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“P*nda, I’ll Cut It Off”: TN Police Officer Hurls Abuses And Threatens RSS Worker

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The Commune
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A video has gone viral in social media in which a Tamil Nadu police officer can be seen verbally abusing and threatening a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker.

The incident happened at Dharapuram Road, Tirupur near the Kottai Mariamman Temple where the temple festival was being celebrated. Manoj Kumar, son of Chidambaram and an RSS worker of the area had gone with his friends to the temple at 11 PM. They were allegedly stopped by a police officer at that time asking them why they were coming now.

In the video, the police officer can be heard abusing and pushing Manoj.

He says “If you don’t want me to push you, behave accordingly. If you don’t like me keep my hand on you, behave accordingly. Bug off. I know which broom comes to temple and worships god. Get lost. A broom which came to worship god.”

“You should be with your wife and children now, what business do you have here at 11 PM? Go stand there. What plucking work you have here?”, the policeman says pushing the RSS worker.

When Manoj requests the officer not to manhandle him, the police officer threatens saying “What will you do man? What will you do? What will you do? P*nda (Tamil cuss word denoting for female genitalia). Look at you, P*unda. I’ll cut it off. Keep your shenanigans with someone else.”

Manoj Kumar later went home and subsequently filed a complaint with the Tirupur Police Commissioner. The police are currently looking into the matter.

(With inputs from Mediyaan)

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Reigniting The ‘Aryan Invasion’ Debate

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The Commune
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The last thirty years, there have been plenty of lectures, papers and now online videos promising to “debunk the Aryan Invasion Theory” (AIT). Their impact has been very poor, essentially limited to Hindu students, not even Hindu politicians. But outsiders, particularly the champions of that same AIT, have barely noticed this wave of attempted refutations, and certainly haven’t felt moved by them to rethink their assumptions.

Let us first get our terminology straight. Squeamish AIT scholars are making everyone toe their line that instead of an “invasion” there was an “immigration”. They have to, for unlike in Europe, where the “Aryan” (meaning Indo-European-speaking, IE) invasion from the steppes ca. 2800 BCE was a dramatic and sometimes genocidal event, India presents no evidence at all of such foreign conquest in the period considered. So they shifted to the thesis of a subtle infiltration under the archaeological radar, yet revolutionary in its impact: unlike the Scythians, Greeks, Huns or Kushanas, these intruders succeeded in not just conserving their language and religion, but imposing both on the far more numerous natives. Well, the word “invasion” is not about the means used, but the resulting power equation: it’s an “immigration” if the foreigners adapt, but an “invasion” if they take power. And this is clearly what the supposed Aryan invaders did. So it was definitely an invasion, but we won’t insist: even with an “immigration”, it remains the “AIT”.

The IE language family was discovered by a French Jesuit living in South India, Gaston-Laurent Coeurdoux. In 1767, he sent a paper to the Academy in Paris in which he showed the close kinship of Sanskrit with Latin and Greek. The French freethinker Voltaire soon publicized it and concluded that European culture and its treasures had originated on the banks of the Ganga. This was taken over by other leading intellectuals like Immanuel Kant, and note that they spontaneously assumed India as the land of origin of the IE family. The Out-of-India Theory (OIT) is not a recent “concoction” by Hindu Nationalists, as widely alleged, but was thought up by 18th-century Europeans.

In India, the new insight was given currency by justice William Jones speaking in Kolkata 1786. Note about his speech what admiration he expresses for the Sanskrit language, deemed superior to Latin and Greek. Indomania was widespread at the time, best represented by Friedrich Schlegel’s 1808 book Language and Wisdom of the Indians. This goes completely against the widespread Hindu rumour that IE linguistics stemmed from “racist colonialism”. Most of India was not a colony yet, and the heyday of racial thought contaminating “Aryan” studies had yet to arrive.

However, another consideration started to undermine the dominant position of the OIT. Linguists realized that Sanskrit was not the mother but merely an elder sister of the other branches. There was a distance between the putative language of origin (Proto-Indo-European, PIE) and Vedic Sanskrit, and this translated into a possible distance between the Homeland and India. Not really compelling logic, for languages can evolve while staying in the same place; but this change of opinion won through.

What made the scales tip was probably August Schlegel’s proposal in 1834 that the Homeland lay in or near the Caucasus mountains. Bible-thumpers had already thought of Armenia, where Noah’s Ark had landed: the Aryans were deemed the descendants of Noah’s son Jafeth. Successive Homeland theories after this would rarely move away sharply from the Caucasus area. Since Gordon Childe’s choice in 1926 for the Don-Volga region, this area has mostly remained the favourite, today known as the Yamnaya (“pit-grave”) culture.

But the OIT school did not give up. The defence was taken up again by Europeans living in India. The most prominent and surprising figure here is Mountstuart Elphinstone, a proverbial colonialist. After his retirement as governor of Bombay, he wrote a History of India. Among his arguments, the most compelling is that no Hindu scripture gives any indication of a foreign origin: “There is no reason whatever for thinking that the Hindus ever inhabited any country but their present.” (1841)

Yet this could not save the OIT. In the mid-19th century, two developments served as nails in its coffin. One was the start of Linguistic Paleontology, the “science” of discovering a language’s habitat from its vocabulary. Thus, it was realized that PIE flourished in a society familiar with wheeled transport: six words for the cart and its parts exist throughout the daughter languages and must have existed in PIE. Now for the Homeland question, it was deemed significant that there were words for cold-climate species like birch tree, wolf and bear. This doesn’t really refute the idea of an Indian Homeland, for these species also occur in India, which has islands of cold climate. Recently, OIT mastermind Shrikant Talageri has shown that hot-climate species like ape, lion and elephant are equally present in the PIE lexicon, and they are hard to reconcile with a northern climate zone. But back then, the exclusion of India as a Homeland candidate won the day.

The other factor was the appearance of Veda translations which followed the then-emerging racial paradigm. Thus, in the Rg-Vedic description of the Battle of the Ten Kings, it was commonly pretended that the enemies were “black aboriginals”. In reality, the names of the kings and of their tribes (most notably Dâsa, Dasyu) are recognizably Iranian, and their characterization as “the black tribe” is a mistranslation. The word Asiknī does not refer to a skin colour, but to the area they come from, the basin of “the Black River”, the Vedic name of the Chenab. This way, several racialist distortions, perhaps made in good faith because of the racialist Zeitgeist, created the impression that an Aryan invasion into India had been described by the Vedic composers themselves. It thus became futile to deny the AIT.

