Editorial


“Summit of the Powerless” warns of disaster ahead : Lambs meet upper caste wolves

A two-day “Summit of the Powerless” organised in Delhi by the English journal, Tehelka — which had exposed the horrible corruptions of the then Defence Minister George Fernandes— on Nov.20-21, 2006 was indeed a unique experiment because for the first time it brought the wolves and the lambs face to face.

Yes. Indeed the Summit was a fairly good success.

Because in a multi-national country like India where the upper caste wolves are a micro-minority (15%) but its victims (lambs) are the overwhelming majority (85%), such an experiment of bringing the two on one platform for confrontation is a super-human task.

Wolves eating lambs: The Tehelka did it and it has to be congratulated. Because in this country it has been always the rule of the wolves. It is one-way traffic here. No discussion, no debate allowed. Might is right. Brahminism always wins with its sole monopoly over media, manipulating public opinion, capturing every lever of power as the country is fast sliding from the Third World to the Fourth.

The country may be going to dogs but the Brahminical wolves are unperturbed. They are floating in the clouds of 9% GDP. Their criminal behaviour has the sanction of their shastras. This message came out loud and unanimous in every session of the two-day meet.

The outcome of the Summit may be nil. The wolves will go on eating the lambs. That is its nature. The heartless upper caste wolves of India belong to a special category with an unending appetite for innocent lambs’ flesh and blood.

However, the Summit did give a stern warning to the wolves that the majority lambs are today solidly united and the minority wolves have to go vegetarian and eat grass. Did not the beef-eating Brahmins of the Vedic-age become vegetarian under the onslaught of Budhism?

The Tehelka Summit might have been financed by big business houses like DLF builders of Delhi. Representatives of the lambs might have been small in number in the auditorium. Doesn’t matter. Still the Summit did provide an opportunity to the poor, innocent lambs to meet the wolves, talk to them and warn them.That itself is a great achievement.

In this country wolves never, ever talk to the lambs. The beast will simply pounce on the poor animal and eat it raw. But will the Brahminical carnivorous wolves turn vegetarian?

Topics for the discussion including the explosive issues like the reservations, the North-East, farmers suicide, naxalite movement, Kashmir bloodbath led to one conclusion that if the wolves refuse to turn vegetarian, the 800 and odd millions of lambs will simply pounce upon the beasts and crush them to death.

Reservations issue of the dozen subjects discussed in which we were the main speaker turned out be the most explosive.

DV warning proves right: What is very important from our angle is almost every prediction made in DV about the fast-spreading decay and degeneration of India was also repeated by the different representatives of the lambs. Even Brahminical Gandhians like Anna Hazare, Swami Agnivesh, Aruna Roy, Prakash Amte and the NGO natak co. heroine, Medha Patkar, spoke of the country’s fast deteriorating socio-economic conditions.

The only difference between the speeches of Gandhians and that of Dalit, tribal leaders was that the former went on shedding crocodile tears for the oppressed but the latter identified the real enemy oppressor and even named it: Brahminism.

Particularly shocking was the speech of the Maharashtrian Brahmin lady Medha Patkar, the darling of the Brahminical “national” toilet papers. Her speech was a devastating attack on the “state”. But she would never say who controlled the “state” or the government. Under the caste-infected Indian conditions the state and the govt. are controlled by the 15% Brahminical upper castes (V.T. Rajshekar, Who is Ruling India?, DSA-1982).

Enemy never identified: How is it possible for the oppressed SC/ST/BCs and Muslims (who hear her rabble-rousing speech) to act if she does not name the people controlling the state and the govt.? Medha Patkar drew repeated cheers from the predominantly upper caste audience in the auditorium because her criticisms touched the guilty conscience of the “middle class’ (a name used to hide the upper castes). Never would she identify or name the enemy.

If you don’t identify and name the enemy-oppressor what is the use of all your lavish criticisms of the enemy? That is why Medha Patkar is so much loved by the enemy — Brahminical oppressors — because her speeches have the power to confuse her audience.

Yes. She makes her audience angry. But angry against whom? Unless she identifies the principal  contradiction, what is the use of drawing cheers? Cheers for what? There are hundreds of such Medha Patkars in this country to mislead those willing to be mislead. Arundhati Roy is waiting to take over.

Why Muslim subject kept out: The Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal and his powerful team did a good job on the whole but there was one big omission. The problem of the Muslims, who constitute about 20% of the population and form the worst victims of the Brahminical ruling class out to convert India into Hindustan, did not figure in the agenda. You can’t say the country’s most serious burning problem dubbing the Muslims as terrorists was forgotten. A “Summit of the Powerless” cannot be complete keeping the Muslims — the worst persecuted section of India — out. Was it because the venue of the Summit surrounded by a heavily Muslim populated area, would pose a problem? Many of our Muslim friends who attended the two-day meeting asked us why their subject was kept out. Will the Tehelka explain?