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Caste, the cancer afflicting Sanatan Dharma https://www.allindiansmatter.in/caste-the-cancer-afflicting-sanatan-dharma/ But when Udhayanidhi Stalin points out how Sanatan Dharma has been corrupted, all of us are annoyed. How dare he call for its eradication? Ambedkar called for the ‘Annihilation of Caste’. Bapu too, in his own gentle manner, called for it. None of them called for a genocide of Hindus or the upper castes. Let’s not allow sanghis and bhakts fool us into believing it.

All reformers warned about the danger institutionalised oppression poses to the existence of Sanatan Dharma but we have not heeded the warnings. What is being sought to be eradicated is Varna Vyavastha and the prejudices it instils in all of us and the oppression which is its very creed. That cancer afflicting Sanatan Dharma must be eradicated. Otherwise, one day, it will ensure the demise of Sanatan Dharma itself.

  On the Hindutva Narrative - Discussion after screening of "who killed Gandhi"
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A35gQbrGhf8

Canada’s Startling Claim Punctuates Tension With India Over Separatists NYT 19-9-2023 https://dnyuz.com/2023/09/19/canadas-startling-claim-punctuates-tension-with-india-over-separatists/ The allegation that India was involved in the killing of a Sikh leader in Canada came after New Delhi had accused Western countries of inaction on secessionist groups.

 India’s response has been a reflection, in part, of domestic politics. The Indian government has long maintained that the Khalistan cause carries little support in Punjab. Yet governing-party officials painted the Sikh-dominated farmers’ movement of 2020 and 2021, the biggest
challenge to Mr. Modi’s decade-long rule, with the same broad “secessionist” brush they have applied to extremist Sikh elements abroad.

Adjournments nibble away at personal liberty, UAPA consumes youth: https://theleaflet.in/adjournments-nibble-away-at-personal-liberty-uapa-consumes-youth-umar-khalid-completes-three-years-in-prison/
Gursimran Kaur Bakshi·September 19, 2023 Umar Khalid completes three years in prison

Between 2016 to 2019, 5,922 persons were arrested under the UAPA and only 132 have been convicted. Of those arrested in 2018–20 under the UAPA, 53 percent are persons below thirty years of age, as per the statistics of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Access to justice is really all about the right to be heard. However, Khalid has become a victim of the court’s constant adjournments, unannounced recusals and the prosecution counsel’s unavailability.

The Supreme Court will have to navigate its way through a seventeen-thousand-page chargesheet filed against Khalid and hundreds of witnesses to impart justice to a scholar. When the Supreme Court came to the rescue of journalists Teesta Setalvad and Arnab Goswami saying “deprivation of liberty even for a single day is one day too many”, should not three years of youth be enough for the court to at least give a fair hearing to Khalid?