The
platform created a space for the students of IITM to discuss and debate
on issues directly affecting the peasants, labours and the common mass,
APSC continuously faced threats from right wing groups inside IITM.

Ambedkar
– Periyar Study Circle (APSC), an independent student body of IIT
Madras (IITM) has been derecognized by the Dean of Students (DoS), on
22-05-2015 stating that they have misused the privileges given by IITM.
It was later informed that the move is based on a letter from MHRD
undersigned by the Under Secretary to the GOI.

Ambedkar Periyar
Study Circle – to promote Ambedkar – Periyar thoughts and to initiate
debates on socio-economic-political and cultural impacts

Ambedkar
– Periyar Study Circle was created as an independent student body on
14th April 2014, by a group of students from IITM to promote Ambedkar –
Periyar thoughts and to initiate debates on socio-economic-political and
cultural impacts which affects common mass within academic fraternity.
The student of IITM has a dictum of using APSC as a platform for the
above mentioned issues. As IITM has a long history of being a platform
for right wing groups alone to propagate their own ideology and train
young minds for their intellectual wings through Vivekananda Study
Circle, RSS Shakha, (RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is saying ‘the cultural
identity of all Indians is Hindutva’ which has got nothing to do.It is
just a political cult.

The 20th century descriptions of this 1%
RSS chitpavans list inordinate frugality, untrustworthiness (Duba Kors),
conspiratorialism, phlegmatism not only murder democracy but also the
real spirituality of this nation. The true cultural identity of this
country is Jambudvipan that is Prabuddha Bharath since all belong to the
same race with Buddha Nature practicing equality, fraternity and
liberty as enshrined in the Constitution based on Dhamma.

Now it is the Fraud Duba Kor EVMs that has to be exposed because the  Duba Kor EVM

CJI
Sadhasivam, a brahmin committed a grave error of judgement where he
allowed in the the Lok Sabha elections with majority fraud tamperable 
Duba Kor EVMs at the request of  Duba Kor EVM CEC Sampath another
brahmin to replace the  Duba Kor EVMs in phased manner that helped the
terrorist, militant, violent, intolerant, heckling, stealth
anti-national hindutva cult 1% chitpawan brahmin RSS’s Bahuth Jiyadha
Paapis (BJP)’s Murderer of democratic institutions (Modi)  to grab the
MASTER KEY.

Till all the  Duba Kor EVMs are replaced with fool
proof Voting system the present CJI must order to scrap the present Lok
Sabha.& have a collegium system of picking judges from
SC/ST/OBC/Minorities for having a fool proof voting system to safeguard
Liberty, Fraternity and Equality as enshrined in the Constitution.

And
also a collegium system in the Chief Election Commission consisting
SC/ST/OBC/Minorities for having a fool proof voting system to safeguard
Liberty, Fraternity and Equality as enshrined in d Constitution to
prevent Murder of Democracy.

After the  Duba Kor EVMs are
replaced with fool proof voting system Lok Sabha elections must be held.
If chitpawan  brahmins have to be sidelined totally because of their
politics of hatred towards all non Ariyo brahmins, all the non- ariyo
brahmins have to unite under BSP for Sarvajan Hitay, Sarvajan Sukhay
i.e., for the welfare and happiness of all societies including, SC/STs,
OBCs, Minorities and the  poor upper castes by sharing the wealth of the
country equally among all sections of the society as enshrined in the
Constitution. Haughty behavior by the upstart chitpvans caused conflicts
with other communities which manifested itself as late as in 1948 in
the form of anti-Brahminism) after the killing of M.K. Gandhi by
Nathuram Godse, a chitpavan brahmin. Bal Gangadhar Tilak After the fall
of the Maratha Empire in 1818, the chitpavans lost their political
dominance to the British.

