About Karukku

i like stories bout underdogs, the oppressed n how life alwaez has a maddenin tendency to screw us all every now n then...

imagine my reaction when i read that Indian writer Bama was comin to Singapore for the SWF recently...my interest was piqued i tell ya...i cannot wait to get my hands on the English tranlsation of her book, Karukku, on the fate of the Dalit class of outcastes in Indian society...

people like myself who've always seen ourselves as 'the Outsider' in life, relationships and even the Kingdom of God will take to this book i believe sincerely...the bigotry of Indian social relations serves as an amazing counter-point to the emergence of India on the World stage as a potential political actor of some repute..no love, no education and no hope of becomin somethin better..how can a society which produced great moralists like Gandhi ever clear its conscience about or discharge its responsibility to these people?

in her own words i finally understand wat Paul meant when he talks about the 'wall of separation' that Christ tore down between us and God...Bama says,"despite all my books, a Dalit is a Dalit. I will be a Dalit even after i die, because there is a wall between the upper caste crematorium and the Dalit crematorium" (italics mine) this absolution is removed through One and by One Alone i believe...the hope of all social, political systems, governments, peoples and individuals..and i will point others like the Children of the Broken Earth to that Person till my dyin breath...