A Twitter user wrote a thread on 4th April that makes one wonder if we want one form of discrimination to be replaced with another. This Twitter user was apparently an alumni/ alumna of TISS and levels startling allegations against the way the organization functions.
The thread starts with the following Tweets:
https://twitter.com/NamasteNiHao/status/981422814082289665
https://twitter.com/NamasteNiHao/status/981422818406649856
While this writer has the deepest respect for those who follow Baba Saheb (has been a follower too), one wonders why an academician would use his workplace for activism, and while he/she needs to criticise casteism, choose to target Hinduism. Anybody who understands the basics of Hinduism would know that the vile caste patterns were a later distortion.
The Tweeter goes on to add:
https://twitter.com/NamasteNiHao/status/981422822999379970
Apart from the reverse discrimination, the fact that a leading organization was running on such irregularities is appalling.
https://twitter.com/NamasteNiHao/status/981422831778099201
This author had traveled to Goa a couple of years ago, and as we drove around beaches, we struck a conversation with our Goan driver. The gentleman, while sharing his history, also went on to point out that the caste system that is prevalent in churches and also goes up to the graveyard, where burials are done as per caste hierarchy. In the history of Christianity, hostility between Catholics and Protestants is found in written words. So are Shia-Sunni divides in Islam. So while we talk about intra-religious layers, why would a leading institute make it only specific to Hinduism?
Also, why must a Kancha Illiah, or those who suggest one defaces idols of Hindu Gods, go by the name of a ‘rationalist’? How would these attacks on Hinduism end the caste system in India? And why don’t our intellectuals ask these questions?
https://twitter.com/NamasteNiHao/status/981422836236603392
The discourse on the Gujarat riot remains problematic, especially in a country that claims to have secularism as one of its constitutional beliefs. What is secularism really? A separation of church and state, or blind hatred towards the majority?
The thread goes on to point both irregularities and the toxicity that go on in TISS. Having graduated from a leading institute in the country (yes I received subsidized education from an institute famous for both sloganeering and academic excellence), I believe there is some truth in the thread.