Political Votemonger Rodents ravage Entire Indian Geopolitics!
The enslaved majority has to be sacrificed once again as it is the Religion and noone dares to outrage Faith!
VHP's stay-off order is a setback for the BJP's original Ram brigade and So called Secularism is translated in soft Hindutva!
Palash Biswas
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The enslaved majority has to be sacrificed once again as it is the Religion and noone dares to outrage Faith!Amid talks of mid-term poll, the BJP is expected to fine-tune its strategy at a meeting of the National Executive in Bhopal starting Friday with the Ram Setu row and Sachhar Committe report to be at the centre of the proceedings. It is quite symbolic taht at least 177 villages have been ravaged by armies of rats in different parts of Mizoram as 'mautam' or gregarious bamboo flowering reaches its climax this year, Agriculture Minister H Rammawi informed the assembly. Rammawi, in a written reply to a query from Sailothanga Sailo of the Mizoram Peoples Conference, said 42 villages have experienced low intensity destruction. According to an estimate by the state agriculture department, the loss of crops could be 75 per cent this year. Of the 89,496 families of the state wholly dependant on agriculture, 78,195 are 'Jhumias' (Jhum cultivators) while 11,301 families were wet rice cultivators.
Mautam, a mizo word, is an ecological phenomenon that occurs in Mizoram every 48 years in which melocanna baccifera flowers, and is invariably followed by a plague of rats. After flowering, the bamboo dies and regenerates from the seeds. The rodents feast on these seeds available in plenty, and, as an indirect consequence, causes a sudden boom in its population. Once they exhaust this temporarily abundant food supply, they turn their attention to cultivated crops and cause famine.
Political Votemonger Rodents ravage Entire Indian Geopolitics!Seeking the abolition of the wage board, the Indian Newspaper Society on Wednesday accused the Central government of trying to curb the freedom of speech and independence of the media.
Hard Core Hinduva dictates the Nationality sentiment in Sensex Shining India and ruling comarador of the colonial government representing so called Secularism does nothing. This so called nationality is translated into Soft Hindutva!
Genocide Culture takes over Indian SuBcontinent once again as with the failure of Dalit Muslim Peasantry Insurrection as well as Antiimperilist movemnt led by the Left and absence of a National Dalit movement, The Nazi Hindutva revitalised with zionist allaince under Post Modern Manusmriti Order led from the Oval Office in Washington, have come forward with full fofce. Serial blast and transnational terrorism, a proxy war to promote Weapon Industry to save the Bankrupt US Economy have justified the War against Terrorism in this divided Geopolitics with Hindu ensalved psyache overshadowed by Islamophobia and dalit Hatred!The tourism secretary will replace Soni at the Incredible India festival in NY.First signs emerge that Ambika Soni, the Minister for Tourism and Culture may be worried. A week after the controversial archeological survey of India affidavit denied the existence of Hindu God Lord Ram, the minister has cancelled her September 23 trip to New York. She was supposed to attend the four-day Incredible India celebrations there.
A mob torched a bus in a south Indian city and burnt two people to death, police said, blaming Hindu activists angry over the latest chapter in a row over the existence of Hindu gods.
A mob attacked the bus late on Tuesday night as it travelled from Bangalore, home to much of India's technology and outsourcing industry, to Tamil Nadu.Many Hindus oppose the project, believing the structure to be built millennia ago by Lord Ram and his army of monkeys to rescue his kidnapped wife.The government has said the structure was formed naturally by the ocean, and Karunanidhi said the issue was being used as a pretext to oppose the government and the project.The Karnataka Government on Wednesday assured protection to Tamilians in the state following the torching of a bus belonging to Tamil Nadu, in which two people were charred to death. There was attack on the house of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's daughter in the city on Tuesday night.Condemning the incidents, Home Minister M P Prakash alleged that some anti-social elements were trying to create a rift between Tamilians and Kannadigas.
The anti-quota petitioners on Wednesday described the UPA Government’s legislation providing 27 per cent reservation to OBCs in Central educational institutions as ‘usurpation’ of judicial power.Contending that Parliament acted in a ‘hasty’ way in enacting the controversial OBC quota law, the petitioners pleaded before the court that the Central Educational Institutions (Reservations in Admission) Act, 2006 shows that the entire exercise should be treated as unreasonable.Pleading for the petitioners, senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan said before a five-judge Constitution Bench, headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan, that the legislation providing for reservation was never debated seriously in Parliament where lawmakers of ruling coalition and some others were only engaged in praising their leadership.Noted jurist Fali Nariman questioned the criteria of ‘caste’ as the starting point of identification of socially and educationally backward classes (SEBCs) when the country strive towards the ideal of casteless society.
