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RE:A BRAHMIN FOR THE DOWNTRODDEN
by VIJAYA BUDDHIRAJU on May 01, 2007 06:53 PM

I think any body can write any which way they like. The so called Brahmincal literature was not created by Brahmins alone. Brahmins protected it against great odds. Without Brahmins, there is no religion, literature, art, music, dance, sculpture even a book. We would have been tribal. We are acting like tribals with zero understanding and negative knowledge of even the recent history, no w that we took Brahmins out.
Your first observation is partly correct. Priests forgot the meaning of what they were preaching and victimized themselves and others to some extent. The belief in God makes one to relinquish many things. The Taliban of Muslims or the Evangelist Christians staunchly believe in their book and live by it cause harm, and make others to live in their unreal world. In that perspective, religion makes no sense.
But you see, in the Hindu mythology which was ardently preserved by Brahmins, there was no God we pray to, who is a Brahmin. They had no guarantees to them, like the privileged castes today.
Let us assume this periyar or Amebedkar were the preservers or create of religion or philosophy, all our Gods would have been their caste. What ever faults you may want to attribute to Brahmins, they were not monsters, they did their job and excelled in them. You may be assuming Brahmins suppressed some one. The persons of every caste contributed enormously to the society. There was no weaver, Godsmith, pottery, architecture, valor, business which were preserved several other castes could be matched by any one or group in the world.
No law or practice can be written for ever. Once Hindus become a minority in India, the laws will change. The so called blind reservation policies will disappear and probably those responsible for this unjust nonsense will pay a dear price.
By the way, Ambedkar was not the greatest intellectual India has produced. He was not even average. He had attachment his caste and fought only for it. He was no patriot either. It does not hurt to read some books in India. We lost 90%. But what we have still is a ocean. If you want me make list of intellectuals of just 20th century, I can make it for you. That will fill over 100 pages. India is a land of million Shakespeares, Platos, Aristotles and Jesuses. Europe may have one each.


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