Modi-barisadiru-tamburi

ಸಂತ ಶಿಶುನಾಳ ಶರೀಫ.

ಮೋದಿ ಅಣಕು ಗೀತೆ

ತರವಲ್ಲ ತಗಿ ನಿನ್ನ ತಂಬೂರಿ - ಸ್ವರ ಬರದೆ ಬಾರಿಸದಿರು ತಂಬೂರಿ ; ಸರಸ ಸಂಗೀತದ ಕುರುಹುಗಳರಿಯದೆ ಬರದೆ ಬಾರಿಸದಿರು ತಂಬೂರಿ. ಮದ್ದಲಿ ದನಿಯೊಳು ತಂಬೂರಿ - ಅದ ತಿದ್ದಿ ನುಡಿಸಬೇಕೊ ತಂಬೂರಿ ; ಸಿದ್ದ ಸಧಕರ ಸುವಿದ್ಯೆಗೆ ಒದಗುವ ಬುದ್ದಿವಂತಗೆ ತಕ್ಕ ತಂಬೂರಿ. ಬಾಳಬಲ್ಲವರಿಗೆ ತಂಬೂರಿ - ದೇವ ಭಾಳಾಕ್ಷ ರಚಿಸಿದ ತಂಬೂರಿ ; ಹೇಳಲಿ ಏನಿದರ ಹಂಚಿಕೆ ತಿಳಿಯದ ತಾಳಗೇಡಿಗೆ ಸಲ್ಲ ತಂಬೂರಿ. ಸತ್ಯ ಶರಧಿಯೊಳು ತಂಬೂರಿ - ನಿತ್ಯ ಉತ್ತಮರಾಡುವ ತಂಬೂರಿ ; ಬತ್ತೀಸರಾಗದ ಬಗೆಯನರಿಯದಂಥ ಕತ್ತಿಗಿನ್ಯಾತಕೆ ತಂಬೂರಿ. ಹಸನಾದ ಮ್ಯಾಳಕೆ ತಂಬೂರಿ - ಇದು ಕುಶಲರಿಗೊಪ್ಪುವ ತಂಬೂರಿ. ಶಿಶುನಾಳಧೀಶನ ಓದುಪುರಾಣದಿ ಹಸನಾಗಿ ಬಾರಿಸೊ ತಂಬೂರಿ.

ತರವಲ್ಲ ತಗಿ ನಿನ್ನ ತಂಬೂರಿ  ಮೋದಿ ಸ್ವರ ಬರದೆ ಬಾರಿಸದಿರು  ತಂಬೂರಿ  ಮಾನವೀಯತೆಯ ಕುರುಹುಗಳರಿಯದೆ  ಮೋದಿ ಬರದೆ ಬಾರಿಸದಿರು ತಂಬೂರಿ  ಮದ್ದಲಿ ದನಿಯೊಳು ತಂಬೂರಿ - ಅದ  ತಿದ್ದಿ ನುಡಿಸಬೇಕೊ ತಂಬೂರಿ;  ಬುದ್ಧ ಬಸವ ಗಾಂಧಿ ನುಡಿಸಿದ ತಂಬೂರಿ  ದಯೆಯುಳ್ಳವರಿಗೆ ತಕ್ಕ ತಂಬೂರಿ  ಬಾಳಲು ಬಿಡುವವರಿಗೆ ತಂಬೂರಿ - ದೇವ  ಭಾಳಾಕ್ಷ ರಚಿಸಿದ ತಂಬೂರಿ;  ಹೇಳಲಿ ಏನಿದರ ಹಂಚಿಕೆ ತಿಳಿಯದ  ತಾಳಗೇಡಿದೆ ಸಲ್ಲ ತಂಬೂರಿ  ಸತ್ಯ ಶರಿಧಿಯೊಳು ತಂಬೂರಿ - ನಿತ್ಯ  ಉತ್ತಮಾರಾಡುವ ತಂಬೂರಿ.  ಬಡವರ ರೈತರ ಧೀನದಲಿತರ       ಏಳಿಗೆಯನರಿಯದಂಥ  ಕತ್ತಿಗಿನ್ಯಾತಕ ತಂಬೂರಿ.  ಶಾಂತಿ ಮಂತ್ರವ ಪಠಿಸಲು ತಂಬೂರಿ - ಇದು  ನ್ಯಾಯವಂತರಿಗೊಪ್ಪುವ ತಂಬೂರಿ.  ಬಸವರಾದಿ ತತ್ತ್ವಗಳ ಓದಿ ನಡೆದು  ಹಸನಾಗಿ ಬಾರಿಸೊ ತಂಬೂರಿ

NO to BJP for Non corrupt reasons

#1  Closing Government run Kannada schools

Most parents and teachers are opposed to the closure of schools and are willing to cooperate in any way they can to retain the schools in their villages. What is worrying is that some say that sending children, especially girls, to faraway schools is hard even if transport is provided.

