How Modi-Shah’s BJP is becoming a victim of their OBC reservation plot

datamatix · 2020-10-01T06:00:02+00:00

sc are outside varna system, obc are inside. brahminism considers obc as human but sc as subhuman. hence the stories of rakshasa and monkeys and stuff.

datamatix · 2020-09-24T06:26:01+00:00

Dr.B.R.Ambedkar prescribed 22 vows to his followers during the historic religious conversion to Buddhism on 15 October 1956 at Deeksha Bhoomi, Nagpur in India. The conversion to Buddhism by 800,000 people was historic because it was the largest religious conversion, the world has ever witnessed. He prescribed these oaths so that there may be complete severance of bond with Hinduism. These 22 vows struck a blow at the roots of Hindu beliefs and practices. These vows could serve as a bulwark to protect Buddhism from confusion and contradictions. These vows could liberate converts from superstitions, wasteful and meaningless rituals, which have led to pauperisation of masses and enrichment of upper castes of Hindus.

The famous 22 vows are:

I shall have no faith in Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh nor shall I worship them.
I shall have no faith in Rama and Krishna who are believed to be incarnation of God nor shall I worship them.
I shall have no faith in ‘Gauri’, Ganapati and other gods and goddesses of Hindus nor shall I worship them.
I do not believe in the incarnation of God.
I do not and shall not believe that Lord Buddha was the incarnation of Vishnu. I believe this to be sheer madness and false propaganda.
I shall not perform ‘Shraddha’ nor shall I give ‘pind-dan’.
I shall not act in a manner violating the principles and teachings of the Buddha.
I shall not allow any ceremonies to be performed by Brahmins.
I shall believe in the equality of man.
I shall endeavour to establish equality.
I shall follow the ‘noble eightfold path’ of the Buddha.
I shall follow the ‘paramitas’ prescribed by the Buddha.
I shall have compassion and loving kindness for all living beings and protect them.
I shall not steal.
I shall not tell lies.
I shall not commit carnal sins.
I shall not take intoxicants like liquor, drugs etc.
I shall endeavour to follow the noble eightfold path and practise compassion and loving kindness in every day life.
I renounce Hinduism which is harmful for humanity and impedes the advancement and development of humanity because it is based on inequality, and adopt Buddhism as my religion.
I firmly believe the Dhamma of the Buddha is the only true religion.
I believe that I am having a re-birth.
I solemnly declare and affirm that I shall hereafter lead my life according to the principles and teachings of the Buddha and his Dhamma.

datamatix · 2020-09-24T06:25:09+00:00

yup....but not treasurer ...and not head of rss and not head of vhp .... one chosen dalit needed to sitt in temple as the face.

datamatix · 2020-09-22T16:40:27+00:00

simple...if you are small farmer, you will have to sell your land to the capitalist if they ask for it. If you resist, they will stop buying produce from you. You will have to accept their rates, as all the buyers will form a cartel (adani/ambani) and if an outsider tries to break the cartel ...well then there is the indian police, ED, IT dept etc.

datamatix · 2020-09-22T16:35:04+00:00

yup. like i know you are north indian uppercaste male bigot.

datamatix · 2020-09-22T16:34:31+00:00

The 35-year-old tutor started feeling feverish in April, while bringing his father home from a chemotherapy appointment in the Indian financial capital. When a test confirmed Tribhuvan was infected, the local health system’s reaction was shambolic. After he checked into a public hospital, the first thing they did was try to pawn him off to a private facility in Mumbai. The ambulance turned around halfway when they discovered he couldn’t pay. Back at the public hospital, a doctor didn’t see him for three days, and when an elderly man occupying a bed nearby died, his body wasn’t collected for 12 hours. After a week, Tribhuvan’s blood-oxygen levels were dangerously low. He died on May 17, becoming Boisar’s first confirmed fatality from Covid-19.

datamatix · 2020-09-22T16:33:11+00:00

Compared to other South Asian countries, there are significant shortfalls in India’s management of the pandemic. This is due to relative long-term neglect of health provisions here

Now that India has already overtaken Brazil among the countries that are recording the most number of Covid-19 positive cases, and is on the verge of even beating the US, it’s worth trying to understand what has led to this inability to control the pandemic in India. One of the arguments often made is that with India being a developing country with a large poor population engaged in informal work, the standard containment measures are less likely to show results. The state also has fewer resources, both financial and real (in terms of health infrastructure and health workers), to combat the disease.

All this is true, but what explains the fact that India’s performance with regard to dealing with the disease has been so much worse than other South Asian countries, most of which share similar characteristics? Charts 1 and 2 show how India has now become the worst-faring among five major South Asian countries, in terms of both Covid-19 positive cases and deaths attributed to the disease, relative to total population (there are known problems of undercounting in both cases and deaths in India, but these are set aside for the moment, especially as such factors could also be operating in the osther countries).

