Selling Bigotry and Making a Country: Dangers facing India and US!

Very well said, timely piece on how bigoted concepts like India's gandhi menace is a danger to India as well as to America

Biggest threat to US: European racist fascism

Posted on 25 October 2010

During the presidential days of Jimmy Carter, many of the southern states of theUSA were Democratic states. In the following 24 years, the Republicans were able to gain their foothold in those states. In the last presidential election many of those seats, once held by the Republicans switched back to the Democratic Party, giving the party the control over both the Houses in the Capitol Hill – the Senate and the House of Representatives
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Mr.President Barack Obama, withdraw your fake announcement that US do not recognizes Caste system, and accept the US Congress's stand!

Mr. President Barack Obama,

The US Congress  and House of Representatives Passed Historic Resolution on Untouchability on July 23,2007. House Concurrent Resolution 139 is the First Official Statement on Untouchability by US Congress, do you have a sane American to advice you on such issues as Caste system and racism, or you are just living in dark?.

Many congressmen and senators in the past took serious effort to condemn and warn India about the caste system practices, US Congress and previous US President's  recognized the grave dangers of hindu caste system of India, how dare you publicly announce a Fake statement that US recognizes no caste system?, is this statement perpetrated by bigot hindus in your inner circle, did you forget that you are an American and President of America?. 

"America was founded on the fundamental principle "That all People have the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness". This very principle is also became the supreme law of this nation of America in which each and every American take pride, not just pride but further step ahead in practicing these values, so in this American soil, all men are born equal....!".

This foundation later became the guiding light for Americans to promote Freedom, Democracy and Individual rights and human rights here at home and world wide. And, we must remember about these values every single day like we remember to breath.

We must remember more so when making statements and when making some implications, especially when you are talking about India, as far as India and Indians are concerned, those who are in your inner circle who promote gandhi [Obama invokes Gandhi, Let’s do lunch, or dinner], and those who play around with meaningless and mythical snake god or monkey god hanuman [Obama turns to Lord Hanuman for blessing ] are the type of Indians who believe in varnashrama/caste system that discriminates fellow humans as upper and lower class and outcast, and what not? That, these people believe strongly "not all men are born equal", they are casteists and racists of the highest order about which you are completely blinded and those members of your inner circle comprised of casteist hindus have kept you totally in dark about India. These casteist Indians are in denial of caste system and its pathology of caste discrimination that has been plaguing India for centuries and it is spreading world wide now, you must look at the recent law in UK that recognized and took immediate step on caste system!. Instead, you are outrightly making a blanket statement US recognizes no caste system, this will embolden the caste discriminators and spread their pathology further.

As a President of America, it is important to remember that your speech, your writings and whatever things said and done by you as a President of America carries enormous value, respect and meaning, so lots of hopes been developed among the less fortunate, economically weaker sections of India and world wide that the President of America will make changes in policies and international relations that would benefit them or protect them.

Unfortunately, Dear President, the hindus and casteist Indians working in your inner circle are fervent believers of inequality, wait, they are practitioners of caste and are very well camouflaged with American System, disguised here in America. A hindu or casteist Indian is taught from their early days about their holy scriptures like veda or manusmiriti that preaches them that not all men are born equal, they have numerous discriminatory traits inbuilt in their mind set ever since hindu as religion was created and passed on to generations, it has continued over the centuries and the practice took a modern transformation that it would be hard for a non Indian or foreigner's to even sense it.

Caste discrimination and it's consequences continued for so long for centuries that the number of scheduled castes/tribes (who do not believe in caste system of hindus) fell victim to this hindu mania, it's detrimental effect is so vast and so large that this tragedy is much worst than the African Apartheid due to India's caste system, thousands and millions of Sc/Sts been massacred by hindus a mass murder that is much worst than the Jews Genocide committed by hitler, and it is ironic and sad that you are listening to those same casteist hindu people in your inner circle, and your action speaks loudly that you listen to them, how did you get to talk about gandhi and promote him as your model, who is a racist of the highest order who once said blacks are one step close to animals and he called kaffirs (blacks) are worst than animals, dirty, unfit to education and so on............, how dare you keep such a racist and casteist to be your model and kept procrastinating to this man?. This same gandhi once wrote a dearly love letter complementing hitler on his Jews killings!?.

