Chettiar’s change of heart ?

Bangalore: Look, how the crocodile is shedding tears: Finance Minister Chidambaram told the corporate sector to think of the country. Funny.

New Delhi: “Corporate India needs to take care of that half of India which has no access to water, water taps, community toilets, electricity, sanitation, education and health which currently remain neglected, instead of insisting on repeated tax concessions as effective corporate tax is not beyond 21%, he said addressing the Assocham here. (Deccan Herald, March 8, 2007).

Did the Chettiar have a change of heart? Why this sudden love for the starving masses of India?

No. The words did not come from his heart. He was speaking to please his boss, Sonia Gandhi, who whipped him.

A.B.Vajpayee kicks his blue-eyed boy George

Bangalore: The Mangalorean Roman Catholic, George Fernandes, is the country’s most famous bogus “leader” created by the Brahminical order to deceive the innocent people of India. And he did the job very effectively and became the most loved darling prostitute of the Hindu terrorists.

The Brahmana Jati Party (BJP) used him to the fullest extent and finally threw him out. There are plenty of younger prostitutes in the Q.

DV is the only paper in India which has been mercilessly revealing his crimes from years and warning him. The crimes he has committed on the innocent people of India, including his own Christians, who have done so much service to the oppressed Indians, are all listed below.

He was Vaidik Vajpayee’s errand boy to do all the ex-PM’s dirty job. George did it obediently. And very effeciently. But finally Vajpayee only kicked him out.

Even as his health is failing, thrown out by every party including his own and kicked by the very BJP whose bum he continuously licked, poor George is today friendless. And sinking.

Brahminical order is expert in creating bogus leaders but none can excel “George, the giant killer”.

Pests of Puri temple

Bangalore: The Puri Jagannath Temple, described in a DV Editorial (DV Edit April 16, 1997) as the “India’s biggest mental hospital”, is also noted for its notorious (Brahmin) priests who are a pest on the visiting devotees. Here is a report:

Puri priest held for pick pocketing

Police on Feb.15 arrested a priest red-handed on charges of pick pocketing inside the Puri Jagannath temple. The accused has been identified as Madhusudan Guru, police said adding, a case has been registered. Police said Guru was earlier involved in another case of pick pocketing inside the temple. This came on the heels of the arrest of another priest, Jagannath Khuntia for snatching the earrings from a devotee two weeks ago. Based on an FIR filed by a devotee, police on Saturday registered a case against another priest, Bhima Mudiratha for allegedly beating him up inside the temple. (Times of India, Feb.16, 2007).

Bulging belly

These pandas (priests), as they are called, threaten the devotees if they don’t give them the money demanded and sometimes they even put their hands into your pocket and seize the purse. There are cases when the pandas gang up and assault not only men but even women if they are not given the money asked.

The pandas stink when they come near you and they present an ugly sight lying on temple floor with their bulging bellies. Some have even raped women forcing them inside the dark dungeons of the temple.

The Editor of Dalit Voice faced one such group of angry pandas pestering for money. When refused they even came to beat the Editor. Five DV members escorting the Editor drove them back.

The Brahmin priests whether in Puri or in other temples act with so much courage because they are considered the Bhoodevatas — gods on earth. No law of the land can touch them.

This is the wonder that is Hindu India.

Mayawati uses “caste identity”

Bangalore: Caste has proved to be India’s trump-card to fight the casteists (upper castes). See how Mayawati is using it in UP where the coming Assembly election will be fought only on the basis of caste.

What happened to “ideology” then? No. There is nothing like ideology in “Hindu India”. What we have is only the “casteology”. Each caste has its ideology and the Brahminical order presents the best example of its “casteology” through its party of BJP:

Lucknow: BSP chief Mahawati on March 13 released the list of party candidates favouring Brahmin-Dalit combination. Of the 403 seats, 139 have been given to upper castes. Brahmins have been fielded in 86 seats, Thakurs in 38 and Vaishyas in 14 while one seat has been allotted to a Kayasth. OBCs get 110, Dalits 93 and Muslims 61. (Hindu March 14, 2007).

Our “caste identity” thesis is now universally accepted as the only panacea to cure the cancer of Brahminism (casteism). Use caste to kill casteists. Since our “national” parties have failed, the only hope is in caste-based or regional parties.

Cong Govt. also goes Hindu in Himachal

New Delhi: When the Himachal Pradesh Assembly passed the anti-conversion Freedom of Religion Act 2006 last December, the Congress party could not have imagined the adverse reactions it would bring from minority groups, especially Christians, even from outside the state.

They say the law, the first ever to have been passed by a Congress government in recent years, goes against the party’s commitment to allow Indians freedom to “practise, profess and propagate” their faith. Usually seen at the forefront for defending the party, the groups now say the law amounts to a breach of faith.Several Christian clerics, heads of Christian organisations and even the Vice-Chairman of a State Minorities Commission have written to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi in the past few weeks in this regard.Other four states (Gujarat, MP, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan), had also passed similar anti-conversion laws despite the Congress Party opposition.There are about 10,000 Christians in Himachal out of a total population of 64 lakh. (Indian Express, March 9, 2007).

INDIA SHINING

Neglected children adopted by foreigners

New Delhi: Over the last two years, foreigners have adopted over 6,000 children from India. That is an annual adoption rate of 3,000 as compared to under 2,000 by Indians. For a country that sees parenthood as the ultimate state of bliss, those are skewed figures. The woman and child development ministry has now asked the Central Adoption Resource Agency— which had issued the existing guidelines on adoption — to revise its guidelines to ensure that more Indians adopt children and there is a mechanism to monitor children adopted by foreigners. The Centre is now planning stringent child adoption laws for foreigners after some MPs raised their concern over the growing number of foreigners adopting Indian children. Why aren’t Indians adopting when roughly 12 million children in country are without parents?

—(Hindustan Times, March 12, 2007).

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Delhi has largest no. of prostitutes

New Delhi: Delhi had the largest number of sex workers with a minimum of 200 girls spread over 17 kothas. Other states with large numbers of girls were Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Bihar. Despite all the hype by the government about ensuring that children are not part of the sex trade, the brothel owners are quite candid about admitting they had over 245 girls below the age of 16 and another 615 girls between 16-18 years of age. This works out to a minimum of six children per brothel. Bihar had the largest number of girls followed by Maharashtra and UP.

—(Asian Age, March 12, 2007)

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LETTERS TO EDITOR

Ignacio Sanchez Perez, Badajoz, Spain: I am currently taking a MSc on “Poverty reduction and development management” taught by International Development Department at the University of Birmingham. I would like to do the dissertation about Dalits in India. I have read the programmes that you are carrying out in India with Dalit’s and I am very interested in doing a fieldwork with you. I want to study the failure of the Indian state to acknowledge Dalit human rights which has directly led to a rise of Dalit resistance.