{"id":3731,"date":"2015-03-17T13:07:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T07:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2015-03-17T13:07:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T07:37:42","slug":"the-bastards-whose-sisters-we-must-screw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-bastards-whose-sisters-we-must-screw\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bastards Whose Sisters We Must Screw"},"content":{"rendered":"

While reading Tapan Raychaudhuri’s memoir, The World In Our Time<\/a><\/i>, I came across this most excellent Bengali “local ballad” of Barisal from the 19th century. Basically, Raychaudhuri’s great-great-grandfather, Rajkumar Sen, had once been “poisoned by his Brahmin guru and a co-conspirator, one Mr Mahalanabish (no relation of the famous statistician and progenitor of Indian planning).” Here’s a translation of the ballad that sprung up in response, which Raychaudhuri tells us is “still current in that area”:<\/p>\n

\n

In the village of Kirtipasha lived a famous Babu,
\nRajkumar by name.
\nWhat can I say of his noble deeds
\nWonderful to recall.
\nHis Diwan, Mahalanobish,
\nA black sheep born of decent parents
\nConspired with the guru
\nAnd put poison in his sherbet.
\nOh, the bastard, the bastard whose sister must be screwed!
\nAs for the sun-dried rice-eating Brahmin?
\nCut open his arse
\nAnd take out the sugar, butter and ghee
\nThe scoundrel had eaten all these years
\nOh the bastards, the bastards whose sisters we must screw.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I suppose it could be said that this is an illustration of rape being an instrument of power more than a crime of lust—but that’s hardly a revelation. Funky song, though, isn’t it? Mahalanobish the bastard indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While reading Tapan Raychaudhuri’s memoir, The World In Our Time<\/a><\/i>, I came across this most excellent Bengali “local ballad” of Barisal from the 19th century. Basically, Raychaudhuri’s great-great-grandfather, Rajkumar Sen, had once been “poisoned by his Brahmin guru and a co-conspirator, one Mr Mahalanabish (no relation of the famous statistician and progenitor of Indian planning).” Here’s a translation of the ballad that sprung up in response, which Raychaudhuri tells us is “still current in that area”:<\/p>\n

\n

In the village of Kirtipasha lived a famous Babu,
\nRajkumar by name.
\nWhat can I say of his noble deeds
\nWonderful to recall.
\nHis Diwan, Mahalanobish,
\nA black sheep born of decent parents
\nConspired with the guru
\nAnd put poison in his sherbet.
\nOh, the bastard, the bastard whose sister must be screwed!
\nAs for the sun-dried rice-eating Brahmin?
\nCut open his arse
\nAnd take out the sugar, butter and ghee
\nThe scoundrel had eaten all these years
\nOh the bastards, the bastards whose sisters we must screw.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I suppose it could be said that this is an illustration of rape being an instrument of power more than a crime of lust—but that’s hardly a revelation. Funky song, though, isn’t it? Mahalanobish the bastard indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Bastards Whose Sisters We Must Screw - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-bastards-whose-sisters-we-must-screw\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Bastards Whose Sisters We Must Screw - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While reading Tapan Raychaudhuri’s memoir, The World In Our Time, I came across this most excellent Bengali “local ballad” of Barisal from the 19th century. 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