In the light of your above inclination and audacity to embrace hindu extremists and views of them in your working model day in and day out, repetitive and periodic announcement of news from your office that promotes hindu gods and casteists are increasingly troublesome and are a serious concern to the world, I was shocked to read your latest announcement that "US recognizes no caste system".

Mr.President, what do you mean by US recognizes no caste system, are you saying that you do not recognize no caste system while the whole world is aware that India is inundated with caste virulence that you do not recognize it?. Or Are you saying that US do not recognize any such practice of India or any other country!.

Mr.President, are you first of all aware that there is a caste discrimination that has spread far and wide outside India, wherever hindus go that they carry this caste pathology with them?. Are you aware that the UK Parliament recently enacted and implemented a new law to punish caste discrimination in UK. Are you aware that in Canada and US there were incident's of caste discrimination covered up so far by the leading news groups that they do not want to discuss caste issues as hindus and organizations like hindu associations kept a lid on this topic?.

So, Mr.President are you that naive to ignore caste system and say that US do not recognize caste system, or tell me, are you implementing that caste system practices cannot be tolerated and allowed in US soil?. What is exactly your implication by your recent announcement.

You must clarify your announcement, it is important at this juncture when you are making plans to travel to India that you recognize the caste system, a man who's story and success is what America represents outrightly denying or making blanket statement that US recognizes no caste system is dangerous and will encourage and support the perpetrators here in US and in India, you must speak out loudly about caste practice of India and condemn it, you must warn the Indian govt and anti-socials to stop hurting the Sc/Sts in India of this caste menace. You must warn the hindus in US to stop messing with the American way of life and American values, that here in this soil of America, any such practice will be dealt legally and very seriously, it is time you give hopes to the victims of caste system in India, about 360 million dalits who have been sabotaged of their rights, dignity and progress by this pathological hindu religious believes and cultures, and please take a stand as a great American President's who practiced and preached that America stands for freedom, democracy and Individual rights.

America stands for the rights and happiness of every human not only in America but all over the world, and your message of US recognizes no caste system does not reflect but is pretty dangerous to these believes. If you and your office dare to understand the caste discrimination in US soil, why not create a investigative committee and that will study the practices of hindus in America and you will understand how far caste system has gone, if the hindus and their behaviors are let loose, soon one day the caste system practice will ruin Americans too.

It is important at this juncture that the President of America must send strong message to India to act on curbing the caste discrimination, caste system practices are dangerous to India and to the world, and India must work to annihilate the caste practices.

With Hopes and Respect,

~~Saint

Saint is The author of Upliftthem Blog and the author of this Editorial.
Nevada, USA

Some Reading:

1.Evil of Caste

http://www.scribd.com/doc/36878871/The-Evil-of-Caste

2. Satyaguru Report: 

Honorable Senators/Congressmen: Pervasive Dalit Atrocities, Human Rights Violation, Injustice, and Discrimination in India and South Asia

http://www.satyaguru.us/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/letter.355174914.pdf

3.US House declares caste discrimination illegal

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/US-House-declares-caste-discrimination-illegal-9950.html 4. 4,Untouchable India: 

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0306/feature1/

5.India's Untouchables face violence and discrimination:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0602_030602_untouchables.html

6.Caste Atrocity in Khairlanji:

http://atrocitynews.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/khairlanji.pdf

7. Murder of 5 dalits shows that there is no freedom in India: US Congressional Record

http://books.google.com/books?id=lwzoxuKCsPQC&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&dq=how+many+dalits+killed&source=bl&ots=p_UJP6Clhi&sig=8UxZ3rR7J4QLzV_3lVrirMmdt3c&hl=en&ei=O5LATODvHJO8sQPPwPnNCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CDEQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q&f=false