The ensuing political abuse of the AIT by the British colonialists and even by the National-Socialists could not inspire the Indo-Europeanists to a rethink. After 1945, the “Aryan” political discourse went out of fashion in the West, but in India its political use by Christian missionaries, Ambedkarites (though not BR Ambedkar himself, an articulate opponent of the AIT), Dravidianists and Nehruvians continued. In the West, this has not been noticed till today. Hilariously, the few Western scholars who have heard of the OIT at all, claim that it is “a politicized concoction”, when in fact it is their own AIT that has played a poisonous role in Indian politics all along.

The OIT started a second life in 1982, when KD Sethna published the book Karpasa (cotton), showing that cotton was common in the Harappan cities (starting 2600 BCE), and in Sanskrit writings younger than them, but not yet in the Rg-Veda. He concluded that the Rg-Veda largely predated them. This high chronology is detrimental to the AIT, which postulates an Aryan invasion (importing the Vedic language) only in the 2nd millennium.

In 1984 the US archaeologist James Shaffer showed that there is zero archaeological proof for an Aryan invasion, including a peaceful immigration. Indian archaeologists became more outspoken about their findings to the same effect. Even BB Lal, long the main archaeological supporter of the AIT, shifted to the position: “Vedic and Harappan are two sides of the same coin.” Several linguists and historians joined in, and latterly some geneticists: people of the same academic rank as any pro-AIT professors you can cite.

Until the millennium year 2000, there had been many voices doubting or plainly rejecting the AIT, and contributing many little arguments from linguistics or archaeology, all indirect evidence, but a clear alternative was lacking. Shrikant Talageri, after a preparatory book in 1993, then broke through the wall of ignorance about the enigmatic Vedic age. In The Rigveda, an Analysis, and its 2008 sequel, The Veda and the Avesta, he pioneered a convincing OIT, which should henceforth count as the OIT.

This work is, as I have been able to verify at Indo-Europeanist conferences, completely unknown in the West and also in India’s AIT camp. Whereas the mere handful of OIT thinkers know the AIT quite well and often write answers to it, the well-established AIT doesn’t really get beyond derogatory comments on the OIT and stonewalls all arguments in its favour. Around the year 2000 there was a little bit of dialogue, mostly thanks to the American scholar Edwin Bryant (the coiner of the term “OIT”), but this has remained a blip.

Today, the AIT camp is a happy valley protected from the rising waters of counter-evidence by a protective dam. But the waters keep rising, and the time can’t be far off when the waters will overcome the dam and drastically impact the cosy life in the valley.

The above article by Dr. Koenraad Elst is part of the Conference on The Homeland Debate: A Definitive Case Against The Aryan Invasion Theory, Chaired by Dr. Koenraad Elst organized by Sangam Talks on 18.02.2023 in the India International Centre, New Delhi.

(This was originally published in Bharat Voice and has been republished here with permission.)

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The Regime Change Operators Working To Topple Modi

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Sandhya Ravishankar
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Since 2016, the Modi government has embarked on a relentless crackdown on foreign funded NGOs and other organisations.

FCRA (Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010) licences of 6677 NGOs stand cancelled between 2017 and 2021, as per a statement by the Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai in the Lok Sabha last year. Between 2011 and 2019, registrations of over 19,000 voluntary organisations has been cancelled by the Union Home Ministry.

But The Lede has found that George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, Pierre Omidyar’s Omidyar Network as well as The Ford Foundation founded by Henry Ford’s son, continue to route funds into India circumventing the FCRA laws.

The three foundations have been put on a prior watchlist by the Centre – meaning that they can only donate if the Indian government scrutinises their funding and green signals the same.

Due to these severe restrictions, the foundations have now adopted a new strategy. They build and fund layers upon layers of organisations, through which their money is routed.

Which begs the question – why are foreign foundations so desperate to keep investing in Indian NGOs and other organisations? Why are these foundations willing to break the law of the land just to send money to NGOs and other organisations?

The Lede analysed a large number of NGOs who are funded either directly or indirectly by these foundations and found a number of interesting connections. In effect, the foundations are linked to two ultimate goals:

  1. To support activities that are against the Indian government. 
  2. To sponsor and fund media publications that write against the Indian government. 

But first, for the uninitiated, let us quickly introduce the foundations.

The Big Three

Open Society Foundation: This is billionaire hedge fund investor George Soros’ “political philanthropy project”, by his own admission. The foundation’s stated aim is to “work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their people.” The foundation is run by 92-year-old George Soros and his son Alexander Soros.

The Ford Foundation: This foundation was founded by Edsel Ford, son of famous car-maker Henry Ford in 1936. Their vision is one “of social justice—a world in which all individuals, communities, and peoples work toward the protection and full expression of their human rights; are active participants in the decisions that affect them; share equitably in the knowledge, wealth, and resources of society; and are free to achieve their full potential.” This foundation is run by a 16-member board led by president Darren Walker.

Omidyar Network: This is a foundation founded by Pierre Omidyar, who is a French born Iranian-American billionaire founder of eBay. His wife Pamela Omidyar also runs the foundation jointly with him. The network calls itself a “social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies—for the benefit of the many, not just the few—across the globe.”

These three foundations intersect in their goals and in their methods of functioning, as we shall see later on in this piece.

Modus Operandi To Impose Policy, Effect Regime Change 

Catch ‘Em Young & Embed 

All three foundations offer fellowships and scholarships for students in India wanting to study abroad. These students are meticulously handpicked and eventually, they form part of a network of organisations, advocacy groups and NGOs that are lavishly funded by the three foundations.

Sound familiar? It is akin to indoctrination. In line with the stated goals of the foundations, these students are also echo chambers that continually drive narratives against countries which are viewed as “totalitarian” or “autocratic” by those who run these foundations.

A glaring instance is that of George Soros’ recent speech at the Munich Security Conference on February 16. “Adani is accused of stock manipulation and his stock collapsed like a house of cards. Modi is silent on the subject, but he will have to answer questions from foreign investors and in parliament. This will significantly weaken Modi’s stranglehold on India’s federal government and open the door to push for much-needed institutional reforms. I may be naive, but I expect a democratic revival in India.”

It was an unexpected speech but one that sent the Indian government into punch throwing mode with the External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar referring to Soros as an “old, rich, opinionated and dangerous billionaire”. The Minister for Women and Child Development, Smriti Irani, termed Soros’ speech an “attack on India.”

