Nothing underlines H.D. Deve Gowda‘s apprehension that transferring power to the BJP would have paved the way for sangh parivar outfits to turn Karnataka into a “Hindutva Laboratory” than the Baba Budanagiri row in Chikamagalur.
The syncretic peace of the pristine hills in coffee country has been punctured by the shrill rabble-rousing, the hate-mongering, the muscle-flexing by pseudo-nationalists to create an electoral “Ayodhya” in the self-declared “Gateway to the South”.
As this set of six YouTube videos, edited and directed by Vijay Kumar S. for Pedestrian Pictures shows, the virus of communalism has been injected into a serene community with lab-room precision, with the pseudo-secularists flapping around saying “What-did-you-expect”.
The denouement—the “mundina anahuta“, the “rakta paatha” that Pramod Mutalik promises—has been stalled by court rulings. But with the BJP now out of power and elections looming, for much how long?
Credits: Deepu and Yuvaraj; Kumar G.S., Sunil (camera); Ahmed Shah
Also read: Successful resistance to saffronisation
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>> the virus of communalism has been injected into a serene community with lab-room precision
yep! Churumuri is doing that right now! Give a break guys. Even the most ardent Gowda supporters won’t take his ‘secular’ stand seriously…
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If only the BJP concentrated on trying to actually provide good governance, they would get a far bigger majority than any “communalization” or ‘saffronization’ would get them in a hundred years. Given the corruption and naked grab for power that the Congress and JD(S) have shown in the last 20 months, one would think that the BJP would just have to stand around pretending to be a sorry victim and the vote is its…. Instead they try to pull this shit.
Bababudangiri!!! That’s just making a mountain out of a…er…. mountain….
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you must of got paid from lankesh family or that topi fool vatal nagraj or from shameless devegowda and his son themselves to campiagn agianst BJP . So vijaya times represents supports vatal nagaraj
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This piece seems to come directly from Naxal Ram’s secular pen.. Its a shame that churumuri must play the communist mouth piece in justifying HDD’s antics…
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I think some of the party’s own leaders would agree that they should tread a middle ground and not allow the extreme right wing to take the centre stage. However, nobody will take a tough stand and allow things to reach a stage where it is difficult to put the genie back in the bottle. Just as the major parties in Britain and US redefined themselves in the eighties and nineties to address themselves to a new generation of voters, this party too should do so.
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Is Churumuri really serious? If true, I can totally understand how and why a ‘human waste’ HDD managed to pull off one of the most disgusting political acts we could ever imagine.
At this point, I really don’t know which one is more dangerous to our country. ‘Human waste’ HDD or intellectuals (?) like churumuri who find ‘reason’ in HDD’s disgusting acts.
Devare Kaaaaapadapppa!!!!!
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relax guys, this has been online for a long time. i first saw it on google videos a few months ago.
but scary stuff!! too many outsiders involved and too polarized a debate. too far to the right or too far to the left. no middle ground. which only means, left to each other, these guys will only manage to push each other to brinkmanship.
how did provocateur agresara gaddar land up there? and how come so many folks chorus-ing even singing along in telugu so far west in KA right at the time when the region is incubating a naxal movement? more subtle psy-ops why did not the video name his presence? because they would not be able to put a presentable profile for him, what are they going to call him? provocateur agresara, naxalwaada, AP?
and MOST IMPORTANTLY none of what he sang was about the baba budangiri issue, he is singing stuff like hasdiro badava, bartheeya illva, ureethiro badava bartheeya illva, nimm geno something something, nammgg maatra ida – heavy duty naxal stuff.
(aside lyrically some real catchy stuff)
solve the problem on its own merit no, why bring in naxals when the issue has nothing to do with it and complicate the issue?
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Would like to see an English transcript in the videos.
I too was wondering why gaddar appeared in the video (although I’m fond of his telling lyricism). I don’t understand telugu, so probably couldn’t place the context…
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It’s not Virus. It’s awareness. what’s wrong in reclaiming from Invaders. It’s a sorry state to enter Ayodya, Banaras under scanners and pointed AK 56s, thanks to invaders like Babar and Aurangazeb. even after generations they’ll remain invaders. Hindus were suppressed lot during those years due to their ‘tolerance’. now it’s time to reclaim our land and culture.