8. India''s Grim Picture of Human Rights Record

http://newsblaze.com/story/20100416124130nava.nb/topstory.html

9.Recognize caste as discrimination: US rights body
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Recognize-caste-as-discrimination-US-rights-body/articleshow/5125756.cms

10. Great Intro by Saint

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6434918/Great-Intro-by-Saint-Upliftthem-Blog

Stop Dalit atrocities and Brutality against dalits in India

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-dalit-atrocities-and-brutality-against-dalits-in-india/signatures.html

Discrimination by Veda and the Hindu Religion

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/discrimination-by-veda-and-the-hindu-religion/signatures.html

casteism in these sophisticated Times: Excellent Article!

casteism in these sophisticated Times

Excellent presentation of the truth about the minds and mindset of casteists in India.

October 10th, 2010 | opinion

Dileep Padgaonkar’s review of Meera Kosambi’s book on her grandfather and Buddhist scholar Dharmanand Kosambi (Dharmanand Kosambi: the essential writings, edited by Meera Kosambi, Permanant Black) in The Times of India begins a description of his life thus:  ‘Born on October 9, 1876 in a humble Gowd Saraswat Brahmin family in a small village in Portuguese-ruled Goa, Dharmanand, beset with persistent health problems, dropped out of school and was compelled to manage the family’s coconut grove’.

This sentence made me wonder.

Why did Padgaonkar mention Kosambi’s caste?

gandhi's love letter to hitler?

this copy of the letter from: Rupeenews

Saint or Con-Man Racist?

Bhagwan Das, Close Associate of Dr.B.R.Ambedkar

Bhagwan Das, Close Associate of Dr.Ambedkar Great Scholar, Scholars & Humanitarians
 
Bhagwan Das, Close Associate of B.R. Ambedkar 
Dalit politics was very young, divided and orphaned. The Republican Party of India was Ambedkar's final political creation, but without him to lead it, people were so divided that within four years it had split into two separate factions. This proved disastrous and the RPI won no seats in the 1962 elections.Doctor is in: Dalit rally in Bombay (pic and article from Outlook India
This was partly because they were ignorant of Dalit issues and how people like Ambedkar and Gandhi had addressed them. Nobody had compiled Ambedkar's speeches and writings and that became my main project. This helped Ambedkar's legacy survive, spreading from Maharashtra to UP, Punjab and the South. This is the crop that Kanshi Ram and Mayawati harvested.

Indian society is characterized by multiple forms of discrimination and exclusion!!

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Blocked by Caste

Economic Discrimination and Social Exclusion in Modern India

Edited by Sukhadeo Thorat and Katherine S. Newman

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This volume argues that the Indian society is characterized by multiple forms of discrimination and exclusion that create profound barriers to upward mobility and freedom from structures of deprivation. The essays study widespread patterns of discrimination and underlying attitudinal orientations that contribute to inequality in various aspects of life. Based on archival research, field surveys, and interviews, the contributors explore practical aspects of economic discrimination and social exclusion in India. They also discuss some of the theoretical issues related to social exclusion in general and economic discrimination in particular, to provide conceptual backdrop and to place the empirical studies in necessary theoretical perspective. The book investigates historic patterns of discrimination with factors like reservation in private sector, globalization, caste and employment, ownership of private enterprises, labour market, poverty, health care, education, food security, and creation of Dalit identities as well as the consequences of discrimination and possible remedies.

