Wednesday, January 30, 2008

The Village -1

....This land is very big. It is littered with villages. The villages are different in sizes; some villages are large and some villages are small. There are under populated and overpopulated villages. The villages are ridden with casteism which is the soul of Hindu dharma. The souls of untouchables are buried under it. Their personalities are suffocated; their lives unbearable; their conditions hellish; their dignity tattered; and their shadows polluting. And all this is under the name of pure and eternal Sanatana dharma. And the mainstream is proud of its heritage. The insulted others have never experienced the pride. They are worthless human beings.

A large part of population lives in rural areas - about 70 percent. These villages where the worth of certain human beings is equal to trash were considered epitome of self-sufficiency. The villages were thought to be stable and without any violence. The roaring railway engines pierced the calm, peaceful and serene soul of these villages, during the British period. The cruel roar of cruel engines harbored the voices of modernity that played havoc with the independent ancient Varna dharma, tormenting the psyche of believers in superiority by birth. Before that the people in the villages were perceived to be mutually cooperative and lived in natural peace and harmony. They lived in a kind of innocence; away from the materialism of West. In such a system everybody was well adjusted to his position in the permanently exploiting caste system. The social, economic and religious powers of the twice born were unchallengeable. The fort of caste system was unassailable for thousands of years. The untouchables are not supposed to take breath properly for the fear of breaking the social equilibrium. The engines came and people buried under social system started to take some breath, which caused unbearable pains to the defenders of Varna dharma....

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