Siddaramaiah: victim of caste hatred

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Bangalore: Hinduism is the other word for casteism, meaning hatred. Karnataka Congress leader Siddaramaiah (61) with the largest-following is the most hated man for its three upper caste rulers. That is why they are bent upon keeping him out, fearing that if this angry man is allowed to come up they would be the first to be kicked.

The ruling Brahmin, Lingayat and Vokkaligas — the state’s three upper castes who own the property and their gods — hate him because of his caste. Powerful but Backward Caste — Kuruba (shepherd). This is the simple truth behind keeping the state’s most popular leader without giving him any position. It was only on June 7, 2009, he was reluctantly made chief of the state Cong. legislature party.

Caste greater than party: The Brahmana Jati Party (BJP), which is controlled by the Lingayats and Brahmins, is ruling the state with devastating effect. It came to power because the upper castes in the Congress refused to allow Siddaramaiah to lead the party.

What does it mean? The Congress upper caste leaders do not mind their party defeat as long as they keep Siddaramaiah out of power. The Congress suffered a second defeat in the recent parliament election. To them caste is greater than the party — or even the country.

Casteism means hatred: Now that he is finally, but reluctantly, given a position, will his caste enemies tolerate him? No. Casteism means hate. It is the hate that leads the Hindus. They know that if he is given a free hand he will become more strong and finally become the chief minister. They also know that the first to be kicked will be the Lingayats and Vokkaligas. So the Brahmins who are managing the show will see to it that he is curbed at every stage.

How can a society progress with so much of hatred guiding all the Hindu actions?

Hindus are not ready to give up their caste system even when it is proved that it is killing the country.

DV Dec.16, 2007 p.12: “Siddaramaiah alone can kick casteists & cause Congress victory”.

DV Nov.1, 2007 p. 20: “Siddaramaiah must quit Congress, revive Ahinda & start own party”.

DV Aug.16, 2006 p. 9: “Siddaramaiah earthquake”.

DV March 1, 2006 p.9: “Dalit show shocks upper castes”.

DV Feb.16, 2006 p.12: “Karnataka caste war”.

DV Feb.1, 2005 p.9: “Pejawara swami provokes Kuruba mass uprising & helps caste consolidation”.

DV Sept.16, 2004 p.11: “Kuruba caste consolidation gets a big boost”.

Everything is decided on caste: Assam

OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: Dalit Voice was the first in India to announce that everything in “Hindu India” is determined by caste (our ethnic identity). The recent Parliament election is the latest proof that caste is the guiding force for every action. Our international award-winning book, Caste — A Nation Within the Nation, exhaustively deals with this question. Take the case of Assam. The country’s premier Brahminical daily, the Hindu, says everything in Assam is decided by caste. But the Brahminical people, who are our rulers because of their caste, say they hate caste and tell us that caste is dead. They say everything should be decided on the basis of “merit”, even as they hang on to their caste.

Of the 13 Chief Ministers since independence, all but one are from the Congress or from the Congress stream, and only one belonged to a SC. He became Chief Minister by accident and default, during the chaotic politics of the post-Janata Party headed by Golap Barua, and lasted all three months and seven days. Of the rest, the first was a Ganak-Brahmin, six were from the decidedly upper caste Kayasta-Kalita stream. Three Ahoms, including the present incumbent Tarun Gogoi, one Muslim and one Koch, a community that was once seen as being in transition from a tribe to caste. The Ahoms, once part of Assam’s ruling dynasty, are now seeking ST. Status. However, the state has never had a ST Chief Minister though its ST population even now, more than three decades after the reorganisation of Assam (170-72) when the Tribal majority districts of present-day Meghalaya and Mizoram were separated, accounts for 12.8%. In 1961, it was 17.42% (The Hindu, June 4, 2009).

Times leads in Manuwadi media corruption

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Bangalore: Dalit Voice was the first in India to disclose the “Dirty deals of the Times of India”, the largest circulated English daily of a Marwadi company (DV Feb.1, 2008, p.7).

