Woman Writer Threatened With Rape!!

The signs are all here and those who are dismissing them are 'few random incidents' are simply failing at their attempts to veil the obvious.

In the latest story emerging from Bengaluru, noted writer, film-maker and script writer Chetana Thirthahalli was threatened with rape, acid attack and other 'dire consequences' on Facebook.

This after she wrote articles questioning Hindu customs in various magazines, including Muslim publications. She was also part of a recent rally in Bengaluru which supported beef consumption and saw attendence from numerous litterateurs and feminists. 

For past few months she received numerous threats from various Facebook accounts which surely disagreed with her views that were expressed by her. Finally on Saturday, She lodged a complaint with Hanumantha Nagar police against operators of two Facebook accounts. 

In her complaint, the writer said she had been receiving the messages from Jagrutha Bharatha and Madhusudhan Gowda on Facebook for 5-6 months. 

"Initially, most of the messages were from fake profiles and were reactions to my posts on Facebook. I ignored them. However, of late, Madhusudhan has been messaging me regularly especially after reading about recent protests where I have been and so on. His threats and messages are communal, anti-feminist and often obs cene," she told STOI. 

"With the killing of writer Kalburgi and little progress in its investigation, I do not feel safe now. I may not be anywhere near Kalburgis' stature, but I am afraid. So, I decided to file a complaint, especially when I realized that these people were following my every move, every post," she added.

Police have registered a case under IPC section 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) and 509 (word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman). They have also referred the case to the cyber crime cell to trace Madhusudhan.

The question and topic here are not the prevailing controversial religious intolerance but the respect and life of a woman and writer. It is sad that everyone who stands up against something or dares to do so is put to a tragic end. This is the current situation in India. Pity and shame is all that i have to share, this is same India where goddesses re worshiped and daughters are killed!! Welcome to India!!  

'A writer’s freedom is bound to be threatened if freedoms of Dalits and women are also threatened'

In the latest incident in Karnataka, a young Dalit writer Huchangi Prasad was allegedly attacked by unidentified men for his “anti-Hindu” writings at Davangere in central Karnataka on Wednesday.

 The complaint was lodged by Chethana last week wherein she alleges that she started receiving threat messages on the social media after endorsing beef consumption. Chethana also said she had been receiving threat messages on the social media for the last one year but did not take them seriously.

 However, after the killing of Kannada writer and rationalist M M Kalburgi in August, she approached police. Kalburgi was shot dead by two men at his residence at Dharwad in north Karnataka, with the assassins still remaining elusive. 

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Indian politics!!

Pic 1- Promises by Politicians
Pic 2- Promises delivered

Kahin suna suna lagta hai,
yeh andaz to netao ka lagta hai!!

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Burned down for being a Dalit!! Incredible India

Two children were charred to death whereas, parents suffered serious burn injuries in the incident.

Vaibhabh and Dabboo

Jitender alleged that the attackers were from Rajput caste and the family had a confrontation with them in October after which a case had been registered.

"We were sleeping when they poured petrol from the window. I smelt the petrol and tried to wake up my wife but by then the fire had started. My children died in the fire...," said a wailing Jitender.

"They had threatened me that they will finish my family, That I should never return to the village... I won't but please give me back my children," he said.

The incident has led to tension in the area.

"Security has been tightened in the village and we are investigating the matter," a police official said.

Two people have been arrested in connection with the case and an investigation is on to nab the other suspects.  

The attack caused tension in Ballabgarh area of Faridabad district. Officials said the attack could be the fallout of the arrest of 11 people last year in connection with some murders in the area.

“Those who were victims in last year’s case are the accused in today’s case. The victims in today’s case named the accused and we registered a case against them,” said Subhash Yadav, the commissioner of police of Faridabad.

Police registered the case under provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. A hunt has been launched for the attackers, officials said.

The room in which victims were sleeping.

While criticising the incident, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh for the family.