The British would not subsidize the
chitpavans on the same scale that their caste-fellow, the Peshwas had
done in the past. Pay and power was now significantly reduced. Poorer
chitpavan students adapted and started learning English because of
better opportunities in the British administration. Many chitpawan
brahmins converted to protestants only to grab properties like churches,
educations institutions, hospitals etc. But they carried their caste
along with them to discriminate aboriginals of this country.

Some
of the strongest resistance to change also came from the very same
community. Jealously guarding their brahmin stature, the orthodox among
the chitpavans were not eager to see the shastras challenged, nor the
conduct of the brahmins becoming indistinguishable from that of the
aboriginals. The vanguard and the old guard clashed many times.

The
chitpavan community includes two major politicians in the Gandhian
tradition: Gopal Krishna Gokhale whom he acknowledged as a preceptor,
& Vinoba Bhave, one of his outstanding disciples. Gandhi describes
Bhave as the Jewel of his disciples, and recognized Gokhale as his
political guru.

However,strong opposition to Gandhi also came
from within the chitpavan community.V D Savarkar, the manufacturer of
the Hindu nationalist political ideology hindutva  is castiest and
communal duba kor militant stealth political cult greed of power hating
all the non-chitpavan brahimins which is nothing but anger that is
madness requiring treatment in mental asylums, was a chitpavan brahmin.
Several members of the chitpavan community were among the first to
embrace d hindutva ideology, which they thought was a logical extension
of the legacy of the Peshwas and caste-fellow Tilak.

These
chitpavans felt out of place with the Jambudvipan social reform movement
of Mahatama Phule and the mass politics of Mr.M.K. Gandhi. Large
numbers of the community looked to Savarkar, the Hindu Mahasabha and
finally the RSS. Gandhi’s assassins Narayan Apte and Nathuram Godse,
drew their inspiration from fringe groups in this reactionary
trend.Therefore, the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is saying ‘the cultural
identity of all Indians is Hindutva’ covering the above facts. On kobras
(the konkanastha chitpavan brahmin Community) of West of the Country.
The chitpavan or chitpawan, are brahmins native to the Konkan with a
sizeable Christian Protestant.Until the 18th century,the chitpavans were
not esteemed in social ranking,and were indeed considered by other
brahmin tribes as being an inferior caste of brahmins.It remains
concentrated in Maharashtra but also has populations all over the
Country and rest of the world, (USA & UK.) According to Bene Israeli
legend, the Chitpavan and Bene Israel are
descendants from a group
of 14 people shipwrecked off the Konkan coast. several immigrant groups
including the Parsis, the Bene Israelis,the kudaldeshkar gaud brahmins,
and the Konkani saraswat brahmins, and the chitpavan brahmins were the
last of these immigrant arrivals.The satavahanas were  sanskritisers. It
is possibly at their time that the new group of chitpavan brahmins were
formed.Also, a reference to the chitpavan surname ghaisas, written in
Prakrut Marathi can be seen on a tamra-pat (bronze plaque) of the Year
1060 A.D.belonging to the King
Mamruni of Shilahara Kingdom, found
at Diveagar in Konkan. With the accession of balaji bhat and his family
to the supreme authority of the Maratha Confederacy, chitpavan
immigrants began arriving en masse from the Konkan to Pune where the
Peshwa offered all important offices his fellow-castemen. The chitpavan
kin were rewarded with tax relief & grants of land. Historians cite
nepotism & corruption as causes of the fall of the Maratha Empire in
1818.

Richard Maxwell Eaton states that this rise of the chitpavans is a classic example of social rank rising with political
fortune.
Traditionally, the chitpavan brahmins were a community of astrologers
and priests who offer religious services to other communities.

