[Reader-list] Fwd: 'Constitution of India Against Moralistic Terror'

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From: Venugopalan K M <kmvenuan... at gmail.com>
Date: Dec 22, 9:32 pm
Subject: 'Constitution of India Against Moralistic Terror'
To: കേരളം


UNNITHAN EPISODE AND THE MORALISTIC MOBOCRACY

A recent  story from Kerala as reported by the Malayalam press and
electronic media    should perhaps remind us the need to uphold

   Constitution of India Against Moralistic Terror

Just look at the horror stories in the media which tell us that
Rajmohan
Unnithan (a Cong leader)was caught for being in the company of a woman
in a
rented house. The local people led by  DYFI and PDP activists
surrounded the
house and they summoned  the police to stop the alleged
'anaashasyam...'.
Police have reportedly booked Unnithan and the owner of the house for
committing/abetting  ‘anasaasyam’.

Don’t ask neither the media nor the police what is the section under
which
the case is booked here, though we are expected to assume that the
crime as
defined  in the statute book is about racketeering  on women by third
parties with motivation for profit, is invoked. But this is routinely
done
by the police  and an  overenthusiastic moral brigade cutting across
political spectrums from far right to left to ‘feminists’(?), in all
cases
of extra marital relationships.

‘Anaasasyam’literally means undesirable activity, and in the common
parlance, it simply means extra marital sex even with mutual consent!
It is
also among the most favourite items that make news for the evening
dailies
in every small/big town in Kerala.

Several pro CPM womens’  activists indeed did loudly protest the act
of
'anaashasyam' by a Congress leader...

(According to their logic, women in such cases can neither have the
 agency
nor claims to rights as subjects. They are invariably seen as just the
victims of ‘sthreepeedanam’, which means ‘harassment of women’ by a
capitalist and sex tourism- oriented racket.

These protesters would have cared a damn for communal profiling of
Muslims
and dalits as terrorists.

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You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot
build up a
nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build
on the
foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole.
-AMBEDKAR

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