Today was the great day of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar to remember him. I read an Article in newspaper and so came to knew about it. I have a great respect for late Dr. Ambedkar. He is the "writer" of our Indian Constituency and we all must have a great respect for him. He was very famous for his work for Dalit class of out society ,which was always a ignored class. But, due to his work for upliftment of Dalit class, he become GOD for them as well as for us too. I remember certain reference in my history book about his battle against the "Fair" class of society .
Since morning i was under the same state of remembering him and so do Dalit class.But, they have a different views of remembering him.. While coming back from office ,it was 8.30 and so, i was expecting a thin traffic on roads. But, that was not a right judgement of mine for a day.As all the roads to my home have a prominent Dalit-living area, they were blocked. Yes, literally every road was blocked due to "mandaps" of these dalit groups and every mandap sported a Big walls of music systems and a loud music was played on them.
To add in confusion were the usual Puneits on their vehicles in EXTRA hurry to reach home .so, every one was trying to get ahead of other ,creating a total mess. Oh and i pitied those Police mam's who were trying their best to control the traffic situation and also were trying to pull together the crowd dancing madly before mandaps.
As,i was analyzing the whole mess, i saw a Lady sitting beside the mandap looking at every one ,and trying to earn her bread and butter by begging. I was shattered to see the total opposite pictures.
Several questions popped up in my mind.. do these Dalit people are really remembering the great Dr. Ambedkar?? Do they really know him?? Do they even know his work for them?? and if they don't, why not they try to do that?
I don't think, any of my questions will be answered. So, with a frustrated mind ,i am finishing this post with a lot of re grate and helplessness.
Good topic actually! Do they remember him or not is not at all that important question i think! Do they remember his thought? or most precisely to follow the way he showed?
ReplyDeleteQuestion of 'mandapas' n 'music' is always there as we always face these issues continuously for 10 days in 'Ganeshosthav' !
these days people just put up mandaps n loudspeakers even if they dont believe in the festival they are celebrating. Be it ambedkar jayanti or shiv jayanti...it hardly matters. No one really remembers the principles they followed or the ideals they preached!
ReplyDeletecorrect girls....thanks for ur valuable comments. :)
ReplyDeleteYesterday i was soo bugged that i immediately decided to go online about the issue.
yes,Dalit people are really remembering the great Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and follow Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkars principles,rule,regulation,thought and Indian Constitute.I am asking you amruta can you remembering the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and his principle. if yes then this type of question not e...... ..yes i expect this will happen in future from you type peoples.
ReplyDeleteQuestion of 'mandapas' n 'music' that is always there as we always face these issues continuously for 10 days in 'Ganeshosthav' !
Hello Nitin,
ReplyDeletefirst of all, let me thank you for commenting on my blog.
Let me clear some of my points regarding my blog:
I am not against Dalit community. If i sounded like that then forgive me.
My only intentions were to show people about 2 different pictures.
About you questions:
Yes,i perfectly remember the principles the Dr. Ambedkar have told us.
so, u think, All Dalit peoples are aware of Dr. ambedkar's views?? then, why they present it by dancing like a mad on loud music??
see, after all, REMEMBERING some one cant be through this way.Now, i am not here to show the ways to remember these great peoples.
Let me again tell you, I am against the way /presentation of certain group of people on someone's Jayati.
that is all i have to say. again thanks for comments.
Hello,
ReplyDeleteAbout you pointing lady issue, it's depend on that person,that group,that person/group thinging about that situation. May be that poeples / group from different community. And yes some differet community finding this type of situation to show something wrong,to show wrong direction for that community, and this is happened,happening and will happen in future for dalit community related festival.Let me know your t.