A Crisis of What?

ABHIRUP PAL: It has been a long time since when a disparate practice started.However, the number of families who are unhappy with the birth of a daughter is not small even today.The tendency to send a girl to the next house as soon as possible through child marriage has also remained as a practice in this poor country.In fact, the driving force behind the survival of the patriarchy, such as Brahmanism, Manuism, Fundamentalism, Fascism, is flowing here with a fullpace.Fights  also started.But it will remain incomplete if a defendant of fascism surrenders to the petty interests of Brahmanism.When we are speaking against fundamentalism and on the other hand hate Dalits, then doesn't self-contradiction arise in our own struggle?

To explain society, one needs not numbers, but self-awareness. Suppose I want to change society but I do not want to change the environment around myself, is it possible to change a greater society?When discussing the divisions created by gender inequality and sexuality,it is safe to say that gender inequality is a product of economic inequality .In fact, the economically dominant class seeks to perpetuate gender-based persecution due to financial inequality through the use of religion and it is religious bigotry that kills people in the name of love jihad or rapes girls by men to break the love of homosexuals.Consider this example,after the rape and murder of Manisha Valmiki ,the religious leaders were of the opinion that although the body of the girl was unclean, her vagina was sacred, so this rape  agrees the scripture,isn't  it commendable? 

In fact, these are attempts to save dying capitalism.From the point of view of male dominance towards sexual production and control when a child  is produced through sexual intercourse a female  has to suffer the most. Despite of that a mentality is sustained that male domination will prevail in society, politics and economy with full ease.The question is right here. Is male domination really spreading, over the sex? Now the question arises a woman who has a child in her womb can be considered weak? And if we consider it as fact, can homecorner be called happy then?

If marginalized men and women along with third gender and other sex community join in the movement for rights then there will come a danger for capitalisf.For that reason I think this process of inequality continues by an invisible hand.After having the strong control over system why the low mentality of the male workers comes out?If the working class of the female or marginalized genders understand that then there will be a united struggle for their position irrespective of gender.I think that's why they get fear.In many countries  capitalism is now recognizing homosexuality or other sexual positions.This does not mean that the capitalist  is doing a favor.Encouraged by such news, someone  can think that progressive thinking is spreading, but it is a myth.Actually it is at all an attempt to perpetuate exploitation and deprivation.

Capitalism and patriarchy combine to aggravate the oppression of women

                     Capitalism is constantly turning the thinking, sometimes in the name of religion, sometimes using the caste. Continuous efforts are being made to empower men in society.Suppose  in our country someone is homosexual and doing duty in the army. But can't say his or her identity openly.Whether it can be called an environment of freedom?The state never insists that strict action will be taken if people of the third sex are oppressed.This is the fair policy of capitalism-giving rights in law and harassments in practice.

In the deepening economic crisis the capitalist world economy is widening the divisions and that is where our country and its political structure are facing its destructive  situation. Many girls are now working in multinational companies. The country's finance minister and state's chief minister are women. From that many will expect that there will be huge opportunity for girls.But the state, however, does not recognize the equality of the system.The economic crisis has created a crisis of overproduction that has shrunk the world of labor,where the profit of capitalism will be small if everyone is alloted with work.

On the other hand, those who discriminate on the basis of gender and religion will die in the field.We can make fun of sex workers easily. But have you ever wondered  the workers who lost their jobs in the closed tea gardens  may be became sex workers to put food in the mouths of their children only?Maybe now sex workers are not only women, but also people of marginal sex and in this world everytype is enjoyed by men. So all the changes will come when there will be a way for everyone to survive economically. 

There is no point in throwing a golden stone just by talking about power, be it a woman or marginalized sex if they spend their days relying on man, communism will sound like a fairy tale.Those who think that to empower women or marginalized people  and to break patriarchal system they should be supported by power, I think they should be judged if patriarchy is hidden somewhere in their minds.

If you can't break the gender barrier while you promoting the ideology that you believe in, then the light will not reach even if the ideology is reached. Clearly understand,that the enemy of equality is not men but division.It may not take knowledge to understand everything, it requires acceptance of everything to make a change,isn't it?And are we ready for that?

Shame on you,Should we?

Abhirup Pal: A decade and a half ago the story begun.The project of providing cooked food to primary school children has just started then. In response to a petition filed by the People's Union for Civil Liberties , the Supreme Court on November 27, 2001, directed all State governments and the Union Territory Administration to provide immidiately cooked food to the students. Meanwhile, the first draft report of Economist Amartya Sen by his own organization called Pratichi Trust, was published on 7 November 2000 with a demand of mid-day meal. Extensive public discussion in association with government departments to mobilize mass organizations, including teachers' unions, started.As usually happens in our country like that,several steps were taken.Different meetings were held.It was 2005,Santiniketan Boniyadi School such a meeting was organized and a real problem came forward.The higher class students denied to eat in the same batch with the lower caste classmates. Even after so many years of independence, this type of untouchability even in Westbengal embarrassed almost all of the attendents of that  meeting.What a shame it is,isn't it?

