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Gauri Lankesh murder shows India descending into violence

The murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh shows India descending into violence
Mari Marcel Thekaekara

The Guardian - Thursday 7 September 2017

Hindu extremists go unpunished, leading to a culture in which lynching, mob violence and hate crimes are increasingly, horrifyingly, widespread

Protest in Mumbai, India, 6 September 2017, condemning the killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh.        Photograph: Rajanish Kakade/AP

Once quiet, civilised Bangalore is shaken to the core by the news of the shocking murder of its most famous journalist, Gauri Lankesh. In big cities and small towns across India thousands of people are protesting at the murder of a gutsy woman who fought for the marginalised, who called Dalit victims her sons, and who protested against injustice and venal politics in the face of death threats.

When you know someone, their death hits you harder. Lankesh was the recipient of endless hate mail from Hindu extremists. She was vilified on two fronts. She dared to take on the powerful Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), currently ruling most of India. She criticised them and their cohorts for attacking minorities and creating a culture that enabled lynching, mob violence and hate crimes. She also defended Dalit rights, provoking the ire of many dominant-caste Indians across the politicalspectrum.

I have been told off for comparing the current political climate to Nazi Germany. “Don’t go over the top, you’ll lose credibility,” critics advise. Yet for 16-year-old Junaid, a hapless Muslim youth recently stabbed more than 30 times on a public train when he had merely gone out to buy festive clothes for Eid, the pattern is chillingly similar to films we’ve watched on the attacks on Jews in Hitler’s Germany.

Junaid and his friends were first pushed, then abused as “dirty Muslims”, then told to vacate their seats, their distinctive skull caps thrown on the ground. They tried to escape but Junaid was held down while his assailant stabbed him multiple times. The other boys, who were merely beaten or stabbed, were the lucky ones. They escaped with their lives.

Harsh Mander, former civil servant and activist writer, has appealed to the majority of peace-loving Hindus of India to stop the violence, to stand with the minorities. Even as Lankesh was being lethally mown down, a peace pilgrimage, or yatra, had been initiated in faraway Assam. Called the caravan of love, Karwan e Mohabbat (Kem), it aims to atone for the violence against minorities, and beg for peace and harmony to replace the politics of hate. Currently Muslims, tribal groups (the Adivasi), Dalits and Christians have been singled out in violent attacks.

A US state department report quoted in The Hindu says: “Authorities frequently did not prosecute members of vigilante ‘cow protection’ groups who attacked alleged smugglers, consumers, or traders of beef, usually Muslims, despite an increase in attacks compared to previous years.”

Kem proposes to travel across India, to meet the families of people victimised, attacked, raped and murdered for being minorities. It began on 4 September when Mander and other activist writers visited two women whose teenage sons had been brutally killed.

The cousins, Riyaz and Abu, had gone fishing on their day off. Someone screamed that they were cattle thieves. Within minutes a mob assembled. The boys were thrashed mercilessly while pleading for their lives. Their mutilated bodies came home with eyes gouged out and ears cut off. Two carefree, laughing boys left home promising their mums a fish feast. Instead the women received the worst news possible for any parent: their children had been murdered.

Kem urges Indians to fight to uphold the values of the Indian constitution, which promises its citizens liberty, justice, equality and fraternity after centuries of oppression. Now we appear to be turning into that which we hated, that which we fought against: oppressors, cruel tyrants, intolerant murderers.
In the last two decades, the voices of Hindu extremists have become more vocal, frighteningly shrill. They’ve become emboldened with the culture of impunity which seems all-pervasive. When minorities are killed, often falsely accused of trading, eating or carrying beef, by cow vigilantes, our most vocal, always tweeting Prime Minister Modi says not a word. The silence is deafening. This has encouraged the fanatics to lynch, attack and kill people.

Shockingly, the fanatics glorify Nathuram Godse, the man who assassinated Gandhi, because he believed Gandhi had caved in to Muslim demands by allowing the creation of Pakistan. The once-banned Godse cult is now thriving. Social media are powerfully used to propagate lies, hate and distorted facts.

Critics of Hindu nationalists’ fanaticism are being murdered to scare all dissenters into silence. Two years before Lankesh’s death, the eminent intellectual MM Kalburgi was also shot dead outside his home. That same year, Govind Pansare another vocal critic of extremist Hindu groups, was murdered. In August 2013, the Dalit campaigner and atheist Narendra Dabholkar killed. All of these martyred Hindus were fighting for the idea of India. They were battling to save Hinduism from bigots and charlatans.