Now my question to you, is that 10 lakh sufficient for the lives lost?

Or maybe in their terms 10 lakhs is perfect compensation for the lives of those two kids.

India is on the way to set perfect example for setting a value of every living person.

Alas, even after 60 years of Independence we are still living in the Neanderthal age, pity and shame  is all we have to share.

Welcome to caste based, communalised and politics divided India!!

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Racism and India!! Nido Taniam's Life

'Are you from China?' College student, 20,was  killed by racist thugs in 2014

We have a peculiar habit of remembering or offering our fake sympathy only till media runs it, after that we get busy enough to forget everything.

Its not new in India where justice is delayed every time, and when I say every time i mean it.

This time I'll be telling you about how we treat others who are not like us physically:

Indians from a part of nation near Myanmar and China say they face discrimination in rest of the country for their 'Asian' features.

He was not a criminal but had committed one crime, he had Asiatic features!!

Yes you heard that right, that's enough for a person to lose life in India!!

He was a slight young man, who sported hipster eyeglasses and a wispy moustache. He had dyed his spiky hair blond, but that was not the only thing that made college student Nido Tania stand out in the Indian capital.

Tania was from northeastern India, a narrow strip of territory wedged between China and Myanmar, whose people say they face discrimination in the rest of the country for having "Asian" facial features. When Tania, 20, stopped in a dairy to ask for directions on that afternoon, the shopkeeper taunted Tania for not knowing his way around, saying, "Are you from China?" and making fun of his hair.

The incident escalated into a violent altercation in which several men thrashed him with sticks and steel rods, friends and officials said.

He died in his bed the next day, succumbing to severe injuries to the chest and brain, according to preliminary medical results provided to his family.

The incident has sparked outrage in New Delhi, which was already reeling from a spate of high-profile rape cases, and has added to a growing sense of insecurity in a capital that is aiming to be a showcase for India's growing economic might.

"Our community is often targeted like this … We look different, so it's easy for people to see we're not from Delhi."

"This happens every day in Delhi. Each and every one of us has experienced discrimination because of our physical features," said Sophy Chamroy, a 22-year-old student from the northeastern state of Manipur.

India's 1.2 billion people have many languages and customs but, as with the rape cases, racially motivated assaults seem to occur in New Delhi and other major cities with regularity. Many victims from the northeast are young people who have migrated to the capital for school or job opportunities lacking in their poorer home areas.

Two years back in New Delhi, three students from Manipur were beaten by neighbours. In a separate case, a 21-year-old beautician from Manipur was found dead in her apartment with injuries to her face and toes. Police labelled it a suicide and dropped the case but many suspected she was slain.

So widespread is the discrimination against people from northeastern India that the federal government in 2012 passed a law that punishes the use of a racial slur with up to five years in prison. Still, activists say, authorities rarely enforce such laws and police are as likely to participate in discrimination as intervene to stop it.

"You don't know what is on the minds of people in Delhi, because these incidents keep on recurring," said Geetartha Barua, an official with the state government of Arunachal Pradesh, where Tania lived.

Tania was in New Delhi on vacation and going to visit an ailing friend in the area near Lajpat Nagar when he walked into the dairy, friends said.

Tania smashed a glass display case in anger after being taunted, prompting the shopkeeper and several other men from the market to set upon him and a friend. The shopkeepers called the police, who got Tania to pay about US$120 for the broken glass. The police did not take any action against the assailants, Barua said.

Police officers let Tania go, but when he passed the shop a second time the attackers beat him again, said Jotam Toko Tagam, the former president of a New Delhi organisation for students from Arunachal Pradesh. When he reached his sister's flat, where he was staying, he complained of pain and was bleeding from his wrist. He fell asleep early on Thursday morning after applying balms across his body, Tagam said. Around 1pm the next day, friends tried to wake him but found his body cold and limp. Brought to a nearby hospital, he was pronounced dead on arrival, Barua said.

