An open letter to everyone expressing hate for Babasaheb Ambedkar.
Recent Facebook post:
I think it’s about time I expressed my due indignation towards people making and sharing memes that abuse Babasaheb Ambedkar unabashedly, hiding behind the veil of their monitor screens and comfortably inciting popular outrage of ignorant, misinformed people.
It is very very disheartening to see that how easy it has become for a group or an individual to denigrate national icons like Babasaheb, the greatest champion of the proletariat- and not of any particular community, by spreading photoshopped images alongwith false and pungent accusations.
What’s even more unfortunate is that some of us, despite having seen these blasphemous memes being rampantly shared in our news feeds either turned a blind eye towards such miscreants or went a step further and tagged someone in the posts who didn’t get a seat in a prestigious institution. Hope you guys had a good laugh.
Rules, regulations, Public policy and Govt. decisions and measures, no doubt, have always been subjected to public scrutiny, but it is not at all justifiable to vent out all your frustration on a national hero without having the slightest clue about the way our democracy works.
I have met people who have gone as far as calling the Indian system the epitome of hypocrisy- enshrining equality as a right in the Constitution of India and at the same time having a thick reservation system in place. I’m sure a lot of people share this view. But, before questioning the Indian polity, have you ever wondered that our society itself is an epitome of inequality? To have a system of equality would literally obliterate the underprivileged classes of our society, please note that. And thus, we have a system of equity- equality amongst equals, by which we are still pursuing equality.
It is because of such untoward posts that all of us, bit by bit, are turning obtuse and placid- who says we’re growing intolerant? I don’t see a single person standing up to do the right thing at the right time for the right cause anymore. This is just another instance that I’ll remember.
For people who curse Babasaheb and believe that he re-divided India on caste lines, here’s what he once said- “We are all Indians, firstly and lastly.”
Not to mention that he was the arch-nemesis of the Indian caste system that at that time prevailed not just in Hinduism, but also in Islam in a slightly different form.
I guess I can just feel sorry for the people who’ll never see the greater goals and dreams that Babasaheb had for this country of thankless citizens.
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
I think it’s about time I expressed my due indignation towards people making and sharing memes that abuse Babasaheb Ambedkar unabashedly, hiding behind the veil of their monitor screens and comfortably inciting popular outrage of ignorant, misinformed people.
It is very very disheartening to see that how easy it has become for a group or an individual to denigrate national icons like Babasaheb, the greatest champion of the proletariat- and not of any particular community, by spreading photoshopped images alongwith false and pungent accusations.
What’s even more unfortunate is that some of us, despite having seen these blasphemous memes being rampantly shared in our news feeds either turned a blind eye towards such miscreants or went a step further and tagged someone in the posts who didn’t get a seat in a prestigious institution. Hope you guys had a good laugh.
Rules, regulations, Public policy and Govt. decisions and measures, no doubt, have always been subjected to public scrutiny, but it is not at all justifiable to vent out all your frustration on a national hero without having the slightest clue about the way our democracy works.
I have met people who have gone as far as calling the Indian system the epitome of hypocrisy- enshrining equality as a right in the Constitution of India and at the same time having a thick reservation system in place. I’m sure a lot of people share this view. But, before questioning the Indian polity, have you ever wondered that our society itself is an epitome of inequality? To have a system of equality would literally obliterate the underprivileged classes of our society, please note that. And thus, we have a system of equity- equality amongst equals, by which we are still pursuing equality.
It is because of such untoward posts that all of us, bit by bit, are turning obtuse and placid- who says we’re growing intolerant? I don’t see a single person standing up to do the right thing at the right time for the right cause anymore. This is just another instance that I’ll remember.
For people who curse Babasaheb and believe that he re-divided India on caste lines, here’s what he once said- “We are all Indians, firstly and lastly.”
Not to mention that he was the arch-nemesis of the Indian caste system that at that time prevailed not just in Hinduism, but also in Islam in a slightly different form.
I guess I can just feel sorry for the people who’ll never see the greater goals and dreams that Babasaheb had for this country of thankless citizens.
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
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