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A S Ajith Kumar
Good Dalit,Bad Dalit
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. 20 comments to Good Dalit,Bad Dalit |
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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.’
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October 26th, 2009 at 12:50 PM
YOU FINALLY WON THE DEBATE . Its amazing that you could be that precise.
In fact I was caught on wrong foot by being not precise enough
I agree Dalit is not a caste name. I never knew this before. I guess it is more like blacks in USA. No caste consciousness at all. Only some kind of class consciousness or persecution complex consciousness
regret having disturbed you so much
October 26th, 2009 at 6:31 PM
On October 21st, 2009 at 12:58 PM naveen wrote:”Dear Ajith, I reread you posting a couple of times and I could see only message from the article.. Your angst. That much is fine. I can beter appreciate angst being communicated as an art form, poem or prose. But an article in this forum is expected to be more than that. Please state your position given the information…”
i’d thought such precise formulations were your life principles..anyway glad to know you’ve started discarding them.
PS:i ain’t debating for your crappy felicitation sir.
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!!