Tamil Nadu: Dalit youth attacked for not covering legs while crossing street

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The caste Hindus who attacked the young man said Dalits needed to cover their feet as a mark of respect.

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A young Dalit youth was reportedly attacked by a group of Hindus on Friday, for folded up his lungi while crossing a street. Five people are said to have attacked the man as his legs were not covered as a mark of respect, while crossing a caste Hindu street in Kulasekarapattinam.

A report inThe New Indian Expressstates that the victim Muniandi who hails from Munainchipatti inTirunelvelidistrict had gone to the Kulasekarapattinam beach for Dasara. On Friday, when he happened to cross the caste Hindu street, five men identified as Durai, Anand, Chella, Sammukutty and Esakidurai, took him to an isolated place and hit him with PVC pipes.

The young man is now in hospital and has also filed a police complaint. The police registered a case under the Scheduled Castes/Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the report says.

The police have stated that the five men who belonged to the caste Hindu section told Muniandi that they had been waiting to teach theDalitsa lesson about not covering their feet when walking through the caste Hindus streets.




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[arif hamza]

pathetic

 

[vayuputhra]

The caste Hindus who attacked the young man said Dalits needed to cover their feet as a mark of respect.

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A young Dalit youth was reportedly attacked by a group of Hindus on Friday, for folded up his lungi while crossing a street. Five people are said to have attacked the man as his legs were not covered as a mark of respect, while crossing a caste Hindu street in Kulasekarapattinam.

A report inThe New Indian Expressstates that the victim Muniandi who hails from Munainchipatti inTirunelvelidistrict had gone to the Kulasekarapattinam beach for Dasara. On Friday, when he happened to cross the caste Hindu street, five men identified as Durai, Anand, Chella, Sammukutty and Esakidurai, took him to an isolated place and hit him with PVC pipes.

The young man is now in hospital and has also filed a police complaint. The police registered a case under the Scheduled Castes/Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the report says.

The police have stated that the five men who belonged to the caste Hindu section told Muniandi that they had been waiting to teach theDalitsa lesson about not covering their feet when walking through the caste Hindus streets.




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This is the norm here, you see Tamil movies, they don't fear any body, ready to go to Jail, never compromise.

 

[haviZsultan]

This is increasing in India. The Hindus have to rise up and realize what is going on. The delicate respect between Hindus and Muslims or Hindus and others is slowly being destroyed.

 

[Joe Shearer]

The caste Hindus who attacked the young man said Dalits needed to cover their feet as a mark of respect.

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A young Dalit youth was reportedly attacked by a group of Hindus on Friday, for folded up his lungi while crossing a street. Five people are said to have attacked the man as his legs were not covered as a mark of respect, while crossing a caste Hindu street in Kulasekarapattinam.

A report inThe New Indian Expressstates that the victim Muniandi who hails from Munainchipatti inTirunelvelidistrict had gone to the Kulasekarapattinam beach for Dasara. On Friday, when he happened to cross the caste Hindu street, five men identified as Durai, Anand, Chella, Sammukutty and Esakidurai, took him to an isolated place and hit him with PVC pipes.

The young man is now in hospital and has also filed a police complaint. The police registered a case under the Scheduled Castes/Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the report says.

The police have stated that the five men who belonged to the caste Hindu section told Muniandi that they had been waiting to teach theDalitsa lesson about not covering their feet when walking through the caste Hindus streets.




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This is increasing in India. The Hindus have to rise up and realize what is going on. The delicate respect between Hindus and Muslims or Hindus and others is slowly being destroyed.

There is no point in your post.

The Internet Hindu represents a real constituency which wants to roll things back to the conditions that existed a hundred years ago. You can see their attitudes and belligerence on display here as well. This is a trend - not an irreversible one, but a serious one, which will require serious social engineering to weaken once more. And that may or may not be possible.

 

[Dungeness]

There is no point in your post.

The Internet Hindu represents a real constituency which wants to roll things back to the conditions that existed a hundred years ago. You can see their attitudes and belligerence on display here as well. This is a trend - not an irreversible one, but a serious one, which will require serious social engineering to weaken once more. And that may or may not be possible.

What is the rational behind all these? Why India's youth are much more conservative than their counterparts in other countries?

 

[Spectre]

What is the rational behind all these? Why India's youth are much more conservative than their counterparts in other countries?

Why indeed? Consider the Indian populace as a string - tighter you force it down, stronger it would push back.

 

[Dungeness]

Why indeed? Consider the Indian populace as a string - tighter you force it down, stronger it would push back.

Do you mean it is a counter reaction to the secularism of Congress rules?

 

[Spectre]

Do you mean it is a counter reaction to the secularism of Congress rules?

