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Nude photoshoot row: Mumbai police visits residence of Ranveer Singh, issues summon to appear for questioning on August 22

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Nude photoshoot row: Mumbai police visits residence of Ranveer Singh, issues summon to appear for questioning on August 22

Mumbai police are all set to question Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh on August 22 on a complaint regarding hurting the sentiments of women. The complaint against the actor was registered by a woman after the nude photoshoot of the actor went viral.

A Mumbai Police squad visited actor Ranveer Singh’s house on Friday, 12th August 2022, to serve him with a summon to appear at the police station for questioning. However, since the actor is out of the city, Mumbai Police will deliver him the summon on August 16.

Lalit Tekchandani, an office-bearer of a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) situated in the east Mumbai suburb of Chembur, and a woman lawyer submitted a complaint at the Chembur police station against his nude photoshoot. On July 26, the Mumbai Police filed an FIR against the actor for allegedly sharing images from his nude photoshoot for Paper Magazine on his Instagram account. Ranveer Singh has been charged under sections 509, 292, and 294 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), as well as Section 67 A of the Information Technology Act.

A senior officer said, “We will be recording his statement in connection with the FIR registered by the Chembur police station as a part of our probe in the case.” The complainant, Lalit Tekchandani, stated in his complaint that on July 24, a friend forwarded him the photographs Ranveer Singh had uploaded on Instagram and Twitter. He claimed that when he zoomed in on one of the photos, he saw the actor’s private parts were visible. The photo quickly went viral.

He added, “Our country is a land of culture and such photos could influence children who have a ‘craze’ for movie actors and actresses.” He said that after more research, he discovered that Singh had done the photo shoot for Paper Magazine and would make a lot of money from it. Tekchandani further stated that the photoshoot will motivate young people who are trying to get into the film business to take similar steps in order to acquire wealth and recognition.

According to the NGO’s office-bearer, the actor’s photos offended women in general and insulted their modesty. The lawyer’s plea also sought a case against Ranveer Singh on the basis of attempting to offend women’s modesty. The nude photographs of Ranveer Singh were taken by Paper magazine. In the photos, the actor appears naked as he poses on a Turkish rug. His photo shoot was inspired by Burt Reynolds, who performed a similar nude pictorial for Cosmopolitan magazine.

‘Was coerced to make the recommendation’: Doctor who prescribed TMC’s Anubrata Mondal 14-day bedrest a day before his arrest tells CBI

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‘Was coerced to make the recommendation’: Doctor who prescribed TMC’s Anubrata Mondal 14-day bedrest a day before his arrest tells CBI

Days after the CBI took TMC ‘strongman‘ Anubrata Mondal into custody in connection with the cattle smuggling case, a WB Government doctor who examined him prior to his arrest told the agency that he was forced to prescribe bed rest to the TMC leader.

The TMC Birbhum president was detained on Thursday after failing to appear for a CBI summons for the tenth time, citing health issues. According to reports, he included copies of two prescriptions in his letter and requested two weeks from the officials of the investigation agency to appear before them at its city office.

The prescriptions were written by doctors of SSKM and Bolpur hospitals.

On Thursday, when the CBI questioned Dr Chandranath Adhikary, a doctor in a state-run hospital in Bolpur who was the last physician to examine Mondal on August 9, reportedly admitted that he was coerced to prescribe 14-day bedrest to the TMC leader.

Adhikary told the agency, that the hospital superintendent, Dr Buddhadeb Murmu, had ordered him to visit Mondal’s residence for a medical check-up after the SSKM hospital in Kolkata refused to admit Mondal on Monday, saying his ailments were chronic in nature and did not necessitate hospitalisation.

‘If I would have been alone I would not have been afraid, but now I fear because I have a small child,’ says the doctor who examined Anubrata Mondal

“I was asked by the hospital superintendent to examine Mondal at his house. I was asked to prescribe on a white sheet of paper without putting the hospital’s stamp. Mondal asked me to prescribe 14 days of bed rest. He was the district president of the ruling party and very influential… I went there with just one male attendant. How could I refuse him? I was under pressure,” said Adhikary on Friday.

