Anatomy of 3 protests.....

         This is yet another day I am spending my time with my new TV. Nowadays I am spending less time with TV and more with Whats App and FB...... Still TV fascinates me because Aliya Bhatt and Sunny Leone still comes in certain channels..... When advertisement interrupted my open-eyed trance with Aliya's two bigggg eyes (I swear, its eyes only....), I made that sin.... 

Yes! I switched channels and unfortunately I glanced the bottom line of a Tamil News Channel. Nowadays I stopped watching Indian English News Channels. They are truly amazing (!!!!) in the sense that How they are getting “Breaking News!!!!” every time, I got puzzled. Sun rises in the East also Breaking News for them....

            But this particular bottom line in the Tamil News Channel shows a glimpse of a phenomenon slowly evolving in Tamilnadu. This one is about the bullying faced by and subsequent surrendering of his Right to Expression by author Perumal Murugan. The phenomenon I have mentioned above is the evolution of Right Wing thoughts in Tamilnadu. 

The fact of the matter is simple… “Certain segments of the civil society felt that their so-called sentiment is hurt due to the depiction of their women and their sexual relationship in the novel Madhorubaagan”. 

 And they have bullied the author with various forms of psychological violence like isolation, demand to ban his book, demand to remove certain portions of his book, protests etc.

            If situation goes on like this, what will happen???? Welcome to the wild world of my weird imaginations……………

            Suddenly all News Channels are on their toes…. Three radical announcements rocked entire Tamilnadu. All are clarion call for massive protests. Let us see one by one…. Now I am your reporter covering all the three protests.

            Leader of one particular community from one particular region in Tamilnadu announced a path breaking protest. 

Leader: People from our region and our community are discriminated in this society by this particular book. We demand that the book should stop from depicting our women in poor light.

Me: Do you want to ban the book?

Leader: No!!! Never!!! We respect “Freedom of Expression”. We don’t want to ban the book….

Me: You want to remove any objectionable portion????

Leader: Never!!! We respect “Freedom of Expression”. We don’t want to remove any portion, not even a single word…. You know something, even in our protests next week, we will neither burn the copy of the book nor tear the portions of the book.

Me: (Mind Voice) What the ****ing kind of protest is this???

Leader: Our community people in lakhs will just bring the book…. Throw the book in nearby dustbin as a form of our protests; then we will take back the book to keep the area clean. We love a Clean India you know… (He proclaimed proudly)

Me: (Controlling my irritation), Sir your protest is path breaking and eye-opening. I have never seen such an ideal way to protest against a book that hurt the sentiments of your community and that depicts your women in poor light… I developed a huge respect towards your community…. What is that book you are protesting against? And exactly what do you want from the author / publisher?

Leader: The book is “SAROJA DEVI”. In that book certain sex encounters are shown as happening in our region/village/town. All we want is a disclaimer from the author / publisher that the women shown in the contents of that book are not belonging to our community. That is the only thing we want….. See… This will ensure that our women are not shown in poor light….

My mind voice: MFs… This is why you neither ban nor burn, never tear the book…. God FML……

Protest No. 2:

Another radical protest by another leader of another community……

Leader: This book is not in tune with the beliefs of our community. We want it to be banned or else they should AMEND the portions objectionable to the sentiments and beliefs of our community.

(Due to earlier bitter experience I decided to ask the name of the book now itself)

Me: What is the book you want to ban or amend? How it affects your sentiments and your community sentiment?

Leader: The book is the “Constitution of India” and…. Hey What happened?

I fainted… They poured soda and made me wake up…..

Leader: Thambi, that particular book hurts our 1000 years of established beliefs and faiths paa….

Me: What is the problem with that book sir???? (Head twirling…..)

Leader: We want Amendment 111 of the constitution to amend Articles 14 to 18 of the Constitution…..And we want to add Schedule 13 to the Constitution…. We want to add a new Article 697 to the Constitution that says “All citizens shall be treated Equal within their castes and communities……”

Me: But Sir…. It is Right to Equality….

Leader: Yes! We accept that “All are equal before law”. But Constitution must recognize that our community is BEST AMONG EQUAL than other communities…Also they should add a new Schedule that gives a list of castes / communities that are more equal than the others… like our community. See We are not against Right of Equality but we are just asking to accept that we are demanding Equality within community not among communities…If our community and a lesser than equal community are treated equal it is not good no??? Let every one be treated equal within their community… this is the only change we want from the constitution… Or else we will mount a major protest until Constitution is amended….

Me: (Mind Voice) Long live Right Wing Thoughts……

Protest No:3

Leader: We demand the attention of Microsoft, Sun, Oracle and all Software biggies… We will mount a major protest against all of them to withdraw all the software that use OOPS concept…..

Me: What is the problem with OOPS concept sir?

Leader: It affect the sentiments and beliefs of our community and it is against the tradition of India paaa…..

Me: WTF!!!! How OOPS concept affect Indian tradition and hurt the beliefs and faiths of your community???? How it is possible?

Leader: Thambi…. In fact we are not against technology… OOPS is good when it says that “Classes are inherited!!!” We really appreciate that… In fact it is the belief of our community that all classes and castes are inherited… But how dare they can define “any function” to any “classes”. Instead of that all software biggies should ensure that in C++ and Java and other programming languages, only certain pre-defined functions are allowed/defined to certain classes. Defining any function to any / all classes is against the tradition of India…. We will vehemently protest against that. We will burn all C++, Java reference manuals….. We love India…. We never allow Indian tradition to be invaded by foreign concepts like OOPS…. Jai Hind…. Jai XXXX community…..

Needless to say…. I fainted again…..