     -)http://www.igovernment.in/site/karnataka-close-1500-govt-schools

     -)An attempt to victimise poor students and students from backward caste

     citing shortage of students, is a Govt school a profit making institution ?

         

#2  Anti Farmer and Anti poor

    a) Attacking farmers and snubbing them

   http://churumuri.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/when-a-family-loses-a-35-year-old-bread-winner/

   b)  Unrealistic Anti Cowslaughter bill

           This bill is detrimental to  poor and farmers. This  is again unscientific decision

     Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Bangalore: Karnataka's leading intellectuals and writers, including Prof U R Ananthmurthy and Girish Karnad, have come down heavily on the state government over the proposed anti-cow slaughter Bill and threatened of a state-wide agitation against if the "anti-poor, anti-farmer and anti-democratic" bill was not revoked.

The Jnanapeetha Award winning writers joined a host of other luminaries in lending their support against the "ill-motivated" Bill at a mass public rally held at Shivaji Nagar, in Bangalore on Monday.

#3  Donating Taxpayer money to Mutts ruled by tainted swamis and Mutts which are caste biased:

Its not Mutt who should run hospitals and schools but its the duty of the state to run them.

An unprecedented move by BJP, because of fear future goverments also might not stop this bad habit of donating tax payers money.

In the past five years, the BJP has doled out several goodies to mutts — totalling over Rs 500 crore. The party may be expecting sweet returns in the forthcoming elections but the mutt heads are singing a different tune: that of being apolitical.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/BJP-eyes-votes-with-Rs-500cr-largesse-to-mutts-in-Karnataka/articleshow/18667774.cms

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/jagdish-shettar-b-s-yeddyurappa-karnataka-bjp/1/249960.html

 #4  Moral policing:

The taint will carry over into the election, said party insiders. The moral policing issues in coastal Karnataka, mainly Mangalore, may also hurt the BJP.

     Mangalore has become a lab for Hindutva experiments.

ಪೊಲೀಸ್‌ಗಿರಿ ಪ್ರಜ್ಞಾವಂತ ಸಮುದಾಯವನ್ನು ಕೆರಳಿಸಿದೆ. ಹೆಚ್ಚುಕಡಿಮೆ ಪ್ರತಿದಿನ ಒಂದಲ್ಲ ಒಂದು ಸ್ಥಳದಲ್ಲಿ ಪರಸ್ಪರ ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವ ಇಲ್ಲವೆ ಜತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹೋಗುವ ಮುಸ್ಲಿಂ ಹುಡುಗ ಮತ್ತು ಹಿಂದೂ ಹುಡುಗಿಯ ಮೇಲೆ ಹಲ್ಲೆ ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಿರುತ್ತದೆ. ಕಾನೂನು ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಇದನ್ನು ಅಪರಾಧ ಎಂದು ಪರಿಗಣಿಸಲು ಅಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗಿರುವ ಕಾರಣ ಅಧಿಕೃತವಾಗಿ ದೂರು ದಾಖಲಾಗುವುದು ಕಡಿಮೆ.

    ದೈಹಿಕವಾಗಿ ಹಲ್ಲೆ ನಡೆಸುವ ಮತ್ತು ಪೊಲೀಸರ ಮೂಲಕ ಹೆದರಿಸುವ ಕೃತ್ಯಗಳು ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಲೇ ಇವೆ. ಸಂಘ ಪರಿವಾರದ ಕುಮ್ಮಕ್ಕಿನಿಂದಲೇ ಇದು ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಿದೆ ಎನ್ನುವುದು ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಗೊತ್ತಿದೆ. ಇದರ ವಿರುದ್ಧ ಬಿಜೆಪಿಯ ಸಾಂಪ್ರದಾಯಿಕ ಬೆಂಬಲಿಗ ಕುಟುಂಬಗಳ ಮಹಿಳೆಯರೇ ತಿರುಗಿಬಿದ್ದಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇತ್ತೀಚೆಗೆ ನಡೆದ ನಗರ ಸ್ಥಳೀಯ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಅನುಭವಿಸಿದ ಸೋಲು ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಸಾಕ್ಷಿ.