Hundreds of Dalits, including BSP activists, on Wednesday blocked the Delhi-Dehradun National Highway in Muzaffarnagar demanding arrest of 12 policemen accused of killing a Dalit youth in a fake encounter.Ajay (30) was allegedly shot dead by policemen in an encounter in Muzaffarnagar on Tuesday who claimed that Ajay was a criminal.SSP Sushil Kumar Singh said a case has been registered against the policemen including SHO New Mandi police station Har Pal Singh, three sub-inspectors RB Yadav, DS Kalia and Gyanendra.
Five persons were allegedly fined and warned for speaking to seven dalits who were earlier driven out of their village in Puri district for refusing to beat drums at a temple. Zeenews reports.Some residents of Goruala, located on the outskirt of Puri, claimed on condition of anonymity that the village committee imposed a fine of Rs 500 each on five persons, including an upper caste man, for interacting with the seven dalits during a recent rally against land acquisition for the proposed Vedanta University.
Puri Superintendent of Police Asit Panigrahi said the dalits, who had been driven out of Goruala for alleged refusal to beat drums at the temple several weeks ago, were recently taken back to the village at the intervention of the police. Panigrahi, however, expressed ignorance about imposition of penalty on five villagers saying no complaint of this nature was received by the police. Confirming that the village committee had asked the residents to refrain from interacting with those seven dalits, he said the police were trying to ascertain what exactly has taken place now. Village committe members also confirmed that the five had been given a stern warning for interacting with the dalits, but declined to share information on alleged pentlty.
The National Council of Dalit Christians on Tuesday stepped up their demand for granting Scheduled Caste status to all dalits irrespective of religion, and deletion of Para 3 of the Presidential Order of 1950. Constituents of the Council are also planning to resort to agitation to mount pressure on the Government.In a representation prepared at the national executive of the Council, signatories criticised the non-committal attitude of the Congress to this long-pending demand of Dalit Christians from across the country. Also, the Council has sought to remind the Congress of its 1996 and 2004 election-eve promise to extend SC status to dalit converts to Christianity.Along with the representation, the Council has attached a letter of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh supporting the demand.
The U.S. Congress has passed a resolution upholding the rights of India's Dalits. Members of the "untouchable" caste regularly face educational, economic, and religious discrimination, as well as occasional targeted violence. The nonbinding resolution seeks to "address the problem of the treatment of Dalits and Tribals in India in order to better meet mutual social development and human rights goals." Sixty percent of India's Christians come from a Dalit background, but many have yet to benefit from increased rights afforded Dalits, because Indian courts have ruled that when Indians leave Hinduism, they forfeit the rights of their caste. The All India Christian Council has been pushing for greater protections for Dalits since 1998.
With Ram back in news, the VHP has moved in but is asking the BJP to stay out.The VHP holds the BJP responsible for the failed Ramjanmabhoomi movement. The VHP's stay-off order is a setback for the BJP's original Ram brigade. Leaders like Vinay Katiyar were banking on the Ram Setu issue to end their vanvas or isolation.So they want the BJP to take charge and the VHP to get inclusive.Meanwhile,fresh violence erupted in Surat on Wednesday over the killing of a member of the Gouraksha Samiti or committee for the protection of cows on Tuesday in Mangrol tehsil.Surat's Mangrol district is tense after the death of local politician Jasubhai. An agitated crowd set fire to shops and vehicles on Wednesday morning. Jasubhai's supporters allege that he was killed by members of a rival group. The leader was on his way to a nearby village when a few men attacked him.
''The stir is the handiwork of the sadhus. They have their own leadership. The political parties are not needed here,'' said Praveen Togadia, Leader, VHP.
The Ram Setu controversy has once again highlighted the sharp divide within the opposition NDA.
''We are concerned about people who are alive. People are our temples and mosques,'' said Sharad Yadav, president, JD(U).
While the BJP is all for the cause attacking the government for questioning people's faith in Ram, JD-U leader Sharad Yadav has said his party believes in politics for the living.
