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Alphabets Of Suicide Of Rohith Vemula

By P Victor Vijay Kumar

20 January, 2015
Countercurrents.org

Look what is happening around in Brahmin circles ?! The upper caste imbecile groups try to moderate the unprecedented uproar in intellectual circles raised against the incident. They bring out certain flabby arguments and main stream media goes all over to cry for them. A notable telugu media group(ABN Andhrajyothi) brings out a video clip of argument by Rohith with ABVP peanut-brained activists. He says “" I have torn ABVP banner becoz it is in saffron colour. I hate this saffron colours and all that associated hindu and hindutva crap which attacks minorities and dalits in this country. I get infuriated seeing saffron anywhere. I will tear all that saffron wherever it is ...SO WHAT ?“ tagged by the media like “ its unpalatable to the friends of Rohith ! “ , which, in fact, they forget that it is the same reason why Rohith is admired for. Rohith is a miniature of Ambedkar, who hated by all but stood alone in every front for the cause. The Brahmin circles routinely bank up on a formula of sympathising“ a calm-going innocent victim “ and do not qualify any victim as a victim unless he complies with this rule and does not demonstrate any aggression at any particular moment..

They start circulating another video on how Rohith cannot be “ legally termed “ as Dalit. In their nomenclature, if Dalit gets converted into Christianity or Islam, he is no more dalit; if Dalit has one parent as non-Dalit, he is no more Dalit. The materiality of the reason is not important for them while we very much can afraid how true these rumours are. Let us presume – Rohith is not a ‘ legalised Dalith ‘. So what next ?Ambedkar married a brahmin and his children have one parent only as Dalit. It is thus very funny thing to shout “ Look, your father is a BC, though your mother is an SC ! “. Let us dig more common sense into this question. “ Endogomy “ is an illicit baby of Brahminism. For a Dalit parent, having broken this endogomy and moving with a different pattern of married life, does not make him non-Dalit, forcing him anyway to relinquish the kind of backwardness inflicted on them for the ages, the kind of social circle they have, the kind of identity they have, the kind of treatment they face in everyday life and the kind of network they have. Ambedkar encouraged inter-caste marriages does not mean every inter-caste marriage is a non-caste entity. Stray incidents of inter-caste marriage does not qualify to be “ Exogomy “ in society.

Ok, we will go another step forward and argue – father gets a dominant role in family and hence he entrusts his entire legacy to his kin. On the same page, Brahminical manuvadi ignore that, they defy glorification of any Brahmin having inter-caste marriage too. We have abundant evidence in front of us that the Patriarchy is highly prevalent in society. And the kind of Patriarchy we compare with that of Non-Dalit families, one would find a visible difference. And what they have grossly neglected is that there is a ‘ class ‘ also attached to Rohith. This even makes presumed position of applicability of Patriarchy in the cases like him makes null and void. The upper caste circles always have observed their “father” as a vanguard of caste and “mother” as a sexual gateway of caste. This is not the case with Dalits, because, basically, they are casteless in treating the family as an institution. They cant climb up the ladder of caste society on any sociological gimmick like marriage. This is the reason dalit do not get boggled down by ‘ social mobility’ amongst them, while upper castes do. The inter-caste marriages in Dalits is countably less, as they don’t have an access to an upper caste ‘life partner’ and , as such, the momentum for them in caste layers gets constricted and handful of inter-caste marriages wont bring a visible change in their lives nor in their patriarchical system. It might go over the peanut-brained Hindutvavadis learning the fact that, most of the Dalit families , are engaged in production relations jointly and not singly unlike upper caste family institution. Dalit families do not protect their girls or boys while they look for the wed-lock matches , not for want of “ impurity “ but for want of “ security limited by disbelief“.