The case sparked an outcry across Indian media and websites with many criticising the response by the Delhi police. Three men reportedly have been detained for questioning. Barua said police did not open a murder investigation until 24 hours after Tania had died, after the incident had begun to make news.

"We are being forced to go exert pressure on different quarters to get the police to investigate this matter properly, at a time when the situation is very sad," Barua said.

In the recent study conducted by Jamia Millia Islamia's Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research with National Commission for Women (NCW) found that 60% of women from North East India, who have moved to major cities in India , are reported to face harassment and discrimination. City wise- New Delhi is reported to be most intolerant city towards women from north east India at a staggering rate of 81 per cent of women respondents facing racial discrimination. Racism is not only inherent among people; it is also practiced by the state authorities in the form of racial profiling of people from north east India . Women from north east India remains more vulnerable to racial discrimination and sexual violence.

 In 2007, the Delhi police published a much-criticized booklet, advising migrants from the northeast to avoid wearing revealing clothes and to not cook their native foods, such as bamboo shoots and fermented soy beans, for fear of upsetting Indian neighbors with unfamiliar smells. In 2011, the home affairs ministry made the use of hate-speech like “Chinky” punishable with five years in jail. Enforcement, naturally, is impossible, and legislation without the propagation of a multicultural and multiethnic view of India is meaningless.

“Societies do not change on their own” 

“Unless we recognize it and talk about it”

There's more to this where and its not going to stop until we want it to stop.

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Another toddler Nirbhaya : Welcome to India!!

Same story but with a different face, toddler this time!!

Delhi lived up to its tag of being a city unsafe for women when in two separate incidents, two minor girls were gang-raped on Friday. In the first case, a five year old girl was allegedly gang raped by three men in Delhi’s Anand Vihar Friday evening. Three suspects have been arrested in the case by the police who happen to be labourers living near the house of the girl. It has been reported that the men were inebriated during the time they committed the crime. The victim has been admitted to GTB hospital.

The second incident took place in Nangloi at around 11 pm, when a two-and-a-half year old girl was abducted from outside her house by two motorcycle borne assailants. The young girl reportedly walked out of the house during a power cut late Friday and was abducted by two men on a motorcycle, eyewitnesses said. She was later found bleeding in a nearby park during early hours of Saturday after which she was rushed to the hospital where she is undergoing treatment for her injuries.

Meanwhile, politicians from different hues took this opportunity to take potshots at each other.  Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal blamed PM Modi and the LG for Delhi’s lack of security and raised concern over the “repeated” rape of minors in the city. “Am on my way to hospitals to meet rape victims,” he tweeted

An agitated crowd of more than 100 people gathered near the toddler's home late Saturday afternoon attempting to block traffic and lambasting the police's failure to make arrests in the case, according to an AFP reporter at the scene.

"They (police) are not doing anything to arrest the rapists. We don't feel safe in this city and there will be a day when parents will stop giving birth to girls fearing they will be raped," a female relative of the girl told reporters without giving her name.

The two attacks come as New Delhi grapples with a grim litany of sexual assaults against women -- and in several recent cases, children -- that have sparked outrage in India and abroad.

"We have launched a manhunt for the suspects. So far no one has been arrested," Pushpendra Kumar, West Delhi police chief, told AFP of the younger girl's case.

"Two men were involved in the abduction of the girl and the tests have confirmed rape," Kumar said, adding that further examinations would show whether both men raped the toddler.

He said they found the younger child bleeding profusely several hours after she went missing. Authorities have released CCTV footage of two men riding away on a motorbike with the victim in an attempt to catch the alleged perpetrators.

Separately, police in eastern Delhi arrested three men overnight in the case of the five-year-old victim, whom tests showed was raped multiple times, after locals managed to catch her alleged assailants.

"Her clothes were partially torn with blood spots all over them. Some locals saw her and she told them she was sexually assaulted," an officer from Anand Vihar police station in eastern Delhi told AFP on condition of anonymity.