The
20th century descriptions of the chitpavans list inordinate frugality,
untrustworthiness, conspiratorialism, phlegmatism. Agriculture was the
second major occupation in the community, practiced by the those who
possess arable land. Later, chitpavans became prominent in various white
collar jobs and business. Most of the chitpavan brahmins in Maharashtra
have adopted Marathi as their language. Till the 1940s, most of the
chitpavans in Konkan spoke a dialect called chitpavani Konkani in their
homes. Even at that time, reports recorded chitpavani as a fast
disappearing
language. But in Dakshina Kannada District and Udupi Districts of
Karnataka, this language is being spoken in places like Durga and Maala
of Karkala taluk and also in places like Shishila and Mundaje of
Belthangady Taluk.There are no inherently nasalized vowels in standard
Marathi whereas the chitpavani dialect of Marathi does have nasalized
vowels. Earlier, d deshastha brahmins believed that they were the
highest of all brahmins, & looked down upon the chitpavans as
parvenus (a relative newcomer to a socioeconomic class),barely equal to
the  noblest of dvijas. Even the Peshwa was denied the rights to use the
ghats reserved for Deshasth priests @ Nashik on the Godavari.Dis
usurping of power by chitpavans from the deshastha Brahmins resulted in
intense rivalry between the two brahmin communities which continued in
late Colonial British India times. The 19th century records also mention
Gramanyas or village-level debates between the Chitpavans, & two
other communities, namely the Daivajnas, and the Chandraseniya Kayastha
Prabhus. This lasted for about ten years.Half a century ago,Dr.Ambedkar
surveyed the existing data on the physical anthropology of the different
castes in his book The Untouchables.He found that the received wisdom
of a racial basis of caste was not supported by the data,e.g.:The table
for Bengal shows that the chandal who stands sixth in the scheme of
social precedence and whose touch pollutes, is not much differentiated
from the brahmin. In Bombay the deshastha brahmin bears a closer
affinity to the Son-Koli, a fisherman caste, than to his own compeer,
the chitpavan brahmin.  The Mahar, the Untouchable of the Maratha
region, comes next together with the Kunbi, the peasant.  They follow in
order the shenvi brahmin, the nagar brahmin and the high-caste
Maratha. These results  mean that there is no correspondence between
social gradation and physical differentiation in Bombay.

A
remarkable case of differentiation in skull and nose indexes, noted by
Dr. Ambedkar, was found to exist between the brahmin and the
(untouchable) Chamar of Uttar Pradesh. But this does not prove that
brahmins are foreigners, because the data for the U.P. brahmin were
found to be very close to those for the Khattri and the untouchable
Chuhra of Punjab. If the U.P. brahmin is indeed foreign to U.P., he is
by no means foreign to India, at least not more than the Punjab
untouchables. This confirms the scenario which we can derive from the
Vedic and ItihAsa-PurANa literature:the Vedic tradition was brought east
from d Vedic heartland by brahmins who were physically
indistinguishable
from the lower castes there, when the heartland in
Punjab-Haryana at its apogee exported its culture to the whole Aryavarta
(comparable to the planned importation of brahmins into Bengal and the
South around the turn of the Christian era).  These were just two of the
numerous intra-Indian migrations of caste groups.Recent research has
not refuted Ambedkar,s views. A press report on a recent anthropological
survey led by Kumar Suresh Singh explains:English anthropologists
contended that the upper castes of India belonged to the Caucasian race
and the
rest drew their origin from Australoid types.The survey has
revealed this to be a myth.Biologically &linguistically, we are very
mixed, says Suresh Singh  The report says that the people of India have
more genes in common, and also share a large number of morphological
traits. 

There is much greater homogenization in terms of
morphological and genetic traits at the regional level, says the
report. For example, the brahmins of Tamil Nadu (esp.Iyengars) share
more traits with non-brahmins in d state than with fellow brahmins in
western or northern India.

