This refers to your remarks on “caste corruption” by upper castes (Hindus). You said:
“Intellectuals in India are essentially bound by their caste and have no courage to defy their caste. Caste can produce only corruption and no corruption is greater than caste corruption. The first charge against India’s intellectuals is caste corruption”.
(V.T. Rajshekar, India’s Intellectual Desert, DSA, 1999 р.29).
In your earlier book, Dr. Ambedkar & His Conversion, DSA 1983, you said: “
“As a marxist, atheist and rationalist for the past 30 years now, I am not interested in any religion. I have lived without god and religion, peacefully… When I say every religion is bad, I speak as a marxist. One cannot be marxist without being an atheist” (Ibid p.52).
“Religion blinds us to science and rational thinking. Religion is a richman’s game and poor man’s poison.” (Ibid p.91). And except as an ideal, an utopia to speak and write upon in history books, Budhism was dead” (Ibid p.110). These are your own words.
But strangely, though contrary to your unquestionable faith in marxism, you converted yourself to Budhism at Patna in 1993.
It is not known what had prompted you to get converted from marxism to Budhism. All the Ambedkarites and the Budhists praised and wished you to spread the gospel of Budhism as wished by Dr. Ambedkar, whom you had taken as model for you. But practically you did nothing to preach and spread the gospel of Budhism. Instead, you now began to denounce Budhism by saying “religion is a mere dress. Babasaheb’s Budhism does not bind the people. I does not bring peace to the poor and the oppressed”. By saying thus, you differed with Dr. Ambedkar on important matters like religion.