- Safety situation 'deteriorating' -

"Some of the locals then barged into the house and caught them (the alleged perpetrators) before handing them over to us," the officer said.

Both girls are undergoing medical treatment but are believed to be out of danger.

The latest attacks come eight days after a four-year-old girl was allegedly raped and slashed with a blade before being abandoned by a railway track in the capital.

Ranjana Kumari, head of Delhi-based Centre for Social Research said the ongoing turf war between the two governments left Delhi vulnerable to such horrific crimes.

"Delhi is not safe and secure for women and the situation is deteriorating," Kumari told AFP.

"Most of these incidents have been reported in lower income areas like slums and densely populated areas, where mostly migrants stay. These men live in crammed spaces with no social or parental control and usually no fear of law," she said.

The fatal gang rape of a young student on a bus in Delhi in 2012 led to an outpouring of anger over frightening levels of violence against women.

India recorded 36,735 rape cases in 2014, with 2,096 of them in Delhi.

"When will Delhi wake up?

No words from my side today, just being ashamed to call myself an Indian!!

One solution is there, surely!!

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Another Nirbhaya :This time a 4 year old!!

Four-year-old girl left battling for her life after being brutally gang-raped and slashed with knife in horrific Delhi attack

• Two men lure child in north Delhi with toffees and biscuits 

• They rape, slash her, leaving her body severely damaged

• Girl battles for life in hospital which treated Nirbhaya

 As if being subjected to a life of abject poverty, at the innocent age of four isn’t harrowing enough, to be robbed of that innocence is a treacherous pain, that is bound to leave the marks of its existence, not only on the external, physical surface of the body, but deep within the psyche of the soul.

The following photo-series takes a peek into the world of the 4-year-old victim of rape, a resident of Keshav Puram, in northwest Delhi, in an attempt to make sense of how the paradoxical surroundings of her world have come crashing down on her, and her family, who had moved to Delhi in the hopes of making a living.

Girl's house!! Silence prevails there!!

Seema Shukla’s (named changed) tears can’t stop flowing as she squats on the floor of the gynaecological department at Safdarjung Hospital. 

Hair dishevelled, clad in a shabby saree, she keeps passing out even as a woman councillor holds her tight, trying to console her. 

Seema’s four-year-old daughter was brutally gang-raped by at least two men, and her entire body slashed with a knife on Friday evening near her home in Keshav Puram, northwest Delhi. 

Her privates had been torn apart, which forced specialised doctors to perform a three-hour colostomy surgery on her in the wee hours of Saturday. 

The girl, who has barely survived the ordeal and is battling for life, will live with a stool bag for the next few months. 

“We had not anticipated this when we shifted to Delhi from Orai in Uttar Pradesh’s Jalaun district around a decade ago,” the girl’s grandfather told Mail Today. 

“We are poor. I work as a labourer. My son was a painter and daughter-in-law Seema is a household maid. When we found a shelter in the Lawrence Road jhuggis, I could see that the mahaul (environment) was not good, but there was no other option. Now we are paying for it.” 

The girl’s father recalls Friday evening’s horror. 

“My father had returned from work around 5pm and saw my daughter playing in the house. He had to meet someone in the locality for work-related enquiries when she went out with her friends. We don’t know when the girls reached the railway phatak (crossing). 

"A group of men are always drinking and playing cards there. The other girls now tell us that two men offered her toffees and biscuits. One of them picked her up in his arms and left.” 

Two hours later, when the family was already exhausted searching for her on every road in the area, a woman brought her back soaked in blood. 

She had apparently been taken to a jungle near the railway line, brutalised and dumped. 

The area is full of concrete materials dumped and locals use it for defecating. The woman was also out to relieve herself at the spot. 

“She could not speak a word when she recovered. Doctors told us she was throttled. However, they have assured us that she will get back her voice,” the grandfather said. 

