Perhaps this is a good time to open an informed debate on India’s caste apartheid — once prevalent even in South Africa. Your books could be used as powerful weapons to expose the Hindu apartheid system. The following from rediffmail.com is a protest an anti-Hindu book in South Africa: –
Hindu groups in South Africa on March 4 protested the distribution of an “anti-Hindu” book by a man who recently accused M.K. Gandhi of being a “racist.” Ram Maharaj, president of the South African Hindu Dharma Sabha, and Rugbeer Kalideen, its secretary-general, have accused Yousuf Deedat of Durban of “*violating the rights” of Hindus and called on the Human Rights Commission to investigate the matter.
Gandbi as Hindu stooge: Deedat, who was reeently lambasted by both Muslims and Hindus for distributing another book titled, Gandhi: A Stooge of the White South African Government, is now circulating a book that claims Hinduism is fraught with “immorality and indecency.” The book titled Oh You Hindu Awake is reportedly authored by one Dr. Chatterjee. Maharaj said he felt “physically sick™ after reading the book.
“Deedat Junior has broken a promise his father made to us 12 years ago to stop the circulation of the book,” he said. He’s done it too many times. We are going to the Human Rights Commission with this book. It has to be banned, Maharaj said. Kalideen said: “It is a shocking, vile piece of writing. Deedat seems ignorant of the fact that it is unconstitutional to denigrate any religion”.
But Deedat claimed that the information in the book was factual.
“] fear nothing, because the information contained in the book is factual. The book was withdrawn in 1995 because we didn’t know the new system very well. People are powerless to stop this now,” he said.
Brahmin author
DV correspondent adds: Over a decade or so back, Dalit Voice too had received several copies of this book, but all sold out now. We have just one copy which may be photocopied and k. supplied to those interested in this important book. It is written by a Bengali Brahmin, Dr. Radha Kamal Chatterji, and the foreword is also by an upper caste (Hindu) Kayasth, a doctorate from London, Dr. G. Srivatsava. It has eight sections dealing with every aspect of Brahminism which today hides under the | name of Hinduism.
Vivekananda, Hinduism’s most famous monk, Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, who remained a Hindu till his death, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, whom the Hindu terrorist party, RSS, has described as one of the pillars of Hinduism have all made similar if not more trenchant criticisms of Hinduism.
As all these are called “Hindus™ by the Hindu terrorist leaders, they have every right to criticise their religion.
Arun Shourie criticism: Even a Hindu terrorist leader Arun Shourie, ex-union minister, has come out with a devastating attack on Hinduism in his book. Hinduism — Essence &
Consequence, the photocopy of which is available with DV.
