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Unless North India wakes up & realises that this poisonous divisive talk will not bring them any development or harmony, unless they realise that such hate mongering will disturb peace & deter investment, India cannot be saved. So much depends on the Hindi belt saving itself
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Unless North India wakes up & realises that this poisonous divisive talk will not bring them any development or harmony, unless they realise that such hate mongering will disturb peace & deter investment, India cannot be saved. So much depends on the Hindi belt saving itself

Dr Meena Kandasamy மீனா கந்தசாமி

633,335 views • 2 years ago

Our shame is now international
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Our shame is now international

Dr Meena Kandasamy மீனா கந்தசாமி

374,409 views • 2 years ago

women's safety >>> non-veg three times a month
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women's safety >>> non-veg three times a month

Dr Meena Kandasamy மீனா கந்தசாமி

70,144 views • 5 months ago

[The last couple of days has been such a mix of emotions strangely combined with so much overthinking.] When Udhay spoke at a meeting that Sanatana Dharma must be eradicated, it felt like the continuation of what I had heard on many VCK & DK stages through the years. This was what someone who looks at Tamil politics would think is A. Raja content, but it was coming from an unexpected quarter. It felt like the DMK wasn't shy any longer--they were perhaps not going to do the soft Hindutva that election strategists advise. I was massively triggered by the Sanghi response because of personal experience. Two years ago, exactly in September, when the Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference was organised, rightwing troll armies resorted to the worst hate campaign. I was sent pictures of my four-year-old child with the message wishing that he would have a painful death. These were not the only death threats floating about at that time--other speakers were threatened, some pulled out. Some of us struck it out, we attended the conference online, read our work, stayed around for the questions, fielded the hate. Having read my talk "From Sanatana Dharma to the Sangh Parivar: Evolution of Political Hindutva", I deactivated my account for a few days, tried to shield myself from this hate machinery. So, when Udhay spoke as a sitting minister--I thought, the response will be tame. This is power speaking the language of resistance, this is not marginspeak, I felt. The frenzied reaction, on the contrary, has been textbook Sanatani -- threats of beheading, a price for the head, the legal machinery deployed, pile-ons. This became apparent when they started playing the victim by saying it was a call for genocide--nothing could have been farther from the truth. The spin factories are working overtime to somehow project any criticism of Sanatana as an attack on Hindus--it is not. For those who would like to listen, I'm uploading my talk here from the dismantlinghindutva. I cover some of the following ground: The historical evolution from Sanatana Dharma to Brahminism to Hindutva to a broader Sangh Parivarism -- Why the creation of internal enemies is so important ? How does this align with global Islamophobia? -- What are the multiple gains in the political strategy of polarising the Hindus? How does this help the traditional elites? -- How does caste become foundational to Hindu majoritarian nationalism? --- and how, caste-annihilation and feminism, inextricably interlinked, alone have the power to truly dismantle this oppressive Sanatana Dharma. Let's keep the conversation going.
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[The last couple of days has been such a mix of emotions strangely combined with so much overthinking.] When Udhay spoke at a meeting that Sanatana Dharma must be eradicated, it felt like the continuation of what I had heard on many VCK & DK stages through the years. This was what someone who looks at Tamil politics would think is A. Raja content, but it was coming from an unexpected quarter. It felt like the DMK wasn't shy any longer--they were perhaps not going to do the soft Hindutva that election strategists advise. I was massively triggered by the Sanghi response because of personal experience. Two years ago, exactly in September, when the Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference was organised, rightwing troll armies resorted to the worst hate campaign. I was sent pictures of my four-year-old child with the message wishing that he would have a painful death. These were not the only death threats floating about at that time--other speakers were threatened, some pulled out. Some of us struck it out, we attended the conference online, read our work, stayed around for the questions, fielded the hate. Having read my talk "From Sanatana Dharma to the Sangh Parivar: Evolution of Political Hindutva", I deactivated my account for a few days, tried to shield myself from this hate machinery. So, when Udhay spoke as a sitting minister--I thought, the response will be tame. This is power speaking the language of resistance, this is not marginspeak, I felt. The frenzied reaction, on the contrary, has been textbook Sanatani -- threats of beheading, a price for the head, the legal machinery deployed, pile-ons. This became apparent when they started playing the victim by saying it was a call for genocide--nothing could have been farther from the truth. The spin factories are working overtime to somehow project any criticism of Sanatana as an attack on Hindus--it is not. For those who would like to listen, I'm uploading my talk here from the dismantlinghindutva. I cover some of the following ground: The historical evolution from Sanatana Dharma to Brahminism to Hindutva to a broader Sangh Parivarism -- Why the creation of internal enemies is so important ? How does this align with global Islamophobia? -- What are the multiple gains in the political strategy of polarising the Hindus? How does this help the traditional elites? -- How does caste become foundational to Hindu majoritarian nationalism? --- and how, caste-annihilation and feminism, inextricably interlinked, alone have the power to truly dismantle this oppressive Sanatana Dharma. Let's keep the conversation going.

