Vaidik Varavara Rao’s treachery against Dalit hero Gaddar
The game being played by Varavara Rao, former emissary of the LCpl (Maoist), by spreading canards about his comrades, Gaddar and Kalyan Rao, has nothing do with Marxism. It has everything to do with Moral Foxes. In parables, the fox is pictured as a cunning animal. lt hunts animals which it wants to eat. It does not hesitate to betray its own friends when it wants to advance its own cause. That was why the famous thinker Machiavelli asked politicians and kings to depend more on the tactics of a fox than on the bravery of a lion.
Karl Marx, the founder of Marxism, which Varavara Rao claims to subscribe to, prescribed exactly the opposite code for a revolutionary. A revolutionary has to be honest, truthful and should never play foul. In short, there is no scope for Foxism in Marxism.
A CUT-THROAT COMRADE
But Varavara Rao writes such letters against his own comrades motivated by a kind of cut-throat competition and with the deceptive morality of a fox. With his merciless attitudes, he even attempted to sideline a man such as Gaddar from public space.
The fact remains that Gaddar is much taller in stature than Varavara Rao. Gaddar, who walks with bullets in his chest, gets accused of being a timid person who is trying to save his own skin, Kalyan Rao, who wrote a powerful book, Antiarin Vasantham (The Untouchable Spring), is accused of being corrupt and immoral. When you take into account the fact that both Gaddar and Kalyan Rao are Dalits and Varavara Rao a “pundit by birth”, the whole thing becomes clearer. Varavara Rao went to the extent of saying that Gaddar was running around the Chief Minister’s office and Kalyan Rao was merely issuing statements sitting in his house. All this would have sounded more credible had Varavara Rao been writing from a forest, while fighting off the police. He too is living in the same urban environment as Gaddar and Kalyan Rao. At least Gaddar was underground for quite some time. but Varavara Rao never had to undergo such experiences. Normally poets are arrogant. Plato. the famous Greek philosopher, who constructed the theory of justice and also gave us the concept of Republic. banished them from his ideal State saying they were men of fourth-rate imagination.
THIRD RATE POETS
In India, because of the Brahminic tradition of writing poetry, an aura was constructed around all poets. For ages, poetry was an exclusive Brahminic art in India and was used only to hoodwink toiling masses. Tragically. the Indian revolution too fell into the trap of such Brahminic poets. The results of such a tragedy are astounding.
The Maoist revolution produced many men of “fourth- rate imagination” and they sit in judgment of history and philosophy. Such poets sit in their caste citadels and use their feeble imagination to judge men of sacrifice and commitment and the course of revolution. They even decide which heads to lop off. Sadly, the heads that roll are of poor Dalits and OBCs as they constitute the Dalmas; the constabulary and so-called informers.
The irony is that it is the poet who pens verse on the dead hero and becomes immortal and not the hero himself. Like Veda Vyasa of yore, Varvara Rao is said to be counting the severed heads in the ongoing Mahabharata and writing poetry.
Even in this modern Mahabharata, the thumb of an Ekalavya is cut off in the very field of “poetic spring thunder”.
Marx becomes Manu: Gaddar and Kalyan Rao had to go through the experience of Ekalavya as Varvara Rao has become the Dron Acharya of Indian revolution. He has the right to cut the thumb of anybody who questions him or competes with him.
Marx was converted to Manu in the process.
Varavara Rao has not come from a Brave New World where men face bullets for their beliefs. When there was a visible threat to his life he surrendered to the court and lived in the safety of the jail. Not that anyone wants him to fall prey to bullets but why display such a love for one’s own caste and a hatred for others. It is as if anyone crossed the Laxman Rekha that Varavara Rao draws they would be accused of timidity. While he too is surviving without having to face too many hardships, why pretend to be a Christ-like soul who is being crucified daily by the state?
After having written such foxy letters, Varavara Rao claims that they were forged by the state, until a letter in his own handwriting was released. If he could write such letters against visible personalities such as Gaddar and Kalyan Rao, how many such letters would he have written on ordinary activists who questioned his methods?
The love of caste is so powerful that morality and merit operate even in revolutionary organizations in terms of “us” and “them”.
As per the prescriptions of Kautilya and Manu, a Dalit in civil society has to be suspected always. Even in the Varavara Rao mode of revolution, a Dalit has to be suspected always. In Kautilya state there had to be a proper pundit as a spy to guard against the immoral behavior of Chandalas and Surdas. The same is the case now. It only indicates that this kind of revolution does not abolish caste, as the leaders of the movement believe that the lower caste men and women are unfit for leadership and untrustworthy.
The proper pundits must keep a close watch on them. Earlier, after an OBC writer, B. S. Ramulu, was found to be showing signs of assertion and he was sent out immediately and his writings were mocked. Gaddar was tolerated for long because he was holding up the masses, preparing them for the speeches of the pundits. But even Gaddar would not be allowed to grow beyond a point. The real problem is that the masses don’t trust such poet-pundits.
Hence the need for Gaddars. But that social base must be guarded so that it does not produce any leader of stature. When a Gaddar or Kalyan Rao attempts to move into a visible political space, letters would go from pundits urging the leaders to control them. Their relationship even with doctors should be scrutinized very carefully.
But the relationship of the poet-pundits even with politicians of high office should never be suspected. All such things should be seen as strategies of a marxist revolution. The Dalit-Bahujan’s who trusted them must realise that what is in operation is Foxism and not Marxism.
