Dalit Human Rights Movement. Every one, the media, political parties and the police seem to be so cocksure. All sorts of stories have been pouring in establishing the `extremist’ nature of DHRM. Interestingly crimes attributed to DHRM, the murder of a sixty year old jogger, demolishing Narayana Guru statues, holding classes in colonies, propagating non-existence of god, sexual liberation…- have got nothing in them to be branded `terrorism.’
The situation constructed by the media and police have forced the dalits in the pubic sphere – individuals and organizations – to take uncomfortable positions to prove one is a good dalit and not a bad dalit. Some dalit organizations have suddenly condemned the activities of DHRM, to prove perhaps that they are ‘good dalits’ and thus escaping this new stigma. What is interesting is that most of the dalit organizations always had to face the allegations of foreign funds or naxal connection, but when new organizations emerge the old ones are spared and the new ones are branded as more `dangerous’. Most of the allegations and cases simply vanish into thin air once the condemned organization has been deracinated.
Why is that the actions of dalit (or indigenous people or muslim) organizations are not addressed politically. Some treat it as `fundamentalist’ while the other tends to be perversely patronizing (marginalized communities become `extremist/terrorist’ because of poverty or illiteracy).
Both negate the politics in it, and this is sheer terrorism.
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October 26th, 2009 at 8:03 PM
@naveen
this “innocence” is self deceiving man. come out of ur “false conscious state of mind… dont me so idiotic as to believe “police stories” which are as badly constructed as Kairali news reports..
best wishes for living in this state
October 30th, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Insecure. They are insecure.
December 14th, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Nothing is more traumatic than branding the Dalits in negative epithets.The fact that they are classified in so absurdly generalist terms reflects the caste divides fragmenting India.To me this problem of upper-caste ostracism of the Dalits could have been settled by now,politically or socially.I am moved by much of poetry written by the oppressed poets of the Dalit community.I am no Dalit in caste terms,but I feel Dalits must regiment themselves mutual promotional agenda given the apathy of both the Government and the upper caste sensibility.There is nothing like “good” or “bad” among the Dalits.There cannot be such groups while most of them do have to struggle to make a basic living.Dalit intellectuals and thinkers must come forward to address the historical dimensions of the Dalit struggle to the community.India will be foolish not to mainstream them.Marginality of the Dalits can only point to India’s folly in a time when India dreams of becoming a world leader!!