The sons-of-the-soil theory also
stands demolished. The Anthropological Survey of India has found no
community in India that cant remember having migrated from some other
part of the country.Internal migration accounts for much of India’s
complex ethnic landscape, while there is no evidence of a separate or
foreign origin for the upper castes.Among other scientists who reject
the identification of caste (varNa) with race on
physical-anthropological grounds, we may cite Kailash C.
Malhotra:Detailed anthropometric surveys carried out among the people of
Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Bengal and Tamil Nadu revealed
significant regional differences within a caste and a closer resemblance
between castes of different varnas within a region than between
sub-populations of the caste from different regions. On the basis of
analysis of stature, cephalic and nasal index, H.K. Rakshit (1966)
concludes that the Brahmins of India are heterogeneous & suggest
incorporation of more than one physical type involving more than one
migration of people.A more detailed study among 8 Brahmin castes in
Maharashtra on whom 18 metric,16 scopic and 8 genetic markers were
studied, revealed not only a great heterogeneity in both morphological
and genetic characteristics but also showed that 3 Brahmin castes were
closer to non-Brahmin castes than [to the] other Brahmin castes. 

P.P.
Majumdar and K.C. Malhotra (1974) observed a great deal of
heterogeneity with respect to OAB blood group system among 50 Brahmin
samples spread over 11 Indian states. The evidence thus suggests that
varna is a sociological and not a homogeneous biological entity.)

 Hare Rama Hare Krishna, Vande matram, Dhurva etc…

With
this motto, in the past one year, they organized Hall meets, Movie
Screening and pamphlet distribution among students and ignited debates
on issues like: Agriculture under threat – Coal bed Methane project, GM
Crops – Impact on Agriculture, Factory disputes act 1947 (Amendment) and
creating devastating effect on the labour conditions, Language Politics
in India: past and present based on Sanskrit week celebrations, MHRD’s
overt attempt to have separate vegetarian mess halls in IITs and IIMs
and IITM administration’s move replacing the name board of faculties and
laboratories with Sanskritized Hindi. They celebrated birthdays of
Bhagat Singh and Ambedkar and organized talks on ‘Understanding Bhagat
Singh’ and ‘Contemporary relevance of Dr. Ambedkar’. (For more
information check our facebook page –

Though the platform created
a space for the students of IITM to discuss and debate on issues
directly affecting the peasants, labours and the common mass, APSC
continuously faced threats from rightwing groups inside IITM. Even the
administration tried to curtail the activities of APSC. In June 2014,
the Dean of Students (DoS) Dr.M.S.Sivakumar directed us to change the
name stating that the names ‘Ambedkar and Periyar’ are politically
motivated and thus the study circle should be renamed with some
apolitical titles without any personality’s name. APSC took a firm
decision to stick with the same title. They also pointed out that
activities of right wing groups under the banner of Vivekananda Study
Circle. But the Dean of Students said that they have been using the name
(Vivekananda) for many years and he refused to the change of name of
“Vivekananda study circle”. For a second time in September 2014, he sent
a mail for the same reason, through MITR (the general counseling unit
for students run by IITM admin) rather than from Dean’s office stating
that the name is polarising students. They clearly explained to the
Dean, the motto of the study circle and relevance of Ambedkar and
Periyar’s name.

MHRD’s overt attempt to have separate vegetarian mess halls in IITs and IIMs

In
this scenario, APSC celebrated Ambedkar’s birth anniversary and its
first anniversary in April 2015 by organizing a talk on “contemporary
relevance of Dr. Ambedkar”. Pamphlets were issued, on the basis of how
communalism and corporatism are being the two sides of a single coin
which is tossed by the present government against the common masses. The
pamphlet contents were referred from leading magazines, newspapers and
writings of Ambedkar(the copy of posters and phamphlets are attached)

After
this event, the above mentioned mail from Dean came on 22nd may 2015.
(The copy of mail from dean is attached), it particularly states that
“because of the misuse of the privileges” given to your study circle
(Ambedkar-Periyar study circle) as an independent student body, your
student body is de-recognized by the institute. However it does not
contain any details regarding the privileges misused by the APSC.