# Never has India witnessed the flood of hatred and vitriol currently being so openly spewed # 

All over India, people are waking up to the reality that their beloved country could be destroyed. Never has the country witnessed the flood of hatred and vitriol currently being openly spewed. The voices of sanity plead: “Stop the descent. We cannot become Kosovo or Rwanda.”

Mander issued a challenge to India, but especially to the Hindu majority. “It’s a call of conscience to India’s majority,” he says. “We need our conscience to ache. We need it to be burdened intolerably.” Silence can mean complicity. The silent majority needs to speak up. And to speak out now. Otherwise the Hindu stalwarts who fought for justice will have been martyred for nothing.
In spite of these dark, dismal days, hope has not died. People are protesting: “Not in my name.” And India’s supreme court has just ordered all states and union territories to appoint police officers in every district to track down and prosecute cow vigilante groups. Perhaps sanity will be restored. Perhaps peace will return to this beleaguered nation again. Perhaps Lankesh and the martyrs who preceded her will not have died in vain.

• Mari Marcel Thekaekara is a human rights activist and writer based in Gudalur, Tamil Nadu

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Gauri Lankesh -2016 'Narada News' Interview

Entire system has been communalised under BJP rule: Gauri Lankesh -2016 'Narada News' Interview

Deepa Dileep | Updated On: 2 Dec 2016 12:00

Here are excerpts of her telephonic interview with Narada News:

Has the verdict surprised you?

Yes, definitely. I had clearly stated before the court that there was nothing defamatory in the article.

How do you plan to carry forward the case?

As a citizen of India, I oppose the BJP’s fascist and communal politics. I oppose its misinterpretation of ‘Hindu Dharma’ ideals. I oppose the caste system of the ‘Hindu Dharma’, which is unfair, unjust and gender-biased. I oppose (LK) Advani’s Ram Mandir Yatra and Narendra Modi’s genocide of 2002. My Constitution teaches me to be a secular citizen, not communal. It is my right to fight against these communal elements.

You are often been called anti-BJP, anti-Hindu and anti-Narendra Modi. What is it exactly that you oppose?

I come from the state of Karnataka, which has produced Basava, who opposed caste inequality and injustices in the society, and am a citizen of India whose Constitution was written by Dr. BR Amedkar. He fought against communalism. I am just taking forth this fight against injustice in my own capacity. I believe in democracy and freedom of expression, and hence, am open to criticism too. People are welcome to call me anti-BJP or anti-Modi, if they want to. They are free to have their own opinion, just as I am free to have my opinion.

When your father was alive, you wrote for Patrike just once in 20 years. In an interview, you said that you deliberately kept away from the publication as it was a strident, hard-hitting paper and you were then working for the mainstream English media. Today you are doing just the opposite and have even earned the badge of lawsuit. How did this change happen?

I could not do that kind of hard-hitting writing then as I was working for other media houses and there were limitations. I did try to do meaningful work but could not do much beyond what was assigned to me.

Like all middle-class children in India, I, too, was sent to an English medium school and I was most comfortable with that language. Today I run the publication, so I am free to write articles of my choice.

Was it difficult to head a Kannada weekly when your background was in mainstream English media?

Initially, I had difficulty with the language. In fact, it was the team of Lankesh Patrike that picked me to be their editor. My father used to say if one has to write from the heart, it must be in one’s mother tongue. So, on day one of taking charge of Lankesh Patrike, I started writing in Kannada and realised that he was right. Now, I even do translation works from Kannada to English and vice versa. Still, there are times when I grope for the exact words to express myself.

What do you think has changed in Karnataka after the BJP came to power at Centre?
The killing of Kalburgi, attack on journalists, rise of right-wing fringe elements?

Of course, fringe elements are making hay as the BJP sun shines. They are ruling the roost. When Jnanpith winner UR Ananthamurthy died in 2014, members of the Bajrang Dal fired crackers. They hailed rationalist MM Kalburgi’s killing too. Even though Karnataka is being ruled by the seemingly-secular Congress; because of the BJP rule at the Centre, the entire administration system has become communalised. Here, I would like to narrate an incident. Guru Dattatreya Bababudan Swami Dargah, atop Bababudangiri in Chikkamagaluru district in Karnataka, has been a secular shrine for long where both Muslims and Hindus come to worship. However, the BJP wants to make it the ‘Ayodhya of South India’ by making it a temple and appointing a priest for it, according to their so-called Brahmanical tradition. We filed a petition against it in the Supreme Court, seeking to retain its secular nature. Last year, the apex court told the state government to decide on the issue. Since then, the Karnataka government has been sitting on the file. When I approached an IAS woman officer, with a surname of Rao (read Brahmanical caste), to discuss the matter, she dismissed it saying: “Don’t you have anything else to do other than this.” This shows how much the administration system has been communalised under the BJP rule.

