A 17-year-old schoolboy and his 14-year-old sister, both belonging to the Scheduled Community, were allegedly attacked by the students of dominant castes in the Valliyoor-Nanguneri area of Tirunelveli district of southern Tamil Nadu on 9 August. The siblings are undergoing treatment in Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital for injuries. Tragically, a 60-year-old relative of the victims,…
The movie Mammannan (2023) released by ‘Red Giant’ has become embroiled in a caste controversy. The film, directed by Mari Selvaraj, reportedly takes a minor character perceived as marginalized from the caste-based movie Thevar Magan (1992) and expands on the theme of villainous caste arrogance and democratic social justice. The cast includes renowned actor Vadivelu,…
Forever Ayodhya. Koenraad Elst. Aryan Books International. Pages 337. Rs 995. The Ayodhya temple liberation struggle began as a mass movement with sharp political implications in the late 1980s. It achieved its definitive victory with the Supreme Court verdict in 2019. January of 2024 will see the realisation of the temple. Arguably, the Ayodhya liberation…
Both Joseph Stalin and Hitler were inhuman dictators. Millions perished under their rule. The regimes of both were antisemitic. But there was a difference. Hitler’s Antisemitism was naked and obscene. The antisemitism of Stalin however was couched and camouflaged in Marxist jargon. The Jews were not called Jews directly as the Nazis did. But they…