---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pramod Ranjan <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:39 AM Subject: [FP] Re: professor BP Mahesh Chandra Guru arrested To: FP Writers <[email protected]>
Dr B.P. Mahesh Chandra Guru, a professor in the University of Mysore, was arrested on Friday, 16 June, after a complaint was filed against him for “insulting Lord Ram” when he spoke at a function last year. *See full report here : * https://www.forwardpress.in/2016/06/arrested-for-being-an-ambedkarite/ *-Pramod Ranjan * On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 3:34:03 PM UTC+5:30, Pramod Ranjan wrote: > > The Karnataka police have arrested BP Mahesh Chandra Guru, a professor in > the journalism department of Mysore University and a well-known > Phule-Ambedkarite writer. Professor Guru had made some sharp comments > against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union HRD minister Smriti Irani at > a function organized in the university recently to pay tributes to Rohit > Vemula. He had also allegedly insulted Lord Ram. > > Professor Guru is a regular contributor to *FORWARD* Press. Last year, > along with Kannada writers, he had observed Mahishasur Day in Mysore. This > event was widely talked-about in Kannada media. Since then, he had become > an eyesore for the government. > > We condemn the repression of writers of different languages battling > against cultural domination and appeal to the people to stand by such > writers. > -Forward Press > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FP Writers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- B.Karthik Navayan, http://karthiknavayan.wordpress.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