The reaction was not surprising, since Soros has, in the past, criticised what he viewed as “totalitarian regimes” in Russia, China, Israel, Hungary and many other countries. He is also widely accused of using his wealth to fund organisations that fuel protests and spread disinformation in order to effect regime change.

The Ford Foundation and Omidyar Network are, however, more careful and do not speak out as Soros does. Their actions across countries, however, mirror and mimic those of the billionaire.

In this context, it is hardly surprising that the students and young professionals who get fellowships from the Open Society and the other foundations, pack specific narrative punches consistently. Here is an example below.

These young men are recipients of the Open Society Fellowships and as is evident, tweet along similar lines. Twitter OSINT user @thehawkeyex has compiled the tweets and points to a trend. This is only an example – more in-depth research into the other fellowship recipients points to the same trend.

These young professionals, as discussed before, become embedded in an ecosystem where the narrative decided by the foundations reign supreme. They are then deployed across the world to “troubled countries” to act as advocates of the foundation’s mission.

Why Should Indians Be Concerned? 

The Lede reached out to NGO Monitor, a research institute based in Israel, which fact-checks NGOs and their funders in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The NGO Monitor has had a special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council since 2013.

Speaking specifically on Soros’ and Open Society Foundation’s modus operandi, NGO Monitor’s representative (who did not want to be identified for security concerns) said – “He (Soros) has a very clear political philosophical ideology – open society. Humans are most important and borders don’t matter. When policy change happens, people need to rise from the ground and give them the tools to make change. That’s why he funds education and universities – he believes change should come from the grassroots.”

The representative stated that they had found clear evidence of Soros’ interference in the political situation of countries such as Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Croatia and the Eastern Bloc. “Soros tried the same thing in Arab countries but civil society is not so developed there so his success was limited. For example, the Arab Spring became an Islamic Winter. NGOs played a large role in the Arab Spring – they did things to gain headlines. But when you look closely at the work of Soros-funded organisations, their claim to democracy is hollow. Why didn’t any one of these NGOs push for more women participation in the movement? Why was there no talk about women’s rights? This is because all their work was aimed at grabbing headlines.”

“The next generation will be the bureaucrats and the journalists and the policy makers who will bring about “change” as per Soros’ ideas. That is the reason he funds them from a young age and places them in organisations linked to him. He claims he put money to throw out former US President Donald Trump and funded the Black Lives Matter protests as well,” he said.

Soros, particularly, is credited with the infamous “breaking of the Bank of England” in 1992 when he shorted the British pound, the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis when he shorted the Thai Baht sending Asian economies into freefall, and has expressed little remorse for his actions that resulted in huge human cost. Similarly Hungary and Israel, apart from Russia, have criticised the billionaire and taken steps to prevent him from interfering in their respective countries.

The Foundations In India: Conduits & Conspiracies 

In order to shine a light on how these foundations work in India, The Lede focusses on three organisations which have received funding directly from the three foundations over the years.

These are:

  1. Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI)
  2. National Foundation of India (NFI)
  3. Centre for Policy Research (CPR)

We will see more about these organisations in Part 2 of the series. 

(With additional reporting by Sandhya Sridhar, Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, Twitter OSINT user @thehawkeyex and The Lede’s research team)

(This article was originally published in The Lede and has been republished here with permission.)

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DMK Min Slams TN Guv For Remarks On Marx, BJP TN Prez Annamalai Quotes EVR To Hit Back

By
The Commune
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Speaking at the book launch of Deenadayal Upadhyay’s Dispersion of Thought and Integral Humanism at the Raj Bhavan in Chennai, Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi said that “colonised minds controlled India’s intellectual space,” and that Karl Marx, Rousseau, and Abraham Lincoln were “worshipped” at the expense of Indian scholars such as Deendayal Upadhyaya.

Following the event, DMK Minister Ponmudi issued a statement on February 22 criticising RN Ravi’s speech on Karl Marx.

He said, “The people of Tamil Nadu are paying attention on RN. Ravi, who has been appointed as the Governor of Tamil Nadu, but continues to behave as a political party figure rather than as a non-partisan governor for the state. The Governor, who has accepted the position and responsibility under the Constitution, is acting like a propaganda secretary of the party, talking about Sanatana Dharma, which is contrary to the secularism principle emphasised by the Indian Constitution.”

He added, “Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi made inappropriate remarks about Karl Marx, the father of socialism. Periyar was the first to publish the Communist Party Manifesto in Tamil, which was written by economist Karl Marx and his friend Friedrich Engels. Periyar and Anna were the ones who worked for the ultimate goal of the Dravidian movement, classless equality, as advocated by socialism.”

In this scenario, Tamil Nadu BJP President Annamalai slammed DMK Minister Ponmudi for his comments on Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi, citing instances when EV Ramasamy Naicker (hailed as ‘Periyar’ by his followers) expressed his opposition to the Communist Party of India.

Annamalai asked in a series of Tweets, “Would Ponmudi comment on Periyar’s criticism that youth should be wary of communists?”

He said, “I read Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister Ponmudi’s statement criticising Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi. As usual, DMK’s statement is full of false pride and self bragging. Ponmudi has criticized the Governor’s comments on Karl Marx on February 21. But, will Ponmudi comment on DMK’s founding father Periyar’s remark in Trichy on February 21, 1943 that ‘Communism is a sweetened poison pill and that youth should beware of communists’?”

He further said, “If the minister has any doubts, he should read the book “Collected Works of Periyar EVR,” written by DK President K.Veeramani. I’m not sure why the minister is upset when Governor RN Ravi speaks proudly about the Tamil heritage, Thirukkural, and the freedom fighters. Why does the minister become enraged when Governor claims that GU Pope’s Thirukkural translation is incorrect?”

He went on to say, “Minister Ponmudi, who made one of his sons as a Member of Parliament and another as the president of the Cricket Association, talking about socialism is a DMK-specific irony. In his statement, Minister Ponmudi has somehow admitted the killing of an army soldier by a ruling party councilor. By failing to take action against that councillor on behalf of the party, the DMK has insulted the entire army. You continue to treat the Coimbatore suicide squad attack as a cylinder blast, so why are you exaggerating the moral outrage of the patriotic ex-soldiers who lost their brothers?”

“Whenever people raise questions about your administration’s problems, law and order failures, etc., I urge you not to engage in dirty attempts to divert the people’s attention by blaming the governor,” he said.

