S. Anand quite conveniently, expediently and
incredibly disowns the headline and blurb of the article he wrote and reported
under the title “Dalits in reverse”, but he did nothing at the
time or subsequently to ensure the publication of his disagreement with the headline, blurb or
the premise of his report titled “Dalits in reverse”. But it is not just the
title and the blurb of the report titled “Dalits in reverse”, but the report’s
content of a series of reported statements attributed to a varied assortment of
Brahmin individuals in order to give the false impression that Brahmins are
being persecuted (like “Dalits” as the title
suggested). It was not just the title and the blurb, but the thrust of
the entire report that uses a series of quotes from Brahmins of various walks
of life to falsely claim that Brahmins are a persecuted lot. Contrary to S.
Anand’s untenable claims, he has not “exposed”, condemned or critiqued
Ashokamitran’s false claim of persecution of Brahmins like the Jews in the
1930s (in his report “We are like the Jews”) or his other Brahmin interviewees’
false claims of persecution on account of their Brahmin caste (in his report
“Dalits in reverse”) since there is nothing in his aforementioned two reports
to suggest that S.Anand condemned or critiqued the false claims of persecution
made by Ashoka Mitran and an assortment of Brahmin interviewees on account of
their Brahmin caste. Thus it is obvious that there was no gross
misrepresentation on my part with regards to S. Anand’s reports titled “Dalits
in reverse” and “We are like the Jews” since S. Anand simply denies that he
ever wrote the title or the blurb of his report to untenably counter my
critique nor does he deny that his aforementioned two reports sensationally showcased
comments of Brahmin interviewees making false claims of persecution on account
of their Brahmin caste. Contrary to S. Anand’s claims, his aforementioned two
reports were not expressions of mocking some Tamil Brahmins for imagining that
the tsunami was a result of the arrest of a Brahmin pontiff (Jayendra
Sarwaswathi) nor was it a comedic treatise of the amusement S. Anand felt at
Tamil Brahmins going into a sulk at the arrest of a Brahmin pontiff. There are
no statements in his aforementioned two reports to suggest that S.Anand mocked
or condemned the false claims of persecution made by his Brahmin interviewees
on account of their Brahmin caste nor has S. Anand expressed his bemusement or
disagreement towards the various false claims of persecution made by his Brahmin
interviewees in these two aforementioned reports. These two journalistic
reports of S. Anand were serious and pre-meditated journalistic reporting that
used selective quotes of selected Brahmin interviewees who were selectively
interviewed to feed the lie that Brahmins are being persecuted like Dalits and
Jews in the 1930s as an apologia to Brahmin supremacy and to falsely portray
the socially privileged supremacist class of Brahmins as a persecuted lot to an
unsuspecting global readership in order to absolve Brahmins of any role in the
social ills of the nation and society surrounding them. Moreover, the
aforementioned two reports of S. Anand are based on interviews of an assortment
of Brahmin individuals with the singular aim of getting the Brahmin interviewees
to make various false claims of persecution of Brahmins and not for any other
purpose. I never wrote that S. Anand has not filed other investigative reports
regarding the criminal charges and other allegations against the Brahmin
Pontiff Jayendra Saraswathi and the Mutt headed by the latter. I clearly
mentioned in my original article rebutting S. Anand’s critique of Aamir Khan’s
programme on untouchability that I was referring to the reportage of S. Anand
by way of citing two of his aforementioned specific reports, and hence S.
Anand’s claim that he was reporting what others (such as Ashoka Mitran) said
and his claim of filing several other investigative reports on the criminal charges
faced by the Brahmin Pontiff Jayendra Saraswathi does not justify or excuse the
aforementioned two reports aimed at falsely portraying that Brahmins are a
persecuted lot by selectively quoting a selected assortment of Brahmins, to the
extent of ridiculously and delusionally claiming that Brahmins are being persecuted like Dalits
and Jews in the 1930s. Kindly await my detailed and analytical refutation of S.
Anand's rejoinder.
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