“My conscience pushed me to come out with the truth. If I would have been alone I would not have been afraid, but now I fear because I have a small child. We have a high-class super-speciality hospital but there are people at the lower level who are corrupt,” the doctor allegedly told the reporters.

Dr Chandranath Adhikary also released an audio tape of his alleged interaction with the hospital’s superintendent.

As per reports, Adhikary went on an indefinite leave from Thursday within an hour of the CBI arresting the TMC leader.

It may be recalled that on Tuesday morning, just after CBI officials arrived at Mondal’s house in Bolpur, Birbhum district, to hand out the summons for an appearance at the agency’s Kolkata headquarters by 11 a.m. on Wednesday, a team of physicians from Bolpur sub-divisional hospital also arrived. Following the initial examination, the medical team returned after presenting on a blank sheet of paper a medical recommendation for 14 days of bed rest for Mondal.

CBI arrests the TMC leader

However, after Anubrata Mondal failed to appear before the CBI for the 10th time in a row, the agency on Thursday, in a rather dramatic arrest, picked up the heavyweight leader of Trinamool (TMC) from his house in Bolpur, West Bengal today around 10 in the morning. As per reports, a team of the CBI went to his residence with the CRPF being deployed outside and arrested Mamata Banerjee’s top aide. The CBI team was accompanied by a team of 100 CRPF personnel, who had surrounded the residence while the CBI officials entered the house and arrested the TMC leader. 

When the CBI team arrived at the residence of Anubrata Mondal with a search warrant, they found the house locked from the inside, and they had to wait for around half an hour for it to be opened. When the gate was finally opened, they entered the house and conducted a search operation. They recovered documents and electronic devices and questioned residents of the house. The mobile phones of everyone in the house were taken away and Mondal was arrested.

‘Indian women are blessed, scriptures like Manusmriti give a very respectable position to women’: Justice Pratibha Singh

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‘Indian women are blessed, scriptures like Manusmriti give a very respectable position to women’: Justice Pratibha Singh

On August 10, Delhi high court Justice Prathiba Singh addressed an event organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) to opine that Indian scriptures like Manusmriti have granted a very respectable position to women. She said that Indian women were blessed as the Indian scriptures have always honoured women with a lot of respect.

“Our scriptures have always given a very respectable position for women and as Manusmriti itself says that if you don’t respect and honour women, all the pooja path that you may do has no meaning. So I think our ancestors and Vedic scriptures knew very well how to respect women”, she said. She added that the Asian countries were doing much better in respecting women in households, workplaces, and society in general as compared to the other different countries in the world. “That is because of the cultural and religious background that we have, what our Scriptures tell us”, Justice Pratibha Singh remarked.

Singh was called at the FICCI event to address the people on challenges faced by Women in Science, Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Mathematics (STEM) where she went on to say that India is much more progressive about women being in leadership roles. “I think we are lucky to be in a country like India where India is much, much more progressive about women being in leadership roles. I am not saying we need to ignore the violence and the bad things that happen to women at a lower level, but yes at the higher level, in the middle level, we are seeing women growing”, she was quoted.

Driving towards the topic, the Justice said that women had equal roles to play in society as that men. Sharing some statistics, Singh said that more than 50% of the undergraduate STEM students in India are girls. “In B.Tech, it is 42%. M.Tech, 63%. Medicine and health-related causes, 30 to 35%. In engineering and computer science, it is 19%. And these are from 2018-19. In India overall, the STEM graduates are 43% at the undergrad 1st-degree level. Whereas in the US, it is 34%, 38% in the UK, 27% in Germany, and France is 32%. This is a World Bank report. So India is 43%. That means we are educating our girls properly”, she lauded.