Dr Meena Kandasamy மீனா கந்தசாமி

251,466 views • 3 years ago

Sindhuja, a 25-year-old woman is dead in Mannachanallur, all because she questioned why she wasn't given the famed 8000 coupon. According to news reports, DMK campaign workers abused and assaulted her leading up to a situation where she eventually took her own l!fe. Of course, if we talk about all this -- the immediate response is to shut down the conversation by saying people are doing this in order to control the narrative. As if women feeling safe, women having the right to not be abused/ assaulted, women having the right to live is something that has to be controlled/ coordinated/ temperature-adjusted to ensure that it does not upset the electoral aspirations of a wildly unpopular incumbent regime For years, women writers and social media users have been crying hoarse about DMK's abuse machine online that launches coordinated attacks on any woman who dares to even entertain the possibility of questioning them. Those trying to placate us would say these are frustrated people who have nothing to do with the party machinery when in fact it is the same bunch of thugs giving orders who have made any of this hate possible in the first place. Today, we are seeing it on the streets (the same entitlement, violence, impunity and as always, desperate consequences for the women concerned). Online, their caste arrogance is so deep that it makes all their social justice masks auto-shred in broad daylight. I do not have to cite individual references to show how caste-contempt is so reflexive for these guys that not even their alliance partners have been spared. They can pretend it does not exist to save face but the delegitimisation and casual humiliation cannot be erased from the memory of anyone who is chronically online and has watched all of this unfold. If this is how they treat their own political family, imagine how they see ordinary voters -- or a girl like Sindhuja who asked for a coupon. Someone must remind these power-drunk people that distributing taxpayer money is not charity or some act of generosity. For five years, welfare schemes have been tacitly deployed as weapons of control, and as if that is not enough, they expect voters to become subjects who must respond in one way only, by grovelling in gratitude. I hope in the next week people remember this arrogance and this lawlessness...
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Sindhuja, a 25-year-old woman is dead in Mannachanallur, all because she questioned why she wasn't given the famed 8000 coupon. According to news reports, DMK campaign workers abused and assaulted her leading up to a situation where she eventually took her own l!fe. Of course, if we talk about all this -- the immediate response is to shut down the conversation by saying people are doing this in order to control the narrative. As if women feeling safe, women having the right to not be abused/ assaulted, women having the right to live is something that has to be controlled/ coordinated/ temperature-adjusted to ensure that it does not upset the electoral aspirations of a wildly unpopular incumbent regime For years, women writers and social media users have been crying hoarse about DMK's abuse machine online that launches coordinated attacks on any woman who dares to even entertain the possibility of questioning them. Those trying to placate us would say these are frustrated people who have nothing to do with the party machinery when in fact it is the same bunch of thugs giving orders who have made any of this hate possible in the first place. Today, we are seeing it on the streets (the same entitlement, violence, impunity and as always, desperate consequences for the women concerned). Online, their caste arrogance is so deep that it makes all their social justice masks auto-shred in broad daylight. I do not have to cite individual references to show how caste-contempt is so reflexive for these guys that not even their alliance partners have been spared. They can pretend it does not exist to save face but the delegitimisation and casual humiliation cannot be erased from the memory of anyone who is chronically online and has watched all of this unfold. If this is how they treat their own political family, imagine how they see ordinary voters -- or a girl like Sindhuja who asked for a coupon. Someone must remind these power-drunk people that distributing taxpayer money is not charity or some act of generosity. For five years, welfare schemes have been tacitly deployed as weapons of control, and as if that is not enough, they expect voters to become subjects who must respond in one way only, by grovelling in gratitude. I hope in the next week people remember this arrogance and this lawlessness...

Dr Meena Kandasamy மீனா கந்தசாமி

34,588 views • 5 months ago

If we do not collectively call for such drug menance to be curbed in Tamil Nadu, we're going to tragically witness lost generations. We are a civilisation that has lasted thousands of years but drug culture, TASMAC addiction & crimes against women will prove to be our undoing 💔
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If we do not collectively call for such drug menance to be curbed in Tamil Nadu, we're going to tragically witness lost generations. We are a civilisation that has lasted thousands of years but drug culture, TASMAC addiction & crimes against women will prove to be our undoing 💔

