The Legend Unsatisfied

I almost convinced myself not to write this article till I could justify good enough for it being written. Before I start, I respect Late Dr. Ambedkar, he is a father figure to the entire nation. I must also say if I had to truly honour him, I would use the money for educating the unprivileged children rather than building a statue.

There are so called honourable self imposed father-figure and mother-figure to the nation, who claim to love “Dalit” equally, if not more than the other citizen of the country. A social hierarchy, caste system, as old as one could remember, now kept alive by the politicians only for filling vote banks. These self imposed father-mother figures, who are unmistakeably actively associated with politics, harvest their mean interests by exploiting these people’s ignorance by emotionally attacking their sentiments by calling them “Dalit” in the name of uplifting them, and hence gaining their sympathy, and reminding them how much in distress they are and how much help they need. Sadly the poor people have been falling in their pretence.

I could not believe reading the article stating that the statues of Dr. Ambedkar makes “Dalits” proud, as for them Dr. Ambedkar is Father of the Nation because he was a Dalit and still marked the greatest thing in the history of India. And this is all to support Mayawati’s Rs 2000 crores statue building project. Do we need to be extraordinarily genius to tell how wasteful use of resource it had been? With that money many of the so called Dalits could have improved their living, standard of education, health and what not. But politics needs the identity of DALIT to stay. They need someone whom they can call Dalit and make him feel miserable and exploited. And then become their self-imposed-father-mother-figure.

It seems like a carrot tied to the donkey’s head that it can never reach; like a destitute who has been hungry for a week and yet to believe that his country is progressing. Can Dr. Ambedkar be present between us by erecting statues and keeping the image of downtrodden and unprivileged for the Dalits? The real way he can be alive by first of all stop using “Dalit” and bringing the influx of prosperity into their life.

The dilemma I had regarding this post was, am I writing something that is not known? Actually no. What convinced me to write was the disregard it had been to the dreams of such a fine man who thought that one day there won’t be any Dalits.
Spare this legend the rough angles.