#5 killing social strata of uttara karnataka by dividing people as lingayat and non lingayat for gaining votes.

    Congress is always accused of dividing people as Hindu and Muslim, but BJP is succesful in dividing Hinuds on caste lines by saffronising education, donating money to Mutts, unrealistic proposal of teaching bhagawad Gita and batting for unrealistic anti poor and anti farmer cow slaughter bill.

#6  Saffronisation of  Education at primary and high school level

    http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/saffronisation-of-social-studies-textbook-condemned/article2884713.ece

   

#7  Openly fuding Taxpayers money to RSS wing rastrotthana parishat that indulges in    publishing books that create communal hatredness

    http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-25/bangalore/38009420_1_poll-schedule-rss-model-code

#8  Always trying to divide people on communal lines

a)   BJP-ruled Karnataka is on a dangerous path of radicalisation. Rana Ayyub traces the scary distortion of an entire society    [http://tehelka.com/hindutva-lab-2-0-2/ ]   

b) Unrealistic proposal of teaching Gita in schools

     

Women are inferior according to one interpretation check the attached image [ verse 9.31 ]

There was a great deal of opposition when BJP In Karnataka wanted to teach Bhagavad Gita in schools.

But Interpretations of Gita as in the attached Image is dangerous which calls women as inferior, shudras as inferior. A pupil who reads this, will not treat women and other men kindly. Is not it better to leave it to a person instead of enforcing such debatable thoughts into the tender minds

This is just one example, you will get n number of such interpretations, learned amond the learned fails to explain, what can a primiary/high school teacher explain to the pupil      

    http://news.oneindia.in/2011/07/18/karnataka-bhagvad-gita-teaching-in-schools-spark-row-aid0155.htm

#9  100’s  of crores of  Tax Payers Money is being given away to RSS an organisation which has been time and again questioned on communal lines. In the last 5 years RSS wings namely Rashtrotthan parishat a RSS publication has quadrupled its fund reserve thanks to BJP government.

The state government allotted prime commercial lands and residential plots valued at around Rs.50 crore at throw away prices to as many as six RSS- affiliated organisations and seven leaders from the RSS background whereas more than 3,50,000 people have been waiting patiently for allotment of a plot developed by government agencies.

A Rs 115-crore contract that will benefit Bangalore garbage contractors and a plot of land in the heart of the city leased to an RSS wing have earned the ire of the Election Commission.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-25/bangalore/38009420_1_poll-schedule-rss-model-code

ಜೀವನದಿಂದಲೇ ದೇವರು ಉದ್ಭವಿಸಬೇಕು, ಬೆಳೆಯಬೇಕು; ಹಿರಿಯವನಾಗಬೇಕು. ಎಷ್ಟುಎಷ್ಟು ನಮ್ಮ ಜೀವನ ಹಿರಿದೋ ಅಷ್ಟು ಅಷ್ಟು ದೇವರೂ ಹಿರಿದು.

