Pure
and polluting
--- rituals and reality
Coloured by caste and
dominant hindus
Cleanliness and
hygiene in this Country
Are basically twin in
nature and kind -
Cleanliness Clean are
not really Clean,
Unclean Polluting Polluted
and Impure
Actually are not
not-Clean in realterms!
Really they are
Racial Pure or Polluting
Isolated antagonistic
different Races -
Original being pure
and mixed impure
Hence mating within
is clean and pure
Bonding outside is
un-clean impure
That is sciety's norm
of brahmin make!
Prominantly
dominating ascription -
Religious notions
practices and values,
Relegated realistic
absolute true status
Real strange facts of
brahminic society!
Dominant caste hindus
always clean -
Religiously
ritualistically heirarchically
With brahmins
considered the purest
Backward captive
enslaved Shudras
Ati-Shudra
social-slaves being impure
With even shadows of
Dalits Polluting!
Ati-Shudra Dalits compelled
to work
Under unpleasant
difficult situations -
By force of
optionless circumstances,
Endeavour always to
maintain their
Personal cleanliness
home hygiene,
Ritualistically
remain impure unclean!
Dalits after work
bathe wash and clean
Both in morning and
also in evening
Washing and drying in
disinfecting sun
Sparkling oftentimes
almost frenziedly
Live happily singing
dancing laughing
To drum beats steps
in evening hours!
Dalits honest
hardworking and simple
Typically restless
excitable impulsive -
Romantically
temperemental valorous,
Dressed in brilliant
bright bold colours
Happy and are
harmonious with all life
Nature and
surrounding environment!
While the mentally
dull blind brahmin
Grim cunningly
brooding for cheating
Singers dancers their
strong women
Keep worshipping sun
as the fire god
Paying fearful and
respectful obesience
As if sun can come
down to burn them!
Fire scared and
fearing scorching heat
They prey to sun god
making offerings,
From dark dingy dirty
dreary dusky
Inaccessible
interiors of their temples
Poorly built sanctums
sanitoriums,
Filthy stinking
unclean and unhygenic!
These dirty cunning
crafty brahmins -
Are always clean pure
and purifying,
Ritualistically
followed by supporting
Other dominant caste
hindus relatively
Less cleaner step by
step going down
In caste hierachy
below one another!
While working daily
in mud and dirt -
Farming fields mining
lands Dalits
Taking baths
regularly many-a-times
Compulsively washing
themselves
Because of the dust
mud and Sweat
In the day are
Unclean and Impure!
Yeh yeh it
ritualistically born stupidity
In brahmin mind
wanting to dominate,
Shield protect
isolate and segregate
Racially their women
from mating with
Is truth of castes
cleanliness pollution!
an
unrecognised Dalit Poet
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