There has never been true secularism in India but bonds formed during the freedom movement were strong among our initial leaders and they didn't play one section of population against another after seeing the tragedy of partition.

Such lessons are often and soon forgotten though and we saw the noble ideal of secularism morphed into a grotesque frankensteinan mixture of one part appeasement, two part demagoguery mixed with deprivation and social engineering to keep a large part of population subservient to the main parties.

What you see now is a back -lash against this real or imagined evil of Congress rule. I believe 80% of this backlash is manufactured while the rest are true grievances.

However I am not too worried - these things will blow over after Bihar elections and won't resurface hopefully till the next general elections.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

This is increasing in India. The Hindus have to rise up and realize what is going on. The delicate respect between Hindus and Muslims or Hindus and others is slowly being destroyed.

The sad thing is, many of the cases including this one, is a result of personal enimity and a "caste" overtune is added to it, so others can booked under SC/ST act. Before you jump on Hindus, out of the 5, 2 are High caste Christians. Even Muslims dont marry outside their caste, particularly if they are high ranking caste order.
Thats a social problem, and religions like Islam and Christianity cannot abolish these.

 

[dadeechi]

This menace of caste system has permeated the Indian society so deeply that it's longer Hindu religion issue.

The potential solution would be to ban the usage of this word in all form for both positive and negative discrimination.

Indian should completely ban caste based census, reservations and advertisements.

 

[Joe Shearer]

What is the rational behind all these? Why India's youth are much more conservative than their counterparts in other countries?

A defective education system.

We have emphasised skill-based training over all other forms.

Do you mean it is a counter reaction to the secularism of Congress rules?

Not exactly.

These primitive impulses were not encouraged then, they are not discouraged now, if you know what I mean. It is also true that these were mildly discouraged then, under the Congress, and are very indirectly encouraged now. Sorry, but this is a complex subject.

Let me give you an example. In Bengal, there were three sets of ministries from 1947 to now. The first set was Congress ministries, from 1947 to 1968, again for another period into the 70s. The second set were Communist, aligned to the CPC rather than the CPSU. The third set were a quasi-Congress set. All three had uniform caste compositions. Even the Communists were vulnerable to this, maybe with an extra Muslim or two, an extra scheduled caste or two.

That is why Ambedkar wanted reservations, and that is why the planned and mischievous corruption of that system left us in the same rotten condition as always.

 

[Maravan]

I know this place, it's in tuticorin district. The rivalry between moolakarai venkatesa pannaiyar (nadar) gang and pasupathi pandian(dalit) gang is well renowned in the southern districts. Kulasekara patnam is dominated by nadars, dalit youth must be attacked ultimately and they need to find some reason, the reason they got is lungi.

Both the dons were deceased, one by police encounter and the other by his rival. But the tussle never seems to get over anytime soon.

I still remember the headlines when pasupathi pandian was murdered as a revenge for killing venkatesa pannaiyars father, headlines came as "Dalit leader killed" tuticorin tirunelveli are renowned for gang rivalries, from college to school everyone will have the backing of a gang based on caste.. There was a time inTN that guys from southern districts used to install fear in the hearts of chennai guys. Even for 25paise beedi, murders happened in tirunelveli.

 

[Joe Shearer]

This menace of caste system has permeated the Indian society so deeply that it's longer Hindu religion issue.

The potential solution would be to ban the usage of this word in all form for both positive and negative discrimination.

Indian should completely ban caste based census, reservations and advertisements.

Good thought, but it won't work. There is evidence.

There has never been true secularism in India but bonds formed during the freedom movement were strong among our initial leaders and they didn't play one section of population against another after seeing the tragedy of partition.

Such lessons are often and soon forgotten though and we saw the noble ideal of secularism morphed into a grotesque frankensteinan mixture of one part appeasement, two part demagoguery mixed with deprivation and social engineering to keep a large part of population subservient to the main parties.

What you see now is a back -lash against this real or imagined evil of Congress rule. I believe 80% of this backlash is manufactured while the rest are true grievances.

However I am not too worried - these things will blow over after Bihar elections and won't resurface hopefully till the next general elections.

You really diluted your message with that last sentence, which is meaningless. The caste menace continues under a calm surface, and comes out into the open when there is trouble.

 

[Spectre]

You really diluted your message with that last sentence, which is meaningless. The caste menace continues under a calm surface, and comes out into the open when there is trouble.

I spent a large portion of my life in "Jharia" near Dhanbad in Jharkhand which is a town located upon burning coalfields which can collapse any moment. If one worries over the fact that you are sleeping over a burning mine which can collapse anytime then one would go crazy. I find my early life quite analogous with the caste/communal tensions in India.

Not saying we should be ostriches but alarmist behavior is counter productive.