-ಶಿವರಾಮ ಕಾರಂತ

bendre-humanity

ಬೇಂದ್ರೆ ಆ ಕಾಲದಲ್ಲೆ ನಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರ ಬಾಕಿ ತೀರಿಸುವಂತೆ ಹತ್ತು ರುಪಾಯಿ ದಕ್ಷಿಣೆಯನ್ನು ದೇವರಿಗಿಟ್ಟು ಮಾನವೀಯತೆ ಮೆರೆದರು. ಏನ್ ಹೇಳ್ತಾ ಇದಾನಿವ್ನು ಅಂತೀರ, ಇಂದು ಸಂಜೆ ಮಡಿವಾಳದ ಬಳಿ ಒಬ್ಬ ಮಹಿಳೆ ಚಮ್ಮಾರನಿಗೆ ನೀಡಿದ್ದು ಹತ್ತು ರುಪಾಯಿ ತನ್ನ ಚಪ್ಪಲಿಗೆ ಹೊಲಿಗೆ ಹಾಕಿದ್ದಕ್ಕೆ. ಅಂದು ಬೇಂದ್ರೆ ೧.೫೦ ರುಪಾಯಿ ಕೂಲಿ ಕೇಳಿದ ಚಮ್ಮಾರನಿಗೆ ನೀಡಿದ್ದು ಬರೋಬ್ಬರಿ ಹತ್ತು ರುಪಾಯಿ. ಬಿಸಿಲ ಬೇಗೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಷ್ಟ ಪಟ್ಟು ಕೆಲ್ಸ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಚಮ್ಮಾರನ ಕಷ್ಟ ಸುಖ ವಿಚಾರಿಸಿ ದಿನದ ಗಳಿಕೆ ಹತ್ತು ರುಪಾಯಿಯೆಂದು ತಿಳಿದು, ಅವನಿಗೆ ಸ್ಚಲ್ಪವೂ ನಷ್ಟವಾಗದಂತೆ ೧೦ ರೂ ನೀಡಿ, ಮನೆಗೋಗಿ ಕೊಡೆ ತಂದು ಅದರಡಿಯಲಿ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡು, ಬಿಸಿಲಲ್ಲಿ ಬೇಡ ಅಂದರು.

ಇದು ಬೇಂದ್ರೆ ದೇವರಿಗೆ ವಂದಿಸಿದ ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲವೆ...ರವೀಂದ್ರರ ಈ ಕೆಳಗಣ ಸಾಲುಗಳಿಗೆ(ಗೀತಾಂಜಲಿ) ಜೀವ ಬಂದಂತಾಯಿತಲ್ಲವೆ

Here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, and lowliest, and lost.

When I try to bow to thee, my obeisance cannot reach down to the depth where thy feet rest among the poorest, and lowliest, and lost.

Pride can never approach to where thou walkest in the clothes of the humble among the poorest, and lowliest, and lost.

My heart can never find its way to where thou keepest company with the companionless among the poorest, the lowliest, and the lost.

ಇದರ ಅರ್ಥ ಹೀಗಿದೆ, ದೇವರ ಪಾದಗಳು ಬಡವ ದೀನ ದಲಿತರಿರುವಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಟ್ಟಿದೆ, ನಾನು ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಿದ ನಮನ ಆತನ ಪಾದಗಳ ಬಳಿ ಸೇರಲೆ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಅಂದರೆ ಸರಳತೆ ಇರುವಲ್ಲಿ ದೇವರು ಇರುವನು, ಬಡವರ ನಡುವೆ ದೇವರು ನಡೆದಾಡುವನು. ಬಡವರೊಡನೆ ಒಡನಾಟವಿಟ್ಟು ಅವರಿಗೆ ಸ್ಪಂದಿಸುವು ಸುಲಭ ಸಾದ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ, ಮಾತಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಳುವುದು ಸುಲಭ, ಬಡವನ ಹೃದಯಕ್ಕೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಹೃದಯ ಬಡಿದರಷ್ಟೆ ಸಾಲುದು, ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಮಿಡಿದರೆ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು.

bharathaambeallakannadambe

  ಭಾರತಾಂಬೆ ಅಲ್ಲ ಕನ್ನಡಾಂಬೆ 

ಕೋ ಚೆ ಅವರ ಪುಸ್ತಕದಲ್ಲಿರಬೇಕು ಓದಿದ ನೆನಪು, ಕುವೆಂಪು ಅವರ ಈ ಕೆಳಗಣ ಸಾಲುಗಳಿಗೆ
"ನೂರು ದೇವರನೆಲ್ಲ ನೂಕಾಚೆ ದೂರ
ಭಾರತಾಂಬೆಯೆ ದೇವಿ ನಮಗಿನ್ನು ಪೂಜಿಸುವ ಬಾರ"
 ಸ್ಪೂರ್ಥಿ ಈ ವಿವೇಕಾನಂದರ ವಾಣಿ ಇರಬಹುದೆಂದು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾರೆ
 For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote — this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds

ಸದ್ಯದ ರಾಜಕೀಯ ವಿದ್ಯಮಾನ, ಹಿಂದಿ ಹೇರಿಕೆ, ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರಿಗೆ ಆಗುತ್ತಿರುವ ಅನ್ಯಾಯ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ ಪರಿಸ್ಥಿಯಲ್ಲಿ  ಯಾರೋ ಮೂರ್ಖರು ಸ್ವಹಿತಾಸಕ್ತಿ ಕಾಯುವುದಕ್ಕೆ ಹೆಣೆಯುತ್ತಿರುವ ಜಾಲದ ಕಾರಣ ಭಾರತಾಂಬೆಯ ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡಾಂಬೆಯ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಕಾಣುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ, ವಿಶಾಲ ದಿಟ್ಟಿಯನ್ನು ಬದಿಗಿಟ್ಟು ಸಂಕುಚಿತವೆನಿಸಿದರು ಪರವಾಗಿಲ್ಲ, ಈ ರೀತಿ ಬದಲಾಯಿಸಿ ಹಾಡುವ ಅವಶ್ಯಕತೆಯಿದೆ

"ನೂರು ದೇವರನೆಲ್ಲ ನೂಕಾಚೆ ದೂರ
ಕನ್ನಾಡಾಂಬೆಯೆ ದೇವಿ ನಮಗಿನ್ನು ಪೂಜಿಸುವ ಬಾರ"

[ಕುವೆಂಪು ಅವರು ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಬೇಕೆಂದು ಕೋರುತ್ತೇನೆ]

Edege Bidda Akshara

                                          "ಎದೆಗೆ ಬಿದ್ದ ಅಕ್ಷರ"

ಇದು ಡ್ಯಾಟಾ ಯುಗ ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ತಡಕಿದರೆ ಸಾಕು, ಉದಾಹರಣೆಗೆ ಎಡಪಂಥೀಯನಾಗಿರು ಬಲಪಂಥೀಯನಾಗಿರು ನಿನ್ನ ಲೇಖನವನ್ನು ಸಮರ್ಥಿಸಲು ಮಾಹಿತಿ ರೆಡಿ. ಇಂಥ ಯಾವುದೆ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಇಲ್ಲ. ನನ್ನಂಥಹ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಓದುಗನಿಗೆ ತಿಳಿದಿರುವ ಬುದ್ಧ, ಬಸವ ಅಂಥವರದೆ ಉದಾಹರಣೆಗಳು ಕಾಣಸಿಗುವ ದೇವನೂರು ಮಹಾದೇವ ಅವರ ಪುಸ್ತಕ "ಎದೆಗೆ ಬಿದ್ದ ಅಕ್ಷರ’ ಓದಬೇಕೆ ?. ಸುಮಾರು ಮೂರು ಸಾವಿರ ವರ್ಷಗಳೆ ಬೇಕಾದವು ಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮಣ ವರ್ಗಕ್ಕೆ ತಾವುಗಳು ಹೆಜ್ಜೆಯಿಟ್ಟ ಹಾದಿಯನ್ನು ಸ್ವಲ್ಪವಾದರು ವಿಮರ್ಶಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು. ಇಂದಿಗು ವಿಮರ್ಶೆ ಆಗುತ್ತಿದೆಯೆ ಎಂಬ ಅನುಮಾನ, ಭಯಪಡಿಸುವುದು ಆಗಾಗ ಕೇಳಿಬರುವ ಮನುವಿನ ಗುಣಗಾನ ? ಇಷ್ಟನ್ನೆ ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸಿ ಪುಸ್ತಕ ಬರೆದಿದ್ದರೆ ಸಾಕಿತ್ತು ಅಷ್ಟೆ ಪ್ರತಿಗಳು ಮಾರಾಟವಾಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದವೇನೊ.