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Hindu Munnani Condemns DMK For Exempting Urdu Muslim Students From Studying Tamil, Urges To Make Tamil Compulsory For All

By
The Commune
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Hindu Munnani State President Kadeswara Subramaniam came down heavily on the DMK government led by MK Stalin and Tamil Nadu Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi for exempting Muslim students studying Urdu from studying Tamil. He has demanded the government to make Tamil compulsory for all students in Tamil Nadu.

On 23 February 2022, the Hindu Munnani State President in a press release said, “Dravidian politicians, who have produced a generation of Tamil students who cannot read or write Tamil, celebrated International Mother Language Day on Tuesday (February 21). Chief Minister Stalin has stated that the Tamil language will be protected. However, Tamil Nadu School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poiyamozhi has promised the Muslim community that Urdu students will be exempted from Tamil exams. This religious exemption has existed for many years. The Dravidian parties have succeeded in creating a generation that cannot read or write Tamil.”

He added, “In the neighboring states, it is not possible to complete school education without knowing the local language. The announcement by the state education minister to exempt students studying Urdu to forego Tamil sheds light on their intentions.”

He further added, “Does Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin want to encourage a society that takes pride in not knowing how to read and write Tamil? Dr. Ramadoss, the founder of the PMK, embarked on a journey titled ‘In Search of Tamil’ yesterday. If they want to protect Tamil, shouldn’t they support the central government’s New Education Policy, which emphasises mother-tongue and mother-tongue education? But they will not support it.”

Kadeswara Subramaniam, expressing his rage, said, “When they support convent education, which promotes ‘mummy and daddy culture’, where else should we look for Tamil language? We need to look for it in the Bay of Bengal.”

He concluded by saying, “Tamil people should be aware of the politicians who are doing politics using Tamil language. We urge politicians to not use Tamil for politics anymore. On behalf of Hindu Munnani, we request that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Stalin ensure that all students study Tamil and that education is provided in Tamil.”

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Srilankan Tamil Drug Smuggler Sneaks Into Mandapam Camp To Escape Legal Proceedings In Sri Lanka

By
The Commune
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On Tuesday (21 February 2023), police apprehended a Sri Lankan Tamil who had illegally migrated into Tamil Nadu in order to avoid criminal charges in Sri Lanka. The man was arrested under the Passport Act the same day following an investigation by Mandapam law and order officers.

The accused has been identified as S Sinthujan, 22, hailing from the Mannar region in Sri Lanka.

The Marine police arrived at the Mandapam camp and nabbed the accused after receiving a tip-off about a Sri Lankan Tamil arriving at the Mandapam refugee camp.

After being wanted in multiple cases by Sri Lankan law enforcement authorities, the accused Sindhujan fled Sri Lanka and arrived in India via illegal ferrying in order to avoid legal proceedings.

Sinthujan arrived in Tamil Nadu on February 17 and sneaked into Paramathivelur’s Sri Lankan Tamils camp without being noticed. Earlier, his father Selvaraj, who had arrived at Dhanushkodi, was apprehended by the Marine police and lodged at the Mandapam refugee camp after an investigation. Sinthujan arrived at the Mandapam refugee camp after learning that his father was staying there.

According to police, the accused person was found to have illegally migrated to India in order to avoid legal action for the criminal cases in which he was involved in Sri Lanka. Sinthujan was arrested by Mandapam Law and Order police under Section 14 (c) of the Foreigners Act 1946 (r/w), Section 3 (a), and Section 6 (a) of the Passport (entry into India) Rules 1950. The accused will be placed in a special prison after being brought before the court.

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TN Govt School Prohibits Students From Wearing Sacred Ash Or Bindi On Forehead, HM Cites GO When Confronted By Parents

By
The Commune
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A video has gone viral on social media in which a head mistress of a Tamil Nadu government school can be seen arguing with parents of the children over wearing of Hindu identities like sacred ash, bindi and sacred threads around the wrists.

The incident happened at KR Government School located near Oddanchatram in Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul district.

In the video, the parents of the children can be seen confronting the school Head Mistress Nirmala for prohibiting children from wearing Hindu marks like sacred ash, sandhanam, Kumkum, bindi and sacred threads.

“I only said that there is a government rule not permitting it which we’ve pasted there. Won’t I say daily during the prayer? You tell me haven’t I said or not? I am not threatening you. Didn’t I say that we’ve received a government order not permitting wearing a ‘pottu’ (bindi)? How many times have I told?”, the Head Mistress can be seen the questioning the student with many other elders around.

When a person interrupts if the GO specifically states that pottu should not be worn, the HM states that pottu and sacred threads are not allowed.

An India Today report stated that the State Education Department have denied any such stringent GO not permitting students from wearing holy ash or kumkum.

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The Mainstreaming Of Hate Against Tamil Brahmins: A Walk Down The Dravidoid Alley

By
S Kaushik
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In an interview to ANI, Tamil Nadu BJP President K. Annamalai compared the plight of Tamil Brahmins to that of Jews under the Nazis. He said that some of the best talents of Tamil Nadu is living outside Tamil Nadu because of the anti-Brahmin socio-political climate that prevailed during the hey days of Dravidian movement. Immediately, many pounced on the BJP leader saying that he trivilaized the plight of Jews by comparing them to a privilege community on top of the caste hierarchy.

This article does not go into the merits of whether Tamil Brahmins were persecuted by Dravidian Stockists or not, like the Jews were driven out by Nazis. However, this article will show how Dravidian Stockists have been mainstreaming hate against the community through high octane propaganda just like the Nazis unleashed against the Jews.

The ‘Thread’ Jibe And Other Sly Jibes

A journalist from The News Minute (TNM) named Balakrishna Ganeshan spewed casteist venom against Tamil Brahmins. Alleged ‘neutral’ political commentator Dr. Sumanth Raman had said that while millions of genuinely disadvantaged need the benefits of reservation, the current reservation system was exploited by those who are socio-economically well off! He had put a series of tweets to one Soumitra Pathare supporting Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) quota.

Reacting to one tweet of Sumanth Raman, The News Minute journalist Balakrishna Ganeshan put out a pun intended tweet saying “This thread (andha thread ah thaan sonna)” referring to the poonool/janeu (sacred thread) worn by Brahmins.

Tamil Nadu Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan himself had abused a woman journalist by invoking her Tamil Brahmin identity.

