I am sending two news reports from TOI. In one news item kids are beaten up for tearing CPM poster. Another one is about two gypsy women getting beaten up by mob. The crime of the kids is the lack of political awareness, 'to understand' the working class politics. Gypsy women are historically easy targets for any attacks, that even the party won't be interested in them as they donot even have votes. And unfortunately none of these sections constitute a 'class'. Do Gypsies work enough to be 'working class'? Do womean work enough to be working class? Some how we donot get much disturbed by these abuses. And no debates over it.
Kids thrashed for tearing CPM poster 26 Oct 2007,Times News Net work http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Kids_thrashed_for_tearing_CPM_poster/articleshow/2491497.cms THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Politics in Kerala plumbed shameful depths when a teacher in the most literate state of the country turned on a group of four primary school kids and thrashed them on the basis of a complaint from a local CPM boss who accused them of damaging the party's posters outside the school. In what must set a new benchmark for reprehensible conduct, the four students — Ajin Dev, Akhil Dev, Anoy and Shobin, all students between ages seven and nine of government-run primary school in Kozhikode — were beaten up by their teacher on October 23, as a result of which the traumatised kids have refused to go to their school. Following a complaint by their parents, the police have registered a case of threatening and hurting minors against CPM leader Yugesh Babu, who is also a member of the local gram panchayat, along with the headmaster and their woman class teacher. The controversy assumed a bizarre political twist with rumours flying thick that the kids had to pay for the political beliefs of their parents, who, it is learnt, are sympathisers of another party. As a result of the rumours, the district education office has stepped in and an inquiry is being conducted by the assistant education officer. His report will be submitted to the district deputy director of education Vinod Babu. "The AEO has confirmed the allegations against the teacher and the report has been forwarded to the director of public instructions," said Vinod Babu. He also said the teacher's actions amounted to corporal punishment which is banned in Kerala. ******************************************************************** Pregnant woman thrashed by mob 9 Oct 2007, 0255 hrs IST,Ananthakrishnan G,Times News Network http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Kids_thrashed_for_tearing_CPM_poster/articleshow/2491497.cms THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After Bihar and certain other pockets in north India, mob fury seems to have caught on in God's own country. On Sunday, a mob thrashed two 'gypsy' women, one of them pregnant, in the northern Malappuram district, on charges of theft. The women were rescued only after a police team arrived almost 45 minutes later. The duo was then shifted to a hospital. The incident occurred outside a shop in Edappal, where a local woman was shopping along with her child. The woman raised a hue and cry when she found the gold anklet that her daughter was wearing had gone missing. While a search was on for the anklet, the passersby saw two gypsy women along with three children outside the shop. Without even a cursory questioning, the mob assumed that the gypsy women were the culprits. What followed was gruesome violence unleashed on the two defenceless women. They were beaten up mercilessly and some of people in the crowd even tried to disrobe them. All this while, one of the gypsy women was begging to be let off as she was pregnant. A police bus passed by without making any attempt to know why such a large crowd had gathered at the spot. What compounded the mob's offence was that they couldn't find the lost anklet from the possession of the women. The police, after questioning, arrested five people, including four employees of the shop. Senior police officials rushed to Edappal on Monday to take stock of the situation. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ A group to look forward in the lines of interdisciplinary thinking, actions & analysis. This group is specifically for analysing black white & grey of kerala society ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Mallu Mafia" 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/mallu-mafia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