Why not upload videos of Imams spitting venom?
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Looks like everyone is out there to screw the lovely town.
The Govt should cut out inflow into the town and the hills, just allow symbolic prayers and puja by both Moz and Hindus by few representatives visiting the shrine everyday with no permanent settlement on the hills. Do not allow devotees, say for 15-20 years, 24/7 police protection, and the result…everyone would have made progress in their lives, people will be too busy to worry about this fight, and with no mass human movements, there would be wonderful forests all around.
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More Vijay Videos
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Devegowda gets Hindutva Pills into his mouth now. He was the chief minister of Karnataka, Prime minister and what not …why he did not take any steps to check Hindutva, when your children wanted to stay in power nothing came in the way now when you want to transfer all these things gets into his head. Whether it is Baba or Bababudan, this Swami or that Swami, This devaasthaana or that devasthaana, visit all or them and tacke, beg their blessings, and fool the general public always. It is Viswapathi’s dictum that rules the destiny of Gowda’s clan. Who is responsible the chaos in Karnataka today, is it the slogan of HIndutva, or pseudo-secularism, or oppourtunism…
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Isnt malnad peppered with Maoists also? Who injected this redundant virus into a serene community with lab-room precision?
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Hindu fanatics want to Hinduize the place. They cleverly present a version of what has happened to the putative Dattapeetha, i. e., a challenge to our sense of decency and tolerance. But their way of seeing it is in terms of outdated religious practices. They try to spread irrantionality. All this is bloody wrong.
Enter Komu Sauharda Vedike and its ilk. They are harming the minority community involved in this contratemps by using name calling as their weapon, when it should be dispassionate understanding. One doesn’t have tro be a rocket scientist to understand that whatever names they throw at the Sangh combine are used as badges of honor which turn iinto powerful weapons of destruction. And don’t forget the smugness and arrogance in their pronoucements. “I am englightened, they are not.”
The whole issue has been framed in the wrong terms. The question is not what Hindus want or what Muslims want. It is : How much is each community willing to concede to ensure peace in the valley? There is no receiving without giving. One drop of blood from a Hindu seduced into the Sangh’s way of thinking is no less precious than that of a wronged Muslim. Blood has color but no religion. It should not be shed for any reason.
At first, the saying “Datta is not Hindu, the Baba is not Musilim” appeals to our imagination because of its metaphorical power. But let us not try to place a janivara on the Baba and a prayer cap on Datta by saying such inane things. Instead of promoting understanding, such slogans only intensify the perceived differences between the two communities. If there is going to be a sequel to this documentary, let it show Hindus who feel blessed by the Baba and Muslims by Datta.
Do the producers see that they have allowed themselves to be seduced into the notion that shrillness and emotionalism are the best way of combating what we Indians call “communalism?” More than what our Muslim brothers say on the screen (why no Muslim women?), what sticks in my memory is the high pitched voice of the young woman who is obviously reading from a script. The producer/direct proudly makes fun of innocent people who do not know what god is worshipped in the temple. We know that such people have been brought to that place on false pretexts for a fee. (We have Indira Gandhi to thank for this new Indian art form in politics.) Isn’t the issue how to disabuse them?
We need a new dialogue based on understanding instead of shrill denunciations. (Read the letter from Gauri Lankesh and her associates in today’s vaachakara vani.) I do wonder if there was an issue here before she and her friends started seeing themselves as the protectors of minority groups and created a conflict that did not exist twenty years ago. And to think some “like-minded” persons of this persuasion went to the extent of asking a power drunk, corrupt chief minister not to hand over his unethically acquired leadership position to an equally corrupt and unethical Sangh operative. And these are the same people who talk of the erosion of civic virtues in our society and the defacement of democracy.
Logic and sympathy are what should get us out of this quagmire. Let us try to find ways to create community through dialogue and not division through rhetoric. We need a new idiom, visual as well as literal.