Laws of Manu & hindu pathology

GSS&H recognizes and announces Dr.Usha Ramanathan, Scholar of the Month

Great Scholar, Scholars & Humanitarians
I have been writing about the abuse of Vedanta Mining company on the local tribals "Dongria Kondh tribs" in Orissa, India. This ongoing land grabbing and violation of mining in a tribal land has been going on for the last several years, there is a world wide protest. Among the most noticed protest is run by Survival International, I wrote about in my FB causes page, there were about 25 people signed the cause page. Just today, I read the TOI news that a investigative team along with Dr.Usha Ramanathan a Madras University graduate and a legal expert in many areas including poverty has found out that Vedanta has violated many laws including forest land violation, ofcourse it is the BJP govt that was in power when such permission was sanctioned, the supreme court conveniently is run by govt pro justice, whoever was this guy who was the chief justice during the BJPs period, has honoured the Supreme court case in favor of Vedanta, what a casteistic morons who can do this, but the fight is coming to frution. Usha's report and the committe's report both was submitted to the govt and immediate steps to take actions on Vedanta been already placed?.

Thanks to Dr.Usha and her work, she is the Scholar of the month at GSS&H
Her Bio:

USHA RAMANATHAN

Dr Usha Ramanathan is an internationally recognized expert on law and poverty. She studied law at Madras University, the University of Nagpur and Delhi University.

She is research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, teaches environmental law, labour law and consumer law at the Indian Law Institute and conducts training programmes at the National Institute for Programmes and Policies on Child Development in New Delhi. She has also been invited to teach in many universities around the world.

She is a frequent adviser to non-governmental organisations and international organizations. She a research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, a member of Amnesty International's Advisory Panel on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, a member of the Governing Board of the Centre for Equity Studies and has been called upon by the World Health Organisation as a expert on mental health on various occasions.

She is also the South Asia Editor of the Law, Environment and Development Journal (LEAD Journal), a peer-reviewed academic journal jointly published by IELRC and SOAS.

Her research interests include human rights, displacement, torts and environment. She has published extensively in India and abroad. In particular, she has devoted her attention to a number of specific issues such as the Bhopal gas disaster, the Narmada valley dams or slum eviction in Delhi.

http://www.ielrc.org/about_ramanathan.php

Dalit Atrocity in Kerala: Chitralekha a perceptual divide

A trade union CITU in Kerala is spearheading an attack on a dalit woman for running her own small scale autorickshaw business. Anu writes about this ongoing tragedy of Chitralekha!

Chitralekha a perceptual divide

By Anu

Some years back, Chitralekha, a young dalit woman, took a loan to buy an autorickshaw, and began her livelihood as an auto driver in her hometown Payyanur, Kerala.

The trade union organization (CITU) in Payyanur reacted to this with hostility. The history of her struggle with the organization is recorded here in the archives of the insight magazine.

Dr.B.R.Ambedkar, No Other Indian Figure in the 20th Century Matached his Scholarly Orientation.

Great Scholar, Scholars & Humanitarians
POLITICS
Relevance of Ambedkar

From Editor's Column in the April 27, 1991, issue, assessing Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's role in Indian politics, in his birth centenary year.
THE HINDU PHOTO LIBRARY

Dr B.R. Ambedkar. No other national figure in Indian politics in the 20th century matched his scholarly orientation.

IN the centenary year of his birth, Babasaheb Ambedkar stands taller than he ever did before – his role in the struggle for a modern, new India gaining steadily in weight, stature and centrality at the expense of various other outstanding national figures who were contemporaries and opponents in the great battles of the freedom movement era. This is essentially because the deep-seated and central problems spotlighted by his life, struggles, studies and experimentation in ideas remain alive and kicking while the big socio-political questions he raised about the state, well-being and future of India remain basically unanswered.
He was born Bhimrao on April 14, 1891, at Mhow in Central India in an austere and religious Mahar family with a military service background and considerable respect for education. In school (Satara and Bombay), college (Bombay), service under the Maharaja of Baroda (briefly in 1913 and again between July and November 1917) and study abroad (Columbia University, the London School of Economics, Gray’s Inn, the University of Bonn), he displayed a scholarly orientation, a commitment to the life of the mind and trained intellectual gifts that no other national figure in Indian politics could match over this century.