Meanwhile, she also stated that the women in India were not able to identify and translate their capabilities well. “Mentally, we are very inventive and creative. But why is it that we are not able to translate our inventiveness, and innovative mindset into actual material inventions which can be commercialized which can help women in making more progress in society and their own business?”, she pondered.

Further, very importantly, she advised women in India to stop seeking sympathy. She said that a woman at work must never say personal things and discuss personal problems. “You can always take an off but never give the reason. You can just say it is a personal difficulty. The more you repeat the reason, the more it becomes a chronic thing that men keep mentioning all the time. So don’t mention”, she said. “When men take an off, do they give a reason? No. So why would you give a reason?”, she added.

During the course of her address, she also advised the women to consider joint families over neutral families and that it is our tradition and it should continue. “Joint families are what promote women. It is the men in those joint families who promote women because they are older, and wiser, whether it is the father or the fathers-in-law, the uncles, or the husbands. They feel proud that women are doing well. So please start encouraging and tuning yourself to live in the joint family system. That way we share our resources”, she noted.

However, Singh’s words were criticized by many left women leaders like National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) general secretary Annie Raja and CPIM politburo member Brinda Karat. While Raja said that Justice Singh had ‘presented highly regressive ideas which reeked of casteism as well as classism’, Karat mentioned in the statement that the lady was duty bound to uphold the Constitution of India regardless of her personal views.

“The scriptures she has quoted are in many sections directly in flagrant opposition to the Constitution and the rights granted to women of India and especially Dalit and Adivasi women by the Constitution. Her statement only strengthens the retrogressive views of those who uphold the caste system and that women must accept subordination and control of men, fathers, husbands, sons,” Karat said in a statement.

Karnataka: More than 25 arrested in connection with Koppal violence over a Hindu boy meeting his Muslim girlfriend at Muharram program

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Karnataka: More than 25 arrested in connection with Koppal violence over a Hindu boy meeting his Muslim girlfriend at Muharram program

A day after violence broke out in the Hulihyder village in Koppal district of Karnataka over a Hindu boy meeting his Muslim girlfriend at a Muharram procession, the police have taken 25 people into custody in connection with the case.

The development was confirmed by the Superintendent of Police (Koppal) Arunagshu Giri. While speaking to news agency ANI, he said, “More than 25 people taken into custody in Hulihyder village, in connection with violence that occurred at the time of Muharram. Investigation is going on.”

He had earlier informed that the police deployment had been increased in the village to avert any law and order situation. “We have asked to impose Section 144 here for 7 days,” SP Arunagshu Giri added.

The Background of the Koppal Violence

On Thursday (August 11), two communities came face to face over an alleged inter-faith love affair between a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl. The clash took place after the Hindu boy went to meet a Muslim girl on the occasion during a Muharram programme. This caused an argument broke out between the groups which later escalated to violence. According to the police, two people namely Pasha Walli (22) and Yenakapaa Talavad (60) died in the clashes and at least six more were injured.

The two groups, armed with sticks and weapons, assaulted each other. Several vehicles parked in front of the houses of the boy and a girl were also vandalised. The miscreants also pelted stones at several houses breaking window glasses.

On receiving information, the police arrived on the scene and took the situation under control. School children were sent home after communal clashes took place in the village.

A police officer was quoted by Hindustan Times as saying, “A Valmiki boy and a Muslim girl were in living together and had eloped. Both are major. We brought them back and handed them to their respective families. But the girl came back and this caused a lot of tension.”

Chhattisgarh: Video of miscreants beating a cow, tying its legs before throwing it into a river goes viral; two arrested

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Chhattisgarh: Video of miscreants beating a cow, tying its legs before throwing it into a river goes viral; two arrested

A video from the Janjgir-Champa district of Chhattisgarh has gone viral in which some miscreants are seen beating a cow brutally. The miscreants tied the cow’s mouth with a sack and beat it badly. Later, they tied all the four legs of the cow in an unconscious condition and threw it in the river.

