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After T.M. Krishna, singer Chinmayi comes out in support of ‘accomplished poet and writer’ who called Brahmins di*ks

January 2, 2021
The Commune

In a classic case of irony dying a thousand deaths, playback singer Chinmayi Sripada and ‘Carnatic vocalist’ T.M. Krishna extended solidarity to ‘writer-activist’ Meena Kandasamy who called Brahmins ‘di*ks’.

On December 27, The Commune published an article that elaborated on the rhetoric peddled in The News Minute’s eulogy piece on E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker (known as ‘Periyar’ by his followers) in which ‘writer-activist’ Meena, VCK MP Ravikumar and DMK functionary Salma were quoted.

Responding to The Commune’s article, the ‘accomplished poet and writer’ went on a rant flaunting her credentials and making vitriolic comments targeting a particular community by calling them ‘di*ks’.

She had also abused another ‘neutral’ political commentator taking a dig at his Brahmin origins. She also went on to ask if there are any Brahmin women who have achieved what she has at 36 following which many netizens on Twitter several condemned the language of the ‘accomplished writer and poet’ while addressing the point she had raised in her tweet.

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These tweets had created a storm with many lashing out at the ‘accomplished poet and writer’ for her vile tweets.

With her tweet on Brahmin women drawing the ire of several netizens, the ‘accomplished poet and writer’ locked her account playing victim card only to make it public again after getting called out.

Following this episode, noted journalist and documentary filmmaker Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj revealed in a series of tweets that in 2014, Meena Kandasamy filed a case against her former husband and alleged that she was trying to extort money from her husband. Subsequently the ‘writer-activist’s’ ex-husband Gunasekharan Dharmaraja issued a press release in which he raised questions about her Dalit origins adding that her mother belongs to a forward caste and her father a member of the Other Backward Caste (OBC). He alleged that Meena Kandasamy had been trying to extort money from him to withdraw the case slapped against him. He also added that that the ‘writer-activist’ has not been cooperative in court proceedings and has failed to appear before the XVIII Metropolitan Magistrate Court-Saidapet.

The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) on Friday (January 1, 2021) issued a statement condemning the “targeting and harassment of ‘writer-activist’ Meena Kandasamy” and said that it stands in solidarity with her while not uttering a word about the derogatory comment made by the ‘acccomplished poet and writer’ on a particular community.

However, in a blind endorsement, T.M. Krishna on December 29 tweeted that though he does not know the context he extended his solidarity to Meena Kandasamy.

In a similar manner, playback singer Chinmayi Sripada on January 2 tweeted that she stood in solidarity with Meena Kandasamy.

 

Like T.M. Krishna, she too was not aware of the context at all.

 

Later, when a Twitter user explained her about the issue, Chinmayi even went on to justify Meena Kandasamy’s vile tweet saying “She was allowed her anger” and that Meena’s abuses were “pretty civil” in nature.

Now, several have called out Chinmayi for being insensitive and trying to virtue signal.

Indu Makkal Katchi (IMK) in response to Chinmayi’s tweet asked if whether men can start supporting lyricist Vairamuthu who has been accused of sexual harassment by the singer.