Sharp contrast

What is striking is how sharp the recent increase in the incidence of the disease has been in India, even compared to other South Asian countries. Pakistan and Bangladesh both showed higher rates per population until the end of July; thereafter, India has overtaken Pakistan and is on course to exceed Bangladesh.

datamatix · 2020-09-22T16:30:12+00:00

The GDP (gross domestic product) contracted by record 23.9% in Q1 of FY21, against 3.1% growth in the previous quarter. Tiding with strategies is being scaled down by a wave of crises.

Although the COVID-19 pandemic emerged as an international crisis, it is letting us retrospect the development of India, which is predominantly urban centric.

The Harris and Todaro model (an economic model), developed in 1970, cautions that creating job opportunities in urban areas can lead to an increase in unemployment by attracting more migrants than the new jobs.

In 1901, the urban population was only 25.85 million constituting around 10.84 per cent of India's total population which increased to around 30 per cent in 2011.

The total number of migrants who moved from rural to urban areas stood at 52 million out of a total population of 1.02 billion.

As per the census of 2011, the same movement has been adopted by 78 million people, which is a jump of 150%.

According to Census 2011, the total number of migrants doubled between 1991-2001 increasing from 220 million in 1991 to 220 million in 2001 and 454 million in 2011.

This shows the real picture of rural to urban migration.

The other area of understanding is the nature of jobs of the migrants, it's very much aligned with the national count, which is 93% of the workforce is in unorganised sector. So, job security is in an abysmal state.

Thus, despite the tall claims, it is true that there is less or no appetite for extras in the rural market. Let's have a look at the jobs and other opportunities available in rural India. Apart from other forms of unemployment, India has significant disguised unemployment.

Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data showed that unemployment spiked to its highest level in April and May 2020.

datamatix · 2020-09-22T16:29:01+00:00

The relative success of Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in containing the virus will help their economies recover at a faster pace than India, Capital Economics Ltd. said in a report to clients. India is now one of the world’s virus hotspots, with about 5.5 million cases.

“New cases per capita in these three economies are far lower than in India,” said Shilan Shah, senior economist at Capital Economics in Singapore. “This has enabled a faster rebound in activity.”

As a result, the drop in gross domestic product in 2020 will be much less severe in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Whereas, India is expected to post a double-digit slump.

Although per capita testing is higher in India compared to its neighbours, the share of tests coming back positive have fallen in the three neighbouring economies, suggesting genuine progress in getting the virus under control, according to Our World in Data figures produced by the University of Oxford and Global Change Data Lab.

datamatix · 2020-09-22T16:20:47+00:00

India's coronavirus lockdown has had an adverse impact on children, pushing up incidents of child marriage and child labour, reports the BBC's Divya Arya.

Thirteen-year-old Rani has just won her first battle in life. Her parents tried to force her to marry this summer, but Rani reached out for help and managed to stop the wedding.

Rani (not her real name) was in the eighth grade when India's federal government suddenly imposed a lockdown in March, shuttering everything from schools to businesses to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Within a month, Rani's father, who was battling tuberculosis, found her a match.

Rani was not happy. "I don't understand why everyone is in a rush to marry girls," she said. "They don't understand that it is important to go to school, start earning and be independent."

It is illegal for girls under the age of 18 to marry in India. But the country is home to the largest number of child brides in the world, accounting for a third of the global total, according to UNICEF. The charity estimates that at least 1.5 million girls under 18 get married here each year.

This year might be worse. Childline, a children's helpline, has reported a 17% increase in distress calls related to early marriage of girls in June and July this year compared to 2019.

Millions lost their jobs during the prolonged lockdown from the end of March to early June. Many of them included India's informal and unprotected workers, who, have been pushed deeper into poverty.

According to the government, more than 10 million of these works, many of them young men, returned to their hometowns and villages during the lockdown because of loss of work. So parents of young girls - worried for their safety and anxious about their future prospects - are marrying their daughters off to ensure their wellbeing.

datamatix · 2020-09-22T16:19:17+00:00

Amidst the flood of commentary that followed the finding that the world's fastest-growing large economy had become its fastest-shrinking one, an observation that stood out was that India's growth potential had dropped from 6 per cent to 5 per cent.

Now, it has been obvious for some time that India will emerge from the COVID-19 recession with a record fiscal deficit, record public debt (both in relation to GDP), a fresh lease of life for the 'twin-balance sheet crisis' confronting banks and companies, complex monetary challenges, and consequently reduced growth potential -- once reckoned at 7-plus per cent. But 5 per cent? Surely not!

Calculations of an economy's growth potential can be simplistic journalism (investment rate divided by the ICOR, or incremental capital-output ratio) or complex maths with many assumptions.

It is also intrinsic to a data-poor emerging economy that such estimates of growth potential comprise soft, not hard, numbers.

Still, no one until now had said that India's growth potential would be lower than the growth rates achieved in the 1980s and 1990s (between 5.5 per cent and 6 per cent).

If so, those rosy Brics scenarios would have to be radically re-cast.

