Contesting ‘Propaganda’ Ideologies

Contesting ‘Propaganda’ Ideologies

Contesting propaganda ideologies has been taking place for a long time, however small in size, group, number, or even ahistorical or apolitical across time and space. Colonial modernity introduced the ‘critical thinking’ of deep-rooted theories and praxis in South Asia through its Protestant Christian missionaries and missionary schools, juxtaposed with the Asian mode of society and its spiritual missionaries. Historical movements for "self", "self-respect", "dignity", "human status" became ahistorical and for "drinking-water movements" became apolitical in these South Asian societies where caste rules. The Caste system is beautified even by Indo-European scholars or followers of Gandhian ideology. The Gandhian movement swallowed all these historical, political, anti-caste, anti-untouchability movements of ‘walking carrion',  or ‘walking corpse', or ‘walking carcass', or Untouchables or Dalits. Civil society and the state, together with international actors, have built the iron-walls to maintain the status quo for the untouchables of Asia. Historically, caste persists, untouchability persists, and eating human excrement persists in the world's most persecuted untouchable castes by Hindu/Buddhist/Sikh/Islamic/Jain castes across time and space. With the presence of their Indo-European agents, international human rights bodies remained "silent." What madness it is to think that even in this 21^st century, the South Asian mode of thinking or its international agencies are "silent" on the issues of "walking carrion" and "walking corpse" and "walking carcass" in Asia. India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, and Bhutan are known for practicing an unbearable caste system and untouchability for three hundred million untouchables/unshadowbles/unseeables/unapproachables. However, international human rights bodies, including progressive or leftist organizations, ‘silence’ on the ‘walking carrion’. ‘Walking carrion’ becomes "invisible" in the hands of its creator on international platforms. International platforms are busy with issues like race, MENA, migration with its ‘politically correct ideologies’.