And, I have to say that I have been following Americans who visit India or Americans who write about India without visiting India. Whether it is written by some one who visited India or not, it is ironic and almost pathological the perceptions of Americans and Indians living in America with regard to the Indian society, culture and the social evil known as caste system?.
The worst of the perception comes out of Television reporters, commentators and NY times correspondents and Washington Post news editors. Not a single one of these writers who write about India or dalits focus on Dalit issues as it is, but with their own ambiguous way, no one in the modern days ever wrote or presented the actual dalit story as realistic as of the present article I am posting below. Unfortunately, these media agents been influenced by their fellow Indians who work with them in their media house, most of them are either casteists or have same twisted ideas about dalit issues?.To give some bad examples on the topic of projecting India and dalits, the guy who made the movie gandhi Richard Attenborough, his unthoughtful, bigoted movie gandhi was the worst story telling, full of bigotry of what gandhi stood was an erroneous story told to sell a fake story of sainthood, when we make the scoundrel into saints, the damage multiplies on the society, especially the damage he has done to dalits.
Attenborough was the worst of the story tellers, his movie gandhi is full of bigotry and fake propaganda of gandhi as the saint.
There are so many pathological mindset like Richard (though he is not an American but an European, mentioned here as the bad media people). The most recent example I have seen is Linda's work, for example, recently there was a you tube video that is copied from the works of Linda Ellerbee (Linda's Bio) Nick (the video is posted on Nick page see below) News ofNickelodien TV presents the dalit story to the most part she has done a great job, very true but there were some minor flaws in her script but to the most part it is well said story. At the end of the story, she makes this huge blunder. She finishes her photoshoot and story with the quote and about a man by name gandhi, the man ultimately responsible for the continuous practice of the caste system, it is still practiced and exist in India because of gandhi like people, gandhi (I never use "Caps" for gandhi as a reflection of my Opposition to gandhi) this scounderal hindu who destroyed dalits progress, he not only betrayed the dalits but when they had the opportunity via Dr.B.R.Ambedkar to transform Indian society without any caste, gandhi intervened and sabotaged the effort of Dr.Ambedkar to have a separate electoral for dalits, that was the greatest opportunities dalits had in the last about 3000 years to get rid of hindu pathology called caste system.
It was so unfortunate to listen from such a great American Television personality as Linda, quotes gandhi name, did Linda Ellerbee really understood this caste problem or she is really even willing to understand in it's real sense instead of surface level understanding?. If that is the case, she must understand what gandhi did to the Untouchables, and she must understand what Dr.B.R.Ambedkar did to the Indian society as a whole and to the Dalits. Only then Linda will understand dalit issues in it's entirety, please do not utter the word gandhi when you speak about dalits, he was the ultimate casteists India has ever produced.
Anyways, that was just one example as to how poorly and dangerously the Americans perceive dalit issues, Linda has also did previous stories and she did the same gandhi propoganda in her previous issues. It is so unfortunate and so painful why Linda cannot investigate the issue truthfully and talk about Ambedkar, she did not say a word, not a word about Dr.Ambedkar, I can't just imagine how she can do a story about dalits without talking about this great man who served dalits his whole life.The present article is the first of it's Kind, absolutely true, no twisting, no bigotry, no bias but true, the writer traveled to India, listened to them honestly, listened the dalit stories with feelings and comes back to America to tell for the very first time as it is, "AS IT IS", thank you Jon Foreman, my blog will announce your article as the "Most honest and scholarly dalit story of the Year 2010"
Written by Jonathan Foreman for lowercasepeople.com
I’m not exactly sure when it first started. Maybe it was my neighbors when I was growing up, or the roommate I had in college, or perhaps just a faded picture in an old National Geographic. Whatever it was, I have been enchanted by India for some time. To me, it represented all things exotic and mysterious. I kept the sub-continent safe in a sacred place in my mind, reserved for only the most alluring ideas. Traveling to India, then, was a delicate prospect, one that held the potential of shattering superlative myths that I had long held in my imagination. I went nonetheless and I am thankful to say that this was not the case. I returned with an even greater respect for the history, the culture, and above all, the beautiful people of India. It is a country of exotic diversity, full of colors I had never seen, melodies I had never heard – a country with fourteen national languages and nine of the world’s major religions. Balancing the history of a three-thousand-year-old culture alongside a technological revolution creates a land of clear dichotomy.
I was overwhelmed by the sights and sounds and tastes of humanity in a
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