Bro is asking, “If Bhagat Singh was hanged, were other people afraid?” Yes. Your Savarkar was busy writing mercy petitions.
Ambedkar was very critical of Muslims, and as an SC, I feel bad that he was so harsh in some of his writings. Nowadays, people like Gautam Khattar are using Ambedkar’s name to fuel hatred against Muslims among Dalits.
If any Dalit comes to you and talks shit about Muslims, handle it carefully. My people are already without proper leadership, and many are being blinded by propaganda. And when I say SC, I mean specifically Buddhists, because I know that 3–4 SC communities are working closely with the RSS. For example, Bhojjan Katta on Instagram is working with the VHP. He is Mang (Matang), the same caste whose members were historically forced to carry brooms around their waists and pots around their necks because they were considered “untouchable.”
If any Dalit comes up to you and talks shit about Muslims, remind them that Ambedkar was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee, and that constitutional rights were given to minorities, with Ambedkar playing a huge role in shaping those provisions. If he truly hated Muslims, he could have resisted those protections.
And if any Hindu says something similar, bring up Annihilation of Caste. Ambedkar wrote some critical passages about Muslims, but he dedicated an entire book to the rigid caste systema system that has taken countless lives and caused immense damage to Hindu society, far beyond anything an Indian Muslim could ever do.
I come from an SC category background. Before I say anything else, I consider Savarkar ji better than Gandhi, but I don't agree with Savarkar ji either. I don't hate him, nor do I love him the way I love Ambedkar, Sahu, and Phule.
My point in this post is: what are Savarkarites doing in real life? Not even a single ground-level protest or event to propagate Savarkar ji's ideas about how radically anti-caste he was. Why don't you people do it? Is it because you're afraid that if you actually propagate his anti-caste views, the Brahminical people who still believe in the caste system will stop loving Savarkar? Or do you just use his name to hate minorities?
Savarkar respected Ambedkar he even called him "Maharashtra's Kulbhushan". But people are taking Savarkar's name and abusing Babasaheb. This is very intriguing to me.
Please propagate his actual ideas.
Last week in Delhi, when there was a lathi charge, everyone was expressing outrage. But during the Jamia incident in 2019, hardly anyone did. In fact, many were celebrating. I never truly understood the depth of how brutal that incident was until I felt something similar happening to my own community.
Now, with people mocking reservations and supporting the "Reservation Hatao" movement, it feels like history is repeating itself.
These are two incidents where people I considered my own couldn't understand what we go through. I've never experienced this before. I am an SC-Buddhist, and this is the first time I've felt that the people I thought stood with me under the idea of *bhaichara* are standing against us without even trying to understand our perspective.
Personally, I don't want reservations to exist forever, but at the very least, we need to address the problem of casteism first. There are tribal communities that don't even know reservations exist, yet they still face discrimination. Untouchability is still practiced in many places. At the same time, there are right-wing creators openly saying that the *jati vyavastha* is an integral part of Sanatan Dharma. They say they don't want to end caste but want to end reservations. The audacity of that position is astonishing they don't even want to end endogamy or dismantle the caste system, yet they expect reservations to disappear.
Our situation feels even more difficult to me because Muslims at least have larger numbers, whereas we are barely 2–3%. The rest support Hindutva and the RSS, and I can't even expect much support from Scheduled Tribes because they are fighting their own battle against radical capitalism. At times, it feels like we're on our own.
How do Muslim communities handle the mental pressure when it feels like almost everything is against them, and people are unwilling to hear their side, choosing instead to mock them?