Based
on the email, when we met Dean Students he gave a letter from MHRD with
a subject matter ” Distribution of contorversial posters and phamplets
in the campus and creating hatred atmosphere among the students by one
of the student group namely Ambedkar Periyar” and forwarded a copy of
the complaint sent by the RSS students in IIT. The anonymous complaint
letter – as mentioned by the Under Secretary himself states that “APSC
is trying to de-align the ST, SC students and trying to make them to
protest against MHRD and Central government and trying to create hatred
against honorable prime minister and Hindus”. Based on this complaint
and MHRD letter, the Dean of students charge APSC that it misuses the
privileges given by them and derecogonise APSC. (For the reference the
MHRD letter and complaint letter are attached with the mail)

“They are clear that we have not misuse any privileges given by the institute.”

They
resent the fact that the Dean has de-recognized our study circle
unilaterally without giving us a fair hearing and an opportunity to
represent ourselves. In our face to face interaction with the Dean of
Students, they have been told that our study circle engages in
“controversial activities” and violated the code of conduct of
independent student bodies. We are clear that we have not misuse any
privileges given by the institute. So far their activities are engaging
healthy discussions on socio-economic issues on scientific basis to
promote scientific temper among students which is allowed by the Indian
constitution. They have not been given a satisfactory definition of what
entails “controversial”. Further, we were asked to give assurances that
we shall desist from such activities in the future before the Dean
(Students) can allow us to restart our activities. They have also been
asked to route all our activities through the Dean’s office rather than
the usual practice of routing all our discussions, plan of activities
and pamphlets through our faculty adviser. This excessive scrutiny is
unprecedented and does not apply to any other students’ organization.
Vis-à-vis this move of DoS clearly shows, only opinions put forth by the
right wing group will get the consent to see the light of the day,
while the voices and opinion of democratic students like us will be
curtailed hereafter.

Their discussions, meetings and pamphlets
are meant to kick start a discussion within the campus among the
academic fraternity. The issues that we discuss are very important and
define the way we live our lives. IITM is a public funded higher
education institute, whose vision and mission should abide for the
upliftment of the common masses, who are the taxpayers. Instead, the
move from DoS, IITM says there is no space for such opinions and
discussions.

They strongly believe that what they stated in our
pamphlets and content of our discussion is correct as per the
Constitution. Therefore, action against the Ambedkar-Periyar Study
Circle by the DoS, IITM is undemocratic and unilateral against the
interest of common masses for whom the Institute itself is indebted;
hence we are not accepting this decision taken by the Institute.

Voltaire
told “I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the
death your right to say it.” We need a democratic space in academic
fraternity to debate on matters that affect the common masses which feed
us
Mail which we sent to Dean and Director of IITM to explain our stand on recent issue

Sir,
We
the students of Ambedkar-Periyar Study circle are writing you regarding
our stand on the recent email that we received from the Dean of
Students, de-recognized our students’ organization.

The mail from
Dean of Students dated on 22/05/2015 says “because of the misuse of the
privileges” given to your study circle (Ambedkar-Periyar study circle)
as an independent student body, your student body is de-recognized by
the institute. However it does not contain any details regarding the
privileges misused by the APSC.

They resent the fact that the
Dean has de-recognized our study circle unilaterally without giving us a
fair hearing and an opportunity to represent ourselves.

They
resent the fact that the Dean has de-recognized our study circle
unilaterally without giving us a fair hearing and an opportunity to
represent ourselves. In our face to face interaction with the Dean of
Students, we have been told that our study circle engages in
“controversial activities” and violated the code of conduct of
independent student bodies. They are clear on the stand that we have not
misuse any privileges given by the institute. So far their activities
are engaged with the healthy discussion on socio-economic issues on
scientific basis to promote the scientific temper among the student
which is allowed by the Indian constitution. They have not been given a
satisfactory definition of what entails “controversial”. Further, we
were asked to give assurances that we shall desist from such activities
in the future before the Dean (Students) can allow us to restart our
activities. They have also been asked to route all our activities
through the Dean’s office rather than the usual practice of routing all
our discussions, plan of activities and pamphlets through our faculty
adviser. This excessive scrutiny is unprecedented and does not apply to
any other students’ organization. Vis-à-vis this move of DoS clearly
shows, only opinions put forth by the right wing group will get the
consent to see the light of the day, while the voices and opinion of the
democratic students like us will be curtailed hereafter. Since DoS
chaired this position, two times he warned us to change the name
“Ambedkar-Periyar” stating that it is polarizing the student. This shows
the aversion of DoS towards the the name “Ambedkar-Periyar.”