Dr Meena Kandasamy மீனா கந்தசாமி

28,012 views • 8 months ago

PRESS STATEMENT Date: May 26, 2025 Coordination Committee for Peace Violation of the Right to Dignity in Death: Demand for Immediate Release of Slain Maoist Bodies The Coordination Committee for Peace expresses grave concern over the continued withholding of bodies of deceased individuals from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana following the operation conducted on May 21 2025 in Chhattisgarh's Abujhmarh region. Despite assurances given by the Advocate General of Chhattisgarh before the Hon'ble High Court of Andhra Pradesh on May 24, 2025, that post-mortems would be completed and bodies handed over to families, the remains continue to be withheld. This prolonged delay is causing immense anguish to bereaved families who have travelled long distances to claim the bodies of their loved ones. Even more alarming are the emerging allegations that the bodies have not been preserved in cold storage and have been left exposed to decay—despite the clear legal and ethical obligation to preserve mortal remains with dignity. Such treatment amounts to a gross violation of medico-legal protocols, dehumanisation of the deceased, and the infliction of further psychological trauma upon grieving families. We are particularly disturbed that, during court proceedings, the Deputy Solicitor General—appearing for the Union of India—opposed handing over at least two bodies, citing a potential “law and order” issue arising from funeral processions. This justification, which effectively criminalises mourning, is both callous and constitutionally untenable. The families, through senior counsel, had already assured the Court of their willingness to abide by any conditions to ensure a peaceful farewell. Even then, the bodies have being withheld. Such obstruction reflects a contempt for both human grief and fundamental rights. We are also alarmed by reports that family members, ambulance drivers, and others assisting in this humanitarian process are facing intimidation and obstruction by the authorities. This represents an unconscionable abuse of state power, deepening the trauma of the bereaved. This delay and desecration is not merely an administrative lapse—it constitutes a blatant violation of constitutional and legal obligations. Article 21 of the Constitution of India, which guarantees the right to life and personal liberty, has been judicially interpreted to include the right to dignity in death. In Pt. Parmanand Katara v. Union of India—and reiterated in numerous subsequent judgments—the Hon’ble Supreme Court unequivocally held that the dignity of a human being does not end with death. " We thus find that the word and expression 'person' in Article 21, would include a dead person in a limited sense and that his rights to his life which includes his right to live with human dignity, to have an extended meaning to treat his dead body with respect, which he would have deserved, had he been alive subject to his tradition, culture and the religion, which he professed. The State must respect a dead person by allowing the body of that dead person to be treated with dignity …., the preservation of the dead body and its disposal in accordance with human dignity.” (1/2)
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PRESS STATEMENT Date: May 26, 2025 Coordination Committee for Peace Violation of the Right to Dignity in Death: Demand for Immediate Release of Slain Maoist Bodies The Coordination Committee for Peace expresses grave concern over the continued withholding of bodies of deceased individuals from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana following the operation conducted on May 21 2025 in Chhattisgarh's Abujhmarh region. Despite assurances given by the Advocate General of Chhattisgarh before the Hon'ble High Court of Andhra Pradesh on May 24, 2025, that post-mortems would be completed and bodies handed over to families, the remains continue to be withheld. This prolonged delay is causing immense anguish to bereaved families who have travelled long distances to claim the bodies of their loved ones. Even more alarming are the emerging allegations that the bodies have not been preserved in cold storage and have been left exposed to decay—despite the clear legal and ethical obligation to preserve mortal remains with dignity. Such treatment amounts to a gross violation of medico-legal protocols, dehumanisation of the deceased, and the infliction of further psychological trauma upon grieving families. We are particularly disturbed that, during court proceedings, the Deputy Solicitor General—appearing for the Union of India—opposed handing over at least two bodies, citing a potential “law and order” issue arising from funeral processions. This justification, which effectively criminalises mourning, is both callous and constitutionally untenable. The families, through senior counsel, had already assured the Court of their willingness to abide by any conditions to ensure a peaceful farewell. Even then, the bodies have being withheld. Such obstruction reflects a contempt for both human grief and fundamental rights. We are also alarmed by reports that family members, ambulance drivers, and others assisting in this humanitarian process are facing intimidation and obstruction by the authorities. This represents an unconscionable abuse of state power, deepening the trauma of the bereaved. This delay and desecration is not merely an administrative lapse—it constitutes a blatant violation of constitutional and legal obligations. Article 21 of the Constitution of India, which guarantees the right to life and personal liberty, has been judicially interpreted to include the right to dignity in death. In Pt. Parmanand Katara v. Union of India—and reiterated in numerous subsequent judgments—the Hon’ble Supreme Court unequivocally held that the dignity of a human being does not end with death. " We thus find that the word and expression 'person' in Article 21, would include a dead person in a limited sense and that his rights to his life which includes his right to live with human dignity, to have an extended meaning to treat his dead body with respect, which he would have deserved, had he been alive subject to his tradition, culture and the religion, which he professed. The State must respect a dead person by allowing the body of that dead person to be treated with dignity …., the preservation of the dead body and its disposal in accordance with human dignity.” (1/2)

Dr Meena Kandasamy மீனா கந்தசாமி

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