This incident took place on Thursday 11th august 2022 in the morning. The video of the incident was made by the accused themselves. An FIR was registered in the Mandir Hasaud police station against the three accused. The police have arrested two accused.

In the viral video, the cow thrown into the river tries to swim for some time but later drowned due to the leg being tied. In the video, about 10 accused are seen at the spot. Sticks are also visible in their hands. The incident took place on a bridge.

After the video went viral, the Bharatiya Janata Party Yuva Morcha filed a police complaint against the accused. The complaint mentions, “Criminal elements tied the four legs of a cow with a rope and packed the mouth with a sack and threw it alive in the Son river flowing from the Lalmati village. Rahul Khunte, Kamal Kishor Khunte, Kiran Jatwar, and Kuldeep are mainly involved in the incident. The accused also made a video of it to spread fear among the people.”

The copy of the complaint filed

The complainants have demanded strict action against the accused. According to reports, an FIR based on this complaint has been registered at the Hasaud police station. Police have registered an FIR against Kiran Jatwar, Kamal Kishor Khunte, and Rahul Khunte under Section 429 of IPC, Section 4/10/11 of Chhattisgarh Animal Preservation Act 2044, and Section 11 of Cruelty to Animals Act.

BJYM workers registered a complaint at the police station

According to reports, the accused Kiran Jatwar and Rahul Khunte are arrested. At the same time, the police are looking for the absconding accused Kamal Kishor Khunte. The other accused seen in the video are also being identified. According to the police, the accused had committed the crime after being angry over the cows eating their crops.

After Jaunpur, Islamists in Khandwa district in Madhya Pradesh chant ‘sar tan se juda’ slogans during Muharram procession, case registered

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After Jaunpur, Islamists in Khandwa district in Madhya Pradesh chant ‘sar tan se juda’ slogans during Muharram procession, case registered

A video has been doing rounds on social media wherein a group of fanatic Muslims taking part in a Muharram procession can be heard chanting ‘gustakh-e-Rasool ki ek hi saza, sar tan se juda sar tan se juda’. The incident reportedly took place in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa district on August 10, Wednesday.

Taking cognizance of the video, the Madhya Pradesh police have registered an FIR against as many as 25 people and are trying to nab them.

As shown in the viral video, on Wednesday evening, a group of Muslims were taking part in the Tazia procession when some Islamists in the crowd began yelling offensive chants. While one person could be heard shouting the Islamist war cry ‘gustakh-e-Rasool ki ek hi saza, sar tan se juda sar tan se juda’, some others shouted, ‘gustakh-e-nabi ka sir chahiye’ (We want the head of the one who insulted the Prophet).

According to reports, there was strong police deployment along the path of the procession, and the sloganeering took place in front of the police.

However, after the video went viral, the Khandwa police took cognisance of the incident. The SP of Khandwa said, “The video is of August 10 when the Muharram procession took place. We got the video the next day and lodged an FIR against about 25 unknown people in this case. The accused are being identified on the basis of the video.”

According to media reports, Hindu organisations have called for punishment not just against individuals who chanted slogans during the procession, but also against their leaders. The police have filed a complaint under Section 188 of the IPC.

In a similar incident, the Jaunpur police in Uttar Pradesh arrested four people after a video went viral where a Muslim mob was heard raising ‘sar tan se juda’ and ‘Pakistan zindabad’ slogans during a Muharram procession. The video of the incident went viral on social media on August 10, Wednesday. Mohammed Shakeel, Abdul Zabbar, Mohammed Jeeshan, and Mohammed Kharish were arrested for raising the hateful slogans.

Joan of Arc, the female cultural icon of Europe to now go woke and non-binary, Shakespeare’s Globe to portray her with ‘they/them’ pronouns

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Joan of Arc, the female cultural icon of Europe to now go woke and non-binary, Shakespeare’s Globe to portray her with ‘they/them’ pronouns

On Thursday (August 11), the performing arts venue, Shakespeare’s Globe, announced that its new play will feature the character of historic French saint Joan of Arc as ‘non-binary’.

