if u look at the financial status of any Dalit employee who could surpass caste barriers ans enter the sacred space of Indan bureaucracy, one could see 400% or more increase in their finacial statrus. does it indicate corruption? on the other hand, it shows the relational horizontality withwhich one could acquire capital with the help of statist intervetnion. this becomes the only way out (for the time being). dalits were deprived of thse sphres of capital thank to system of castes, and once it breaks (at least partially) they r in a postion whre the caste Hindu position "naturally" comparing the "pre" and "post" phenomenon will show not just 400% growth but more , i suppose. this coonote the caste inequality indecator rather than corrption...
On 28/08/2007, Murali K Warier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A predictable story. This is what people who work for the 'oppressed and > downtrodden' are upto. We saw Mulayam and Lalu first, now it is the Behenji > (and she was not even in power for the last three years!). > > > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Maya_grew_400_richer_in_3_years/articleshow/2152133.cms > > Now let me do some 'pre-emptive commenting'. I know the predictable > responses: a) this is a typical middle class Hindu response (whatever that > means) b) I am singling out Mayawati because she is a Dalit, ignoring much > egregious corruption by upper caste people c) what if she is corrupt, she > does something for the upliftment of Dalits and the poor. My responses to > the above: I am not condoning corruption by anybody, the corruption and > arrogance of the Brahmin (ironically presiding over an anti-Brahmin > 'Dravidian' party) Jayalalithaa are much more reprehensible than anything > Mayawati has done. My point is exactly about asymmetric comparison: don't > treat Mayawati's corruption with kid gloves because she is a Dalit or said > to work for the poor. About c) above, Jayalathiaa too did something for the > people. 'Doing something for the people' is a weak defense for corruption, > because, if you want to stay in public life in India, you will have to do > certain minimum things as India is not Uganda. > > Best regards, > Murali. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. > - Joseph Stalin > > To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. > These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a > revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing > machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy > of the paredon (The Wall)! > - Che Guevara > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- Ranjit --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