Another journalist if The News Minute Bharathy Singaravel is known for peddling hate against Brahmins. She once used the word “Paarpaan” – a derogatory and genocidal term used against Tamil Brahmins – to call out the Brahmin identity of a defence policy analyst.

In another tweet, she wrote that Tamil freedom fighter Vanchinathan who is a Brahmin and killed British Collector Robert Ashe disgusts her.

Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam, the President of Tamil Nadu unit of All Indian Professional Congress took a jibe at the Brahmin community stereotyping them as a ‘shy lot’.

The Pastoral Community Jibe

A seminar was held recently by the Department of History at New College in Chennai under the name Dravidian Historical Research Center. Karunanandan, the alleged professor, spewed venom on the Brahmin caste and the Rig Veda throughout his speech to prove his claim that the Aryan Dravidam race exists in India.

He said, “You are a pastoral community that moves from place to place and does not practise idol worship, but we are not nomads and do practise idol worship. The enemies of the Rig Veda were those who lived inside a fort and did agriculture in India. I wonder who the people that lived in forts and practised agriculture when Aryans came to this land as mentioned in Rig Veda. It should be us, the Dravidians. Should we consider this uncultured, nomadic, pastoral people as the son of soils? Certainly not. Aryans wore animal skin clothing, whereas we wore wool clothing. They (Aryans) only eat Yava, which is barley. Only in the later Vedic period they came to know about rice, which was mentioned as Grihi in Rig Veda. But, people who originated in this land were familiar with rice and wheat because they learned the practise from the Indus Valley Civilization.”

He stated, “Our people believed the words of Brahmins who claimed that they could do anything we wanted with the Vedas. The Kings believed it first, then the common people. This is where we got caught in their web. According to Vaishnavam, doing trade and business is a bad profession; crossing borders and travelling across seas is a sin; and higher caste people are forbidden from doing agriculture. But these are the identities of Dravidians. Previously, they (Brahmins) were afraid of losing their caste if they crossed the sea. However, they are now doing it for monetary gain. If you give them money, they’ll do anything. Now, even their god has crossed the seas. We oppose Sanskrit because it considers working people’s profession to be disgusting work. They wrote all of the laws in Sanskrit but prohibited ordinary people from learning it. Sanskrit could only be studied by Brahmins. Only by understanding and becoming aware of this you will achieve true freedom.”

Another prominent Dravidian Stockist is Dr. K. Kantharaj who is known for his hate-speech against Brahmins. Calling Brahmins derogatarily as “Paapara Paya”, he goes on to say in an interview “Who are you? You are an Aryan. An immigrant. What is the connection between you and this country? You were rearing cows for a living in Central Asia. How did you come here? You and your religion do not belong here. It is there in history. You came into this country riding cows. You are today claiming this to be your country?”.

“You better go to your own country. Go there. There only you (Tamil Brahmins) were thrashed by Chengiz Khan and Taimur. You came here whimpering.”, he says in that interview.

Calling For Genocide

DMK spokesperson Rajiv Gandhi posted on his Twitter advocating genocide against the Tamil Brahmin community.

A brazen call for genocide was given by ‘Periyar’ E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker in 1973 at Karikudi, Tamil Nadu.

Sharing this speech snippet on his Twitter, A-Z commentator Sumanth Raman drew the attention of the people living in the rest of India to understand the hate peddled against Tamil Brahmins in Tamil Nadu.

He also added that the genocide did not happen thanks to Indira Gandhi, and AIADMK supremos M.G. Ramachandran and Jayalalithaa.

Responding to this tweet, DMK spokesperson Rajiv Gandhi wrote “Had only the Shudras carried out Periyar’s instructions, they wouldn’t have to fight with people like you today to get justice, employment, rights, education, employment and equality. At 3% you are still encroaching a lot of the space.”

Earlier in December 2021, Savukku Shankar, a DMK sympathizer and a ‘Periyar’ist, who is known for being a motor mouth posted on his social media promoting genocide against Tamil Brahmins.

Taking to both Twitter and Facebook, he had written, “If it is justified to trouble Muslims today, because of how Muslim kings had troubled us in the past, then why haven’t we started troubling Brahmins for the troubles they have given us in the past?” The post was deleted from Facebook after it was reported, as it went against the platform’s community guidelines. However, it is still available on Savukku Shankar’s twitter.

https://twitter.com/savukku/status/1475724380982288385

Targeted Harassment

Mr. Arivumathi, a mainstream Dravidian Stockist lyricist while speaking in a literary event held in Chennai, said ”The name of my village starts with ”Su”. It means ”Sudethriya Gramam”. It was a grant of land, typically by a king or a landlord in India, particularly to Brahmins as Agraharam. That is my hometown, Su. Keenanoor near Vridhachalam in Cuddalore district. In that place Brahmins were the only rulers, they owned about 1500 acres. In those lands, we, the Most backward Caste and SC Caste whose only purpose was to serve them.

He further added ”They were toiling for them by Grazing Goats and Cows without slippers, they heaped goods for them. They were being crushed. Slowly due to Father Periyar who shone Light on our town, some enlightened youth went inside the Brahmin’s Agraharam. They threw dried fish heads, bones of goat inside via rooftops. The Brahmin women folk, who avoid seeing shudras faces, would go to Mannimuthar River for morning bath. There, our boys would dig holes, then put cactus inside those holes. When their Ladies went to bath, they would fall into the trap hole.”

He then concluded ”The Brahmins realised that ‘Tamils’ have awakened and under these circumstances, they can’t live in this town anymore. This is how we have driven out every single Brahmin. This is my Dravidian movement”.

Kannabiran Ravishankar who is known for distorting Hindu scriptures and fomenting hatred against Tamil Brahmin community with vile casteist abuses, has made several derogatroy and vulgar remarks with his tweets having foul language objectifying Tamil Brahmin women. He had even used private photos of Tamil brahmin families including that of children to spew the Dravidian ‘anti-Brahmin’ vitriol.

Cutting The Sacred Thread

Dravidian Stockist Suba Veerapandian, who runs a fringe outfit Dravida Iyakka Tamilar Peravai, hreatened to cut the poonool (sacred thread) of Badri Seshadri (publisher of Kizhakku Padhippagam) for his comments about DMK founder Annadurai. While addressing a crowd from stage adorned by DMK MPs and Ministers said, “Poonool (janeu) which was hiding so far has come out and given courage to Badri to call Anna an idiot. Remember that if the arrogance continues, the poonool will be cut.”

