Gaurav Apartments

Bloggers at The Other India blog wonder why a certain apartment complex developed by Dalits in New Delhi is not finding Upper Caste takers.

Well, here is why. If you want to have tenants, you had better not threaten them with genocide, suggest dividing up their country or claim that they are Jewish descendants.

A casual browsing of the sites DalitVoice, Dalitstan, Amberdkar.org and worldproutassembly will be enough to make your eyes pop out of their sockets. There is not a thing in the world they do not hate. Of course you would expect profuse amount of hatred directed against "Brahmins" and "Hindus". If you thought their anger is directed towards a certain section (and presumably for a good reason), here is a list of people or things they hate: Bill Gates, capitalism, Jews, Muslims, Christians, practically all newspapers of India, most if not all political parties, America, George Bush, Milton Friedman, Gandhi, large corporations - the list is almost endless.

Here is a sample passage from one of the sites:

The greatest crisis facing the Dalit community is the total alienation of its cream. This cream has been hinduised, meaning enslaved. They either marry Brahmin girls fascinated by the fair-skin or to hide their jati identity and hence a loss to the community. This is what made our Father, Dr. Ambedkar, to say in sorrow: "Educated people of my community have let me down".


I don't know about you but I am speechless.