We argue that the Kerala Model created these caste colonies and prevented agricultural land to reach the hands of the tillers, and this in turn has led to deforestation, environmental and habitat degradation; where even the coastal areas are being destroyed.
Instead of the Constitution reforming an unequal and inhumane society, the barbaric society is now corrupting the Constitutional values, democratic procedure, rule of law, minority rights now. This is the true nature of Sangh Parivar rule.
In the Singham movie, Surya is an Annachi (Nadar) caste. Villain is also from the Annachi caste. Why can’t you portray depressed castes as policemen ? Why can’t you show them succeed in doing excellent jobs of cleaning up the society ?
We want to say that the students who come here, keeping aside the issue of viva-voce, every day, after reading a chapter, when a student writes something, the “progressive” faculty says that “you have come from Hindi medium, from a vernacular medium, we will not let you go from here with an MPhil/PhD.” Who will talk about that psychological violence? Is that not an issue of social justice?
Modi ji goes to election campaigns in UP and says that he is the son of UP. If he is UP’s son, can he not see his brother’s plight? Why could he not find Najeeb? How could he dare to go to UP? Does he not feel ashamed of himself?
If we want to counter RSS, ABVP and the Manuvadi castes, we should establish and strengthen ASA in every district, every college, all social welfare hostels, and universities.
“..The boy was beaten up badly and then they are complaining that the girl was harassed. What were they doing for the past three months? He [girl’s father] could have lodged a complaint in police station! Or at least he could have approached the boy’s parents. How dare he takes the law into his own control?..”
The government will accept your demands for land and housing only if you fight jointly. Do not sacrifice your unity before the government or politicians, if the poor are united we will succeed.
Equality sometimes means that that those who have been traditionally powerful should share their power. They should support people who have never enjoyed power to become leaders. Those who have never faced discrimination should not talk about discrimination. instead they should empower discriminated people like Dalits, Muslims, Adivasis and Women to speak for themselves.
We are at a strange juncture – Casteism is fine, objecting to it is a problem. Racism is fine, speaking against it is a problem. Observe the pattern. Recently, four students from EFLU were have been convicted in a defamation case by the court for exposing casteism by a professor/dean of the German department. The court punished the students.