ಸಮಾಜದ ಕುರಿತ ಬರವಣಿಗೆಯೆಂದರೆ ಪುಟಕ್ಕೆರ್‍ಅಡರಂತೆ ಸಿಗಲೆ ಬೇಕು ಸಂಖ್ಯಾಧಾರಿತ ತೌಲನಿಕ ವಿಶ್ಲೇಷಣೆ, ಇಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೆ ಅದು ಬರವಣಿಗೆಯೆ ? ಆದರೆ  ಮಹಾದೇವರ ಪುಸ್ತಕದ ಪ್ರತಿ ಪುಟದಲ್ಲು ಸಿಕ್ಕುವುದು ಅಷ್ಟು ಸುಲಭವಾಗಿ ಕಾಣಸಿಗದ ಕಾರುಣ್ಯದ ಹೊನಲು, ಅಯ್ಯಾ ಹೊಡೆದಾಡದಿರು ಎಂಬ ಆರ್ತನಾದ,ಜಾತಿಯನ್ನು ಮೀರಿದ ಯೋಚನೆ, ಇದು ನಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರ ಸಾಮಾಜವೆಂಬ ಬಹುದೊಡ್ದ ನಾಗರಿಕ ಕಲ್ಪನೆ ಮಿಗಿಲಾಗಿ ಅತ್ಯಂತ ವಸ್ತುನಿಷ್ಠ ಆತ್ಮ ವಿಮರ್ಶೆ, ಒಬ್ಬ ದಲಿತ ತನಗಿಂತ ಕೆಳಗಿನವನನ್ನು ನಡೆಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ರೀತಿ ಕಂಡು ಮರುಗುವ ಹೃದಯ. ಮೊದಲ ಲೇಖನಕ್ಕು ಕೊನೆಯ ಲೇಖನಕ್ಕು ಅಂತರ ೪ ದಶಕಗಳಿಗೂ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿರಬಹುದು, ಆದರು ಅದೆ ಹೃದಯ ವೈಶಾಲ್ಯತೆಯನ್ನು ಮೆರೆದಿರುವರು, ಇದು ಅಷ್ಟು ಸುಲಭ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಲ್ಲ.
ಕೇವಲ ೧೦೦-೧೫೦ ವರ್ಷಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಮಟ್ಟಿಗೆ ತುಳಿತಕ್ಕೊಳಗಾದ ಸಮಾಜ ತನ್ನಾತ್ಮವನ್ನೆ ವಿಮರ್ಶೆ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದೆಂದರೆ ದಾರಿ ತಪ್ಪಿರುವ ಮಾನವಕುಲಕ್ಕೆ ದಾರಿ ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದಂತೆ. ಕುವೆಂಪು ಅವರ ಪದ್ಯವೊಂದರ ಮೊದಲ ಸಾಲು "ನಾಡಿನ ಪುಣ್ಯದ ಪೂರ್ವದಿಗಂತದಿ ನವ ಅರುಣೋದಯ ಹೊಮ್ಮುತಿದೆ" ಎನ್ನುವುದರ ಅರ್ಥ ಇದೆ ಏನೊ. ವಿಷಯಗಳನ್ನು ತಪ್ಪಾಗಿ ಅರ್ಥೈಸಿ ದ್ವೇಷ ಭಾವದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೇಯುತ್ತಿರುವ, ತಮ್ಮ ತೀಕ್ಷ್ಣ ಮತಿಗಾಹುತಿಯಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವ ಸಧ್ಯದ ಮನಸ್ಥಿತಿಗೆ ವಿಶೇಷವಾಗಿ ಮುಂದುವರಿದ ವರ್ಗಗಳಿಗೆ ಇಂಥಹ ತೀವ್ರತರವಾದ ವಿಮರ್ಶೆಯ ಪಾಠ ಬೇಕಿತ್ತು.

 ಪುಸ್ತಕವನ್ನು ಪೂರ್ತಿಯಾಗೋದಲು ಧೈರ್ಯ ಸಾಲಲಿಲ್ಲ, ಕಾಲು ಭಾಗ ಇರುವಂತೆಯೆ ಮುಚ್ಚಿಟ್ಟೆ, ಮಧ್ಯಮ ವರ್ಗದವನೆಂದೊಮ್ಮೆ ಹೆಮ್ಮೆ ಪಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ನಾನು ನಾಚಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ತಲೆತಗ್ಗಿಸಿದೆ, ಮನವು ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸಿತು

  " ಸುಟ್ಟರು ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ನಿನ್ನ ಮನೆಗಳನ್ನು,
    ಸಂತೃಪ್ತಿ ಪಡಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ತಮ್ಮ ಮನಗಳನ್ನು
    ಆದರು ಹೊತ್ತಿಸಲಿಲ್ಲ ಮೊಂಬತ್ತಿ, ಅಯ್ಯೋ ನೀನೆ
    ಉರಿಯುತ್ತಿರುವೆ ಮೇಣವಾಗಿ,
    ಓ ಬಡವ ನಿನಗಾರುರಿಸುವರು ಮೊಂಬತ್ತಿ ?"

