Yet again the Communal Bigots have Brutally Murdered Eminent
Rationalist-Writer M.M.Kulburgi
Erudite
scholar and
rationalist
and a six
time Sahitya
academy
w i n n e r
M.M.Kulburgi
is murdered
in his home
in Dharward by the Hindutva
bigots. This is yet an another
gruesome murder committed by the
Hindutva zealots with impunity after
committing such heinous murders
by killing the rationalist writer
Narendra Dabholkar in 2013 in
Pune and the CPI activist Govind
Pansare in 2015 in Kolhapur.
Moreover a Bhuvith Shetty coconvenor of the Bajarang Dal in
Bantwal had the cheeck to
deliberately announce by tweeting
that “those who mock Hinduism
would die a dog’s death” besides
threatening another professor and
rationalist: “and KS Bhagavan, you
are next”.
These brutal murders of the
eminent rationalists show us how,
these communal zealots have
arrogated and emboldened, by
creating an atmosphere of
intolerance to out-spoken writers
and academics who question
religious practise and myths. It is
clear that these communalist
zealots have decided to use brute
force to enforce their points of view,
by thwarting the voices who
question their ideology and the
social and religious myths they
propagate.
For the past two decades
writers and rationalists have been
exiled, banned, forced in to silence
or self-censor-ship and physically
attacked or seen their book and
effigies burnt. Editors, publishers
and some journalists or activists
have been ring fenced by legal
cases and state intimidation.
September 2015
Whistle blowers are murdered,
rationalists are maimed and killed
and academics are hounded. This
is how the socio-political and
economic system-a semi-colonial
and semi feudal system of our
country is aiding and abetting the
extremely conservative, deeply
communal and reactionary forces
for all these years with the
pretention of a democratic and
secular system.
Particularly after the ascent of
NDA government of BJP in to
governmental power, these
reactionary
groups
have
emboldened to conduct vicious
attacks and brutal murders against
those who differ with their version
of Hindu ideology.
Though at the times of public
out-cry some cases are being filed
against such groups and their
leaders for their inflammatory and
abusive remarks and violent acts,
they are not resulting in any
convictions, which emboldens them
further.
Some years ago the rationalist
sanal Edamaruku, who proved that
water dripping from the toe of a
statue of Christ was the result of
bad plumbing, not a miracle was
attacked by prominent members of
the Catholic Church for questioning
dogma, miracles and tenets of the
faith. Fallowing death threats he
was forced to go in to exile in
Helsinki, Finland. On this occasion
he protests by tweeting “Guns will
not stop rationalists”.
In recent years professor
T.J.Joseph in Kerala, who had set
a question that appeared to
blaspheme
the
prophet
Mohammad was grievously hurt
(one of his hands was hacked) by
an Islamic group PFI.
Perumal Murugan the Tamil
teacher was forced to commit
‘literary suicide’, by the Hindutva
bigots.
In all these gruesome
incidents the state did nothing to
protect them-during the ghastly
threats and attacks hurled against
them
Till today the culprits who
brutally killed Dabholkar and
Govind Pansare are not
apprehended and punished.
From such an atmosphere of
impunity accorded to the
communalist groups and bigots,
through a growing nexus between
irrationality political patronage and
state, the fake gods like Radha
Maa, Rampal, Ramrahim are rising
and exploiting the people the
utmost including committing
heinous crimes against people
including mass murders.
These experiences warn us
and make it clear that if there is no
outcry and no attempt to challenge
to these brutal murders from the
public, these ghastly murders will
continue unabated and it is utterly
unvise to expect the state and the
governments will over discourage
the communalist bigots.
Progressive forces of this
country shall prepare themselves
to fight against this menace from
religious fanatic forces unitedly and
consistently.
Various
protests
by
progressive people throughout our
country against the brutal murder
of M.M.Kulburgi, including the
protest of Uday Prakash noted
Hindi author by his decision to
return the citation and the Sash
Prize of Sahitya academy award of
2010, are showing a possibility to
build up an united movement to
fight against the menace of the
Hindu communal bigots and forces
that intend to take the society in to
the medieval times. This Hindu
communal Fanatism on the
rampant has to be fought ou