Retrospectus: Hindustan
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It's has been an interesting ten weeks since leaving the States. We are in Pakistan now, Lahore to be exact. And after two months of India, it is a welcome change. India is an extremely despondent nation. The south is mostly Tamil or Keralan and exudes similar tendencies of any southern region. Then there are the Hindis of Mumbai and Delhi, the Gujarati, Bengali and those in between. Oh, and the Punjabi who actually do most of the work, they're Sikh. The people are excruciatingly xenophobic and chauvinistic. The illiteracy rate for women hovers around 70%; it peaks at 80% in some regions, and 50% for men. Women are subjugated by the Hindu principles of betroth and domestic affairs—that is, they are there to cook and birth children, most are married off by their 11 birthdays. They lack education, not through out and out denial, but by filial restrictions thrust upon them by parents and Brahman. Then there are the children. I was absolutely horrified by what I witnessed happening in that place. Caste wise the children of the lower and untouchable castes are left to the streets, naked and barefooted, to beg. They defecate and urinate openly and everywhere. They live in absolute effluent squalor. The untouchables-or out castes- live in conditions unconscionable to Occidentals. An entire group of people, 30% of the population, 300,000,000 people, are forcefully denied education, electoral rights, vocation beyond cleaning latrines, housing, food, and the most fundamental of Human rights, a future or hope. The Brahman enlighten these people and keep them in their societal place by promising a reincarnation to something better in the next life if they are indifferent and obey their role in this one. Also, the Muslims, Parsi, Sikhs (the only exception being PM Singh, a puppet) are not allowed government jobs and are discriminated against worse than a black man in Alabama in '65. This so-called way of life creates the most despondent, hellacious, decrepit, sadistic living conditions I have witnessed in all of my travels. As per example: witnessing 8-year-old girls balling and screaming and being forced behind filthy, thin curtains onto a mattress to be used as a whore. Seeing infants, naked, covered in their own excrement wailing on the gun barrel black pavements with rats and crows starting to peck and nibble away their life. Women giving multiple, sickly looking men tattoos from a needle welded onto a sewing machine motor. Out caste women being raped in corners of train stations by upper caste men or other untouchables. And this is rooted in one aspect of their culture, Hindu. They are not poor. They are Hindu. Poor people choose their destitute conditions either through poor decision-making or insipid behavior. These people are forced into slavery under the higher castes and Brahman. India still has outbreaks of the Black Plague, Tuberculosis, Small Pox and Polio to name a few. This, again, is not because of poverty. It lays simply in the untouchables being denied any form of basic education, including being sanitary. I cannot count the number of people I have witnessed squatting in the middle of a crop or the side of a road defecating then using their left hand to clean themselves. Insanitary conditions are not to be blamed on poverty. The Roma of central Europe are impoverished, for other reasons, but, they live in relatively clean environments, likewise if you look at the ghettos in Compton or Anacostia—these peoples retain basic human commonsense to disregard their own feces and value their health and life (even felines have the common sense to do this), to an extent that goes far beyond what is the normal mode of life and sanitation in Hindustan (I use this nomenclature because in Sikh, Muslim, Parsi and Buddhist dominated India these issues are far less exemplary). Another such travesty of that place is the aura of angst riding the streets and people. India claims to be the fifth largest economic power. Well, let us look at that… Their economic prowess is based on their buying power, which stems from their agricultural foundation, rice and tea. Both of these commodities are heavily influenced by the climate. And India's climate is changing drastically. Never in my life have I seen more water going to waste than India. Nearly every street corner has a main gushing with silver and taupe water 24-hours-a-day. In the agrarian sector water simply flows freely from hoses and is used when someone sees fit, no tap, no main. They will run out. And the air pollution there is unreal. Low-grade gasoline watered down in low-grade vehicles. The tea trees along roads in Darjeeling are black from exhaust. AND, the water supplies that exist in reservoirs and standing water are used as latrines by the locals, cows and whatever else passes by and all have an effluent sheen. Already, their agricultural production is starting to turn downward, and not because of liberal catchphrases like greenhouse gases, but because of the insipidness of a people being denied education because of caste. The other aspect of the Great Indian boom is the black market on the streets. This is about as sustainable as an invasion of the Soviet Union in '41. It is