and he continues to make us uncomfortable....

dil ki baat...
this is about dear PROF> MATHEW only..... guys these days we are having movie screenings..... some of the finest films i have ever seen....the central station (spanish)........grave of the fire flies(japanese.. animation).....all about my mother(spanish again).................and today documentaries..

1st documentary:- About the caste system... religion... communal riots... and gender bias..I was horrific when i saw how Bal Thakrey was playing cheap politics .... arousing public sentiment against muslims.."i will put an AK47 in every hindu's hand"..... some of the real inflamatory speeches by Saadhwi Ritambara..... Shiv Sena... is detrimental to the state of well being and happiness of this great nation. A sociologist way back predicted that yugoslavia and  india... wd disintegrate with time..every1 mocked him.. but yugoslavia did break up... conditions in india are very similar....
   These parties take the name of Shivaji, rana pratap etc . for so called hindu nationalism..... but shivaji had so many muslim connections... and Shivaji wdn't be shivaji if the muslim connections hadn't been there..... Rana pratap's friend in in his worst times was a muslim........ mardana accompanying Nanak was a muslim..
  Same is the case with muslims... they believe.. the golden age when muslims ruled India is gone... they aren't getting their due... elements in their community too continuously pester them in to communally biased approach and thinking.

2nd Documentary-
titled 'LESSER HUMANS"...www.ektaonline.org/events/stalin/index.htm.. it was base on the scavengers.. the pathetic state in which they live... they actually have to clean up what we throw up... from top or bottom.... human and animal excreta... dead bodies...There are old type toilets that are DRY and can't be flushed.. they have clean them.. and carry the 'night-soil ' on their head to the dumping site.

• Their state over the years hasn't much changed.. because if they don't do it... WHO DOES IT???
• they are the BHANGIS... or the Valmikis
• They are systematically kept away from all Govt. jobs.Almost all of them are  on daily wages at different municipal corporations, gram panchayats.... families etc.
• They are paid about lowest possible wages..according to the documentary in 1997 it was INR50/month.... it can't be too mch now either... may be
• A lot of them are paid only in kind.... like left over food... and grain etc.
• Their main grduge is against the other lower castes.... the other 'dalits'... who avail most of the benefits for reserved categories....
• They are preferentially kept away from availing benefits... as otherwise who wd do their jobs...
• They are not alloted plots on housing sites.... bt in areas away.. where there's no basic amenities.. no water.. electricity
• UNTOUCHABILITY is still practised against them....in villages actively.... while educated ones...do it subconsciously too... c'mmon be thruthfull....will  u be comfortable with the 'safaiwala'.......Wd u hug him and share ur food with him?? The BHANGIS are even more unfortunate.
• Its not that that the GOVT has been silent.... Atleast 5 times "cleaning of night-soil' manually has been banned. Picking up of human excreta on the head has been banned too... there is actually so much that has been done ON PAPER
• BUT its a lower caste vs higher caste problem.... and all important offices..infact the Govt. is controlled by higher castes... and so the implications
• The truth is .....REMOVING a stigma 1000's of yrs old "the varna syatem'.... isn't easy.. But what's appaling is the lack of efforts.... though some NGO's are doing a commendable job 
• and what abt issues like resevation   

                                               A scavenger

i am a scavenger

they call me BHANGI

they keep away from me

the smell of shit emerging from me may corrupt their souls

and i clean up a lot

their shit.. their animal's shit

their dead... whom they find lying about

its we who give them their salvation

and the dead cats n' dogs n' cattle

 
in villages we carry bad news too 
news of death to all other home

n all other villages

accumulating curses

this makes our smell worse

do u think its easy

doing such stuff and getting almost n'thing in return

no.. actually there are returns

and 1 too many

In return u keep away from me

preferencially u keep me backward

and away from education

u can't do without me..

actually u can .. bt u don't want to

u r so used to this barbarism

that u can't forgo it

u can't build automatic toilets

but even if u build them

like they have in cities

we have to go in MANHOLES

man .. they are full of shit

and i m immersed in that shit from head to toe

some times the toxic gas can even kill me

now is that HUMAN

even remotely so??

As a child i was good at studies

sat on the 1st bench

but i was an untouchable

i made other kids impure

they made me sit at the last bench

i wanted to become a DOCTOR

the guy pursuing THE NOBLE PROFESSION

but they said this time n ' again

Wht's d use.. a bhangi shall remain so

there's shit u have to carry

shit's ur destiny.. u can't run away

in the end fed up.. broken

i dropped out...

even i couldn't play with other kids

their parents told them not to

and washed their own kids with water 

when they came in contact

or touched them with fire

this wd make them pure

If sum1 accidently touched me

they wd apply GANGAJAL

or any water which they found

even drop their toes in the nearby drain

so u see...

even drain water is purer than us


if i m a woman 
imagine my plight
i m a slave of the slaves

so is there any real incentive for us to continue living

but we continue to live..

so that we carry ur filth.. 

ur shit on our head

ur shit in our lives

ur shit all the time

it trickles down through ages

in to our destiny.. that's all shitty with ur shit

bt do we have a choice

certainly not

so we keep quiet

and carry on with our very own NOBLE PROFESSION