''VHP shouldn't think that Ram belongs to any individual. Everybody should have a role to play in this,'' said Vinay Katiyar, General Secretary, BJP.
If the VHP has its way, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will be hit. The first test of the issue's electoral appeal will be Gujarat.
And with the RSS, that's unhappy with the BJP's track record on the ram front and is backing the VHP the BJP has little choice.
The BJP eyes electoral gains but unlike the Ramjanambhoomi episode the saffron brigade is divided. The disarray will disrupt its attempts to build a setu or bridge to power.
There is some positive news also heralding the much wanted change!
Sharmila Devi and Meena Devi carried their deceased father's body to the cremation ground though the bereaved family has three sons. The daughters even performed the last rites.
For the first time, women in Nawada village of Bihar have broken an age old tradition.Reports NDTV.Daughters and not sons are carrying out the last rites of the dead to bring about complete gender equality and what is truly new is that the men of the village openly support this initiative.The intention was to send out a message that daughters are as good as sons. If they can keep the hearth going, what's wrong with lighting a pyre?
''We want to send a message to the society that there is no difference between sons and daughters. Even daughters can do anything in the world,'' said Sharmila Devi, Ulas Mahto's daughter.
''There is no difference between sons and daughters. Both are equal,'' added Meena Devi, Ulas Mahto's daughter.
This unique initiative for gender equality in traditional Bihar came from a reformist organisation in Nawada, which believes real change can only take place when people are made aware that some of age-old customs need not be practised forever.
And surprisingly, even men support this call for change.
''In the old customs, women were not allowed to light the pyre. Our organisation Arjak Sangh is trying to change that and that is why women are here at the cremation grounds,'' said Brahmdeo Prasad, Secretary, Arjak Sangh.
For a state that has made news off late for vigilantism, this incident comes as a refreshing change.
But even these women know that it's only the first step in their long struggle to secure an equal footing with men.
As many as 500 Sikh pilgrimshave been denied visa from the Pakistan High Commission at NewDelhi. The visas were applied through Shriomani GurudwaraParbandhak Committee (SGPC), body's chief Avtar Singh Makkarsaid.
The Bombay has questioned the necessity of the security wall around the Siddhivinayak temple.The court also said that if the temple is going to occupy so much space in the city centre then it should be shifted out. However, it was a mere observation and there is no direction in this regard.A PIL filed by Vinod Desai and other residents of the Prabhadevi area where the temple is located, has taken objection to the security wall around the temple that was built when police apprehended Akshardham-like attack on the temple.The PIL contends that the wall blocks off three roads in the area, causing immense inconvenience to the residents.
"There were 26 passengers. All escaped but for two passengers who may have been asleep," said a police inspector on Wednesday, speaking anonymously because of police protocol. "Their bodies have been charred beyond recognition."Another police officer said the attackers were Hindu activists, enraged by comments by Tamil Nadu's chief minister, M. Karunanidhi, who has appeared in public several times questioning the existence of Lord Ram.
Shortly before the bus attack, a mob threw stones at the Bangalore house of Karunanidhi's daughter, where police found a hand-written note demanding Karunanidhi's arrest for deriding Lord Ram. No one was injured in the incident.
Union government sparked a national row with its Hindu-nationalist opponents last week when it filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court, since withdrawn, saying some of Hinduism's most revered texts are "mythological", and do not prove that Hindu gods exist.The Supreme Court is hearing a dispute over India's plans to bore a shipping canal through a bridge-like stretch of sandbanks and rocks between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka.
The centre is in a spot over the Sethusamudram project but it could be in worse trouble after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK chief M Karunanidhi's strong remarks.Soon after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi lashed out at Ram Sevaks in an interview to TIMES NOW, in which he questioned the existence of Ram, the BJP has hit back saying he should not have made the statement. Meanwhile the VHP has also said that they will start a nation wide agitation over the Ram Sethu issue from Friday (September 20).The new political axis with ADMK chief Jayalalithaa has emboldened the BJP to come out openly against Karunanidhi who had dubbed Ram a “figment of imagination”.So far, the BJP has been extremely cautious about criticising the DMK. Even on Adams Bridge or “Ram setu”, it targeted the Congress leadership instead of key player T.R. Baalu, who too termed Ram and the Ramayan mythological.