fake. Higher castes are starting to make millions staring in Bollywood hits and getting investments from foreign firms and nations. And are they investing in their infrastructure? Are they investing in education? No. No. They build themselves new houses. They send their children to better schools in Europe. Most of India's investment in Education goes towards sending higher castes abroad to study. And remember 30% of the population isn't eligible. The only part of India I have seen being rebuilt was outside Delhi (for show) and in Punjab (which is Sikh). Also, because of this Hindu structure, there are actually people on the streets of Hindustan that are feral. I thought that that had been lost to history and Kipling novels, but was I mistaken. All told, Hindustan was my idea of Hell on earth. Children, girls, men, women subjugated to serfdom and stripped of ALL human rights. The worst places, sadly, were the hovels where Mother Teresa worked. And the supporters of Gandhi, blindly still waiting for the land of milk and honey he offered the outcastes after Independence, which has become an even worse nightmare than before. His want of Brahmanship and use and abuse of the lower castes and their ignorance to benefit himself in his want to be better than the rest is shameful and caused the further subjugation of hundreds of millions and deaths of untold millions through continued caste structure and partition with Pakistan. And his blind want to keep Pakistan and Punjab was no more than a political ploy to maintain something for Hindustan, as nearly all of the sustainable agriculture and industry in these countries were being done by the Muslims and Sikhs in Punjab (1/3 of all dried goods {rice, lentils, etc} 1/2 of all diary products and 3/4 of manufacturing). Now, being in Pakistan, there is a completely different clime. Firstly, the people are alive. They walk the streets and do their work with distinction and lust for life. Children run the streets smiling and laughing full-hearted chortles. Men and women walk, work, learn and live side-by-side. The steets are cleaned and sanitation is commonplace, albeit archaic. There is not a whole section of society forced onto the streets and into the latrines. Coming over the border it was a revelation. It was as though I reentered civilization after Hades. Women are wearing veils and scarves, but at least they are educated and conductive parts of society. The contrast from all the Islamic nations I have been (Oman, Indonesia, Malaysia, Djibouti, Pakistan, the Maldives) and India is astounding. Hindustan is the nation that destroys women's, children's and human's essence. Never in an Islamic nation have I seen the type of human loss and suffering as I have in Hindustan. It is as if the media has taken the stories from Hindustan and confused them with Islam. I fully acknowledge that regimes like the Taliban were horrible and decimating towards society. And what they were doing is what happens in Hindustan EVERY DAY. Upon having a long chat with the consular at the Afghan Embassy in Mumbai, I learned that the Taliban forced people to eat with their hands, forbade the use of tissue, disallowed women education, forced men to follow the Koran as they choose, even though the Taliban are illiterate. I asked how that was different from the Brahman, and he agreed it was not. The Brahman force entire groups of people into these living conditions, not just women. The enemy of humanity, liberties, and human rights and dignity is not Islam. It is Hindu. It sickens me and troubles me that the western medias focus so vehemently and literally invent travesties in the Islamic world whilst one so much worse is being allowed to function by the western powers unchecked. AND, now the White House is supporting and helping India develop their nuclear resources domestically and militarily whilst on the other hand PM Singh just struck an arms deal with Russia for 17 Billion USD and have their new T-72s and Bemyls and rockets and MiGs on display all over the streets. That deal got Ivanov promoted to vice-PM in Russia by the way. And, Iran, cannot develop their own nuclear program, whether it is domestic or a bulwark against Israeli militarism. But, lets help the Indians… What's more, the blindness tourist have to it India. They walk around in their baggy, multihued linens that they will never wear at home and do yoga and listen to yogis talking about mantra, the Gita and karma. They glue bindis on their foreheads and just love the Incredible India. They give Rupees to all the cripples and children than tug on their sleeves and jab at their arms. Do these people have no identities at home to completely change their image in India? Are they that callow that they cannot simply leave Rishikesh and Colaba and see the real lives of these people? Do they not understand that by giving these people their handouts they are supporting this regime of the Brahmans and keeping these people destitute? Are they not listening to what these yogi are preaching? Brotherhood? Charity? In Hindustan these things have long been forsaken towards the betterment of those whom think they are above and demand that someone never be allowed to ascend and question their righteousness. Something has to change. |