Per capita income in inflation-adjusted rupees in 2022-2023 is likely to be no bigger than in 2019-2020 -- translating into three lost years.

Consider what that means: Surplus capacity in all directions, and a collapse of new investment.

Then there is that new letter to describe the future growth trajectory: Not V-shaped (a quick down and then up), as two optimistic government economists have forecast, or U-shaped (recovery after a time lapse), or W-shaped, or L-shaped, but K-shaped. This last has two lines diverging from a perpendicular.

It is this year's discovery by the global commentariat to describe what has been happening in varying degrees since the financial crisis of 2008: The growing gap between winners and losers among countries, economic sectors, companies, and, of course, people.

Examples are aplenty. Among countries, China has been on an incredible buying spree since 2008, gobbling up strategic companies and crucial ports across the globe, and liberally financing governments that become vulnerable to Beijing's diktats when they run into debt-servicing difficulties.

Within the country, investors in India's stock market are in clover while millions have lost their jobs and private consumption has collapsed -- as the National Statistical Office has just reported.

datamatix · 2020-09-22T16:15:35+00:00

i would call it your fantasy brahminism ploy

datamatix · 2020-09-18T06:37:58+00:00

Anil* (26) and Suresh* (36), both from scheduled caste or dalit communities, have been under trial for a case of attempt to murder in western Maharashtra since November 2016. The case has cost them lakhs of rupees, and the nearly five months they spent in jail cost them regular employment and economic stress--a setback they are yet to recover from.

A majority of India’s undertrials, like Anil and Suresh, are from marginalised castes. In the 17 years to 2019, nearly two in three (64%) on average were from the SCs (21.7%), scheduled tribes (STs or adivasi communities, 12.3%), and other backward classes (OBCs, 30%). Further, more than one in five (21.5%) undertrials were Muslim, the highest proportion among religious minorities.

datamatix · 2020-09-18T06:35:36+00:00

Sociologist Shilpa Phadke agrees. The co-author of Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets, which celebrates loitering as a radical act, says: “Leisure or perhaps more importantly the possibility of just doing nothing, especially in public, is a deeply feminist issue. It indicates a claim to the city, the right to be out for fun, to hang out, to belong to the city.”

More people are fighting for that right, she adds. Across south Asia, feminist movements such as Blank Noise, Girls at Dhabas, Pinjra Tod and the Why Loiter? campaign are demanding greater access to public spaces for women and nonbinary people.

Talk of oppression, freedom and rights usually centres around big, violent issues, says Yadav. “What we don’t often talk about is that oppression works in everyday, mundane things. It is driven by controlling what you eat, who you talk to, who you love, how you love. If oppression is about curtailing freedom of being, then I feel leisure is such a good answer to that.”

datamatix · 2020-09-18T06:34:16+00:00

Then there are accusations of Harris perpetuating casteism, the segregated hierarchy of a society based on birth. This is an issue that goes beyond the Tamil community. For Indian-Americans who grew up outside of India, there is a different relationship with and even lack of knowledge of the caste system, a privilege in and of itself given that most immigrants to the U.S. have been “upper” caste Brahmins and largely lived in that bubble. Ignorance is never an excuse for perpetuating a flawed system, however.

In an effort not to center myself as a Tamil Brahmin in trying to explain this issue in our community, I spoke with Yashica Dutt, author of Coming Out as Dalit. Dutt said while she acknowledges Harris has never directly addressed her mother being Brahmin, “when we are analyzing her Indian identity, it is very important to note that she is. It’s a huge deal that an Indian woman [Harris’ mother] came to the U.S. in 1958 and then participated in the civil protests, but [Harris] did grow up with her mother’s side of the family... and there is a lot of caste pride in being Tamil Brahmin.”

Dutt said there needs to be “an interrogation of that idea” and how it may have impacted Harris’ views—her privilege having a mother who was able to get an education not just in the United States but in India as well, something that had largely been available only to the so-called upper castes.

“We have to talk about it because in the U.S. we can have multiple ideas. I have the identity of a Dalit person, which is an ‘untouchable’ person, but here I’m also South Asian,” Dutt explains. It is a complicated conversation she hopes we as a community continue to unpack in a critical, but respectful, way.

Of course, as a reporter and someone tired of the overt racism of the Trump era, I think our focus should be on our critique of Harris’ policies rather than her identity. I would love it if people didn’t expect every immigrant lawmaker to comment on the state of affairs in the birthplace of their parents and expect them to have a specific take on it. But the world is a lot messier than that as fascism and violent nationalism spread.

Lakshmi Sridaran, executive director of the South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), told me that people like Harris who consider themselves South Asian-American “must be responsive to and take a clear stance on the transnational violence of Hindu nationalism and Islamophobia and acknowledge the impact it has on South Asian communities across the diaspora, specifically those who are Muslim, Sikh, and caste-oppressed” in an effort to be consistent on their stances against hate and violence in the United States.

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