The “accomplished poet, writer and activist” Meena Kandasamy has once again courted controversy by making an undignified comment about cricket maestro Sachin Tendulkar.
In December of 2020, Meena Kandasamy had gone on a hateful tirade against Brahmins on the social media platform Twitter, where she had called Brahmins ‘di*ks’. She had also invoked ‘Periyar’ EV Ramasamy Naicker, the anti-Brahmin Dravidian leader who had called for a genocide of all Brahmins, in her hateful rant and had gone on to say that Naicker was ‘needed’.
Now, the “accomplished writer-activist” is doing more activism by targeting the beloved Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar over a photograph where he is wearing the sacred thread. In a tweet, the activist called the sacred thread a ‘rarefied undergarment’.
Image source: Twitter
In her tweet, Meena Kandasamy said, “Is this a real picture, isn’t the poonool (sacred thread) some sort of rarefied undergarment which you wear inside your clothes??” She was quote-tweeting another tweet where the Twitter user was derogatorily referring to the sacred thread as a ‘string bra’.
The picture had been posted by Sachin Tendulkar on his Instagram handle on August 22, 2020 to mark the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi .
Image source: Instagram
Earlier, it was revealed that the “poet and writer”, who has allowed herself to be portrayed as Dalit on several occasions is a non-Dalit allegedly masquerading as a Dalit. She had also allegedly tried to extort money from her ex-husband, in order to settle the pending legal cases she has lodged against him under sections 498A & 506(ii) of the IPC.