What do you have to say about BJP leader Amit Malviya’s tweet following the court verdict?

Amit Malviya, chief of the BJP's information and technology cell, posted a tweet that said: "Prahlad Joshi, BJP MP from Dharwad, gets Gauri Lankesh convicted in a defamation case....Hope other journos take note."It is a direct threat to the freedom of expression and a warning to Left/liberal journalists in the country who do not agree with the BJP, Narendra Modi and Sangh Parivar’s dictum. 

Do you still stick to your principle of not carrying any advertisements?
How do you find resources to sustain your publication?

Yes, I am steadfast on my principle. We have not carried any advertisement so far nor do we intend to. We have a very small budget and a smaller team. While my contemporaries are earning in lakhs, I am earning in thousands. We have work modules and freelancers. Because of my principle, my reputation is intact. I have no history of taking money. I dare anybody to prove that I have taken any money. Besides Gauri Lankesh Patrike, we have other publications – Guide (magazine for competitive exams), Udyoga (for career), Lankesh Prakashana  So, we cross-subsidise, if the need arises.

As one of those instrumental to the founding of the Citizen’s Initiative for Peace (CiP) in the state, what do you have to say about the recent Maoist killings in Nilambur, Kerala?

From what I gathered after reading news reports, I believe that it was a fake encounter. The two slain Maoist leaders - Ajitha and Kuppuswamy Devaraj - were unarmed when a 60-member unit of the Kerala Police’s Thunderbolt Force shot them down. According to the Supreme Court guidelines, policemen cannot attack anyone unless their own lives are in danger. The Maoists were not armed and it is a cold-blooded murder. The police are not the judges of this land, the court is. They should have arrested them and take them to the court, not killed them.

Have you faced any challenge as a woman editor in this male-dominated media industry?

(With a laugh) There have been attempts to suppress me and my voice. Especially the social media is very cruel sometimes. I am now 52 year old and consider students like Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya as my ideological kids. I had posted their photographs on Twitter and someone commented: ‘How many husbands do you have?’
Can you debase someone just because she happens to be a woman with a voice? Still, I laugh at their stupidity and ignorance.

Source Link Below:

http://naradanews.com/2016/12/entire-administration-system-has-been-communalised-under-bjp-rule-senior-journalist-gauri-lankesh/

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அஞ்சலி: Gauri Lankesh

Gauri Lankesh:
A 'fearless' Indian journalist silenced

Outspoken editor known for her criticism of far-right Hindu groups murdered at her residence in Bangalore. By Saif Khalid

Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist, publisher and outspoken critic of right-wing groups, was shot dead by unknown attackers in front of her home in the southern city of Bangalore on Tuesday. She was 55.

"The fact that she was so vocal made her a prime target," Sudipto Mondal, a Bangalore-based journalist based in Bangalore, told Al Jazeera.

"And I suppose that goes for a lot of people over here, which is why there are fears that other people might be in the line."

The news of Lankesh's killing was met with shock and outrage, with journalists, civil society members and students across the country sharply condemning the murder.

"Gauri Lankesh was a known critic of the central government on key issues and had fearlessly expressed her views in the newspaper she edited, as well as in other forums," the
Editors Guild of India said in a statement.

"Her killing is an ominous portent for dissent in democracy and a brutal assault on the freedom of the press."

Several groups, including the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), demanded a thorough investigation into the killing.

"India needs to address the problem of impunity in journalist murders and ensure the press can work freely," Steven Butler, CPJ Asia Program Coordinator, said from Washington, DC.

On Wednesday, people in several Indian cities held candlelight vigils to pay tribute to Lankesh, while hundreds of mourners, including Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, attended her state funeral in Bangalore, the hub of India's IT industry.

A Special Investigating Team was tasked with probing Lankesh's murder, which came more than two years after the killing of rationalist MM Kalburgi, a former vice chancellor of Hampi University, in a similar attack. The investigation into his death has still not been concluded.