 ಅಕ್ಷರವು  ಬರಿಯ ಮನಕ್ಕೆ ತಗುಲಿದರೆ ವಿಮರ್ಶೆ ಸಾಧ್ಯವೆ, ಎದೆಗೆ ಬಿದ್ದಾಗಲೆ ತಾನೆ ಅದು ಸಾಧ್ಯ.

courtesy: image taken from internet

Corruption obsession, caste still a player in India

It is a common notion that poverty in India is due to corruption. No! Corruption is just one in the list others are unemployment, over population..., in a complex social structure that too  a  caste based structure like ours, caste system proves to be a significant cause for poverty. One can confirm this to some extent because poorest of the poor belong to a suppressed class or the dalits.

Corruption obsession.  [What noise of corruption has done]

“The corruption obsession also crowds out the debate on other crucial problems. A country's bankrupt educational system, malfunctioning hospitals or stagnating economy cannot compete with headlines about a corruption scandal. These problems may be aggravated by corruption, but they are created by conditions that often have little to do with the behavior of dishonest government officials. Even when such social ills rise to the top of the national agenda, the fight against corruption tends to inform the public debate. Inevitably, the public's understanding of what it would take to tackle other national priorities becomes clouded by the corruption obsession”

History

Since ages owing to its social structure and strong caste practices that are inherently discriminating in nature have rendered majority of India poor and can be understood from the below quotes of Vivekananda.

[I am quoting Vivekananda so that caste believers should not say I am biased, otherwise you can refer to romila, jadunath sarkar etc who have quoted more intensively from history]

COROLLARY 1_1:

Priest craft has had an impact on India via caste system. What is the kind of impact.

PROOF 1_1

Swami Vivekananda said that one of the cause for the downfall of India has been the negligence of her poor masses for ages.

 "I believe in helping the miserable. I consider that the great national sin is the neglect of the masses, and that is one of the causes of our downfall” [Swami Vivekananda]

 Pooh! India is to be raised, the poor are to be fed, education is to be spread, and the evil of priest craft is to be removed. No priest craft, no social tyranny!  [Swami Vivekananda]

Priest craft is the one that enforced caste system in India and is directly responsible for this massive discrimination that is never found in any part of the earth. Which can be confirmed from the below quote of vivekananda

"It is in the books written by priests that madnesses like that of caste are to be found, and not in books revealed from God".  [Swami Vivekananda]

 AXIOM 1_1 

The Caste System in India  [ Excerpt from a study]

IV.1. Economic State of Untouchables in India

“The caste system that was established in India forced many people who belong to the lower castes into poverty. There are approximately 180 million to 220 million people who are considered to be in the lowest caste in India (Ninian, 2008). These lower castes or ?Dalits? (broken people) are essentially shunned from society (Thekaekara, 2005). It is not that they have earned such isolation, they ?experience absolute exclusion from the cradle to the grave? (Thekaekara, 2005).

Many are forbidden to hold jobs because their caste may be one of an untouchable, or a person with basically no rights. Out of the 180-220 million Dalits, 40 million are essentially doing slave labor because they must work off the debts of their ancestors (Ninian, 2008). These people are taught to expect nothing in life but to work all day in the sun and hope that someone will buy their labor or produce, which is in fact uncommon because those of higher castes often refuse to touch anything an untouchable has touched. This practice is due to the reasoning that people feared that even a simple glance at an untouchable could pollute your standing in a higher caste position and aid in the eventual downgrade of caste in the next life (Standing, 2007). Because of this discrimination and work bondage, it is difficult for many people of a lower caste to have a steady income, therefore keeping them in extreme poverty.”

“Corruption has too easily become the universal diagnosis for a nation's ills. If we could only curtail the culture of graft and greed, we are told, many other intractable problems would easily be solved. But although it is true that corruption can be crippling, putting an end to the bribes, kickbacks, and payoffs will not necessarily solve any of the deeper problems that afflict societies.”

So one such deeper problem in India is caste system and its brutal practices enforced and continued even till today.

