THE ASIAN INDEPENDENT UK
-Dr. Ponnada Srinivas
The recent Nepal flash floods killing thousands of pilgrims on the border of China-India-Bhutan is not a fresh incident except that the involvement of Isha Foundation and its proprietor Jaggi Vasudev came up prominently this time. Earlier in the year 2013 the Chardham floods where a record of 6000 pilgrims mostly Telugu speaking was washed away causing terrible pain to the bereaved families. Even in the recent Nepal incident Telugu victims are considerable. Interestingly, most of the North bound pilgrims take place regularly from the South and Andhra and Tamilnadu people in particular. We do not know the providential involvement of sage Agastya in pulling the devotees to the North and the Aryan-Dravidian divide in this process. We are referring to this North-South phenomenon due to the fact that the South had the oldest Hindu temples and the largest number of 79154 temples in Tamilnadu alone and the second largest number of 61232 temples in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh has also achieved its accolades through the highest annual income of Rs 5456 crores from TTD Tirupati alone plus 47152 temples revenue separately. Apart from these, the little so called leftist state Keralam , where the Worlds’ richest 2 trillion rupees worth of Padmanabhaswamy temple is located in Tiruvanantapuram has recorded with more than 10000 temples. The number of temples in Maharashtra is more than 70000 and Uttara Pradesh the largest state has only 37518 temples but draw the maximum revenue from the South through not only Chardham , Varanasi and now Lord Sri Ram temple etc. It is reported that during the recent Prayag Kumbh about 3 lakh crore rupees revenue was generated just in days as per Yogi Adityanadh himself declaring the figure. Therefore, the recent discussion of Hindu temples and festivals alone created a market of Rs 20 lakh crores annual turnover is not a surprise. It is about 5 per cent of our GDP 357 lakh crores. It can be translated as Rs 20 lakh per Brahmin family of about one crore families. These figures are cited here to indicate the economic strength of Hindu nation and it doesn’t include the income received by the pundits and purohits who serve the Hindu population in the country. It is common knowledge of every devotee that there are two types of contributions in Hindu rituals, one that is submitted through a public hundi that goes to the organized trust or government and the sambhavana submitted to the purohit on the plate collection that goes directly to the purohits apart from the salary they receive. The fee of services of a purohit in each sitting during routine marriage season, karma, pindapradhan etc, gone up to a minimum of one lakh rupees and other formalities. The income is unaccounted. The dress code of purohit in half naked body is prescribed and do not indicate the economic status like that of a security guard at a five- star hotel in suite. We are giving the details here to show that the Hindutva of today is not an empty slogan, it is secure with strong economic base. At the time of EWS discussions particularly with reference to Telangana Brahmin support programme, Ashwani Deshpande and Ramachandran have published papers to show that Brahmins were on the top in terms of income, share in jobs, lands, toilets etc. (reproduced by K.S.Chalam in ‘India-Economic and Social Justice Report 2025’).
We have provided some information to show that the unorganized Brahmins in India are neither poor nor powerless to wish away the agenda of Hindu hegemony or Brahminical supremacism paraded time and again and now on display at Jantar Mantar to counter subaltern upsurge through CJP. It is now expanded to the World stage to display their Viswa guru status both in New York, London and other European cities where they have already established their organizations and threatened the subaltern dalits etc in the work places already. They are everywhere including USA Intelligence wings (Tulsi Gabbard) KGB double agents etc and popularize these activities as Deshbhakti. How did this happen? Why the political scientists, scholars, media analysts apart from the leftist intellectuals have not been able to discern?
Jotirao Phule was the first in modern India after a gap of hundreds of years after Buddha, who openly attacked the Brahmin with data and narratives. It was in 1883 nearly 150 years ago from now Mahatma Jotorao Phule in his introduction to the ‘Cultivators Whip Cord’ noted as follows. “As almost all government departments are dominated by Brahmin bureaucrats, and also because of (the tenets of) spurious and oppressive religious practices, the Shudra farmers are exploited by the Bhat Priestly class and as most of the English government officers are given to slothful and luxurious ways of life, the Shudra farmers are further exploited by the Brahmin bure “bureaucrats.” The exploitation was graphically described by Phule in the book that make us realize today how cruel were their ways of doing it as a matter of right, is again repeated now in the form of negating the constitutional guarantees obtained by the scheduled castes, tribes and also OBCs through different tactics. The recent Jantar Mantar drama against caste-based reservations is part of this. Given the economic clout and business avocations, Banias would not have joined them but for the pressure from the Brahmin. This is the DNA marker of an Aryan Brahmin to make the natives miserable and dependent on their charity of throwing used plates on the poor and making them believe that rolling on them will take them to heaven (in Karnataka Kalaburagi and other places happened as per media reports). This gives them immense satisfaction and vicious pleasure that they are born great.