In a tweet, it informed, “Our new play I, Joan shows Joan as a legendary leader who uses the pronouns ‘they/them’. We are not the first to present Joan in this way, and we will not be the last. We can’t wait to share this production with everyone and discover this cultural icon.”

The contentious play has been written by Charlie Josephine and directed by Ilinca Radulian. It will be premiered at the Shakespeare’s Globe on August 25, 2022. The character of Joan of Arc will be played by Isobel Thom.

Joan of Arc is considered a feminist icon, saint and an inspirational figure in France. Born in a Catholic family, she believed to have divine powers to lead France during the 100 Years War against England. She is famous for securing French victory in the fallen city of Orléans in 1429.

Later, the French heroine was captured by the British and executed at the tender age of 19 for hersey, witchcraft and committing the sin of dressing up as a man. Joan of Arc was accorded the title of saint in 1920.

The play ‘I, Joan’ is meant to reinterpret the character of the saint from a non-binary perspective, a view strongly defended by its writer Charline Josephine (who goes by the pronoun they/he).

“Joan was this working class, young person, who was transgressing gender at a time when it as really dangerous and that just felt instantly relatable to me.’I was assigned female at birth. I’m non-binary, I’m from a working class background. I’ve often felt like I’ve had something to say and haven’t been given permission to say it,” Josephine claimed.

Shakespeare’s Globe defends move

In a statement, the performing arts venue defended the decision to showcase such a play on Joan of Arc.

“Shakespeare did not write historically accurate plays. He took figures of the past to ask questions about the world around him. Our writers of today are doing no different, whether that’s looking at Ann Boleyn, Nell Gwynn, Emilia Bassano, Edward II, or Joan of Arc,” it claimed.

“It was no accident that Shakespeare moved his playhouse beyond the jurisdiction of the London City Walls. He wanted to play. Play with identity, power, with the idea of pleasure, and with all sides of an argument,” the Globe suggested that the English playwright would approved of such a historical reimagination.

It concluded, “Shakespeare was not afraid to ask difficult questions as he imagined the lives of 1,223 characters; he represented an extraordinary range of diverse perspectives and identities, and we are all still enjoying his work over 400 years later. Shakespeare was not afraid of discomfort, and neither is the Globe.”

‘Woke’ play on Joan of Arc draws ire of social media users

The play drew flak from netizens for deliberately mis-characterizing a powerful female figure from history. Popular Twitter user Julie Scott wrote, “So the zealots decide that Joan must have IDed as non-binary because a woman couldn’t possibly be heroic. Why can’t people see how sexist this movement is?”

Journalist turned politician Sophie Walker remarked, “When I was a little girl, Joan of Arc presented thrilling possibilities about what one young girl could do against massed ranks of men. Rewriting her as not female and presenting it as progress is a massive disappointment.”

Republican candidate Lavern Spicer wrote, “So the United Kingdom has decided they will be posthumously changing the gender of Joan of Arc and are now making her gender neutral. Where are the feminists? They are LITERALLY ERASING WOMEN!”

While speaking to Daily Mail, Sociology Professor Frank Furedi stated, “Playwrights are allowed to have a bit of poetic license but I think what is interesting about the play is that it very much falls in with the idea of rewriting history.”

“Someone like Joan of Arc would not have any idea what non-binary was. It is a recharacterisation of something that did not even exist at the time. It completely violates the meaning of history – it’s the projecting of a fantasy backwards,” Furedi added.

‘I imagine in time someone will suggest Jane Austen was transgender or George Elliot was non-binary. For French patriots Joan of Arc is someone very special. Her role was all the more heroic because she was a woman,” he emphasised.