As almost the entire upper caste-dominated toilet papers, with minor exceptions, have become intellectually corrupt — like all other wings of the ruling class — who is there to catch the thief?

Here is a further elaboration of the big frauds in the Times.

(Source: http://www.contentsutra.com/entry/419-times-private-treaties-under-the-spotlight-portfolio-erosion-investor-c/)

In a country where it is not routine for media to report on other media houses (with rare and honourable exceptions), the Private Treaties racket of Bennett Coleman publishers of The Times of India, was the subject of two stories in leading national dailies on May 10, 2009. While the Business Standard (BS) focussed on the erosion in value of BCCL’s PT portfolio, DNA raised broader concerns and quotes a number of named and unnamed stock market players, some of whom urge the intervention of capital markets regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), into the practice. Private Treaties, a concept pioneered by BCCL and followed by other media houses such as the Hindustan Times and the Bhaskar Group, is an investment programme through which a media house picks up equity in a company in exchange for ads.

Ads are exchanged for products such as cars or apartments, in what has come to be known as a barter deal.

Conflict of interests: The ads-for-equities version is more controversial because of the obvious conflict of interests when a newspaper is reporting about a company in which its publisher has financial interests in. Media houses such as BCCL usually defend private treaties saying it doesn’t influence editorial coverage. According to the BS story, the value of listed holdings in BCCLs PT portfolio, has declined 50%. The story quotes Private Treaties CEO, S. Sivakumar, as saying that the entire portfolio (including unlisted holdings) is down by 40% in value. BCCL has trimmed the PT division to 100 people, from 140. DNA focuses more on the rising concern among investors and market players about media houses practices such as PT, in the wake of the recent Sebi report on the Pyramid Saimira scam.

Promoters of Pyramid Saimira Theatre Ltd. were found to have forged a Sebi letter to fraudulently drive up the scrip.

Corrupt journalists: The interim order by the market regulator found that Rajesh Unnikrishnan, an assistant editor with The Economic Times, also appears to have facilitated the publication in the media of the forged letter. At the end of a detailed investigation that has come in for widespread praise from several corners, the report, signed by Sebi member K.M. Abraham, had come to the following conclusion:

In view of the above, I have no hesitation in concluding that Nirmal Kotecha, Rakesh Sharma and Rajesh Unnikrishnan, have jointly played a key role in an arrangement contrived to defraud investors in the market, and derive illegal profits thereof.

Nirmal Kotecha, a promoter of Pyramid Saimira, was found to have benefitted from a forged Sebi letter asking the promoters to make an open offer, in a successful ploy to fraudulently drive up the scrip. Rakesh Sharma, an employee of the public relations firm Ad Factors, was found to have helped Kotecha publish the news of the open offer in the media, based on the forged letter. Pyramid Saimira is a private treaties client of BCCL, and Ad Factors, a joint venture partner in Tatva Public Relations, a PR firm. BCCL owns 33% in Tatva and Ad Factors owns the rest, according to reports in the media.

Stock advice on TV: DNA quotes several named and unnamed market players calling for Sebi intervention to bring in complete transparency and mandatory disclosures of interest along with every story where an invested company is involved.

Former Sebi chairman M. Damodaran whipped up a storm when he spoke out against anchor-investors, referring to experts who offer stock advice on TV, many of whom have interests in the scrips they are commenting on, but do not say so. With ethical lines critical to the practice of journalism blurring with each new innovative service being offered by media houses to advertisers, on whom they are almost entirely dependent, media will have a weak defence even if only a section is guilty when the government or a regulator steps in to curb its freedoms.

Interestingly, BCCL, which is shortly expected to launch business channel ET Now, has taken down the industry-wide portfolio from the Private Treaties website. The Google cache shows the list was available as on 6 May, but the link is now broken.