The
Dean’s office has provided us with a copy of a letter from the MHRD
dated 21/05/2015with the ref no. F. No. 5-3/2014-TS-I. The letter stated
that the MHRD has received serious complaints regarding the activities
of our study circle through anonymous letter. A copy of one such letter
was provided. We wish to respond to the allegations in the complainant’s
letter.

“IITM itself have had many meetings that discussed the
policies and legislation’s of the current and previous elected
governments. “

1. It has been alleged that we have spread hatred
against the Modi government and a copy of our pamphlet on the occasion
of Ambedkar Jayanti was enclosed. We do not see any merit in such a
statement. They stand by our opinions.
 
Yes, They were very
critical of the government. However, we do not understand how dissent
and criticism of the government’s policy is akin to “spreading hatred”.
If any person professing an anti-establishment view is accused of
engaging in “controversial” activities and all dissent is stifled,
wouldn’t that be a violation of our constitutionally guaranteed rights
to freely express ourselves? They feel that a vibrant and proactive
civil society is an integral part of a healthy democracy. IITM itself
have had many meetings that discussed the policies and legislation’s of
the current and previous elected governments. Among them the reservation
policy is the one which has not been still implemented in IITM campus.
Here they want to raise a rational question on IITM’s stand on the
reservation policy which is still an alive Government policy even in
Modi Government since Independence. When OBC reservation was announced
by then Govt., whether anti-reservation student group of IITM simply sat
without commending because that its ‘government’s policy’ or it fought
against it on the streets of Chennai with its tooth and nail to stop
that move? What was the action taken by IITM towards those who fought on
streets against the Govt. Policy on Reservation? Rather, the IITM took
part in negotiating a raise of 24% to safeguard the vested interested of
those anti-reservation body functioning in IITM?

2. They have
been accused of spreading hatred between SC-ST and the Hindus and
vitiating the atmosphere of the institute. We are surprised and slightly
amused. Are SC, ST not part of the so called ‘Hindus’? How MHRD and
IITM is perceiving such a venomous anonymous mail with full of hatred
towards the SC, ST and Ambedkar? Are we the one who polarise the
students or they are the one who think IITM is their own base to
propagate against the interest of SC, ST, OBC who are the majority in
our Society? Rather our organization is engaged in propagating Ambedkar
and Periyar thoughts, in helping depressed castes and the caste Hindus
to realize the evilness of caste based discrimination taking place in
modern India and expose the ideology functioning behind such
discrimination. When we talk about the hierarchical caste structure
existing in Indian Society, inevitably we end up in talking about the
present pathetic condition of peasants and labours. There are a number
of sociological studies that will bear us out when we say that caste
based discrimination is still very strong in our society, that caste
based associations can leave some with privileges that add up throughout
their lives while those that are excluded face powerful social barriers
to their attempts to improve their social and economic status. We have
only been discussing these issues with an aim to make a common platform
for all students inspite of their caste and creed so as to dismantle the
evilness of caste barriers. However, even in 2015, our activities are
seen to be too radical by the religious right. If the religious right
has the right to be offended, then don’t the oppressed Dalits and
Bahujans who still face powerful prejudices have a right to be offended
with the state of affairs? Our pamphlets do not have any material that
would surprise a sociological or political scientist. Yet, the institute
has taken these complaints seriously and has chosen to derecognise our
organisation. Any higher education institute should be a platform where
critical thinking and dissent ought to be encouraged. Where brave new
thoughts are nurtured. However, the “dangerous” ideas that we have been
accused of spreading are at least a few decades old, if not a few
centuries.

