Dear friend, BTW, You may also go through this text,which was posted there two yrs back as a response to the macabre social ritual of Hindus , lynching of 4 Dalits in Khairlanji -posted in a in a blog by me;
www.venukm.blogspot.com Friday, December 8, 2006 Moralistic Terror and the Apparatus of Suppression of Dalits' human rights (text posted here, after minor editing and corrections) I come across article by P.Sainath in The Hindu on the media's new trend to print stories related to massive dalit protests, in subtle ways that seek to further alienate the underprivileged from the cool, 'peace-loving' middle class, who are already by and large insensitive to the horrendous atrocities routinely perpetuated against working class, dalits, muslims and women, viz; the subjects of class-caste- religion-gender regime. The city dwellers who would otherwise lead their selfish, petty and worthless lives, without the traffic being interrupted by people thronging from the distant villages or the ghettos of city, are suddenly reminded of the dangers of assertions by the poor and the dispossessed. Carefully organized traffic jams, roadblocks and periodic hate- campaigns in the name of religious festivals unfailingly get nice police escorts and patronizing coverage in media; they pass off as 'normal events' of city life, though many a citizen grumbles in his private conversations about this kind of menaces( as though it were neither wise nor fair to speak in public). After the gruesome gang rape of two women and the killing of four members of a Dalit family in Khairlanji(Maharashtra) on 29-09-06 apparently festively and ritualistically by the entire village community of people of the higher caste, the media have played all sorts of dirty tricks to underplay the real nature of the crime. To a certain extent, it also seems to be true that without a case of deviant sexual behavior invented against the victim(s) / their relatives, public acquiescence would not have been there to such a macabre exersise in "teaching them a lesson". The connivance of the authorities in attempts to cover up, fabrication of post mortem report and many other things have surfaced. Here, one can clearly see a scenario in which the prejudice against the right of Dalits to exist is coupled with motives to rob of their honour, property and everything. Moralistic terror seems to have been organized and presided over by the instruments of State here. The fundamental element of moralistic terror could be seen as a kind of universalistic and compulsory adherence to the monogamous- heterosexual-patriarchal mode. Defiance of this is considered a crime, deserving extreme forms of 'punishment' involving worst kinds of rituals. Parading the victims naked, gang raping, mutilating corpses, even terrorising the fellow folks and women who may voice protests etc. are part of it, typically recurring all over the country. Willingness to play the role of benefactors of the perpetrators, or the hopelessly dismissive attitude toward such gross violations of human rights ,by a section of the custodians of law and order is derived from a passive, half- acquiescing approach to this casteist, sexist or communal models of administration of "justice"- here, carried out by the lynching mobs who were terribly convinced of their impunity.This goes like a dominant trend running parallel to or even sidetracking the secular institutions of Law and the Constitution. This is fueled further , by the cover up exercises by the media . In this aspect, the systematic interplay of moralistic terror with other instruments of suppression,for example caste, needs to be examined. Posted by K.M.Venugopalan at 7:36 PM 0 comments Links to this post Labels: Moralistic terror combined with caste tyranny, Moralistic terror combined with caste tyranny On Oct 30, 6:49 pm, "Ramanan KP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:31 PM, venukm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It looks comic, people trying to deny the existence of Hindu Terror/ > > Brahmanic Terror/ Moralistic Terror/ Castiest Terror/Gender Terror / > > other terrors just by refusing to listen . > > What is gender terror? Are there gender terrorists? And what are the > 'otjher terrors, VenuGopal? > > > That's probably why one of the great critics > > Which critic is that ? > of "Hindu Ways" said some> thing like this : > > A Hindu is so unmoved > > Which Hindu is that? > with the facts around him that > > > He Believes What He Wants to Believe ,and ,What He Likes to > > Believe! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