Dr Akai, medical superintendent, Safdarjung Hospital, said the girl was brought to the hospital at around 8pm after being referred from Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital. 

“She was brought with cut marks all over her face and abdomen, her vagina and rectum both seriously injured. 

"We had to perform a three-hour colostomy to provide an alternate opening for her to pass stool. 

"Her colon will take time to recover and come back to normal functioning. A surgery to close the colostomy will be required later,” said Dr Rai. 

The Delhi Police have registered a case under relevant sections of IPC and POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Acts and a manhunt has been launched. 

The accused are yet to be identified. 

“We have zeroed in on some suspects and we are keeping a watch. Once the girl recovers, we will be able to get more clues about the accused,” an officer said, requesting anonymity. 

Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal visited Safdarjung Hospital on Saturday noon and spoke to the distraught parents. 

She tweeted: “Visited the little girl, her condition can’t be described. Horrific. Her parents are extremely poor. When will this heinous crime stop in Delhi [sic].” 

She also wrote on Twitter later: “Every day we have a Nirbhaya in Delhi and the Nirbhaya Fund is lying unused. 

"Pathetic. In 2014, only nine accused were convicted in Delhi in crime against women. Can you imagine! Tabhi to Delhi mei kisi ko darr nai hai (That’s why no one is scared in Delhi).” 

Sampoorna, a woman counsellor from an NGO, which works with DCW to help such victims, said: “Providing psychological aid to the poor girl will come later. 

"Right now her mother herself is in such a sorry condition. In hours, she has not been able to answer even one of our questions.”

In one of the photos above there is a photo of goddesses who are worshiped in India but ye another incident proves that there is no need for such for fake prayers when even a 4 year old does not enjoy the basic rights.Once again I'm ashamed of calling myself an Indian, yes i'm and surely those who realise the facts will be on my side. Pity and shame!!May that child recover from the trauma!!

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Fate of Dalits!!

Dalit girl severly beaten up after her shadow falls on high caste muscleman!!

The episode enraged the family of the muscle-man to such an extent that they severely beat the girl and threatened to kill her if she was spotted again at the hand pump.

In a shocking incident, a minor Dalit girl was allegedly thrashed by higher caste women in Ganeshpura village here after the victim’s shadow fell on a muscleman belonging to their family, police said today. The incident took place on June 13 and the complaint was also filed on the same day at Gadi Malhera police station, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Neeraj Pandey said. 

According to the complaint lodged by the girl’s father, the problem began when his daughter was fetching water from a village hand pump and her shadow fell on muscle-man Puran Yadav (belonging to a higher caste) when he happened to pass from there, the ASP said. The episode enraged the family of the muscle-man to such an extent that the women of the family severely beat the girl and threatened that if she was spotted again at the hand pump, they would kill her, he said. Yadav’s family also prevented the victim from going to police station, but they somehow managed to reach there. A case under sections 323, 341, 506 of the IPC has been registered against the accused and further investigation is underway. In several remote pockets of India, where untouchability is still prevalent, people from the lower caste are forbidden to come in contact with those belonging to the higher rung so much so that they can’t share their food, cook for them or even look them in the eye. It is even forbidden for their shadow to fall on higher caste people, who consider it as defiling or polluting.

This is how Dalits are being looked upon and behaved in India, one of the largest democracies in the world. Again i would say, we may be boasting about our culture and heritage but there are stains of atrocities on our fake image.

Dalit girls clean school toilets in absence of sweepers in Jaipur

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's much-hyped Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has gone for a toss in Rajasthan, as in the absence of sweepers in government schools of Jaipur district, students belonging to the Scheduled Castes (SCs) clean the toilets.

In response to a public interest litigation (PIL) by one Radha Shekhawat, the Rajasthan High Court had authorised NGO Bharat Bal Vigyan Samiti to survey schools in Jaipur. The report was submitted on Tuesday.

