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BHOJ YOJNASEVA
(Ministry of Culture)
Twitter Row
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- Recently, the Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, on a visit to India, had an informal discussion with a group of Indian women journalists, activists and writers about their experience on Twitter.
- He was gifted a poster by one of the participants. It said, Smash Brahminical Patriarchy.rfaced on Twitter, it became an immediate target of outraged trolling.
- Accused of inciting hatred and violence against a “minority”, namely, brahmins.
- Apology was tweeted out in its wordy entirety not once, not twice, not three times, but eight times.
- The whole episode raises simple question: What was wrong with that poster?
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Analysis
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- ‘Brahminism’ refers not to members of the brahmin community but to the oppressive social order of caste.
- Gender hierarchy and caste hierarchy.
- The former accords women an inferior social status vis-à-vis men, while the latter accords brahmins a superior social status vis-à-vis all other varnas, or caste groups.
- It is through male control of female sexuality that what they call is“caste purity, the institution unique to Hindu society”, is preserved and reproduced over time.
- The father of the Indian Constitution and icon of anti-caste politics, B.R. Ambedkar, defined the term thus: “By Brahmanism I do not mean the power, privileges and interests of the Brahmans as a community. By Brahmanism I mean the negation of the spirit of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. In that sense it is rampant in all classes and is not confined to the Brahmans alone, though they have been the originators of it” What is the concept of Brahmanical patriarchy? How does it affect Indian Society?
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