Justice A R Dave quotes Manusmriti in Yakub Memon case and triggers Brahmin vs Dalit war on Twitter
http://www.newscrunch.in/2015/
... The quotes did not go down well with the Dalit opinion, which considers Manusmriti as a treatise, which sanctioned the oppressive caste system. Dr Ambedkar had famously burnt Manusmriti in 1927 to protest the Indian varna system, which the doctrine considers to be divine.
After Yakub Memon's mercy pleas were rejected by the Supreme Court on Wednesday a few Dalit activists started tweeting that the hanging was a brahmincal act to uphold a brahmincal notion of the country.
That led to a fierce response from Brahmin accounts and in no time Twitter descended into a raging battle between the two groups. The topic, Brahmins, trended for a few hours across the country.
Last year, Justice A R Dave had said that he would have introduced Gita and Mahabharata in class one, if he were the dictator of India. The comment was criticised by many, who said India was a diverse and a secular country to study any religious book in schools. ...
http://www.newscrunch.in/2015/
... The quotes did not go down well with the Dalit opinion, which considers Manusmriti as a treatise, which sanctioned the oppressive caste system. Dr Ambedkar had famously burnt Manusmriti in 1927 to protest the Indian varna system, which the doctrine considers to be divine.
After Yakub Memon's mercy pleas were rejected by the Supreme Court on Wednesday a few Dalit activists started tweeting that the hanging was a brahmincal act to uphold a brahmincal notion of the country.
That led to a fierce response from Brahmin accounts and in no time Twitter descended into a raging battle between the two groups. The topic, Brahmins, trended for a few hours across the country.
Last year, Justice A R Dave had said that he would have introduced Gita and Mahabharata in class one, if he were the dictator of India. The comment was criticised by many, who said India was a diverse and a secular country to study any religious book in schools. ...
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