He benefited from opportunities which had just opened up, which none in his family (or, for that matter, in the recorded history of his people) had access to over the centuries; yet every one of his academic, intellectual and professional achievements was hard earned, in social battle, against entrenched oppression, discrimination and anti-human prejudice. By the time he was finished with his formal studies in the early 1920s, Dr Ambedkar had acquired qualifications that surpassed the M.A., Ph.D., M.Sc. (Econ), D.Sc. (Econ), Barrister-at-law he had added, by right, to his name and title; the young man had been through a real life educational experience which most people (including the most renowned scholars) do not manage to acquire in a lifetime.
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1st January, 1818: ‘The Battle of Bhima Koregaon’ in Maharashtra

Do Indians even know the true history of their own country and fellow men/woman, I doubt it. If the general population is so poorly informed, the Oppressed is no exception, they all are ignorant of what has happened in the past to the Nation of India. Read this great Dalit revolutionary freedom fighters story......!

Fight against Manusmriti - the story of a heroic battle of a small Dalit army in alliance with British against a larger army of Brahminic kingdom.

“If we wish to be free, we must fight. Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.” – Patrick Henry (March, 1775)
Manusmriti, a collection of ancient Hindu laws stipulating a social order with caste hierarchy. This inhuman text is still considered holy by Hindu fundamentalists and the leaders of Hindu mutts

The history of India is nothing but the fight/struggle between untouchables and the so called upper castes. Historians who ought to be rationalist, have always misled the masses and never showed the true colors of Indian History. Hence, this battle has also been lost into history and no reference is found in any history book.
January 1st 1818, everyone around the world was busy in celebrating the ‘new year’, when everyone was in cheerful mood. But a small force of 500 untouchable soldiers were preparing themselves for battle. Who knows this battle was going to write the future of ‘Brahmin Peshwa Baji Rao-II’? It wasn’t just another battle; it was a battle for self respect, esteem, and against the supremacy of Manusmriti. This battle is important in history, as everyone knows that after this battle the rule of ‘Peshwa Rao’ ended.
In the early 19th century, the Maratha Empire led by Peshwa Baji Rao II was gradually diminishing due to internal dissents and setbacks in the previous Anglo-Maratha wars. Maharashtrian society under Peshwas had followed the nastiest kind of social discrimination wherein the lower strata of society such as untouchables were confined to stringent Brahmanical laws and subsequently their mobility and development were impaired. The untouchables had suffered the most in the 2000 year old caste system. But regimes like the Brahmincal Peshwas are the best examples where untouchables and the lower caste groups experienced horrendous and worst form of social humiliations to carry broom sticks on their backs and earthen pots hung on their necks wherein they released their spit.

This battle took place on January 1st, 1818, near the banks of Bhima River in Koregaon (north-west of Pune) between the small forces of ‘500 untouchables’ (Mahars) soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 1st regiment of ‘Bombay Native Light Infantry’ and Peshwa soldiers. ‘Bombay Native Light Infantry’ was headed by ‘Caption Francis Staunton’. Compared to the ‘500 untouchable soldiers’ Brahmin Peshwa Rao’s force was large in numbers - more than 20,000 horsemen and 8,000 infantry soldiers. After walking down more than 27 miles distance from Shirur to Bhima Koregaon without rest or reprieve, without food or water ‘500 untouchables’ fought so bravely for 12 hours and won the battle. The battle ended not only with victory over Peshwa but it become responsible for the end of ‘Peshwai’ in Maharashtra.

This battle had unusual significance for many reasons. First, the British army fought this battle with a minuscule army expecting the worst, especially after their experience of the Pune Regency. Secondly, the battle of Koregaon was one of the most important events which helped tear down the Peshwa Empire and subsequently the Peshwa had to abdicate. Thirdly and most importantly, it was an attempt by the untouchables of Maharashtra to break the shackles of the age-old caste order

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