Good Morning IRMA. Woke up early today.HOLIDAY ! wow.. hard as it is to come by,useless it goes by..Dont know what is the matter with these HOL'(Y)DAYS that the more you procrastinate the work to be done then,quicker they will vanish :-(
If one day that has more irony attached to it than independence day is Ambedkar Jayanti. Long after he decided to stand up for collective voice of the silent majority,little would his departed soul known that the 'collective' itself was more of a 'Federation' than 'co-op' {as we IRMANS know better :-) } . His conversion antics failed to move the rock of Gibraltar they call Varna system in India. Reservations did help initially but like Jinnah/Savarkar's two nation theory, this also failed to work as a war cry for oppressed many to get fair deal out of oppressing few , or at least "SUSTAINABLY" :)
Several subdivisions within them and amongst all other religions also have contributed to this . With each divided sect wanting the biggest slice of the cake for itself. Little would they have known that this(reservation) was to be the 'trial solution' for 20 odd years.
With even the 'enlightened few' gonna be "rural managers" divided on the caste/linguistic lines... no end seems in sight..
2 comments:
Ambedkar's "antics" helped bring the socially marginalised take political centrestage in India. I strongly believe his was a partial success, if not total. Not in the least a failure. Just count the number of state governments at least preaching the rights of those mmarginalised and compare it to pre independence times and you ll know.
Also, a leader is only as good as the people he rules. Opportunist leaders vouching to follow his ideology have ruined the show to a large extent.
How was he supposed to move the rock when our very own dear Mahatma emotionally blackmailed him to signing the Pune pact?
he however made some rumblings n the status quo. i salute him for that.
any trouble creator is a potent revolutionary. For better or worse, society decides.
In his case ifeel he did make a positive impact.
We ahve to remember he was memeber of a constituent assembly that was overwhelmingly full of "forward" caste hindus. just imagine the amount of effort he must have put in.
Great man. Great legacy.
Unsung.
no doubt his contribution to modern Indian state is as much as of Patel and Gandhi(not that m advocating any of them ) .
His good work has been undone and the umbrella organization under which they were suppose to work and make their voices heard ,didnt prove big enough for many of them and they parted their ways sounding death knell to their "collective".
Puna pact was what India still is.. hasnt changed a wee bit in all these years... if it was Gandhi then, it's "Rashtriyeta" now..
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