PERNEM: Passing through the interior of Tuem village in Pernem taluka, one cannot miss a tiny house within a cluster of houses, which explicitly manifests the scourge of untouchability that still persists here.
Living in this pocket, Kale's family speaks the tale of how untouchability still shamefully prevails in rural Goa. Sadashiv alias Shambhu Kale, his wife and three minor children were literally ostracised from Poraskaden village in Pernem taluka.
Wonder what their fault was? Despite being Brahmins, they had given their blessings to a Harijan couple at their wedding. Kale, who was eking out a living by performing puja at Shree Mauli Devasthan, had to abandon his house in Poraskaden and run for a cover.
Entire village was against him. He was thrown out of the temple and later forced to leave the village. Shattered by the incident, his wife committed suicide. Kale, who has two teenaged daughters and a four year-old son, was forced to take up a rented accommodation in the nearby village.
The issue hogged limelight, after local MLA Jitendra Deshprabhu raised it in the state Legislative Assembly forcing the then chief minister Manohar Parrikar to given an assurance of help to this family. Seven years down the line, the same Harijan community because of whom he lost his house and was declared social reject, joined hands to give him another house in the nearby village of Tuem. - PTI
The Brahmanism among the Catholics is the worst. Poor Sardinha is called "Kaxte Bammon". The atrocities created by these Bamons created these Harijans.
ReplyDeleteI hear your Sameer. Being a Catholic I, truly am ashamed to say that such practices have prevailed in the past and a few remnants thread on it. It brings to mind that Goa was no less than Mandela's Africa during the Portugues era. Bammons always considered themselves the Swayers who trampled and segregated the oppressed.
ReplyDeleteCan someone pls give me the telephone number of Mr. Sadsashiv Kale. On behalf on Niz Goenkar, let us see what we can do to help them. This will also help us to eradicate caste distinction and discrimination prevailing in Goa for centuries both among the Hindus and Christians.
ReplyDeleteI need his telephone number please.
No matter what has happened in the past, What is our current governments doing to curb these issues case by case? Has anybody been prosecuted and Jailed? Where are these human rights activists Gone? They are only fit to protect the rights of criminals.
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ReplyDeleteHowever, I am a convert of some past Muslim or may be Hindu rulers of present Goa and these ethnic segregation may have derived from them and have carried forward. Human values have excelled, since. We have to make the best of our lives to live in cosmopolitan neighborhoods.
This is a bad attitude of our Hindus. These things should be abolished like Abraham Lincoln did with slavery in USA. I guess indians will never learn and educate themselves
ReplyDeleteJohnads, I am happy to see you regularly on the site. Welcome brother once again and share with us our common platform.
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