"There have been attacks on writers and thinkers in the recent past, particularly since the ascendancy of Mr [Prime Minister Narendra] Modi. There has been murder of rationalist [Narendra] Dabholkar in Pune, [Govind] Pansare, a left party worker in south Maharashtra [state], Dr Kalburgi in Karnataka's Dharwad, where I currently live," Ganesh Devy, a prominent linguist and a novelist, told Al Jazeera by phone.

"These were people who objectively presented the picture of the society. They were eliminated because [the] right wing did not like their rationality and objectivity," he added.

In Dharwad, about 400km north of Bangalore, some 3,000 young people staged a rally in Lankesh's memory, while all colleges and universities remained closed, according to Devy.

"This has not happened before. The death of journalist has never received this kind of response," he said.

Gauri was seen by many as intrepid and a sympathiser of marginalised communities - a trait that Indian media reported she inherited from her father, P Lankesh, a fearless editor and founder of the independent Kannada language newspaper Lankesh Patrike.

Hours before being killed, she had posted a message on her Facebook page condemning the planned deportation of Rohingya refugees by the Indian government.

Devy said she was "the most fearless and outspoken crusader for the marginal people".

Born in Shivamogga district on January 29, 1962, Gauri studied in Bangalore, capital of Karnataka state, and New Delhi. She initially wanted to become a doctor, but later on decided to follow in the footsteps of her father.

Lankesh started her journalistic career with English newspaper Times of India. She took over her father's newspaper after his death in 2000 but started her own weekly publication, Gauri Lankesh Patrike [GLP] in 2005 following a feud with her brother.

The GLP did not accept advertisements and ran based on individual subscriptions.

“ Let's not forget she could have landed any job she wanted; she was that good of a journalist. She could have been a senior editor at a mainstream English [language] newspaper. But she chose not to do that.” Sudipto Mondal, journalist

Its anti-establishment views struck a chord with many readers, but also drew the ire of right-wing political forces, including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which runs the federal government.
"Let's not forget she could have landed any job she wanted; she was that good of a journalist," said Mondal.

"She could have been a senior editor at a mainstream English [language] newspaper. But she chose not to do that. She chose to work with a small Kannada publication. She taught herself how to write Kannada, as she did not start as a Kannada journalist."

Those close to Lankesh said her views on caste structure, as well as her active support for minorities, had angered far-right Hindu groups.

"In the present atmosphere of intimidation of writers, threats received by them all the time on Twitter, Facebook and mobile [phones], she espoused the cause of full expression," Devy said.

Last November, Lankesh was convicted in a defamation case brought by BJP leaders. She was granted bail the same day.

"I oppose the caste system of the 'Hindu Dharma', which is unfair, unjust and gender-biased," she had said in an interview last year.

Lankesh's death has raised fears over free speech and the right to dissent in India, where far-right Hindu groups have previously attacked people with secular views.

"These are times of great arguments over the idea of India. The Hindu right is on the one side and the forces who are opposed to the Hindu right are caught up in bitter acrimonious arguments," Mondal, who knew Gauri since 2004, said.

"She was like a glue who would have been able to bring different factions together. And with her gone, the task of fighting the right-wing has become that much more difficult."

The killing also sent a shockwave through the journalism industry in the world's largest democracy, where media has been accused of "self-censorship".

"Definitely, it is a blow to freedom of press. I do not think Gauri Lankesh should be confused with regular mainstream press, which is pliant and tends to self-censure," said Mondal.

"Journalists like her are often dismissed as activists, which is unfortunate. These are people, who take an open political stand."

Source: Al Jazeera News

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NEET destroys the golden concept of our Indian Constitution of not treating

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Why NEET needs to go: From creating an urban-rural divide to not meeting its stated objectives,

In the garb of bringing in uniformity, NEET destroys the golden concept of our Constitution of not treating unequals equally, writes

A Saravanan. 

Sunday, September 03, 2017 

The National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) is a direct assault on the concept of social justice enshrined in the Constitution of India. In the garb of bringing in uniformity, NEET destroys the golden concept of our Constitution of not treating unequals equally. NEET does exactly this.
The important reasons the Central Government and various other agencies are hell bent on imposing

NEET is to:

1. Improve the standard of medical education,
2. To bring in uniformity in the admission process as there are several entrance exams which lack credibility and are being conducted by different universities.
3. To ensure that the capitation fee system goes.

