Kalyan Raman N

Writer. Literary Translator. Socialist.

Backup handle for @kalyanasc, which has been hacked.

[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

This is the backup handle for my account @kalyanasc, which has been hacked. I hope that former followers and mutuals will return to this handle. Thank you.

[Anuradha SenGupta @anuradhasays]

All morning with @RitikaChopra__ painstaking reportage on @IndianExpress today. ECs Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi seem to be honourable people. They will be doing this country a service if they have a press conference to explain these objections. And resign if it comes to that.

[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

Sure, e means to expose the cheap, degenerate elements in Nodu's cabinet. All good because it's in the public interest.

[pallavi ghosh @_pallavighosh]

Was always a little suspicious of this - when former bureaucrats begin to take a political line , there has to be some agenda ..

[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

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[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

@cleanbowled671 @Iniyanspeaks @Naruto_Uzmaki0 Brutal exploitation by the British through promotion of land concentration, conversion to cash crops and widespread alienation of the rural population from land, resulting in armies of the destitute poor. They never recovered from it.

[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

Four: Freedom to practise any religion of one's choosing is enshrined in our Constituion. Conversion, except through violence or coercsion, is not a heinous crime.

Thank you for your attention.

[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

and in international fora in an attempt to find solutions. Scapegoating Indian Muslims for this on the basis of unhinged perspectives on Partition is unwise and, of course, unhinged in the worst possible way.

[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

and feeds bigotry against other religions which are legitimately practised in this country. We should give it up.

Three, if you are troubled by the way Hindus are treated in our neighbouring countries, one can and should mobilize our government to take it up with their govts

[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

Some clarifications:
One, I don't think that Hinduism or any other religion has anything to do with the caste system or oppression of women. There are perfectly sound secular explanations for both. But misunderstanding about it is pervasive because it is seldom interrogated.

[Puyangan Adiyan @Puyangan5]

@kalyanrn Then that's not just hypocrisy. It's just plain hindumisia. She keeps dragging in hindusim for no real reason.

[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

Two, this 'HIndu khatre mein hain' is completely bogus. It is simply not true. There are healthy and fruitful ways in which one's pride in what is one of the Great Religionsof the world can be expressed other than this wretched victimhood which is an exercise in self-diminution

[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

A striking aspect of the cult worship of Periyar is its disconnection with the temporal reality of Tamil society. His followers invoke the ideals of self-respect, rationality & eradication of caste as if before a divine being and when they return to the real world, they feel no

[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

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[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

@ShalinSpeaks He has written a fair amount in praise of Periyar and DMK ideology. Remember சிந்திக்கத் சொன்னவர் பெரியார், sung by TM Krishna?

[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

I wonder what an eminent writer like Perumal Murugan is going to say. It's not easy crossing the Kavundar lobby as he discovered once.

[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

@ShalinSpeaks Total idiot.

[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

Then it can be fought. Left to themeselves, the #Dravs will will continue to fool the Tamil public and, sadly, the rest of India with their rhetoric and cult worship of Periyar. We have to get ourselves out of this mire of falsehood and unreason, and engage with the real. n/n

[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

A striking aspect of the cult worship of Periyar is its disconnection with the temporal reality of Tamil society. His followers invoke the ideals of self-respect, rationality & eradication of caste as if before a divine being and when they return to the real world, they feel no

[Kalyan Raman N @kalyanrn]

with changes in the political structure, and that it's only a text codifying (real or imaginary) practices of a particular time and place. It is up to us to go into these questions with the aid of available scholarship and characterise the casteist structure of the present