Dalits On Rampage..

khairlanje killings and
desecration of Dr.Ambedkar's statue in Kanpur...
torching of trains and people's properties
by enraged dalits in maharastra
have something in common to express;
this nation belongs to us as well!

Ruling sects and
directionless leadership from dalits
have also something in common to share;
Let them bay and cry and shout and fry
Let 's hear them not, look at them not
and speak out for them not...
What they all need is a statue of their God .
We can supply them in plenty and
keep the other plenty for us all...

And that's how the statue in Kanpur was 'restored'!
Trains will be re-paired; private properties
would be compensated and
indemnified and...
Dalits will be damned and damned and damned...
either by speaking against them
or...
keeping mum about their existance.

Ambedkar couldn't annihilate castes by conversion
and dalits could n't inhale religion of Buddha
This country of castes and subcastes and sub-sub castes
has just substandardised
the secular democracy by choice
if not by selection...
through elections... and
the elections will decide caste of dalits...

Right when they are talking about their religion...
A religion of their own...
A religion that says no to castes and subs...
A religion that shelters other 'killer' religions around
under it's seamless wings...
They say they don't need such a religion
And

We can't say we don't need such a religion ...
One of us must be true...
and dalits have moved away from both...
to save their leader statue by burning trains and brains...

They 're just learning now
how to turn Modi stone ..
either in their favour or never..
A lesson Babasaheb forgot
to teach before he left...
to come back never to this land again..

--Pradeep Deshpande (Socio-Political-Economic Writer)
(13-12-2006)