That's a question that Priyanka Borpujari asks in her blog that's detailing her journey through the dark land of Chattisgarh. In a situation that's becoming highly polarised, it's time for all we 'right thinking' folks to peel off the purple shades and see for ourselves what's happening in broad daylight.
Read on with a click:
How much would you sell your mother for?
Saturday, June 26, 2010
How much would you sell your mother for?
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Labels: crime, ECO WATCH, education, INCREDIBLE INDIA, MEDIA, TRIBES
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
The new love songs
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Labels: art, FRANK KRISHNER, MEDIA, Music, queer subculture, Radio
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Shaken n stirred
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Labels: BIHAR, crime, DALITS, ECO WATCH, education, FRANK KRISHNER, MEDIA, MUSAHAR, WORKING MEN
Friday, June 11, 2010
No kitchen boy here
If you have been brought up in the Western tradition, or have had the benefit of good ol’ Christian schooling [and I mean good OLD Christian schooling] that planted stuff like cricket, Old Bailey, and that peculiar notion of fair play in your hyperactive sub-conscious, you’ll say, “Chaps, these poor buggers have been given a raw deal for centuries. All that they’ve been allowed to do is to clean other’s shit, carry corpses, and scavenge. They’ve been social outcastes for a thousand years, and it’s time to be a bit more accommodating. Teach them to clean up, and probably move them from the outhouse to the vegetable garden.
One of my favourite Black poets, Langston Hughes, spoke about a beautiful black boy being relegated to the kitchen and not being allowed to the dining room. These four kinds of Dalits would never be allowed anywhere near a staunch Brahmin’s kitchen, for Crispen’s sake. Before you call me racist, take a walk to the centre of a Musahar Tola in any of Bihar’s rural districts, and surrounded by the sights and sounds of destitution and degradation, amidst the shit and piss and snorting pigs, stark naked kids, unwashed men smelling of cheap arrack unashamedly scratching their crotches and toothless women with lice-filled hair scratching their emaciated rumps, drink from a pitcher of water offered to you by one of the inhabitants. Let me tell you, if you drink the water, you either have great faith, or great foolishness.
I probably get by because my patron saint is Francis of Assisi.
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Labels: BIHAR, culture vultures, DALITS, education, FRANK KRISHNER, INCREDIBLE INDIA, MEDIA, MUSAHAR, WORKING MEN
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Earth Day, 2010
Poisoning the living waters, oily, thick and smelly goo
While I buy that brand new sedan, one for wife and junior too.
Who cares if a million fishes, squids and crabs and pelicans die?
All the while their rotting corpses, call for vengeance to the Sky.
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Labels: Ecology, FRANK KRISHNER, GOOD stuff, POETRY
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Kaimur visited
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Labels: BIHAR, crime, DALITS, education, INCREDIBLE INDIA, Patna, WORKING MEN
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Rohtas Rant
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Labels: BIHAR, BRAHMIN, DALITS, education, INCREDIBLE INDIA, MUSAHAR, Patna, WORKING MEN