Kanpur: Jeetu Khan, Akhil Khan and others attack RSS member Anshu Trivedi at his home for organising a shakha in the locality

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Kanpur: Jeetu Khan, Akhil Khan and others attack RSS member Anshu Trivedi at his home for organising a shakha in the locality

Three Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers were injured after they were attacked by a group of radical Muslims for organizing a shakha in Rawatpur, Kanpur. As the news spread, members of Hindu organizations gathered at the local police station and staged protests. This incident took place on Thursday 11th August 2022 when an RSS worker, his brother and another person were brutally attacked by local Muslim youths.

Angry over the setting up of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) shakha in Rawatpur, Muslim youths attacked the house of an RSS worker. The RSS worker Anshu Trivedi, his brother, and an associate were seriously injured in the attack.

Anshu Trivedi, who lives in the Bartanwali Gali of Rawatpur, is a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh worker and the shakha in the locality is also led by him. It is alleged that Jeetu Khan, Akhil Khan, Ayaan Khan, and Saddam Khan, who live in the area, opposed the organizing of the RSS shakha.

On Thursday afternoon, Anshu Trivedi was standing outside the house with his brother Veer and another associate Manikant. At this time, the accused, along with their four other accomplices, attacked the three youths with sticks and kicks. When they tried to defend themselves, the attackers further attacked them with bricks. Haring the noise, Anshu’s mother came out and tried to protect them, but the Muslim youths abused her and threatened to kill her asking her to stay away. The three badly injured persons were shifted to the hospital for treatment.

The news of the attack spread in the locality and the members of Hindu organizations started gathering near the local police station where they later staged protests. Rawatpur SO Aman Singh said that a case has been registered based on the complaint of the attack, and the search for the attackers is on.

The victim RSS worker said that Jeetu Khan and his friends were abusing him since Muharram. They were angry over the RSS Sakha in the area and were asking him to shut it down. They had also threatened to attack him on Muharram. Due to this threat, Anshu Trivedi and other family members stayed in the house on the day of Muharram and didn’t go out in fear of attack.

Muslims attacking RSS workers is not a new phenomenon in Kanpur. In February 2022, a Muslim mob attacked a group of RSS workers in Kanpur. The irate mob attacked the activists while the latter sat and spoke about the hijab row in the state of Karnataka.

The reasons given by the average intellectual to oppose “Har Ghar Tiranga” and just how asinine they really are

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The reasons given by the average intellectual to oppose “Har Ghar Tiranga” and just how asinine they really are

Murphy’s law says ‘Anything or any problem can be made complicated as long as there is enough number of discussions on it’. A corollary to this could be ‘you can create a problem out of nothing if you have a debate on it’.

This is what we are very good at. Hair splitting in Hindi is called ‘Baal ki Khaal Nikalana’. What we do is ‘Baal ke saath khall nikalana’. Which loosely translates into ‘Pull your hair out with part of the skin of the scalp.’

The Prime Minister expressed his wish and suggested that on 15th August 2022 when we are celebrating our 75th Independence Day, ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ every Indian should endeavour to have a flag on top of his home. Fair enough, one would say.

But how can that be? Someone must oppose it. This is a democracy, after all! So, the intellectuals, the think tankers, philosophers and economists, environmentalists, and even some retired army generals et al jumped into the debate. They said it is a good idea but there could be problems. Before one starts something good, one can start imagining problems on a scale which is unimaginable.

“As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long”, Arnold Schwarzenegger had said once.

The flag is a symbol. As per one definition, ‘A flag is a piece of cloth, or a similar material attached to one edge of a pole or a rope and used as a symbol or emblem of a country or institution’.

Some of these thinking people are overthinking in fast forward, saying, it is a good idea but… what will be done with the flag once the Independence Day celebration is over and after a while, the flag gets discoloured or damaged or dishevelled? It needs to be handled with honour. It must be said here that the flag belongs to every citizen of this nation, and who better than a citizen, a proud citizen to take care of it? As per the flag code of our country, the damaged flag which is not good enough to be hoisted should be honourably burnt or buried. There is no rocket science required for this.

