DK people should be ashamed over Made Snana'

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December 4, 2011

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Mangalore, December 4: The people of Dakshina Kannada should feel ashamed of themselves. ''Though we have 5000 years of rich history, we are still following blind and inhuman traditions like 'Made Snana,''' regretted Karnataka Komu Souharda Vedike State Secretary K L Ashok.

Addressing protesters at a dharna jointly organised by Dakshina Kannada district Karnataka Komu Souharda Vedike and progressive organisations in front Deputy Commissioner's Office on Saturday, he said that the Pejawar seer should be given Dalit Dheekshe.

“Pejawar Seer Vishweshatheertha Swamiji says that he would give Maadhva Dheekshe to Dalits. But there is a separate seating arrangement for lunch in the mutt, which means that untouchability is still followed in Udupi,” he rued.

Flays administration

Stating that both district administration and State government are involved in 'Made Snana' and attack on Shivaramu, who tried to stop the act, Ashok said that the attackers could get bail easily and they celebrated their 'success' without shame. “The administration should ban the tradition before next year, failing which we would start a campaign against it,” he threatened.

Speaking to protesters, Komu Souharda Vedike District Committee Convenor Pattabhirama Somayaji said that, people belonging to upper class simply feed blind beliefs in the minds of humble people. “We are in third generation. We have to stage a protest against this inhuman act. The government should understand that there are some people who talk against 'Made Snana'.

There are protests being conducted against 'Made Snana', but the people who follow the tradition have government protection,” Pattabhirama Somayaji rued and flayed Higher Education Minister V S Acharya for supporting 'Made Snana'.

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Mumbai, Apr 15: A 35-year-old man, who worked as a priest in suburban Kandivali, allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday afternoon, hours after learning that lockdown to contain coronavirus has been extended.

The deceased was identified as Krishna Pujari, native of Udupi in Karnataka, who was attached to Durga Mata temple in Iraniwadi area of Sanjay Nagar.

Pujari, who lived with three other priests, was waiting for the lockdown to end as he wanted to go back to his hometown, a police official said.

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No suicide note has been found, he said.

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May 30,2020

Mumbai, May 30: Former Bollywood actress Zaira Wasim has deleted her Twitter and Instagram accounts after being heavily trolled for quoting from the Quran while talking about locust attacks.

"So We sent upon them the flood and locusts and lice and frogs and blood: Signs openly self explained: but they were steeped in arrogance -- a people given to sin. --Qur'an 7:133," Zaira had tweeted.

Soon, she started receiving hateful comments from netizens who interpreted her post as a justification of the locust attacks. They felt that Zaira was suggesting that the incident is God's way of expressing wrath.

Shortly after being deluged with such comments, Zaira Wasim deleted her Twitter and Instagram accounts.

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Commenting on the post, a user wrote: "Lady you must have taken into account of those people of JK, Kerala and elsewhere who are also suffering from the virus. Moreover the crops which are damaged by locust had no name as to who will consume them. In this hours of crisis please post something which is positive and reflects your education."

Another user shared: "So according to you, with all due respect every year on the same time period, Allah send locust to India to destroy the crops of poor farmers who are not even involve in the industrial rise, who don't use vehicle to destroy the nature, and Allah send locust only to harm the poor farmers and not the rich one who actually destroy nature."

"So those farmers who lost there fields of crops and will probably go into debt and may also commit suicide, those farmers who feed the nation, who feed you and every one, are sinners?" asked yet another user.

However, there were a few on social media who felt Zaira had done nothing wrong.

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