I am for some reason reminded of the way in which some of our intellectuals urged Kannadigas not to read “Aavarana.” Don’t we have enough “kurithodada parinatharu” among us? Is such anti-intellectualism going to take us very far? How is this different from saying, “I am making the decision for you not to read that, you supply the adjective, novel because I am telling you to?”
Those who glorify India’s diversity should be willing to see that diversity can be seen as difference and lead to violence. What brings us together is always more important than what divides us.
Yes, I know. Screeds are easily forgotten. Good will, however, is not. Let us learn to talk and see in a new way. I don’t know if there is a specific route to that way. If you suggest one that is reasonable, I shall happily follow it.
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What is this churumuri avare, one day you get people drunk on gowda bashing.. even as people fight that hangover, you drop this. Why are you toTTilu tooging and also magu chivTing. or are you trying to simply poison the well?
adirliii.. Enrappa, “deve gowda is the human face of pig excreta… worst nightmare in ktaka’s history.. kapi santana” brigadiers, what yappened suddenly. do you still think bjp is the lesser evil? deve gowda treasury koLLe hoDibodu… naa kaTTO tax nannadalla anta eLLu neeru biTbiDtini.. aadare ee kOmuvadi nan makkLu manege benki iDtaralla … waat to do?
>>Who injected this redundant virus into a serene community with lab-room precision?
yaarna devegowda munDaaysbitta anta neevella baTTe harkond mai parchkond baay baDkotidrO… that same guy and his party and their extended family of ‘lumpen elements’ like pramod mutalik and other assorted vhp, bd goons.
>>Who is responsible the chaos in Karnataka today, is it the slogan of HIndutva, or pseudo-secularism, or oppourtunism…
clearly it is due to the hindutvavadis(bjp, in case there’s any doubt) and the pseudo-secularists(congress have exclusive rights over that). both of them are unfit to rule(compared to DG who is the least of all evils) and yet have insatiable lust for power.
>>Looks like everyone is out there to screw the lovely town.
Not everyone. Just the BJP and their hinditva goons. Exterminate them and normalcy will return… just like the good old days that all the locals of that place recount in that video.
>>It’s not Virus. It’s awareness.
No no no. It is virus only. God promise.
>>relax guys, this has been online for a long time. i first saw it on google videos a few months ago.
does it change the fact that BJP is indulging in ‘assholism’ big time in that serene corner of my beloved kannada nadu.
>>how did provocateur agresara gaddar land up there?
komuvadi lumpen elementsna elect maaDidare.. gaddarU battane avanappanoo battane. the more saffronised malnad got, the more naxalised it has been getting too? coincidence? or by design? dont know/cant say.
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wonderful response pulikeshi. this ought to be a blog on churumuri for the ideas in this are worth discussing. espcially those relating to the true purport of secularism and those of true free thought not the controlled -this-is-good-because-we-told you-so crap.
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Half-a-batallion of KSRP is enough to tackle these goons hired by Bajrang Dal and co. (you shouldn’t be surprised if they same “youth” are present at protests by Komu Sauharda Vedike and Congress).
Why did R. Gundu Rao give the authority over the shrine to Wakf board!?
It was a historic Hindu temple and where a Sufi saint also worshipped and took refuge,
Small steps like allowing Hindus to worship one day a week(just like they allow Muslims to worship on every frinday) instead of only once or twice an YEAR can silence the fundamentalists, also why aren’t Hindus allowed to worship using flowers and camphor!? While no similar restrictions have been placed on Muslims?
Everything controversial, is according to legends and same legends also speak about Baba Budan participating in Mangalarati and Poojas just like a devout Hindu would do.
These celeb protestors & fundamentalists don’t care about religion, justice or peace, all they seek is fame, money and publicity… and the goons, a livelihood.
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Avanajji yaar hengadru k****koLLi ..
Allina jana bittu bereavarnella gadi paar maadi
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agree with arun and share the angst of DG.
kick every single outsider out. oorjanarigg illada usabari yoorg yaako?
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Cauvery Layout Bangalore …
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