3. The complainant has taken exception to one of our
meetings which dealt with an MHRD circular regarding vegetarian and
non-vegetarian mess halls. We do not understand how anybody’s sentiments
could have been hurt when the entire discussion was about the right of
every individual to decide what they can eat. This meeting could be seen
as trivial when compared to the meetings on much larger issues.
However, the complaint against this meeting indicates how unsparing the
dominant establishment has become when it comes to stifling dissent. If
such a trivial freedom such as being able to eat meat in the mess halls
is seen as dangerous, then the continued existence of our study group
becomes all the more important.

4. Another issue that the
complainant has taken exception to is a meeting that discussed language
politics and the primacy given to Sanskrit and Hindi in the disbursement
of central funds. We had a Linguist from HSS, IITM and a linguistic
scholar from Pondicherry University who led the discussion. As
rationalists, we feel that though Sanskrit has a valued place as part of
culture and history of certain sections of our society, it is also an
instrument of spreading a Brahminical, dominant narrative. Imposition of
Sanskrit in school has less to do with teaching a language and more to
do with the ideology behind teaching the language. We stand by our
opinions and wish to assert our rights to profess our opinions freely.

5.
Finally, we have been accused of getting funds from the outside
organization. This allegation is completely baseless and absurd. So far
for all the programs the financial support had been taken from the study
circle members’ own pockets and collected in paisas from IITM students
at their doorsteps which was witnessed even by those who wrote the above
said ‘anonymous pettition’. Why we had to collect in paisas from the
students to conduct our events through a platform like APSC is because
IITM rejected many of our moves to bring personalities like Prof. Chaman
Lal through EML. Since its birth, EML is been the monopoly of religious
right wing to propagate their metaphysical idealist ideology and is a
platform for corporate think tanks in the scientific and academic
fraternity. When the taxpayers money is been spend for propogating
anti-people, anti-rational agenda, pro –people, rational groups like
APSC have to collect money from the students to conduct its events. We
are maintaining proper account for all our expenditures.
Our
discussions, meetings and pamphlets are meant to kick start a discussion
within the campus among the academic fraternity. The issues that we
discuss are very important and define the way we live our lives. IITM is
a public funded higher education institute, whose vision and mission
should abide for the upliftment of the common mass, who are the
taxpayers. Rather, the move from DoS, IITM says there is no space for
such opinions and discussions. They would also like to know what exactly
constitutes the “misuse of privileges” and how the specific issues
raised in the complainant’s letter could be deemed controversial? The
right of function of any independent student body is not the ‘privilege’
given by the authority, rather it’s the democratic right of student
themselves.

They strongly believe that what we stated in our
pamphlets and content of our discussion is correct and as per the
Constitution. Therefore, action against the Ambedkar-Periyar Study
Circle by the DoS, IITM is undemocratic and unilateral against the
interest of common mass for whom the Institute itself is indebted; hence
we are not accepting this decision taken by the Institute.

Dean of students mail to us

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: “Dean Students” 
Date: 22 May 2015 16:07
Subject: Your study circle is now de-recognized because of violation of code of conduct
This
is to inform you that because of the misuse of the privileges given to
your study circle (Ambedkar-Periyar study circle) as an independent
student body, your student body is de-recognized by the institute.
You
are welcome to come and explain your stand and actions.

Thanks,
anbudan,
Siva
SIVAKUMAR M. SRINIVASAN
“on a mission to nurture the students of today to be change leaders of tomorrow”
PROFESSOR
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Attachments
1. Letter sent by MHRD
2. Anonymous complaint sent by IIT Madras RSS students

3. pamphlet issue by us in which the so called controversial words were underlined by MHRD
4. The clear content of the pamphlet

“CASTE”
is a word which has no significance for most of the urban elites in
current times. The statement, “I don’t think caste and caste oppression
exist today” is popular among academic fraternity. Contrary to this,
according to a recent survey, 21% upper caste population occupy the 75%
of power and influential positions in government and private sectors in
UP. Similar scenario exists in other states and even in central
government organizations. On the other hand, all lower grade and manual
jobs are exclusively reserved (i.e 100% reservation) for Dalits
permanently! Though several ‘reformers’ have fought and are fighting
against this rotten stinkard caste system, a scientific and scholarly
approach towards caste was initially taken, and its sole authority of
brahmanical hegemony was rigorously exposed by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.