Meanwhile,Ambika Soni has shut herself up in her house and gone silent.Her staff had only one terse message for journalists: “Madam will answer all your questions once she meets the Prime Minister.”However, there is no word yet on when Manmohan Singh would give his culture and tourism minister time, though he has been discharged from AIIMS and returned home in “good health” after prostate surgery.In Transport Bhavan in Parliament Street, another minister looked like he, too, was under the weather.Shipping and transport minister T.R. Baalu called the media to put up his first defence in a case that put the government, the Congress and the UPA on the defensive after the BJP and the Sangh hit the streets over the “Ram setu” controversy. The Congress today strongly condemned the attack on the house of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's daughter in Bangalore and asked the Karnataka government to provide security to Tamils living in the state.
On the other hand,Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee(SGPC) president Avtar Singh Makkar has warned RSS not tointerfere in affairs of Sikhs. Speaking to this correspondent, Makkar said that RSS is interfering in affairs of Sikhs by issuing statements regularly. While condemning the RSS, Makkar said that it was not justified that RSS journal dragged Sikhism and its sacred holy Granth-Guru Granth Sahib into the Sangh Parivar's row with the Congress-led government over the Rama affidavit. He said that before issuing any statement about Guru Granth Sahib , RSS needed to have a deeper study of Gurbani.
He said that SGPC is against UPA government for filing a controversial affidavit on Ram Setu and on the same time it also condemns RSS role for dragging Sikhism in the controversy. He reiterated his stand and sought apology from the UPA government over the controversy and it had hurt the religious sentiments of people. On the one hand, people talk about Ram Rajya and on the other they question his (Ram's) very existence, which has definitely angered people of Hindu faith," the SGPC chief said.
The BJP already sought legal action against M. Karunanidhi for insulting Hindu sentiment and asked the Congress to clarify if it endorsed his remarks on Ram.There was no such demand in the statement it released on Tuesday but spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said as much when asked why his party was going soft on the DMK chief.
“His remarks are more offensive than the affidavit. We think that invites legal provisions as the affidavit did. We demand legal action against him too,” he said.
Karunanidhi had on Sunday said at a public meeting: “Some say there was a person over 17 lakh years ago. His name was Ram. Do not touch the bridge constructed by him. Who is this Ram? From which engineering college did he graduate? Is there any proof of this?”
Javadekar said the BJP strongly condemned Karunanidhi’s “direct affront” to the Hindu faith with his sarcasm about Ram’s degree.
Today (September 19), hours after a mob attacked TN Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's daughter's house in Bangalore and another razed a Tamil Nadu state bus killing 2 people over his anti-Ram remarks - the defiant DMK strongman added fuel to the fire questioning the culture of Ram Sewaks in an exclusive interview to TIMES NOW's Dhanya Rajendran.
"Is there proof in history about the existence of Ram?" asked Karunanidhi in the interview. He also said there was also no proof of Lord Ram having constructed a bridge and having attended "engineering college." Condoling the death of two persons in the bus burning incident in the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border, he said 'the culprits have shown that this is the culture of the Ram Bakthas'.
A dangerous game
Though the BJP swiftly condemned the acts of vandalism - it has categorically said no Sangh Parivar member was involved. Moreover reacting to Karunanidhi's statement on Ram, BJP Leader V K Malhotra said Karunanidhi should not have made such a statement being a UPA partner.
"It is very very clear - in Tamil Nadu there is Rameshwaram where Ram came and created a Shiv lingam. I think Karunanidhi should not have made such a statement, he is a partner of UPA and there has to be some common minimun programme. The Congress cannot be absolved of all responsiblity in what is happening," said Malhotra.
Senior BJP leader L K Advani had yesterday said that Karunanidhi's statement was a symbol of "psuedo-secularism".
"Let the Chief Minister say something identical about any other community, any other religious group other than the Hindus - dare he say it? He will never say it. That is precisely what I regard as pseudo secularism," Advani had told TIMES NOW.
VHP: We will agitate nationwide
Meanwhile, VHP leader Ashok Singal has also come down heavily on DMK chief Karunanidhi for his statement on Ram. The leader said they will be taking out protest marches throughout the nation.
"Karunanidhi has made such statements to deliberately insult the Hindus. He has mocked Ram saying he was not an engineer. We will take out yatras and go to each district and village, and let the people know what is happening, that Ram Setu is being destroyed," said Singhal.
Meanwhile the CM of Karnataka HD Kumaraswamy has requested the people of Karnataka to not get emotional or indulge in acts of vandalism.