Of the 138 schools in 10 educational blocks of Jaipur - 24 have no toilet for girls while 75 per cent lack sanitation facilities.

A total 23,102 children with 56.1 per cent girls are enrolled in these 138 schools.

In another break-up, 31.77 per cent are Scheduled Castes, 15.94 per cent Muslim minority, 12.71 per cent Scheduled Tribes, 26.55 per cent Other Backward Classes and 13.04 per cent from the general category.

The survey found that safai karmachari is not appointed in most schools.

"A serious concern we would like to highlight is that teachers and the school administration force girls and children from the SC communities to clean toilets.These children face discrimination because they belong to the SC communities, thereby reinforcing the evil of untouchability and caste roles of traditional societies," the report underlined.

It was observed that 47 schools do not have any toilets for boys (36 per cent) while 74 schools have only one toilet for boys (54 per cent)

Shockingly, 24 schools (20 per cent of total schools) have no toilets for girls while 94 schools (67 per cent of the total) have a single toilet.

Similarly, for boys, 41 (30 per cent) schools have no urinals and 43 (30 per cent) schools have no urinals for girls.

For staff, 75 per cent schools have no urinals. Moreover, 67 (48 per cent) schools have no separate toilet for them. The norms of the Water Sanitation Hygiene Programme for Schools (WASH) are one toilet each for 80 boys and 40 girls, respectively.

The findings show that 68 per cent schools fulfil the norms for boys while only 28 per cent meet the criteria for girls.

No wonder, boys answer nature's call in open space near the school or its walls. Moreover, water in toilets is available only in 67 schools (48.55 per cent) while for urinals, it is only in 72 schools (52.15 per cent). During menstruation, girls don't come to school where the toilets are dirty and there is no running water.

During the survey, it was found that girls were paid at least Rs 50 to clean the staff toilets in one school.

When an attempt was made to contact state Education Minister Vasudev Devnani, his staff said that he was away to Ganganagar for PM Narendra Modi's visit on Thursday.

Ko mal Srivastava, president of the NGO told Mail Today that they have recommended construction of toilets and urinals in all schools, change in urinal design, ensuring running water and drainage besides cleanliness. The report has also suggested regular monitoring by district and block officials.

Incredible India!!

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Incredible India!!

"Hate the sin, not the sinner."
"Unity in diversity."
Democracy is choked to slow death.
At least if we remembered the basic childhood teachings, we
could have been better humans!
We live in a place where law is kept in one pocket and
constitution in another, girls are asked to remain in houses
and rapists roam freely, fake nationalism comes out only at
the time of Republic & Independence day, river Ganges flows
365 days year but is remembered only at election time, and
who gives a shit about fellow humans?
Hyprocisy mixed with blood!
Incredible India!!
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Why only outrage against beef? Cricket balls, shoes, tablas contain cow parts too!! Dark side

 On Twitter, as a reaction to Dadri, one Anuj Kumar with a healthy 22,000 followers, tweeted, “These b****rds know that Hindus worship the cow, still they slaughter it and provoke Hindus. Whoever slaughters a cow, slaughters a Hindu.”

Maybe its not about any particular community, maybe its about the hatred spread by political groups who show only one side of the story and leaving rest on people's assumptions thus creating communal tensions.

Moreover, beef isn’t the only reason for cattle slaughter.  Products derived from cattle are used everyday even by people otherwise ready to kill and murder in the name of “cow protection”. Here are some:

1) Leather shoes, belts, bagsCowhide is the primary material used to make leather. In fact, for thick leather such as shoes and jackets, cowhide is used almost exclusively.

Tanneries making leather from cowhide are run openly across India. In a marvellous display of cognitive dissonance, unlike riots over beef , no one seems to think utilising the sacred cow to make wearable items is in any way a religious insult grevious enough to provoke violence.

2) Sugar and crockeryThe white sugar we use is not white to begin with. The brownish material is bleached using a decolourising filter called bone char – which is made using the bones of cattle. Moreover, when we talk about bone china, we aren’t being figurative here. Your cup is made up of cow bones – literally.

