The law of dialectics is continuous, evolutionary, quantitative changes maturing into revolutionary qualitative changes, but the changes do not take place on their own(Newton's Law) unless acted upon by external force of conscious human effort. product of changed material conditions. Consciousnesses is product of material conditions and changed consciousness is product of changed material conditions. Who changes the the material conditions? The conscious human effort.Thus the reality is dialectical unity of material conditions and capaciousness with reciprocal cause- effect rrelatonship. Some times as in our case (India) the pace of of change had been infinitely slow (limit n tending to zero) that changes remained almost invisible owing to very low intensity of external forces of conscious human effort and high intensity of internal resistance of the hegemony of the status quo, resulting into almost stagnation in terms of both - intellectual as well as material progress. I tell my female students that you are lucky to be born a couple of generation later, but the freedom and rights you are enjoying is result of the protracted struggles of the previous generations. Those who vehemently say that nothing would change, I tell them the most visible manifestation of evolutionary, quantitative changes is in the big leaps forward in the realms of Dalit scholarship and assertion and feminist scholarship and assertion, though no where near emancipation. To day no father can publicly say that he differentiates between son and daughter, notwithstanding the fact he would go on producing 2/3/4/.. daughters to have a KULDEEPAK(son), I have said in one of my least debated posts, that if a boy is 3rd/4th/5th.. issue of his parents in 99.99999..% cases all the other siblings are girls. This is, what I call, theoretical victory of feminism and its practical realization is matter of time. Similarly the casteists of highest order don't dare to say that they believe in cast discrimination from a public platform. ( In our time in AU, number of dalit students was very small and there was separate hostel for Dalits and GN Jha hostel had a "d" block outside the main building for "distinguished" students with a separate mess.) Today no one can dare to say that Dalits should have a separate mess. This is theoretical victory of anti-casteism. In one of my again, least debated posts I had mentioned about an experience of one-v/s all debate on the question of girls eloping with their boyfriends, and when confronted with the question, if I would marry my daughter to a Dalit(name of the caste) and when I retorted back that I am myself a dalit (name of the caste), it sent through them a cultural shock. Similarly if a girl/woman does "un-womanly" act or says things which "women are not supposed to" gives cultural shocks to Mardvaad , particularly to the MCPs. I exhort my dalit and female friends for the need of continous cultural shocks in order to transform the quantitative changes into qualitative ones. Good morning to every on with a cup of tea at lalla's.
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