The vicious role of so-called dalit websites.
All you have to do is type “dalit¶ on an internet search engine and one is presented with a host of websites that have something to do with the word dalit. Even a cursory perusal of their contents reveals that they are all the same and the following contents are common to them.
(1) Prominently highlighted are Dalit-related incidents picked up from the websites of the mainstream anti-ordinary Hindu hate-promoting English-language media that regularly publish one-sided news (?) concerning alleged discrimination, violence etc against ‘dalits’. (No names need to be taken here, because all English-language newspapers fall in the hate-promoting category. Needless to say, most of the articles contain contradictory information. A sample is shown below).
(2) There is open promotion and incitement of hatred against ordinary Hindu human beings belonging to brahmin, banias etc caste. Several of these websites are also openly challenging the very right of the ordinary Hindus to be alive or to have children. There is frontal assault on the constitution’s Article 21 (right to life) and article 5, 10 and 11 (dealing with citizenship).
(3) Lies, falsehood and concoctions are freely promoted and presented with a great deal of exaggeration. For example, most websites have provided data on anti-dalit crimes taking place on minute/hourly basis. Consider only one crime – rape. The websites proclaim that every day three dalit women are raped, which works out on yearly-basis to 1095 rapes against dalit women. However, as per NCRB data, the number of total rape cases registered under IPC 376 against all women in India during 2006 was 19348!!! As per NCRB, the number rape cases against SC/ST women during 2006 was only 1217 which amounts to 6.29% of total rape cases registered. It also means that 93.71% victims of rape were non-dalit women!!! {Also, in over 70% rapes cases, the accused were men known to the victim}
(4) Most of the views, grievances presented are totally unsupported by facts and figures. If some figures are quoted, they are either grossly exaggerated or one-sided. (For example, crimes against SC/ST over a ten/twenty-year period is quoted but similar crimes against other sections of the society is conveniently not mentioned).
(5) Most of the alleged anti-dalit crimes reported in the web-sites are attributed to the ubiquitous “Upper Castes¶ and every care is taken to avoid a mention of the caste names of the perpetrators and the politically manufactured ‘category’ to which they belong. Sometimes the caste names are mentioned without mentioning the category. Sometimes the word “dominant¶ caste, “caste hindus¶ picked from a prominent newspaper of Tamil Nadu is deployed. The reason is obvious. It is to hide the “castes¶ of the real perpetrators who are ruling vast parts of India masquerading as “weak, backward and marginalized¶!!!
(6) Ordinary crimes with no caste angle and crimes where the identity of the perpetrators is not known are also presented as anti-dalit crimes as if the rest of the society has immunity from crimes. For example one report on a ‘dalit’ website says “X, a dalit, was allegedly killed by prosperous farmers from adjoining village¶. Another report says “a dalit woman was raped and killed under mysterious circumstances¶. What these incidents of crime have got to do with the victim being a dalit, these guys alone can explain. In Delhi, so many women get raped each year. Don’t they belong to some caste? But the English-language media never mentions their caste. So what we get is a one-sided view.
(7) Even when dalits commit crimes against dalits, the same are presented as anti-dalit crimes!
(8) Selective quotations from some primitive book called “manusmriti¶ allegedly compiled by some individual several thousand years ago, are presented as if the same are taught in schools, colleges and homes and are religiously pursued.
(9) Brahmins, Baniyas and Kshatriyas are routinely called “dwijas¶ and to make the meaning clear, the meaning “twice born¶ is also mentioned. One is at a loss to understand as to what is preventing these professional hate-promoters from proclaiming themselves as “panchajas¶ (five times born) or “dashajas¶ (ten times born). Is anyone stopping them? Shockingly, a silly primitive superstition which only they seem to be aware off is accepted and promoted as the gospel truth. One can only pity these guys for abandoning common sense and accepting silly theories of people having capacity to be born twice.
(10) Another common quotation on these websites is the one about the Brahmins being born from the head, the kshatriyas from the shoulders, the vaishyas from the thighs and the shudras from the feet. We all know from where human beings are born (except those born through caesarian section). Yet, a silly quotation from primitive times is accepted as the gospel truth ignoring the indisputable medical facts about how humans are born.
(11) Take the latest incident of 20 students being discharged from the IIT Delhi for alleged poor academic performance. Of these, 12 reportedly happened to be from the SC. The rest eight probably belonged to ordinary human being category. This incident has been splashed on all ‘dalit’ websites. That 8 of the 20 (i.e 40%) were non-SC ordinary human beings was completely ignored and the entire incident was presented as an example of anti-dalit discrimination. Some of the dalit students complained to the SC Commission. What was also conveniently ignored was the fact that a majority of SC students in IIT had apparently done well and moved on. Not a thought was spared to the plight of the other ordinary students as if they are not citizens at all. It was also conveniently ignored that Ordinary Hindu Human Beings have no authority to complain to in the whole country.
(12) One website displays the photo of a ten-year old boy and proclaims that he has been subject to injustices for centuries!
(13) Then there is another casteist website (that is nothing more than a surrogate website of caste extremists of TN) that proclaims “truth is a pathless land¶ and goes on to publish details about not the state of affairs today or about the caste-based ethnic cleansing that has been carried during the past hundred years, but about an imaginary situation that existed several thousand years ago, when the society was most primitive and people mostly illiterate!
(14) Of course, the most nefarious role is being played by certain individuals/organizations/ groups who have nothing to do with the Hindu religion. Some of them proclaim that they want to help the “poor¶ and yet their websites have tutorials on the “caste system¶, listing of alleged anti-dalit crimes etc. The only question that needs to be asked off these websites is what has the welfare of “poor¶ (who may be Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs etc) got to do with either dalits or the so-called caste system? Also, most of them are openly inciting hatred against the Hindu religion. Many anti-social illiterate individuals are also associated with such websites.
