Vankkam!
Im a liberado.Well, a moderate one because we dont like extremism you known.
'Extremism' is always synonymous to 'Terrorism', So I refrain from being
anything more than moderate. I live a simple liberal life but this fb is having
a major play testing my liberalism. I will come to that later. I have other
important things to tell.
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| Meet our Liberado |
The
other day I was travelling in train on my way back to home. Everything went
peacefully until there was an unusual noise in my adjoining compartment. Being
a good person(?) I am, I do not intend to get into others trouble. So I decided
to plug on my earphones and let the world be damned. But then everyone in my
compartment were craning their necks to see what was the ruckus. Curiosity got
the better of me and I too checked out. There was a young girl getting into a
commotion with a middle aged person. Her bashings surely suggested that guy
must have mis behaved with her. I was about to curse that fellow in my mind(
Ofcourse not in public. Who would dare do that?) but then the person next to me
cursed under her breath "Look what she is wearing. She comes like this and
expects men to behave themselves. Must be a slut." She is a woman so she
must be a representative of every woman. Men like Periyar, Ambedkar,
Bharathiyar etc.,can be man and feminist
but no woman can be anti-feminist, so she must be telling the fact only.
And then it struck me, there was this fb page
always circulating memes on how Rape rate shall be reduced if women start
wearing duppatta. I find it easier. Why dont girls try that? The guy with whom
she was fighting was wearing only shorts. But he is 'safe'. That is OK. Because
he doesn't have any glamorous parts. Or may be women dont consider them
glamorous or let men have their freedom but we(not me) consider women sexy, so
it is upto them to stop us from being perverts and even if something happens they
should only ignore and not create a scene. Because it is only shameful for them
anyways. We have given(We are the giving authority) them everything. freedom to
education, work and even vote. Appa told women were even forbidden to vote
earlier.Then they must be really happy now for what they have. I dont
understand why girls over react.
The
other day I was incessantly texting my woman colleague, who seemed
disinterested. Later I asked her out. She din't accept but I dint leave. I kept telling that I like her
so much and she sent me a big message that i should mind my own business. What?
I'm only loving her. She said that we shall be friends. So I started sending
her scandalous messages, because that is what I share with my friends(guys). If
she speaks so much of equality, she must accept this. This is REAL EQUALITY. If
she bashes me that this is offensive, that means she thinks of her less that
she cannot stand the same equality my guy friends share with me. Hypocrite.
And
there is my friend Sanjay, who is getting married to his lover next month. I
don't understand how on earth he has got the courage to marry outside his
caste. Should have some pride right. We don't see caste. But marriages are
meant to be a collaboration of prospective families. How can someone from
outside adjust. Ofcourse both are humans not aliens. But still how? What if her
parents commit suicide? Oh these people! Why do they prefer love over parents?
It is OK for parents to prefer caste pride over their kids but how can these kids
take such a decision despite the hardships their parents endured. And people
like me will only infuriate it further. It may seem casteist for you but its
NOT. How do I prove this? Yeah. Got it. Amma was telling that decades back
there used to be separate coconut shells in tea stalls for lower caste people.
But we dont follow such untouchability. We are open-minded people. Even when
appa calls a worker to clean our tank, we serve them water(if asked) in
disposable cups. See we are not casteist.
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| Logic of Moderate Liberals |
We
also dont ask anyone their caste unless it is my friend or neighbour talking to
my amma for more than 10 minutes. My amma gently asks them and whatever be the
detail furnished, I swear it doesnt have any impact. But she asks only to know
the other person's caste identity without which our soul wont find its peace.
And I may be a liberado but I don't interfere in all these things because for
us CASTE just DOESN'T EXIST. That too in cosmopolitan cities, definitely NO.
May be in remote villages it is still there in negligible level.Once I
overheard my athai cursing my mama as a 'lower caste' person in anger for his
behaviour. But I'm cool to turn deaf to those comments because for us CASTE is
SIMPLY DEAD.
Even
if people still believe that caste discrimination is there, we have a whatsapp
group of liberados like me to discuss intelligent ideas on such issues. The
first step to eradicate caste discrimination is to abolish the Reservation
system, because apparently caste is alive only in certain places where reservation
is applicable. For us it is the only effective step so that people can enjoy
everything based only on 'merit' without carrying the caste tag anymore. Once
my over-smart friend asked me "How can you expect that the 2000 year long
subjugation could have been wiped out only with 70 years of reservation? If the
reservation has eliminated the ups and downs, why the top echelons of the
society is still very much devoid of lower caste people? And most of all who
said reservation is only for SC/ST? They occupy lesser percentage than any
other community." Well, I could not right away answer all these but I
think we cannot be held responsible for what our grandfathers did and we should
simply wash our hands off their sins. Ofcourse we are ardent believers of 'karma'.
We will also proudly inherit our ancestors' properties. But this one is an
exception.
We
cannot repay or rectify our ancestors' mistakes even if we have an easy chance
to do so. God will not punish us for this. Because our gods are very much
kinder than other Gods. May be we don't know about other gods but still it had
been consistently reinforced to us that OUR GODS are BEST. Anyways we are
liberal enough to let everyone have their own gods, provided they stay within
their limits. It is also mandatory that everyone have faith in gods of their
birth religion. We dont want conversions unless otherwise it is people coming
to our religion. Because that will only create communal frenzy which is not
good for the utopian society we strive to achieve. And most importantly no one
should be atheists. We may give respect to sentiments of people worshipping
different gods but not to anyone having zero faith in god. That is against
moderate liberalism. We will also curb the liberation to speech and expression
if it is to hurt our sentiments. Liberation means to be limited not absolute.
And also we don't mind religion overpowering
politics because politicians shall be religious. Even if they are imposing(Read:Shoving down our throat) one
particular religious ideas to the whole of the country comprising of various
religion and faith, that shall not be accounted as breach of freedom to
religion. In the greater interest of the nation, we should always fathom the
ideas rather than the name in which it is imposed. That is how a modern and
moderate liberal should be.
We
are moderate liberals who share quotes of famous personalities but never dare
to follow it in our own lives. Anything more liberal than what we are will
always be termed as 'too-much'. Because we want to curb the liberalism before
it becomes extreme.We will even show our casteist, sexist, racist and communal
colours at times of need. We are firm believers that moderate liberation
includes all the '-ists' mentioned. Any one who proclaims that they dont want
any of those '-isms' are always anti-national negativists for us.
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