Inquilaab becomes ferocious when he thinks of the inhuman and horrible cruelty committed to Dalits.Whenever he writes about Dalits, he himself turns as a Dalit.
Identifying himself with Dalits, he speaks:
The Blood drops
Oozed from our buttocks and thumbs
Are frozen in the Ithihaasas
Which you recite daily.
Even when Ahimsa was preached
Under the Bodhi tree
The fire which was burning us
Never stopped.
We were suffering for many a Thousand years
With the legs which did iron chains tie
And the mouths which drank the cow-dung.
We were carrying the scorching sun
On our back daily.
With the fibers of our perspiration
We clothed the nudity of the earth.
Even then
We gained a small measure of rice
And a piece of loincloth
………………………………………
When we were born in this earth
The thread of ‘caste’ made by you
Entangled our neck
Even before the placenta of the mother’s womb
We are-
Indian Negroes
The wealth of the whites flourished
By the blood of the blacks
Like that
Your temples and tajmahals
Were built and cherished by our blood.
The title of the poem’ Fiery Position’ explains that the Dalits, who had tolerated the savageries done to them for many centuries, had taken a determined standpoint.
The determination of the Dalits is made clear in the following lines.
Even in the dreams of
The exploiters
We will hold flags of demonstration
And shout slogans.
Whatever torture you give
We won’t weep and cry
We stand erect
Hereafter
Every minute is ours.
Inquilaab’s poem points out the motivation and willpower every Dalit should have to achieve emancipation.
Inquilaab always thinks and acts for the emancipation of the downtrodden, hegemony of the working class and the emancipation of dalits.
Here we see the poet, as an emancipator, and we sincerely wish his mission to succeed thereby achieving an egalitarian society in our country.
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