LETTERS TO EDITOR

Gopal Gurung, Founder-President, Mongol National Organisation, Kathmandu, Nepal, PO Box-2828: I am attracted by the article, “Brahminism destroying Assam: Upper castes poisoning our culture” (DV May 16, 2009, p.25), by Monsur Rahman Khan, Principal DAHSS , Dekachang, Kamrup - 781 136. He is close to my viewpoint. Bahuns of Nepal are not upper caste. How a beggar as well as destroyer can be born upper caste? We the alms-giver Mulniwasi (indigenous) people of India as well as Nepal are superior as well as upper class. Caucasian folks entered India in 1500 BC and Nepal (1495 AD). They are from Caucuses. After the attacks of Haitti, they came in 1900 BC and spent nearly 400 years in different parts of Iran. There are only three main races in the world: Mongol, Negro and Caucasians. We are all Mongol and mulbasi or indigenous people and whatever may be the religion they adopted later. Sikh Gurus Nanak, Gobind Singh, Teg Bahadur fought the Aryan oppressors of indigenous people. Mahatma Phuley, Dr. Ambedkar, Kanshi Ram too fought the Aryan (Hindu). Whatever may be the name of the political party the Aryan Brahmins have their vicious network against our indigenous people. They know if the 85% indigenous people come together the mere 15% Aryan (Bahun-Chetri) will be nowhere. So they always play the divide-and-rule policy. So long as we, the Mulbasi people fight and hate each other, we remain as victims. BJP (Brahmana Jati Party) RSS, Shiv Sena are our common enemies. We must think of our secure future. We should be politically conscious and capture the master key of all locks. There are only three original races in the globe and hence only three religions: Budhism, Christian and Islam. Budhism is the oldest. Hinduism is not a religion. Hinduism is introduced as religion only in 1928, just to root out Budhism. There are only two races in India and Nepal. They are Aryan and Mongol. Aryans entered Nepal as refugees in 1495 but after 450 years they became the owners of Nepal. We are all Mongols and need our own party. In Nepal, I have founded such a party in 1989 while I was in jail. The Aryan rulers did not recognize my MNO party for 18 years. Because the name was Mognol but after 18 years the A and B class Hindu rulers were compelled to recognize and got registration last year. The brave dies only once but a coward dies a thousand times before his death.

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Mlecha, Sanfranscisco, USA: I read your recent Dalit Voice. It is all very inspirational. I’m learning a lot. I agree Hitler stole his Aryan philosophy from Brahmins. I will tell you a story I found insightful. In the 1970s, our govt. infiltrated political organizations. It was known as cointelpro. It infiltrated the Black Muslims, the Black Panthers, the American Indian Movement, etc. However, in all cases, infiltrating the leadership of these organizations was impossible. The Black Panthers were destroyed when the founder of the Black Panthers became paranoid of one of his most loyal leaders; Geronimo Pratt. Pratt was once in the American Army, so the founder automatically thought Pratt was an infiltrator. Cointelpro got the founder paranoid, but Pratt was innocent of wrong-doing. The Black Panther founder’s fear destroyed the Black Panther movement. Cointelpro was effective because it created mistrust. The leadership didn’t need to be infiltrated, as the fear of infiltration created the same affect. Brahmins will certainly use the same tactic, creating mistrust among allies. Muslims, Dalits and Tribals should all be allied against very evil and wicked people. The Dalit-Adivasi movement is the most important movement in the world. Problems in Africa, Australia, and Latin America also concern me, in fact much of Asia as well, but the Dalits really will be the leaders of any true world freedom movement. It is a movement to inspire us Mlechas worldwide (I say this with pride in being a Mlecha) against the neo-Brahmins of the world, the evil out-of-touch power elites. I suppose I could call them Navabrahmins. I am reading Dr. Ambedkar and it is true it will take some time to fix, because it is such a vicious poison to the Dalit mind. His comparison/contrast of Buddha and Marx is brilliant. Before reading this, I never knew Buddha believed it was justifiable to fight for Truth & Justice. I am a passive person, but some things are worth dying to defend.