Unseen untouchability is more dangerous: Dinesh Amin Mattu
Ambedkar youth festival inaugurated at Udupi
Udupi, December 23: "The intensity of untouchability has reduced little bit not because of the conversion the mindset of people, but because of the force of law entitled by the Constitution. The untouchability which is visible in the society has its structure and colours. But the casteism existed in the society is still alive. Interestingly, this invisible untouchability is more dangerous. Nowadays, the society has been practicing the new kind of untouchability by creating inferiority complex among the beneficiaries of reservation", said senior journalist and scholar Dinesh Amin Mattu.
Inaugurating the Ambedkar youth festival, organised by the Udupi Ambedkar Yuva Sene at Bannanje Narayanaguru Kalyan Mandir here on Sunday, he said that the reservation was facing a threat due to privatisation. The country has just 2 per cent government employees employed under reservation. Now, efforts were on to snatch such reservation employment opportunities through privatisation. So efforts should be made to ensure reservation in private sector along with reservation in government sector, he said.
"There's non-vaidic tradition beyond castes and religions in the coastal region which a cradle of pluralism. Unfortunately, fanatics have been creeping into that non-vaidic tradition. There is a continuous onslaught of vaidic tradition on the deities with whom we speak, we quarrel and we touch. Such invisible cultural politics is more dangerous", he said.
"We are getting protection due to the Constitution. We will be safe till the Constitution is safe in this country. Even if Hundred Modi's came, they can't change the Constitution. Another revolution would happen if the Constitution is touched. But efforts are on to weaken the Constitution by bringing in amendment to it", he said.
Ambedkar was unable to write the Constitution as he wanted. He had said that the Constitution has to be burnt if the devils entered into the Soudha of democracy instead of god. The Constitution would not have any meaning if those who oppose the Constitution entered into the temple of democracy. If demands, only we have the right to burn the Constitution and not the anti-dalits or anti-Ambedkar", he said.
Those who oppose Ambedkar were trying to finish him through negligence, appeasement and adoration. Ambedkar had brought in the reservation to remove the casteism and not to strengthen it. The reservation could eliminate the economic imbalance and not social discrimination, he said.
Barukolu paper editor BR Rangaswamy garlanded the portrait of Ambedkar and inaugurated the blood bank. Ambedkar Yuva Sene president Harish Salian Malpe presided over it.
Malpe SC Fishermen Association president Radha Thottam, leaders Shashikala Palan Thottam, Dinesh Moodubettu, Anil Ambalapadi, Sampath Gujjarabettu, Ramesh Maben Ammunje, Manjunath Kappettu were present. Dalit scholar Jayanthis Malpe spoke on the occasion. Before it, Ambedkar rally was taken out from Kappettu and passed through Brahmagiri, Ajjarakadu, Double Road, KM Road, Service City Bus Stand and converged at Bannanje.
Pejawara Swamiji is mentally imbalance
Pejawara Swamiji is suffering from mental imbalance due to his age. He speaks whatever he wants every now and then. There is no need to take his statements of constructing Ram Mandir and changing the Constitution so seriously. So she should be pardoned because of his age. When Udupi Chalo was conducted, his shishya (disciple) spoke about purifying Udupi. What should we tell about the Swamiji who has such a disciple, Dinesh Amin Mattu said.
Dalits could not achieve anything if they were made priests in temples. Instead of this, the temples which practice untouchability should be boycotted. No one should go to Udupi Mutt which denies mass meals, he said.
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Four doctors in Kerala booked for birth of newborn with genetic disorders
Alappuzha, (Kerala) (PTI): Four doctors in Kerala have been booked for allegedly failing to detect genetic disorders in a newborn while it was still in the mother's womb, the police said on Thursday.
The accused include two female doctors attached to the Kadappuram Government Women and Child Hospital in Alappuzha, along with two doctors from private diagnostic labs, according to the Alappuzha South police.
The police registered an FIR on Tuesday based on a complaint lodged by Anish and Surumi, a couple from Alappuzha.
They alleged that the doctors failed to detect or disclose the genetic abnormalities during prenatal scans, instead assuring them that the reports were normal.
The couple also claimed that they were shown the baby only four days after delivery, according to the complaint.
The FIR stated that Surumi, 35, was undergoing treatment for her third pregnancy at Kadappuram Women and Child Hospital.
On October 30, Surumi was admitted for delivery. However, she was referred to Government Medical College Hospital (MCH) in Vandanam, Alappuzha, citing the absence of fetal movement and heartbeat, the FIR said.
On November 8, the baby was delivered following surgery at MCH and was found to have severe internal and external deformities, the FIR stated.
Meanwhile, one of the accused doctors, responding to the allegations, said she had treated Surumi only during the initial months of her pregnancy.
"I provided care for three months at the beginning of her pregnancy. The reports shown to me indicated issues with the fetus's growth," she said.
The doctors associated with the diagnostic labs, however, maintained that there were no errors in the scan reports.
The police registered a case invoking Sections 125 (act endangering life or personal safety of others), 125 (b) (where grievous hurt is caused, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees, or with both) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against the accused.