Will NEET address all these issues? The answer is an emphatic “No”.

Several leading educationists have questioned NEET on the premise - how will a uniform entrance test be justified when there are no uniform boards of education or syllabus?

There is no empirical data or study done to compare the different boards of education and their syllabus in India and come to the conclusion that CBSE (Central Board of Secondary
Education) is the best or better than State Boards. The question then is why did the Medical Council of India (MCI) choose the CBSE syllabus as the base for the entrance exam to bring in uniformity, when only a miniscule number of students study in CBSE when compared to other boards. And why did MCI ask the CBSE Board to conduct the exam when several different boards of education are there in India? These were some of the observations made by Justice Kirubakaran of the Madras High Court while disposing of a petition seeking relief against NEET.

There has been a constant campaign by the naysayers about how the State Board in Tamil Nadu does not have a quality syllabus and how it is inferior to the CBSE syllabus and that is the reason why State Board students were unable to crack NEET.

It is not about the quality of the boards but only about what they studied and did not study. If the quality of the State Board is dismal, how is it that for the last 50 years students who had studied from the State Board in Tamil Nadu had successfully studied medicine and aced their fields? Is there any data to show that students who studied under the CBSE syllabus performed better than the students of State Board in medical colleges in Tamil Nadu? Has it been found anywhere in medical colleges in Tamil Nadu that State Board students had performed poorly in their medical education? In fact, Tamil Nadu has around 24 educational institutions in the top 100 in India. When such is the factual position, this whole hullabaloo over the quality of syllabus is created by a minority to reap the benefits of medical education by stealthily removing the rural poor from the equation.

Another absurdity NEET perpetuates is that the +2 Board Exam results have become totally irrelevant, which actually tests the student on all his/her strengths and weaknesses. Whereas, NEET is only a multiple-choice format. It cannot be an effective way to test the overall strength of the student. If we conduct a survey on the students who emerged successful in the NEET exam, almost more than 95% of the students would have attended a coaching centre. If NEET is here to stay then, there will be another fall out, students will stop concentrating on their school curriculum and will only concentrate on cracking the NEET.

NEET will not solve the capitation issue too. It has made medical education unaffordable to students who even clear NEET. Private medical colleges have hiked their fee to astounding proportions, so that the capitation fee is collected as fees annually. Needless to say, there will be myriad other fees collected from students. NEET will not and cannot solve any of the issues it purported to resolve.

The CBSE Board which conducted the NEET exams this year gave different question papers to different regions. When the aim of NEET is to ensure uniformity why should there be
different question papers? While this was condemned by the Supreme Court, it, however, unfortunately refused to strike down the exams.

The orders passed by the Supreme Court in NEET related issues left a bad taste. The precedents and the Constitutional principles were not adhered to by the apex court in the NEET judgment. When the DMK was in power in Tamil Nadu, it brought in the Tamil Nadu Regulation of Admission in Professional Courses Act, 2006, which abolished entrance exams for professional courses. This Act was subsequently sent to the President and received his assent too.

Article 245(2) of the Constitution of India states:

“Where a law made by the Legislature of a State with respect to one of the matters enumerated in the concurrent List contains any provision repugnant to the provisions of an earlier law made by Parliament or an existing law with respect to that matter, then, the law so made by the Legislature of such State shall, if it has been reserved for the consideration of the President and has received his assent, prevail in that State: Provided that nothing in this clause shall prevent Parliament from enacting at any time any law with respect to the same matter including a law adding to, amending, varying or repealing the law so made by the Legislature of the State.”

When any state law receives the assent of the President in an occupied field, only Parliament has the power to enact a law which can repeal or nullify the state law.

In the present situation, Parliament has not enacted any law making NEET compulsory, only the MCI (Medical Council of India) has made NEET compulsory. In such a situation, only the State Law
i.e. the Tamil Nadu Regulation of Admission in Professional Courses Act, 2006, will prevail, which abolishes any form of entrance test. The Supreme Court committed a glaring error in not appreciating this Constitutional issue and granting an exemption to the State of Tamil Nadu from NEET.

NEET should also go because it creates an urban-rural divide and a division based on the boards which they study, as claimed by Garga Chatterjee, an eminent scholar. In India, we take pride in the diversity and plurality. Homogenisation masked as uniform standards will only wreak havoc on our social fabric, which is already under considerable strain.

(Mr.A Saravanan is a practicing advocate at the Madras High Court and a spokesperson for the DMK)

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