“Congress or any other party that ruled before BJP was not different from Modi. Taking a dig at the Congress, she said the party was not different from the ruling dispensation and was in fact the “pioneer of communalism”. Gidla did not spare the opposition either. “Jignesh Mevani right now seems militant and his protest against Una flogging are very admirable but then again he has chosen to work under the framework of electoral politics and there is only so much he can do from within it.
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While she “applauded” Mevani’s sincerity, she also accused the young Dalit leader of “empty rhetoric”. Gidla moved to New York City with first-hand experience of differential treatment of untouchables in India. And that is all that happened to Dalits,” she said. Mayawati made herself very very rich, her brother made himself very very rich. “Everyone says BSP has given rights to untouchables, it gave them self-confidence and dignity. The author, who now works as a conductor in the US subway, said a parliamentary party like the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) can only work for the Dalit community from within the limited framework they choose to operate in. Gidla, also took a dig at contemporary Indian Dalit leaders like Mayawati and Jignesh Mevani who, she said, have “chosen to work under the framework of electoral politics”. “Gandhi was very casteist and racist indeed and any redblooded untouchable will know what Gandhi’s real intentions were,” she added.
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But, black people are kafirs, losers and they are lazy, yes, they can carry their passport but why should we do that’?” she recounted. he said, ‘Indians are hard working people, they should not be required to carry these things. “In Africa, when they were fighting against the British for instituting the passport. To validate her argument, she recalled an episode from the political leader’s time in South Africa where he said “black” people were “kafirs” and “losers”. The author of “Ant Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and The Making of Modern India” was speaking at a session titled, “Narratives of Power, Songs of Resistance”. “That was the only reason Hindu leaders ever took up caste issues,” Gidla said. “How could one say Gandhi was an anti-caste man? He really wanted to preserve the caste system, and why he paid lip service to the upliftment of untouchables is because Hindus needed a majority against Muslims for political representation in the British government.
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Gandhi only wished to “prettify” the caste system, the New York based Dalit writer said at the Jaipur Literature Festival.įor Jaipur Literature Festival full coverage, click here
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At a time when there is global concern about the plight facing refugees, migrant children being caged and separated from parents, the horrors of offshore detention and border walls, the publishing industry has peddled us these exploitative and cartoonish depictions that produce an easy empathy rather than forcing readers to reckon with their own positionality in structures of power, and the deeper problems that require action.Mahatma Gandhi was a “casteist and racist” who wanted to preserve the caste system and paid lip service to Dalit upliftment for political gain, Indian American writer Sujatha Gidla said here on Monday. Both American Dirt and Act of Grace have plenty of stomach-turning scenes of gratuitous violence, rapes, and beatings. It happens because the sensationalist depiction of brutal violence and trauma in the Great White Novel sells. Why does the publishing industry elevate white writers over #ownvoices writers when it comes to the experiences of communities of colour? It happens because books like American Dirt and Act of Grace fit comfortably with mainstream stereotypes, they don’t challenge white and Western readers to think and see First Nations people and people of colour in their depth and complexity.