“One person in one family should get reservation until a Brahmin gives away his daughter to my son, or (she) has a relationship with him, if it’s only about the economic condition.” Thus spake Mr. Verma, currently posted as a Deputy Secretary in the Agriculture Department in Madhya Pradesh.
A huge furore was the obvious response. Why should such an insult be hurled at a girl/a woman while discussing caste justice? Look at the words chosen, moreover. Hardly even a mention of a marriage! The quote reads "a Brahmin 'gives away' his daughter ... (she) has a relationship (with him"). What a ridiculous suggestion is this!
Who gives anybody any right to thus sully a woman's dignity? As it is, there are sick stalkers, so-called chase-master (or is it monster?) 'lovers' (and their helpmeets!), if they at all can be so called, given their vulgar tarnishing of the beautiful concept called love! As if these types, rather creeps, do not bother women hugely enough! The fast developing technology creates its own terrible traps! And, in addition, such rhetoric!
Absolutely it is the mentality of the warlords of the Middle Ages who would vitiate the women of the enemy as a revenge, but elaborated it is in the third decade of the twenty-first century boasting of the AI, et al! A typical example of the multiple jeopardies women face!
How does a Brahmin girl 'having a relationship' minimise caste injustice? How does a Brahmin girl cleaning latrines lead to a just society? Actually, an ideal society should be one in which NOBODY has to face any demeaning activity.
Factually, even an insistence on an inter-caste marriage (forget finer facts such as the victimised girl's will/desire!), too, continues the caste system as the offspring would get the father's caste! Patriarchy thus plays the defining role. Why then such insults? Why the convenient silence of the feminist groups?
A woman's dignity is inalienable, whichever caste, creed, class, religion, ethnicity, age group she may belong to! That is that, AND beyond any convenient partialities!
Pratima@ Every, and any, transformative solution has to be just and humane to ALL. Otherwise, there would only be Madame Defarge of all cast(e)s! History should have taught that Holocausts born(e) out of various jealousies and fractured understandings of genealogies lead only to vicious bloodshed, which is hardly any cleansing! Fascism's of any hue and every variety overlook such sincere subtleties!
Quote of the day: "Injustice anywhere," maintained Martin Luther King, "is a threat to justice everywhere."
Word of the day: fairness. No, it does not have anything to do with some sick n silly advertisement about a cream that comments on pigmentation. 'Fairness' means "an impartial and just treatment and behaviour without any favouritism or discrimination."
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