Chronicles of a Vagabond: beauty

Racism is endemic on this planet, and aliens in Andromeda galaxy are having a laugh at our expense, looking at our belief that one race is superior than the other, not to mention some other ridiculously held notions. The concept of race is such an old concept that it belongs to the times of Genghis Khan...and also I gotta say that Genghis Khan was a much better warrior than Alexander, but he was passed on in history because of the same reason of race.

If at all there is one country which is comparatively less racist -- it is United States of America, and I believe one of the reason is exposure, and the other is greed. Greed is a common denominator which unites different races. And of course, it will destroy all races, later, without any discrimination.

It is a possibility that it could be proved that one race is intelligent than the other. But, the difference of such intelligence is inconsequential, because, I believe that nurture plays a more important role than the nature.When human beings took a long jump from the primates, they jumped to 10 miles, and a millimetre difference is not much of a consequence,especially; when people argue that homo sapiens became homo sapiens,because of their intelligence.Even if such intelligence is consequential for the development of societies, I would argue that intelligence is only a part of the human psyche.

India is a Racist country with capital R.Caste system is one such branch of racism that made people little less than slaves for centuries. People talk about vedas and upanishads, and say that they are the basis of Hindu religion. There are one or two good things in Upanishads, but I refuse to agree that they are the basis of this religion.

You will be surprised to know that most of the Hindu beliefs, notions and customs, had its roots in Manu smrithi. Manu said some good things and a lot of naughty things. Most obvious were the ones talking about lower caste and women. While reading through that book, it was very obvious to me that it was written for the purpose of male Brahmin domination, through the use of fear, God, kings and merchants.

Many of those rules are still followed to this day, and made a strong impact on the minds of the Hindus. The rules were passed through generations, not by rote, but by practice. When something is learnt by practice, it works miraculously on the sub-concious mind, making people think that their thinking is natural and real. This is not something unique to Hindusim, its prevalent among most of the religions. Christians are accused of following Bible to the word, and the same accusation can be levelled on Hindus for following manusmrithi, almost word to word, or by action to action.The difference is, most of us doesn't even know that such kind of rules exist.

On the top of the pyramid was the male brahmin and, in the lowest was lower caste women.
The actors changed, as we have seen in the demolition of brahmin domination, but, the script remained all the same. The script is Manudharma.

5.147. By a girl, by a young woman, or even by an aged one, nothing must be done independently, even in her own house.

5.148. In childhood a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband, when her lord is dead to her sons; a woman must never be independent.

5.149. She must not seek to separate herself from her father, husband, or sons; by leaving them she would make both (her own and her husband’s) families contemptible.

In one way or other, consciously or sub-consciously, these rules are implemented. Educated women refuse to see this blaring truth, because they refuse to be in the shoes of victim. But, just by being born in India, a woman already becomes a victim. Even if the family is liberal, the society is not.

I am not a feminist, precisely because, I don't agree with lot of things these feminists do in india.
They generalize the whole thing, instead of looking at case by case. There are lot of evil woman (lets say psychologically disturbed) out there, and there are lot of men who suffered because of them. When a woman is repressed, she shows her frustrations on another woman. That is so obvious. The classic case of MIL-DIL friction comes from those frustrations. Feminists also have this problem about a woman selling her body. Well, I don't have a problem with the woman either showing her body or using her body for money, except in the 'against their will' cases.

My problem comes when they define beauty.

This whole back ground was necessary and the whole reason for writing all this, is for that problem of mine. I am talking specifically about Dravidian Lower caste women. An average DLCW is a self hating person, and one of the reason is her dark color, which is looked down as not so beautiful. This is the truth, even if my liberal friends argue with me that times are changing. Times changing....My ASS!

An average dravidian male is also a self loathing person, who is like a dog salivating at a fair looking women. Case in point is the south indian film industry, which for many years is the only sexual outlet for many frustrated men in india.Now, I am not talking about brownish color, I am talking about real dark, the true color of the dravidians.

Why do Dravidian hate their own color?? Did evolution tell them to hate dark? That would be hilarious if it did...because it would be a contradiction because, every one of us has roots in africa, and we were all dark at one point.Of course, it doesn't make dark any better.

Then why we became into self hating fools?

The only source of that frustration I can find is the Aryan invasion of india. Before aryan invasion, dravidians really did flourish, and I am sure they didnt have this concept of 'fair is beautiful', because they didnt have a point of reference in the first place. Aryan invasion totally screwed the dravidian people and its culture. Manu talked about the greatness of aryans about hundred times in the book. They made the dravidians into rakshasas and ofcourse all those rakshasas including Ravana were dark. The only god for Dravidians is Ravana, not Rama. Rama was the person who was responsible for mutilating our sister...if you ask me ;)

People say that invasion happened thousands of years ago and all that. True. But, If Ramayana, which is basically an anti-dravidian story, is still being considered as holy book, then it means that the ramification of that invasion is still present.

This is not aryans are evil kind of argument...we became a mixed race...and that kind of argument serves no purpose.

Everyone of us Indians, has both Aryan and Dravidian blood in us. And also everyone of us has this bug of "Aryan Power" in our bodies, which is eating away both our minds and hearts. That aryan bug has been planted hundreds of centuries ago, and to till day, we suffer from it. The aryan bug was planted because we became slaves to our fears of unknown, and which was exploited by using God and religion. It is not about exploitation of one group by another, it is about exploitation of us by ourselves because of that bug. That is the crux of the matter.

In a way, when an Indian woman is proud of her beauty because of the fairness of her skin, she is basically digging a grave for herself. Because, both her liberation and 'dark' liberation are both related to the same bug...and even the struggle of socially and economic backward classes is linked to the same bug.

So, Sister, If you are hating a person because of his/her caste, or hating dark color, Basically, you are hating yourself and these rich educated women must know that their liberation is very much linked with the liberation of that woman who is at the bottom of the pyramid. Didn't sita devi know that the same people and same reasons which punished surpanaka, were the same reasons for which she was also punished. The rules by proud men with an agenda!

The problem : An average Hindu male thinks RAMA is the ideal person.
The same rama who spent all his life to protect those rules. Tragedy!

I dedicate this song to that oppressed woman who is at the bottom of the pyramid...by the great poet Tupac Shakur.

* Complain against fairness creams (even if they talk about black spots on white faces)...and their ridiculous ads.The purpose is not to stop them..but to put mirrors before the disgusting side of the society..

update : Join the facebook group " Sharukh Khan is a racist sellout".
Whats the purpose?? I don't know.

Chronicles of a Vagabond

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

In praise of dark women

Monday, January 25, 2010

'White Pride" of the Dark people in Racist Inc