<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=505679" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>We are the adivasis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the adivasis, <br>Those Mundals and Santals, <br>Who had lived in India<br>Before Dravidians did, <br>Before Aryans came through passes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the adivasis, <br>Who by Aryans were<br>Called Rakshasas, <br>Who by Aryans were <br>Slaughtered to their whims and fancy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the adivasis, <br>Like Ekalavya, <br>Who by Arya Drona was<br>Disabled to their delight, <br>To glorifiy Arjuna to our plight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the adivasis, <br>A chunk of whom<br>By Aryans were branded<br>As Bahujans and Dalits<br>To serve them without touching.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the adivasis, <br>Whose God is not divine, <br>Nor beyond our kin, <br>But our own ancestors, <br>Who were to them devils and evils.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the adivasis, <br>Where there lived<br>Democracy and solidarity <br>With no superiority, <br>With no Brahmin nobility and purity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the adivasis, <br>Whose women were <br>Not pawns or on pyres, <br>Nor a gift with dowries<br>But ones who chose their own mates.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the adivasis, <br>Who by Hindu Aryans <br>Were polluted<br>And by Christian intruders <br> Were diluted in our values and principle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the adivasis, <br>Who want back our throne<br>Usurped by the invaders, <br>And who want to undo wrongs<br>And avenge the Aryan chauvinism.<br>19.07.2000, Paralakhemundi<br>[Adhivasi = the aboriginal tribes of India]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rm.+Shanmugam+Chettiar">Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=505679" data-title="We are the adivasis de Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar" data-description=". We are the adivasis, Those Mundals and Santals, Who had lived in India Before Dravidians did, Before Aryans came through passes. We are the adivasis, Who by Aryans were Called Rakshasas, Who by Aryans were Slaughtered to their whims and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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