The next problem they have in mind is that the government is planning to have 20 crore flags across the country and the number is overwhelming. Even if this scale is achieved, we have a 140 crore population which could be just 18% of our population. Another point noted by these noted people is that from a collective it becomes an individual platform. One must be out of one’s mind to even say this. Patriotism is individual emotion and collectively 20 crore Indians make it a collective effort and a collective nationalistic feeling. Numbers and size matter. In this case, it matters a lot.

In the United States of America more than half the homes fly an American flag! Estimate says 51%. And not on 4th of July but round the year!

Oh come on, these guys further argue that the poor cannot afford a flag therefore these rich and mighty will display bigger flags and look down upon the poor with homes without flags. The houses of the rich will become ‘Flag staff houses!’

The delusional discussion doesn’t end here, it further suggests that this will divide the society and will be shameful and further deepen the gap between the haves and have-nots! Pure Bolshevik thinking!

Do you think that 49% homes in US who do not fly a flag are feeling that they have been marginalized? 

The next worry of these ‘thinkers’, who think for nothing, is that if the polyester flags become popular, then this industry will flourish, and it will hit the environment adversely. According to one of the thinkers, a polyester T-shirt emits more than twice as much carbon as a cotton T-shirt (height of imagination bro). It would make us look silly in front of the world as we will not be able to keep our commitment to climate change, bravo.

His last punch line is that the white strip in our flag gets dirty very quickly because of the high level of pollution in most of our cities and people have to have sufficient money to replace it ASAP. Thank God he did not suggest changing the colour of the flag replacing the white strip with chocolate brown or steel grey to handle the vagaries of the weather.

The problem with these budheejivees or so called intellectuals is that these handful guys perceive the 1.4 billion Indians as idiots.

Karnataka: Missionary school teachers remove Rakhis from the wrists of students and throw them in the dustbin, school apologises after parents protest

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Karnataka: Missionary school teachers remove Rakhis from the wrists of students and throw them in the dustbin, school apologises after parents protest

A Missionary school in Mangaluru, Karnataka has been embroiled in a controversy after some of the school teachers reportedly forced students to remove the Rakhis tied to their wrists and threw them in the dustbin. The incident was reported from Infant Mary’s English Medium School in Katipalla, Mangaluru, Karnataka.

According to reports, on the occasion of Rakshabandhan, the students reached the school wearing Rakhis. Objecting to the same, some teachers forced the children to remove the Rakhis and threw them. The children went home and informed about the same to their parents, who then gathered on the school premises to protest against the teachers and the management.

After the news spread, some members of the BJP and Hindu groups also reached the school premises and demanded an apology from the school administration. Following the protest, the school authorities were compelled to apologise for hurting and humiliating the Hindu students.

Father Santosh Lobo, Convenor of the school, was quoted by ANI as saying, “We conducted a meeting of all staff. Those who did the mistake have apologized and the issue has been resolved.”

The occurrence of such incidents tells an unsettling story of the systematic way of humiliating Hindu students in Christian Schools and making them feel disgraced by targeting their religious and cultural customs and traditions.

In one such incident, a Christian Convent school in Bharuch, Gujarat had barred girl students from entering school, if they were found to be wearing henna (mehendi) on their hands. It is reported that the school principal made around 40 girls stand outside the classroom for four hours as a punishment for applying the henna on their hands. Later the school management apologised after a protest by parents.

OpIndia had earlier reported on a similar incident that occurred in Kerala. The principal of a government school in Pallakad had issued a diktat, threatening the students with expulsion if they are found to be using religious symbols like kumkum on their foreheads or sacred threads on their wrists. Earlier, a government school run by an evangelical Christian affected an order on girl students not to wear flowers and bindi.

In fact, recently, OpIndia chronicled 19 such incidents in which Christian missionaries have harassed Hindu children over religion.

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