A community upanayanam (thread ceremony) was held at Trivandrum on May 25 when nine non-Brahmin children were “converted” to Brahmin caste. The “thread ceremony” was organised by a Hindu nazi organisation, Kshetra Samrakshana Samiti, an RSS outfit, and held at the Padmanabha Temple, a noted brahminical racist centre run by the Travancore royal family. The temple encourages all Hindu nazi organizations.
Vedic scholars (read Brahmins) met on May 24. The Maharaja of Travancore, Uthradom Thirunal presided. They asserted that Brahmanayam could be attained through performance of duty and not through birth. The RSS local chief Krishnappaji also spoke.
“Holy water” was sprinkled to “purify” the nine “dirty”, dark-looking children thus proving that the vaidiks consider them impure and unholy. It was earlier announced that 14 children would be converted but only six children could be found.
By this ceremony the vaidiks deceived the Backward Caste Ezhava SNDP which has been demanding that non-Brahmins be made temple priests.
There was no protest from the “intellectuals” of Kerala against this vaidik stunt. The silence of Vellapally Natesan, the SNDP leader, could be noted. The lone protest came from Adv. Saji K. Cheraman, chairman of Kerala Dalit Panthers (KDP) and the editor of Malayalam Dalit Voice.
The real intention of the vaidiks was to spread an impression that one had to become Brahmin and then only he would get social recognition and acceptability and, thereby, to impose the brahminical supremacy on the society. All the ills of the existing indian society stems from the Hindutva-brahminical culture. Dalits must maintain utmost vigilance over such attempts to destroy our Dalit identity.
Conversion stunt deceives Bahujans
A Brahmin is one who is a born Brahmin. There is neither demotion nor promotion under the caste order. The Hindu nazis periodically stage such conversion stunts to deceive the Bahujans who easily fall prey to such stunts. The brahminical media plays a prominent role in promoting such gimmicks. If the vaidiks insist that jati is decided based on guna-karma (merit) and not birth (jati), why the same vaidiks have not made even one Untouchable as Shankaracharya in the whole of India? Whom are they fooling? Our Hindu nazi leaders thrive only on falsehood and the media spreads this falsehood. We have no media to fight such a forest of falsehood except DV. And that is how the vaidiks succeed and we go on failing EDITOR.