He said, “We were kind enough to continue allowing them (the Brahmins) to hold public office while we were in power. Do not test our patience.”

Vanni Arasu, the Deputy General Secretary of VCK warned that when Thirumavalavan becomes the leader of Tamil Nadu, a rule will be brought to ban the wearing of ‘poonool’ (sacred thread/ janeu).

All these speeches do not remain speeches. It spills over to the ground. In 2020, The temple priest of Varadaraja Perumal Temple of Arasar Kovil near Maduranthakam in Chengalpattu district was attacked and his poonool (sacred thread) was cut off by two Christian men.

In 2018, ten Bramhin men were attacked and their sacred threads cut off in Chennai’s Triplicane area (an area where Brahmin population is concentrated).

Propaganda To Vilify

The DMK through its social media handles has been posting comic posts titled ‘Dravidathaal Vaazhgirom’ narrating the party’s origins and the so-called ‘Dravidian Movement’.

In one such post that was posted on 14 February 2023, the comic story board attacks the Tamil Brahmin community by stereotyping them and peddling propaganda against them.

This comic strip was shared by the DMK IT wing with the caption “The mob, sanctifying their birth and living in obscurity, conspired to destroy the unity among non-Brahmins!”.

Isai, the State Deputy Secretary of the DMK’s IT wing, had spread hatred against Brahmins and misinformation about EWS (Economically Weaker Section) reservation on his Twitter handle.

The image posted by the DMK IT Wing Deputy Secretary showed a person dressed as a Brahmin with sacred thread (Janeu) and having “Thirunamam” on his forehead, sucking juice from his own glass as well as the glass that belongs to OBCs. The tweet was intended to imply that Brahmins are taking the reservation meant for OBCs following the implementation of the Central government’s 10% EWS reservation.

In yet another rabid attack on Brahmins by the DMK, the party’s IT Cell members and sympathizers on social media have been putting out vitriolic posts against Brahmins with the hashtag #நூலிபான்கள் (‘Noolibangal’ – ‘Nool’ in Tamil means thread denoting the ‘poonool’ or ‘janeu’), equating Brahmins with Talibans.

In Jai Bhim, a film which seems to have been taken to coax the DMK, Suriya can be seen subtly spreading canards about Brahmins. Actor MS Bhaskar who is shown as a Brahmin lawyer (Sankaran) uttering ‘Sivaya Namaha’ quite often, approaches Suriya (Chandru) in the corridors of the court to apparently appreciate Suriya.

Here is how the interaction goes:

Sankaran: Chandru.. Very good ya. This haebus corpus case would’ve been dismissed in 2 minutes. You quoted the Rajan case! Sivaya Namaha! That was a wise move! The case has now come in your favour.

Chandru: No sir. I feel I’m handling this case wrong.

Sankaran: No no no. I’m telling you. You’re on the right path. 

Chandru: No sir. If you’re being so positive, then there must be something wrong that I am doing. 

In the above interaction, the character Chandru implies that Brahmins are nefarious and not to be trusted.

If in cinema, they are made objects of ridicule, the Dravidian Stockist literature is filled with Nazi-level propaganda that would wake Joseph Goebells from the dead.

Senthilvel, who also runs his own Tamil YouTube channel called ‘Tamil Kelvi’ resorted to spreading fake news and caste hatred claiming that the teacher accused of sexual harassment at PSBB school was an ‘Iyer’.

“In social media, it is being said that the accused teacher is Rajagopalan. Rajagopalan Iyer. The person named Rajagopalan Iyer has behaved in this manner.”, he says in his video at 4:44. He keeps repeating that the teacher’s name is Rajagopalan Iyer again and again throughout the video. However, the truth is that the accused teacher did not belong to the Brahmin community.

Shalin Maria Lawrence who identifies herself as a ‘Dalit Christian’ had once alleged that her wifi connection stopped working becasuse her ‘Brahmin neighbour’ messed with the cables which was passing through the latter’s house. She said that since the ‘Brahmin neighbour’ did not want the WiFi connection running through her house she tampered with the cables because of which her internet stopped working.

Who Will Speak Up?

Despite all the vilification, harassment and venom spewed, the Tamil Brahmin community, especially those who are economically weaker have just gone about their work. They haven’t even been able to organize themselves and demand the implementation of EWS quota. Sometimes they have to put up with members of their own ilk from privileged urban background going woke like TM Krishna, who for the sake of self-aggrandizement go about virtue-signaling with lofty talks and intellectual gymnastics. Ironically, it is these privileged, rich, woke, champagne socialists who throw around their weight wherever they go while the Vedic Pandits, Soundis and Sivachariyars become the target of hate for no reason

The Tamil Brahmin community have been made the punching bag by the politically powerful elite non-Brahmin communities (Mudaliar, Naidu, Reddy, Pillai and Chettiar) despite purging them away from corridors of power. Yet these non-Brahmin elites (Dravidian Stock) whip up passions among Other Backward Class (OBC) and Scheduled Castes (SC) by othering the Tamil Brahmin in order to cover up their feudal history of oppressing the downtrodden.

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Coimbatore Govt Law College Students Protest Against Mgmt For Suspending Fellow Students And Slapping Police Cases

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Students from the Government Law College, Coimbatore have been protesting as their fellow students have been suspended by the college management allegedly on flimsy grounds. Despite repeated attempts to reach out to higher authorities, their demands have not been met, allege students.

A student named Haritha had completed her undergraduate law degree in May 2022. She applied for her Transfer Certificate (TC) for doing LLM. After 3 months, when she had asked for the TC, she was told by college authorities that they don’t have the TC and blamed her for not submitting the TC application.

Sheik Mohammed, the husband of Haritha is also from the same college in third year BA., LLB. He on behalf of his wife demanded her TC from the college management. But he was told by the management that they don’t have the TC and that it should be with them (the couple).

The couple also sent a complaint letter to Chief Minister cell that management authorities have misplaced the TC. Meanwhile, the college management had filed a complaint that the student Haritha and Sheik are quarrelling with them.

After one month, an enquiry committee was set up with Sheik deposed before the committe. But the committee has submitted report stating that enquiry is still pending.

Sheik Mohammed later filed a writ in the Madras High Court that there is no connection between him and the enquiry committee. The college management filed that they need 1 month to look into the matter. They also suspended Haritha and Sheik Mohammed until the case comes to a closure.

