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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Jharkhand horror: Man kills live-in partner, chops body into 40 pieces
Ranchi (PTI): A 25-year-old man, who works as a butcher, allegedly strangled to death his live-in partner and chopped her body into 40 to 50 pieces in a forested area in Jharkhand’s Khunti district, police said on Wednesday.
The accused, identified as Naresh Bhengra, was arrested.
The matter came to light after around a fortnight after the killing when a stray dog was found with human body parts near Jordag village in Jariagarh police station on November 24.
Bhengra was in a live-in relationship with the deceased, a 24-year-old woman also from Khunti district, in Tamil Nadu for the past couple of years. Sometime back, he returned to Jharkhand, got married to another woman without telling his partner anything and went back to the southern state without his wife to join her.
"The brutal incident occurred on November 8 when they reached Khunti as the accused who had married another woman did not wish to take her home. Instead, he took her to a forest near his house at Jordag village in Jariagarh police station and chopped the body into pieces. The man has been arrested," Khunti Superintendent of Police Aman Kumar told PTI.
Inspector Ashok Singh who investigated the case said the man worked in a butcher shop in Tamil Nadu and was expert in slicing chicken.
“He admitted chopping the body parts of the woman into 40 to 50 pieces before leaving those in the forest for wild animals to feast on. The police recovered several parts on November 24 after a dog in the area was seen with a hand," Singh told PTI.
Singh said that the woman, who was unaware of his marriage, pressured him to return to Khunti. After reaching Ranchi, they boarded a train on November 24 and headed to the man's village.
"Under a plan, the man took her to Khunti in an autorickshaw near his home and asked her to wait. He returned with sharp weapons and strangulated her with her dupatta after raping her. He then cut the body into 40 to 50 pieces and left for his home to live with his wife," Singh said.
The woman, however, had informed her mother that she had boarded a train and would be living with her partner, the police officer said.
Following the recovery of body parts, a bag was also found in the forest with the murdered woman's belongings including her Aadhaar card. The mother of the woman was called at the spot and she identified her daughter's belongings.
"The mother suspected the man behind the crime who after being nabbed by the police admitted to chopping the woman into pieces," the official added.
The incident has sent shockwaves among people in the region, with the Shraddha Walker murder case of 2022 still fresh in their memory.
Walker was killed by her live-in partner who chopped her body into pieces before dumping them in the jungle in South Delhi’s Mehrauli.