So, finally, the point what Manuvadis trying to make is “ Is Rohith 100% Dalith or 75% Dalith ? “ and look what is that they want “ Give him only less than 100% credit “ ! That’s fine we are willing to give him less than 100% credit, but, explain us, is brahminism in this case is not 100% grotesque ?! Do you say that Dattatreya is less demonic than 100%, or do you want to convey loyalist VC is less cruel than 100%, or do you want to prove that Yale Graduate Minister is just a cute Barbie Doll ?! For them, I am confident, they recognise only one Dalit in India i.eBangaruLaxman and wait for moderatingDattatreya role with his caste as an “ OBC” man !

This article is endeavoured to be written in as simple language as possible just to let us know our Dalit brethern what kind of stupid “ Alphabets “ of a murder they are interrogating and appreciate to what level Brahminism can stoop to.

Finally, the ‘ violence card “ they borrow from petty-bourgeoisie sections. Rohith is being labelled as “ Left-Naxal “ by right-wingers. First of all, in today’s world, you will see every dalit born is a mild or strong anti-establishment person, being direct victims of caste system. If Rohith is a naxal, simple question in your legal terminology is - why did he not commit offence by killing you ? This is the same anology this grotesque state used for torturing Prof. Saibaba, a Delhi University teacher, 90% physically disabled. The culture of “ blaming victim “ by attaching a label has been coming into our caste system for ages. The moment one recognises that Dalit is a victim of “ untouchability “, the punishment of demeaning gets legitimised if you label them “ they are impure “. Brahminism in India, unlike in any other country, plays a sabotaging role in killing common sense of Indian minds. Marx and Ambedkar are completely anti-establishment thinkers and there is nothing wrong in that. Majoritarianist minds want uniform conformity with them by everyone on the earth, which is nothing but stereotyping individuals, going against all principles of development of a society.

Now, we shall touch base with what makes one to resort to self-immolation and self- destruction. The poor farmers in Telangana, Rayalseema, Bundelkhand, Maharashtra are committing suicides in large scales. The driving factors , at a macro level, - depression and frustration, non-visibility of a solution, social shaming, prolonged and unending pain( There are anti-class elements who try to romanticize these suicides for their gains ).Rohith is a man who lived through out his life with no hope for development. He remained as a typical scape-goat in the manuvadi system. He did not have a political leader in his pocket to write on his behalf to MHRD. He did not have an external supporting group like RSS. It is pertinent to note that till date, there are 9 deaths of Dalit students occurred due to suicides in HCU and this is not an incident in isolation.

Rohith is actually a man of courage and conviction which can be seen from his firm replies to ABVP activists in the video clip and makes every progressive thinker proud. The way he has written a suicide note “ Man is reduced to number, to a vote and to his immediate identity and he has never been considered as a glorious mind raised from the star dust in every field “ brings out the level of maturity he has. The kind of ambition he has to become a writer reveals his optimistic attitude and diverse thinking. For me, Rohith is not a coward.He believed in Ambedkar . He studied the Dalit scripts himself and found him as a “ Dalit Marxist “ without flinching or mincing words. He made “ Dalit “ an adjective arming the revolutionary thinkers. His sin was he was not blindly driven by any specific dogmatic ideology and could not come to terms with the situation beyond a point. Probably, he must have chose this a form of fight as he could have got disillusioned of a final solution in the tough brahminical system. You may label him anything by arithmetical measurement of caste suppression and try to moderate the sympathy showering on him from all corners. But you cannot ignore the apparatus used for hair splitting which is nothing but “ Brahminism “ and this Brahminism is campaigning alphabets of logic of murder trivialisingRohith issue with a forgotten notion that the mystical feeling for pro-public opinion, they create in the large urban middle class sections has an answer and that stays in the form of “ Ambedkar” , whom Rohith emulated through out his life !

P Victor Vijay Kumar is a CFO of an infrastructure company, by profession. A dalit writer cum critic. Any reader may feel free to reach the author for any clarifications or questions here or on his facebook account P V Vijay Kumar or to his mail ID – [email protected] )



 



 

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