After 20 days of suspension order, the college principal filed a complaint on Sheik Mohammed saying that he attacked the college authorities and gave death threats to them. The Police filed FIR under IPC section 353, IPC section 506 (1), and IPC section 109.

The college authorities however denied providing the CCTV footage of the particular day saying that the CCTV was not working at that time.

While speaking to the reporters, a student studying 4th year LLB., in Coimbatore Law College said ”The College Management should withdraw the cases filed against two students. They should also cancel the suspension order of two students. These are our demands.”

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Hindu Victims Of Hate Crime

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For decades before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections Hindus were blamed for killing minorities (read Muslims), and during Modi1 the term lynching caught on. What is ignored is hate crime by Muslims, its nature and extent.

Based on published media reports this compilation gives instances when Muslims killed Hindus on issues like road scuffle, marrying a Muslim girl, marriage procession in front of mosque, cattle smuggling etc.

The purpose of this compilation is not to provoke the followers of Indian Religions into taking revenge but only to put matters in perspective.

This compilation is inspired by the ground reports of Swati Goel of Swarajyamag. Maximum care is taken in compiling data, errors if any are inadvertent and unintended. If you find errors please write in with your view and published source.

The format is simple – title refers to event and year, brief information about why killed and data source. Period covered 2017-2019. The first three killings pertain to earlier periods but were very disturbing.

1) Guru Govind Singhji, 1708

Severely stabbed by two Pathan boys.

Guruji reached Nanded in August 1707. Banda Bahadur was sent to Punjab to chastise Vazir Khan of Sirhind. On the other hand Vazir Khan was also plotting against the Guru’s life. Two Pathan boys, who were in the service of the Guru, were set on him. One day finding him alone, they severely stabbed him in August 1708. He knew his end had come. On October 7, 1708 Guruji walked into a funeral pyre that he set for himself.

Source – Volume 7, The History and Culture of India People published by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan. Pages 322 and 323.

2) Swami Sharaddhananda, December 1926

Shot dead by Abdul Rashid.

Source – Speaking Tree The Martyr Mahatma Swami Sharaddhanand

3) Women And Children Burnt In Godhra, 2002

“Do note that, according to India Today magazine, the Muslim mob came equipped with crowbars to pry open the closed shutters of the S-6 coach, a reserved women’s coach, which is also in keeping with known modus operandi, to cause maximum offense. Mohammad H Kalota, Salim A G Sheikh, Abdul R A M Ghantia, Farroukh Bhana and Haji Bilal, were the five Congress members/supporters at Godhra.”

Source – Rediff.com Godhra, secular progressives and politics

4) Ramalingam Murdered For Opposing Conversions To Islam, 2019

Police suspect that the murder could be a sequel to heated arguments Ramalingam had with members of the Muslim community on issues like conversion and Hindu-Muslim relationship at Adi Dravida street on Tuesday morning.

“The 11 accused include Mohamed Riaz, Mohamed Hassan Kuthoos, Mohamed Farooq, Mohamed Rizwan, Mohamed Taufiq, Mohamed Ibrahim, Tauhid Basha and Nizam Ali.”

Source – The Hindu Ramalingam murder case 11 in NIA Custody

Read Mushrooming Ghettoes changing demography of Old Thanjavur Region dotted with temples

5) Dhruv Tyagi Murder 2019

“Had it not been unavoidable, Dhruv Raj Tyagi wouldn’t have ventured out either. But his daughter complained of severe migraine. Around 1 am on Saturday, he took her to a nearby hospital on his scooty. The rowdies stabbed him to death. The Moti Nagar police have arrested the alleged killers, Mohammad Alam and his father Jahangir Khan.”

Source – Swarajya How outsiders in Moti Nagar are making locals feel vulnerable.

6) Three Sadhus Brutally Killed For Opposing Cow Slaughter, August 2018

“On the morning of 15 August 2018, three resident sadhus at the centuries-old Shiva temple were found in a pool of blood, their hands and legs tied to their cots and multiple stab wounds on their necks and other body parts.”

“The state police later arrested five men from the adjoining ‘kasaayi mohalla’ (butchers’ colony). Those arrested- identified as Salman, Nadeem, Shahzad, Najeem and Jabbar – said they carried out the barbaric murders in revenge.”

Source – Swarajya A visit to Auraiya Mandir where 3 Sadhus were killed for opposing cow slaughter

7) Cattle Thieves Shoot Dead Ratan Singh, April 2019

Rakbar Khan and his aide Aslam were found by villagers taking cows through the fields on 21 July night in Lalawandi village of Ramgar tehsil of Alwar.

Controversy erupted after Rakbar Khan died in police custody the same night.

Source – Swarajya Cattle theft menace: Farmer’s murder in Khurshidpura leaves Police and Villagers struggling for a solution

8) Muzaffarnagar Riots Started When Sachin And Gaurav Were Murdered, 2013

“A local court in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar pronounced seven persons guilty, for beating to death two boys in Kawal village in 2013. This tragic incident had triggered communal riots across Muzaffarnagar and Shamli.”

“The additional district and sessions judge Himanshu Bhatnagar convicted Muzammil, Mujassim, Furkan, Nadeem, Janangir, Afzal and Ikbal for killing Gaurav and Sachin on August 27, 2013, and rioting, according to district prosecution counsel Rajiv Sharma.”

Source – India Today 7 held guilty to appeal against verdict

9) Prashant Pujary Murder Mangalore, 2015

Pujary opposed cattle theft and slaughter. “Mangalore police have arrested 4 more men who they claim have direct involvement in the murder of the Bajrang Dal activist Prashanth Poojary. The arrested people have been identified as Mohammed Sharief, Mohammed Kavoor, Mohammed Mustafa and Kabir.”

Source – India Today 4 arrested for anti-beef activist Poojary murder

10) Minor Girl Goes Missing, Mumbai Police Refuse To Add Accused Name, 2019

Dalit Hindu girl kidnapped in Mumbai. Police did not add the name of the accused, Akhtar Sheikh, in the FIR despite the girl’s mother naming him as a suspect repeatedly.

Source – Swarajya Mumbai Police to refuse add accused, a Muslim name in FIR

11) Sanjay Kumar Killed For Inter-Faith Marriage, 2019

Sanjay Kumar, a Dalit Hindu, paid the price for marrying a Muslim woman and refusing to convert to Islam. Killed by wife’s family in Haryana’s Faridabad district.