The way the public sector jobs are reduced after P.V. Narasimharao’s New Economic policy by the officers in the government and judiciary exclusively occupied by the Brahmin clique is now open to scrutiny. It is necessary to understand that the Brahmins or Bhats that Phule and Ambedkar in Maharshtra and Periyar in Madras presidencies constitute broadly two groups. In Andhra Pradesh we call them vaidika and Niyogi groups, Vaidika exclusively devote to Hindu rituals and Niyogi is all pervasive in government policy making, judicial pronouncements, litigations etc. Now this reminds us of how it happened during Phule in Bombay presidency. The Brahmins of secular occupations and pursuits include party functionaries of all political parties including the Left and the radical left, Congress, BJP and even Bahujan, Dalit, OBC parties today. The most important activity of the Brahmin with total control over the Media of all categories including running the social media are the prerogative of the Brahmin activist. We are told that polit bureau decisions are written, if not dictated by them and therefore we hardly see any critical comment or a programme of openly criticizing the Brahmin from political establishments where they have control. This cunning intelligence helped to promote the advancement of the Hindutva without much opposition from the adversaries. It is under this gap the Gen Z or the youth of the country may be some middle-class Brahmin boys and girls reacted under Cockroach Janata Party under Dalit, OBC and Adivasi victims of the system.
We may for a moment reflect here how the Brahmin overpowered the mighty Left, centrist Congress and the Shudra and OBC parties. They have developed a system of Ashrams, Maths, Swamys , Astrologers and Psephologists, Spokespersons and Election managers and content providers etc. We have seen recently that when Mr Vijay got elected in Tamilnadu the so called non-brahmin party, the first controversial appointment was that of his personal Brahmin astrologer. That became a controversy and some adjustments are made then to subside the issue. But, after few months the same forces are gripping the government, parties and functionaries in the name of conducting puja, homam and other Hindu rituals. That is the occasion where the Brahmin collects the secrete and confidential information mostly from both the parties of ruling and opposition in the name of predicting the future with cunning operations of their own agents in the government, media and other caste networks to control and threaten with consequences in the language of a priest, friend, adviser and consultant. It is everybody’s knowledge that even functionaries of it were ruling party may not get the important information sometime, but the Brahmin gets it through his social network in Big media. It was once during the time of LTTE rumored that important media outlet in Chennai and Brahmin politicians knew about Prabhakaran’s fate beforehand.
There is another channel that is always active both in India and abroad with connections to their so-called Aryan links with white supremacists and intellectual channels like publishing houses, media agencies etc, all are hundred per cent Brahminised. You have now seen that the release of Sonia Gandhi biography is in trouble. You can dig deep in to this episode; you will find the Brahmin skeletons. The social network of Brahmin wherever they are in whichever party they may work have a single agenda of Brahmin Hegemony. Unless the Brahmin hegemony is protected through allegiance to Veda and Hindu scriptures even if someone like Savarkar as Atheist or leftist, they will not get respect and patronage is known to them. There are umpteen number of evidences and party documents how the Brahmin Left weaved descriptions and sometime open allegiance to Vedic narratives with modern interpretations to prove that they are born great. The writings will be reviewed and critiqued by another Brahmin group sometime criticizing own comrade if the issue is against Brahminical bashing in whatever subtle it may convey by creating and bringing some obscure theory to their defense. I think they are trained by the family in such a way that tenets of Vedangas mostly language and logic are taught from childhood at home and difficult to come out from that clasp. We are getting some bits of information now about their activities now and then from the caste victims from abroad. It is alleged that the ICT professional in any part of the World through their network focus on to the hegemony that Veda is supreme and oldest even if history tells that Hammurabi code is written code of Babylon (Iraq) hundreds of years before the Rigveda that is as per their own scholar’s admission 1500 BCE. Now there is a growing trend among the so-called leftist materialist historians and scholars in Andhra to weaving stories of puranas in the garb of historical writing pushing across through their circles. It is first critiqued by one Brahmin and then another Brahmin appears on the scene pushing the age of Veda, Mahabharat, Ramayana and other Puranas sidelining recent scientific discoveries like DNA , Keeladi etc, as mainstream debate is only an example. There is absolute silence by these great intellectuals about the contemporary issues like KJP, Modi, Mohan Bhagawat and the most heinous trend of moral degradation of collecting funds from government as CSR funds, Gurudakshina from Corporate honchos in billions of rupees. It is out of this fund it is alleged criminal activities including murders are funded and allowances for the Bhaktas in attractive packages are paid. Apart from the economic clout narrated in the beginning, the thriving economic clout of real estate in the name of spreading Sanatana, centers of Yoga, Art of Living leisure time activity for corporates with appreciation for their exploitation and sanction of prayaschit package appear to be in trillions of rupees, if not in dollars. Therefore , the ruling party and opposition groups including some individuals in the Left applaud the sacrifices and contributions of their gurus to Indian culture and history in terms of praise, written texts, TV Channels, social media not only among the middle classes but also to the lower middle classes through TV channel stories with half of the time devoted to narrate the greatness of Hindu rituals so that they can directly go to temples and get instant relief or punya. This is reflected in recent times in terms of stampedes and deaths in dozens are also reflected in official; hundi collections throughout the country. The more you propagate Hindu dharma, the greater number of devotees flock the temples and pour money in the Hundi and collection plate, fattening the purohit. Realizing the importance of these flocking humans without any counter view by none including the left and secular keeping mum, the ordinary politicians and leaders are officially competing with each other to attract the attention of the devout Hindus. This competitive appeasing of Hindu symbols, gods, Gurus and other holy men and their establishments is a permanent source of income and if manipulated cleverly votes will make Hindutva formidable but remain dubious.
* Social Activist, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, M. 9490300782
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