Origins of Anti-Brahminism

Dear Mr Prasad1

You keep muddying the waters.

Ours was NOT a Zamindar family. We tyrannised no-one. Far from that, my grandfather being an aayurvedam expert treated all who came to him, Brahmins and other patients, free of charge. My grandmother used to supply fresh cows' milk free to neighbours, after our small family's needs were fulfilled. I used to be the barefoot courier.

Also, please do not sneer heartlessly and cynically at the mass deaths of tens if not hundreds of thousands of Brahmins through starvation, malnutrition and disease after the fields and plantations they depended on for food was forcibly confiscated. Not only our land, but all land in other Brahmin villages were confiscated in the programme (pogrom?) of New Independent India.

Don't say nastily, derisively and dissmissively "may be some old lady lost her income." Tens if not hundreds of thousands of innocent villagers LOST THEIR PRECIOUS LIVES before my very eyes. This is NOT HEARSAY, but first-hand eye-witnessed truth.

Face today's reality, if you can, Sir.

Sure, you don't know why the New Independent India Government confiscated the land of all Brahmin farm-owners in Kerala. Did you read that it was for political reasons -- to slice up the land into uncultivable strips without essential independent water sources and to award the strips to farm labourers, etc?

Sure you don't know about Bhagavaan Sree Mahaa-Vishnu escorting and accompanying ex-Emperor Mahaa-bali from Rishi-lokam Paataalam to Earth on Ohnam Day. Even K Gopalan didn't.

Let's not talk again about plentiful and ustinted moru-neer dhaanam to vazhipokkans during venakkaalam in my native village in Kerala.

Namaskaarams d best regards.

S Narayanaswamy Iyer