Day: May 25, 2025

Despite good governmental intentions
Dalits still treated as untouchables,
Despite great progress by some.
In statistics last year, 2023
Ten Dalit women and girls raped
Every day by upper caste men.
Oten gang raped and beaten,
Usually with impunity, no penalties,
Higher caste rapists usually go free
Ironically in most holy Mother India.
Despite many holy men and women
Few seem to give not even a damn
About the plight of the low caste Dalits,
Considered polluted and unworthy
Of even entering holy temples.
Imagine if you, your mother or your
Sister were born that way in India.

Bob Boyd

Nine-year old Indra Megwhal of India’s untouchable class beaten to death by upper-class privileged teacher, Chail Singh, 40.

His crime, touching an upper-class pot of water on July 20, 2022.

Six hospitals in 23 days couldn’t save this child’s precious life.

No word in two years about the murderer teacher’s fate, probably got off, privileged, arrogant upper class member.

A Dalit, aka untouchable, death, not a big thing, in the caste system.

Atrocities against Dalits continue in the Spiritual Cradle, that is not a cradle for them, the underclass also referred to as shit carriers.

I loathe India’s caste system that is discriminatory, cruel and inhumane to those at the bottom.

Bob Boyd

When I lived in Dallas decades ago in my youth,
a coworker of mine, who was good with the ladies,
always went to bars and picked up women for one night stands.

I didn’t drink and never went to bars
and couldn’t understand how a nice guy
like him could live such a hedonistic life
with seemingly no regard for women
he scored nearly every weekend night.

Though long before Dallas I was wild
as a cowboy in my youth going to many
bars, often getting crazy and drunk.

But I was never about empty, frivolous
one night stands. To me, just empty sex
compared to sex with love.

Even the idea of sex with a woman I didn’t
know for a night, seemed tawdry and
demeaning for both parties to me.

But my coworker, a fun and good guy,
thrived on it for reasons unknown to me.

And he probably lost count of all the women
he’d been with on those hot Dallas nights
while I stayed home womanless watching TV
during my brief stay in Dallas.

Bob Boyd

Saw a documentary years ago where
a guy and his Inuit wife
lived remotely off the grid in Alaska.
The guy wasn’t Inuit.
He wasn’t born into intuit skills
at surviving in the wilderness
and in the harshest of climates.

But he had good survival skills
and he was a seasoned hunter,
with plenty of grit, and he
hunted food for them.

And they lived totally off the land.

I admired their pioneering skills
and thought I wouldn’t mind living
like that with the right woman.

And though I’ve never owned a
gun, I’d certainly have one if I tried
to live remotely off grid

to provide defense against animal
and human predators.

And the closest I’ve come to living
off grid is washing and drying my
clothes without the use of electricity.

And no way in hell could I at any time
have been able to live off grid
remotely in Alaska.

Bob Boyd

She was a good Christian mother
with a good Christian husband,
she met in a church,
and they had two young children.

Her father was immensely wealthy.
She didn’t need to work.
She chose to become a teacher
to live a life of service to ohters
in this world.

Despite her dedication to teaching
children, her goodness, and her
devotion to God

she was raped and murdered on
a morning jog.

Nobody who knew her could
understand why God allowed that
to happen to her.

And I can’t understand that either
after seeing crime show after crime
show where alarming numbers of
women are raped and murdered.

I can only conclude we’re living in
a screwed up wicked world where
that can happen to so many women,

where no matter how religious
they are, no angels protect them.
No God comes to their aid.

This leaves me wondering why
there’s no Divine intervention for
all the women killed by wicked men.

And I can see why atheists believe
there is no God.

Bob Boyd