But do you know shame has its own strength? While the meeting was going on in the village of Birbhum, an elderly farm worker said,"My grandchildren eat at school at noon, so the portion of their food survives and we have a little more alliance at night".Professor Sen's embarrassment at that meeting gave an important indication.Should we not be ashamed of such a cruel attempt by human beings to survive biologically? Can there be a sense of decency in a time when there is a great cry for food among the citizens of our own society? Is it not our duty to arise an uncomfortable conscious emotion among us?

According to Gautam Buddha, shame is the basis of morality. But can we understand that shame is very important in our society too?Hesiot wrote, Society collapsed when the goddess of shame, Idas and the goddess of righteousness, Nemesis, left the earth and climbed the Mount Olympus.In fact, shame is an emotion which a person is constantly building up in himself to be a human being.In a letter to Arnold Rouge, Karl Marx said, "I'm telling you, if anyone doesn't even feel the pride of the nation, he must feel the shame of the same"

The veil of liberalism has fallen off now.The whole world is witnessing the most heinous form of dictatorship. The world has observed centuries before or after the epidemic.Then why don't we understand how hollow this patriotism really is? How perverted  the nature of our State is? You can say that whatever comes of it? Revolution does not come from emotion.But I would say that a revolution is formed by combining the emotions of many. Shame itself is a revolution. We have to accept it with pain that there is a famine of shame all over the world now.

Inhumane lust for power is trying its best to discredit mankind by taking advantage of the ups and downs of history.A long era of humiliation is prevailing over Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa, America India and throughout the world. Take our country for granted and look how we have been made spectators. The worldly dreams of the people have been defeated by a cruel patriotic fantasy.What used to be a nightmare is now a toxic reality which forces man to dance like a monkey.

Whether it is lockdown in the name of corona resistance, demonetisation  ,persecution of dissidents, snatching human rights, rape, price hiking or life-threatening attempt of tribals, who remain outside the power circle, is very common  scene to us now.On the name of patriotism, destitute people have to walk along the railway line, they have to give their lives in the line infront of banks, educated youths have to sit idle or to spent their life in protest movement to get a job or people have to stand in the line  of vaccination,is it our destiny?What could be more shameful  in a State where discrimination of people is done based on wealth? Isn't  it a sin?

We may have taken up the Mid-Day Meal or ICDS project  seeing child's malnutrition from a shame but they are also blowing somewhere, somewhere closed, somewhere irregular.To get rid of the shame of illiteracy in which  country atonce  Right to Education Act was enacted today there the basic education is ousting now without any hesitation.People are being reminded that what was his right,is now the gift of kings.The government is allocating monthly stipends to women, but the level at which people are being brought down to get that money is a reversal of the 'Kangali' phase.When Power commands to burry the shame of the heart  in the core of heart, perhaps it is the utmost shame to expect comfort from them.We have to accept that we still have time to recover from that great terrible shame.We have to only feel the shame of the powerless as our own which was the achievement of humanity. Shame must be rebuilt. That is our duty and primary duty for now. Isn't it?

Are We Safe in this Game?

                                    :ABHIRUP PAL:

Be very careful. If you are a Hindu and the Sports or Music of Pakistan fascinates you or your tongue forgets  your religion and dripping  water from your tongue seeing the beheaded cows, then don't say it openly. Afterall, You feed in India, wear in India and how  you dare to be a Turncoat? You have to love your country all the time. If you ignore it, it will not work, Mister. Don't you have a sportsman spirit?Like a debater don't  say this is  my right to freedom. Otherwise in the country of your ancestors you have to drown your head in the gutter and have to pretend to forget history. Is this a bizarre anti-real scenario we're praying for? May be so, but they don't care.Maybe selling beef is your livelihood. Does that mean you don't obey the act of 1950 or the law of 2005?Hasn't the Supreme Court ordered it clearly? Why are you greedy for all these foods when twenty states have set an impeccable example by worshiping cows? Well, Statesmen have a vote bank but for what purpose do ordinary people have an obscene desire to humiliate the common people of another caste in this country?  Why do they threaten and slaughter others as a butcher? Don't ask these questions.

No matter how much blood is shed by Hindu militants or  how tumultuous becomes the politics of Kashmir, the  ordinary people of the state will know that the very day is coming. Which deity will give relief to you, sore coloured rusted nail?

BEWARE OF THESE DESHVAKTS.......

Uncivilized accusations, suspicions, enmities, eerie merriment of murder-when all these hangs permanently in tears, then where the value of this little event exists? How much does it matter? It may not be possible to look at these events in isolation, because history does not say so. Is it not a duty for us to remember that in the seriousness of the Holocaust all the proponents who are beating the Germans and saying that they will kill the Germans because they killed the Jews, are not they sacrificing many lifes in a premeditated extermination?
Isn't it our duty to stop them from issuing the Fatwa? Don't we need to think once that we producing pain for all? Against whom someone else might write. We need to think from time to time, aren't we almost stubbornly associating the matter with some insignificant facts?
Can everything  be easily ignored? Is mourning  going to be relaxing matter in certain future? Perhaps the fear of our sins is more pervasive than human life. Be careful, keep thinking.

Taking away a Cow Smuggler under a gun is fun.Isn't it? 

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