"Even yesterday's (September 18) the incident which took place in on the Bangalore- Tamil Nadu highway, police officers are already probing. I request the people of Karnataka not to encourage this kind of unhealthy incident. Our police officers will take strict action.
Caste bias? What’s that, asks AIIMS
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New Delhi, Sept. 18: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences has trashed a government panel’s findings on rampant caste discrimination on its campus.
It has also levelled counter-accusations, inviting the possibility of retribution from the health ministry.
Ignoring dozens of pages of documents that suggest a deep-seated caste divide, the institute administration has accused the government of bias against it.
The institute has also accused a member of the panel, headed by UGC chairman Sukhdeo Thorat, of physically pushing a senior faculty member.
K. Shyamprasad, who is vice-president of the health ministry’s National Board of Examinations, termed the allegation “shocking”.
“It is shocking to see the depths to which AIIMS will fall to cover up the caste discrimination. Needless to say, it is a complete lie,” Shyamprasad told The Telegraph.
Health ministry officials said they had not yet read the AIIMS report but hinted at strong action, both disciplinary and legal.
“The administration will have to prove each thing they have said. Their allegations against a government committee are serious,” an official said.
“There will have to be some response. Lies cannot be allowed to become the truth,” another Thorat panel member said.
The “AIIMS committee”, set up to look into the Thorat panel’s report, said all the findings were “without basis” and the recommendations “needless”.
The Thorat panel, set up at the Prime Minister’s behest following allegations of caste bias at AIIMS, found the institute guilty of creating a divide between students.
The report said there was enough evidence to suggest that the administration, headed by director P. Venugopal, had connived with anti-quota medicos who paralysed AIIMS during a strike last year.
In its internal report, AIIMS has denied the charge. But a letter written by then AIIMS Resident Doctors’ Association president B. Patro, thanks Venugopal for his “assistance” during the agitation.
AIIMS has also refuted the commission’s indictment on caste discrimination in hostels. The Thorat committee found that many reserved category students had sought a change in rooms after being hounded out by upper-caste students. But AIIMS said only one student had sought such a change.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070919/asp/nation/story_8334206.asp
Mob overpowers troops in Manipur
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Imphal, Sept. 18: The army act grants them special powers, but a posse of Assam Rifles personnel were rendered powerless when hundreds mobbed them during a search operation at a zila parishad candidate’s house in Manipur last night.
Around 11.30pm, the troops in civvies descended on Moulvi A. Rahaman’s house at Sangaiumham in Thoubal — chief minister Okram Obobi Singh’s district — to search the house for militants. The Assam Rifles team claimed to have information that militants had taken shelter in the house.
Rahaman’s supporters thought the team had come to pick up their leader. Enraged, they surrounded the soldiers, who tried to escape by firing a few rounds in the air but were soon overpowered.
Hearing gunshots, another Assam Rifles team that was patrolling the area drove towards Rahaman’s house, only to meet the same fate.
“The supporters of the candidate kept the personnel, about 20 of them, confined to a house near the candidate’s residence for nearly one-and-a-half hours. The mob also torched the Tata Sumo and the Maruti Gypsy in which the personnel had come to the candidate’s house,” a witness told the media today.
The protesters then pushed the Tata Sumo into the Thoubal river.
On receiving information about the incident, a police team, led by superintendent of police (in charge) Th. Radheshyam, rushed to the spot and rescued the Assam Rifles personnel.
The police this morning handed the damaged Gypsy to the paramilitary force. The Sumo had not been retrieved from the river until late in the evening.
The Assam Rifles spokesman, Col L.M. Pant, claimed he was unaware about any such incident. The paramilitary force did not file any complaint with the police either. Rahaman described the Assam Rifles’ attempt to search his house for militants as political “instigation”.
“The Assam Rifles came to my house at the behest of one of my rivals,” he said.
Rahaman did not name the candidate.
Zila parishad elections are slated for tomorrow in the four valley districts of Imphal West, Imphal East, Thoubal and Bishnupur and parts of Sadar Hills in Senapati district.
Last month, the police found 12 militants and a cache of arms and ammunition in the official residences of three MLAs and a former legislator of the ruling Congress in the state’s most heavily-guarded zone.
The morning raid on Babupara VIP Colony in Imphal East was not the first, but never before in the long history of insurgency in Manipur had militants, weapons, ammunition and incriminating documents been found in the residences of legislators.