“The charge sheet (which Swarajya has accessed) has named four accused – Fajruddin, Saleem, Saleem’s uncle Ali Mohammad and Saleem’s neighbour Sumit for abetting the crime.”

Source – Swarajya 6 months after he was Killed, Tortured and Mutilated for Inter-faith marriage Sanjay Kumar’s family await justice.

12) Khayala Ground Report Killing Of 3 Hindus, January 2019

“Veerpal (41), wife Sunita (35) and the couple’s 18-year-old son Aakash have succumbed to the injuries. Neighbours say they found out his name, Mohammad Azad, only through the media.”

Source – Swarajya Khayala ground report

13) Maharashtra Cop Killed Whilst Trying To Stop Truck With Bullocks, January 2019

“Sunday night at Khambada Vani Naka on the Nagpur-ChandrapurRoad Constable Prakash Meshram, tried to halt a truck carrying 12 bullocks. Two people in the truck, identified as Imtiaz Ahmed Fayyaz Ahmed and Mohammad Raza Abdul Jabbar Qureshi, both 19 years of age, were arrested.”

Source – Business Standard Maharashtra cop killed stop truck with Bullocks.

14) Dalit Hindu girl Kidnapped, Converted, Married, 2018

Dalit Hindu minor girl kidnapped. “Apart from refusing to mention Saddam Ansari’s name in the first information report (FIR), the police also did not add the mandatory POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) and SC/ST Act in the original FIR.”

“Swarajya spoke to the missing girl’s father Dayanand Singh, 44, a resident of Dharmpura village in Nagina tehsil of district Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh. It was only when the police retrieved call details of the girl two months after she went missing that it emerged that it wasn’t Jai Prakash Gupta but one Danish Hussain who had taken her away.”

Source – Swarajya Dalit Man struggles to get his daughter after she was kidnapped, converted, married 2018

15) Ten Year Old Kidnapped, Taken To A Madrassa And Raped, May 2018

“Geeta (as the minor girl is being referred to in the media to protect her identity) was kidnapped on 21 April and kept in a madrassa overnight, where she was allegedly raped by a 17-year-old student. She was recovered the next day after a police raid. Five days after the police arrested the boy, they also held a maulvi (cleric), in whose room the girl was confined.”

Source – Swarajya Rape in Madrasa: Family Horrified at Islamists’ demand to marry off girl to her rapists

16) Ankit Saxena, 2018

Ankit had a Muslim girlfriend. Girl’s family were against the relationship.

“On Thursday evening at the junction where Ali, his wife, his minor son and his brother-in-law caught hold of Ankit and eventually killed him, Ali repeatedly accused Ankit Saxena of “kidnapping” his daughter.

Source – Swarajya Residents shocked that a neighbour hated him enough to kill him

17) Engineer Held Captive, Raped By Accused Seroj Khan In Mumbai, 2018

A 27-year-old engineer was held captive and sexually assaulted for two-and-a-half months by an Andheri resident, who also tonsured her head after she refused to marry him. The woman finally managed to escape to a relative’s house in Pune last week and lodged a complaint, after which the accused, Sayyed Amir Hussain alias Seroj Khan (27), was arrested from his Milat Nagar flat in Andheri (West) on Monday.

Source – The Times of India 27 year held captive, raped for two months

18) Junaid Khan Lynching, 2018

“In its order granting bail to one of the accused in Junaid Khan’s murder, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has said that the initial dispute between the victims and the accused was “only regarding the seat sharing and abuses in the name of castes and nothing more”.”

Source – The Indian Express Junaid Khan lynching: Fight started over seat, caste abuses

19) Muslim Man Drags Delhi Dentist Out Of Home, Kills Him In Front Of Son, 2016

“The provocation for this brutal murder was a scuffle Dr Pankaj Narang had got involved in when a rashly driven bike brushed against him in front of his house in Krishna Park colony. He had snapped at the two bikers and asked them to drive carefully which led to an argument and a fracas.”

“Joint commissioner, south western range, Depender Pathak said the prime accused, Nasir Khan, and a juvenile who had led the attack were held within 24 hours of the incident. Nasir’s mother, Mayassar, who had instigated the mob along with his brother, Amir, and friends Ameer and Gopal were arrested soon after.”

Source – The Times of India Mob drags Delhi dentist out of home, kills him in front of son

20) Dalit Wedding Procession Attacked In Madhya Pradesh, 2019

“The wedding procession of Shaktiman, who is from Awalataj village of Dewas district, was on its way to the bride’s home. When it was passing in front of a masjid, some people started pelting stones on us, injuring several baaraatis in the attack.”

“The alleged attack was so aggressive that the person who died was killed on the spot after a large stone hit him on the head. The deceased has been identified as Dharmendra Shinde.”

Source Firstpost.com – Communal tension in MP village after Muslims attack Delhi wedding procession

At the same time some try to give followers of Indian religions a bad namewhen the hate crime is actually done by someone else or it is a not hate crime. Some examples.

21) Crying Wolf In Modi’s India

Twenty-five year old Qadri claimed she was asked to leave flat because she is Muslim. It soon emerged that broker asked her to leave flat because paper work was incomplete.

Source – Swarajya Crying Wolf in Modi’s India

22) 71 Year Old Nun Raped In West Bengal By A Bangladeshi, 2015

“A local court in Kolkata on Tuesday held a Bangladeshi citizen guilty of raping a 71-year-old Christian nun in West Bengal’s Nadia district more than two years ago, an incident which triggered widespread protests and outrage across the eastern state.”

“The city sessions court held Nazrul Islam, alias Noju, guilty of rape. Six others, including Noju, were also held guilty of committing dacoity at the Convent of Jesus and Mary in Ranaghat on March 14, 2015.”

Source – Hindustan Times Bangladeshi nun held guilty for raping 71 year old nun in West Bengal in 2015

I recharged my batteries to compile this. My thoughts are best echoed by what Dr Ambedkar wrote on the last page of his 1941 book, Thoughts on Pakistan, “These are the reasons why I have addressed so a large part of the argument to the Hindus. A thick and impervious wall of false sentiments and false illusions has prevented the Hindus are receiving fresh light. I do not know how far I have succeeded in making breeches in the wall to let in light in the dark places. I am satisfied that I have done my duty.” Pg 352

Love and Light

Om Shanti Shanti Shanti

(This article was orignally published in eSamskriti and has been republished here with permission.)

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