Paradoxically, India is one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of bone char. 

Madhya Pradesh is a state that has a draconian cow slaughter law, where if you are suspected of killing a cow, you are presumed guilty and have to then prove yourself innocent. In this way, it is even stricter than the laws against human murder, where presumption of innocence still applies.  Oddly, in this very same state, using the sacred cow’s bones after death to make sugar or bowls is perfectly fine.

3) TyresStearic acid is an industrial chemical used in soaps, cosmetics, detergents, lubricants and tyres. Its main ingredient is cow fat. Thankfully, unlike beef steak, using tyres is still legal in Mumbai.

4) Musical instrumentsLoved that violin riff or piano soliloquy in that latest song? If you’re a cow activist, be ready for some guilt. Bovine tissue is used to make glue which is the best adhesive for wooden musical instrument such as violins and pianos.

But what if, as a shudh cow activist, you’ve shunned all mleccha Western influence and only listen to pure Indian music? Even more trouble there: desi percussion instruments such as the tabla or the mridangam are made using cow hide.

The number of cow protection riots started because of a session of vigourous tabla riyaaz : 0.

5) CricketIt’s a common quip that cricket in India is a religion. Indeed, so strong is the power of cricket that it seems to overcome Hinduism’s powerful cow slaughter taboo. The cricket ball used in the gentleman’s’ game is made of cowhide.

The people who beat Mohammed Akhlaq to death in Dadri on Sunday were incensed by the rumour that he had killed and eaten a cow. Yet those very same people would have no issues watching a game where a cowhide ball, also made as a result of slaughtering a sacred cow, was batted around a field.

To paint cow protection as a matter of faith is being short sighted. If the cow is sacred enough to not be cooked into a curry, that should also disqualify it from being made into shoes, used for percussion or hit around a field in the form of a ball. In many cases, the people who sell the cow to be slaughtered or run businesses that profit from cow slaughter are Hindus. Luckily, that never provokes violence.
Becoming more of a place of communal hatred and tension, no offence just facts!!

#Satyam_Bruyat

90-yr-old Dalit man burnt alive for trying to enter temple in UP!!

The temple where an elderly man was set on fire.

Can we just stop killing in the name of religion, caste or for that matter even eating habits so to mention.

Incidents of people being furious and killing others over trivial issues is on the rise. A dangerous trend seems to be emerging of intolerance and hatred. Is this the India that we visioned? An India that kills over allegedly storing beef in the fridge, an India that is so casteist that even after 69 years of Independence it believes in the untouchables and stops a dalit man from entering a temple! I guess no. But new trends seem to speak otherwise.

In a shocking incident, Chimma, a 90-year-old Dalit man, died after being brutally attacked with an axe for attempting to enter a temple at Hamirpur in Uttar Pradesh. After being hit with an axe he was set ablaze.

On Wednesday evening, Chimma had gone to visit the Maidani Baba temple with his wife, son Durjan and brother. A man named Sanjay Tiwari stopped the family from entering the temple. On relenting, Tiwari attacked Chimma and set him on fire. Several worshippers stood watching the incident take place but none came forward to help stop the fight. The incident took place in Bilgaon, a village on the boundary between Hamirpur and Jalaun districts located 140km from Kanpur.

Later people nabbed Tiwari and handed him over to the police. They said he was drunk when the incident took place. On being refused by Chimma, Tiwari became furious and attacked him, said an eyewitness to Hindustan Times.  

Tiwari's two aides also named in the FIR are still absconding.

This is not the first case of atrocities on the dalit community where they are still looked as a recessive caste in India.The same India where people like Gandhi, Nehru, Bose were born and we boast about being rich in tradition and culture, where the same culture is not enough to ensure lives of people.

Surely India is not the place it used to be and surely becoming more of a place of lifeless ones!!

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