Caste
in contemporary times has become a political tool for the ruling class
to severe its social oppression over Dalits and also for economically
exploiting the working classes. The Modi government, while carrying
forward its Hindutva agenda, it is simultaneously assisting the
multinational corporates to loot mother India. While implementing
pro-corporate moves like Land Acquisition Bill, Insurance Bill, Labour
laws, corporate favor budget, 100% FDI in PSUs etc and paving way for
the corporate to loot the livelihood of the children of India, it is
communally polarising the common people by the ban on cow slaughtering,
gar vapsi program and promoting Vedas etc.. In the name of ‘Swadesi’
they are selling mother India and dividing her children in the name of
communalism. As part of this, now they are revisionising Ambedkar and
projecting him as an icon for their vote politics. Ambedkar proposed to
annihilate the caste by destroying Hinduism. He says, “You must destroy
the Religion of the Shrutis and the Smritis. Nothing else will avail”.
“Hinduism is a veritable chamber of horrors and it must die for caste to
vanish”. But in the contemporary days, when caste is supporting the
economic exploitation, it can only be annihilated by taking forward
struggle against caste simultaneously with the struggle against
recolonization.

RSS favours paper ballots, EVMs subjected to public scrutiny

Though
the Supreme Court had ordered to replace all the fraud EVMs with fool
proof voting system that is being followed by 80 demo cries of the world
and the tried and tested paper ballots used in the recent UK elections,
the ex CJI Sathasivan committed a grave error of judgement in allowing
the fraud EVMs to be replaced in phases as suggested by the ex CEC
Sampath because of the cost of Rs 1600 crore involved in replacing the
fraud EVMs totally.

suggests

The practical techniques of Protest !!!

1)
Protest using Motorcyles , have a good traffic jams .Mind that police
does not catch you up …..( Just like the Political Rally …..Nobody
will dare to catch you ..The Police are ill equipped to catch you )

2)
Protest using a Truck ….Leave the rented Truck in middle of road
….Create a Traffic Jam ..Let People and Government machinery suffer
for a while .Let the Traffic Police come and impound the truck …one
can always pay a Little Fine and get the Truck back on the
technicalities that “Truck got broke down ” ….
.
3)Do not waste your energy by shouting in protest ..Play recorded protest messages loud in a Good Public Address System ……

4)Just
carry out seating protest …it is the most practical approach for
protest …Government officials cannot use an kind of excessive FORCE on
the seating protesters …..Meanwhile play the protest message loudly
via PA system and take care to wear an ear plug or ear muffler ….The
loud noise of PA system really make People crazy ……Sometimes one
have to make Loud Voice when not heard ….

5)Play patriotic
songs in middle of protest messages …that gives a stamp of being
Nationalist ..Nobody can book you under any so called Anti-National
activity ….

6) Different states got different laws regarding
“Offences on Public disruption “…..study those State specific Laws and
then conduct the Protests ….

7) The aim of Protest is
primarily Annoyance to the establishes elite class and the causes of
protest is Annoyance Due to the Public Policy or any Govt actions of
Elitist towards the other disadvantaged social group …..It is just a
game of Tit for Tat ….They annoy you ……You annoy them …They
exert power via Public policy , via their decisions via their newly
amended law …You exert power via Disruption …….Take a note that
Media will be never on your side ….It will always take side of Elite
class ….

8) Use your smart phone to fullest extent …It got a
Video Camera …A Still Camera and good internet connection …….If
any Excessive Force used by Govt Machinery …just Record them …..Use
it as a proof against the perpetrators of Excessive Force …….