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Tuesday, August 23 2022 Dive In |
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 Anthropologically, scientifically… please look at the origins of our gods. No god is a Brahmin. The highest is a Kshatriya. Lord Shiva must be a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe. Because he sits in a cemetery with a snake… they have given him very little clothes also to wear. I don’t think Brahmins can sit in the cemetery. So if you see, clearly, the gods anthropologically do not come from the upper caste. Including Lakshmi, Shakti, all the gods. Or if you take Jagannath, very much a tribal. So, why are we still continuing with this discrimination, which is very, very unhuman.  |
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That’s what the Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit said in a keynote speech at an event organised by the government. She also claimed that according to the Manusmriti, all women are “shudras”—which is “extraordinarily regressive.” Appointed in February as JNU’s first female VC, Pandit has been taking a different line in a campus rocked by violence in recent years. You can read a lengthier interview with her here. Or you can read why The Wire is unhappy with her appointment.
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