TRUTH

*) Thus we come to know that caste oppression since ages is the reason for majority India to be in state of poverty.

*) Corruption undoubtedly is also a reason for poverty, so if considered the below parameters

      a) Caste system

      b) unemployment

      c) corruption as chief factors

  For a dalit cause of poverty and the degree of parameters affecting are in this order is a > b > c [Here c is almost negligible], Because he is discriminated, he is unemployed or employed in substandard jobs which does not allow him to fulfill his basic  needs and further corruption does not allow him to get funds that he is entitled to, this is again due to caste system )

                                    

Corruption is no doubt a problem but its a problem to middleclass,  Today, India's GDP is more than five times what it was in 1991. Its major cities are now home to an affluent professional class that commutes in new cars on freshly paved four-lane highways to jobs that didn't exist. But this affluence is not for Indian majority. Economic liberalization has not even nudged the lives of the country's bottom 200 million people  .                             

                                                                                     

 Citations and Further reading

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http://idsn.org/news-resources/idsn-news/read/article/two-thirds-of-indias-dalits-are-poor/128/

Poverty levels are highest among India’s tribal population (81.4 percent), followed by Dalits (65.8 percent) and Other Backward Classes (58.3 percent). The poverty level among the rest of the population is 33.3 percent.  

MPI reveals better data

 

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What Noted columnist and an expert in rural issues P Sainath says   [ http://prdti.org/media/p_sainath.html ]

 "Only 16 per cent of dalits live in urban areas. The remaining 84 per cent, in rural India. The over 450 SC groups in the country represent an important and incredibly complex phenomenon. A people confronted by seemingly intractable problems brought on by millenia of exploitation, enforced poverty and deprivation."

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http://www.roiw.org/2008/2008-3.pdf

Since obtaining independence in 1947, Indian governments have been deeply concerned with widespread poverty and have implemented various anti-poverty schemes. However, rural poverty remains persistent, with the headcount ratio being 30.2 percent in 1999/2000 (Deaton, 2003a). Particularly troubling is the concentration of rural poverty in India in the “scheduled caste” (SC) and “scheduled tribe” (ST) populations.1 The presence of such disparity in the incidence ofpoverty and widespread discrimination against scheduled groups have long histo-ries in India. Affirmative action programs have been at the core of Indian social policy directed toward scheduled groups.Our focus is on rural poverty. Most of India’s poor live in rural areas. Also, we can observe classification of SC, ST and non-scheduled households more clearly in rural areas.

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http://www.publishyourarticles.net/knowledge-hub/essay/conclusive-essay-on-poverty-in-india.html

Poverty tends to be characterized by the denial of rights as well as material insufficiency.

The caste system in India is a traditional drag on society since early times. Some castes seem to suffer from a feeling that all human beings are not equal. This superiority complex among some castes has brought a situation in which the untouchables are the poorest among the poor and suffer as bonded labor, child labor and prostitution.

It was only after independence that the government carried out certain legal reforms to abolish untouchability and to reserve seats in schools and colleges for the scheduled and backward communities. The major part of the benefits has, however, been grabbed by a few privileged Scheduled castes and Scheduled tribes. The poorest still remain poor

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http://www.newint.org/books/reference/world-development/case-studies/inequality-dalits-in-india/

World Development book case study: the dalit minority in India

More than 60 years after gaining independence, India is still very much afflicted by the cancer of the caste system. Dalits remain the most vulnerable, marginalized and brutalized community in the country.

Dalits remain the most vulnerable, marginalized and brutalized community in the country

http://www.newint.org/books/reference/world-development/case-studies/2011/05/13/discrimination-flowchart.png

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/10/india-slumdog-millionaire-caste

India's elephant in the room: The success of Slumdog Millionaire obscures the real cause of poverty in India – the caste system

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http://www.american.edu/cas/economics/ejournal/upload/Global_Majority_e_Journal_1-2_Rao.pdf

The Caste System: Effects on Poverty in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka

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http://www.poverties.org/causes-of-poverty-in-india.html

Discrimination - Hidden causes of poverty in India  Caste-based segregation

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India, Excerpt for the above link: A 1995 study suggests that the caste system in India must be viewed as a system of exploitation of poor low-ranking groups by ore prosperous high-ranking groups.

http://defeatpoverty.com/articles/Caste%20Away%20-%20WSJ.pdf