The three sitting legislators whose quarters were raided are W. Brajabidhu Singh, K. Meghachandra Singh and K. Bijoy Singh. All three were home, as was their former colleague N. Sobhakiran Singh, when the police came calling.
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Ritual sacrifice may involve offering to deities as payment for favorable interventions in an event of special importance, to forestall unfavorable events, or to purchase disclosures about the physical world. Human sacrifice has been practiced on a number of different occasions and in many different cultures. These include:
* Sacrifice by Indian adherents of Tantrism who believe that human sacrifices to the gods can change their fortune.
* Sacrifice to accompany the dedication of a new building like a temple or bridge. Chinese legends hold that thousands of people were entombed in the Great Wall of China, which may be a factual historical event (or a metaphorical one, considering the labor and investment of the construction).
* In ancient Japan legends talk about Hitobashira ("human pillar"), in which maidens were buried alive at the base or near some constructions as a prayer to ensure the buildings against disasters or enemy attacks.[1]
* Sacrifice in Aztec and Mayan cultures to diverse gods.
* Sacrifice of his daughter by a victorious Biblical general Jephthah, and Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son to prove his loyalty to God.
* Sacrifice upon the death of a king, high priest or great leader; the sacrifices were to serve or accompany the deceased leader in the next life. Mongols, Scythians, early Egyptians and various Mesoamerican chiefs could take most of their household, including servants and concubines, with them to the next world. This is sometimes called a "retainer sacrifice," as the leader's retainers would be sacrificed along with their master.
* Sacrifice by ritual combat. Aztecs killed prisoners in ritual combats such as gladiatorial or bloody games.
* Martyrdom or sacrifice through war, a controversial argument that asserts military combat to be ritualistic and hence a kind of ritual human sacrifice.
* Sacrifice for divination; a priest would try to predict the future from the body parts of a slain prisoner or slave. According to Strabo, Celts stabbed a victim with a sword and divined the future from his death spasms.[2]
* Sacrifice in times of natural happenings. Droughts, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and comets were seen as a sign of anger or displeasure of gods and sacrifices were made to appease the divine ire. Ancient Minoans may have tried to avert destruction by earthquake by using a man as a sacrificial victim within the temple of Anemospilia.[3]
Mainstream, Vol XLV, No 39
A New Milestone in the Movement for Dalit Emancipation
by Subhash Gatade
Tuesday 18 September 2007
If we do not struggle
If we do not persist in our struggle
The enemy would finish us with his bayonets
And pointing to our bones he would tell the rest of the world
Look, these are bones of slaves!
Look, these are bones of slaves!!
(A Hindi couplet)
D. Dhanraj from Tsundur (Guntur, AP) possibly does not know how the rest of the world remembers the 6th of August. Neither possibly he knows that there is a city called Hiroshima in far- away Japan which was nearly obliterated that day. But for him also the very day symbolises deaths and destruction and an endless wait for justice.
He can still recollect each and every incident on that fateful day way back in 1991 when five people from his own community were lynched before his eyes by a mob of marauders belonging to his village itself. In fact, the blood-thirsty mob had nearly lynched him also but somehow he was saved. The streets of Tsundur that day witnessed deaths of a total of eight people, all of them Dalits, when a 400 strong armed mob of Reddys—a landlord caste which has dominated the politics of AP since independence—attacked the Dalits to teach them a lesson. The perpetrators of the massacre were so brutal that they cut the dead bodies into pieces, put them in gunny bags and threw them in the nearby Tungabhadra canal.
But as of now the wait for justice seems to be finally over. The recent judgement of the Special Court—which was the first of its kind formed under the provisions of the SC and ST Prevention of Atrocities Act (1989) at the scene of offence—has rather vindicated their sixteen-year old struggle. Twenty one of the accused have been given life imprisonment while 35 of the accused have been asked to serve one-year rigorous imprisonment. The court have acquitted the rest of the accused showing lack of evidence, but a coalition of Dalit organisations have been pressing upon the government to file a petition in the upper court to challenge the acquttal.
A brief recap of the events in this ‘historic case’ tells us that the upper caste (read Reddys) used the pretext of of alleged harassment of a Reddy girl by a Dalit youth in a cinema hall to attack the Dalits. The planned nature of the attack was evident also from the fact that within no time a few
