BRAHMINAAL MATTAM (Only Brahmins can eat here) & AGRAHARATHIL KAZHUTAI (The Donkey in the Elite Village Agraharam)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agraharathil_Kazhutai

This Blog is still in the works, however I felt the need to put it out, in the light of the Rampant LYNCHINGS going on in India in these Contemporary Times.

[A TRUE STORY about an incident in my Dad's life during the early years of Indian Independence]

My DAD has often told me growing up in his home that ‘he is a self made man’ & that I need to be One too.

TODAY when I reflect over What my Dad means by that statement is that One must get educated & if needed work to earn & get educated, as well as be bold in this World & have Opinions too.

Few Days back when Swami Agnivesh was brutally beaten up by the RSS Gangs, my memory was stroked & I remembered an incident from my Dad’s past that he had told me about & My Dad has told me many stories. That is Him. Always Communicating & meaning well. Today moving towards 92 years of age he is old & more feeble and his memory is not as strong as it used to be. He has also gone Very Quiet. That is Very Unlike the Dad I experienced growing up. He was always full of wisdom, joking enjoying fine food, talking about & describing fine food, good Restaurants, fine attire, fine fountain pens, books & of-course Politics, Movies & Music Too. That’s the Dad I grew up knowing & Dad was STRICT. I know it’s tough to understand how a man given to a Jovial Spirit & Bonhomie could be STRICT!

But he was Strict with me. Ram Rod Strict with me but Immense Palpable Affection & Love towards my Two Sisters.

I do not know how to distribute that kind of Strict Love & Affection, as I have only one:-))) So I Shower it all on that One: Strictness & Love.

Anyways let me Move on to the Main Matter that is the Reason for doing this Piece.

It was the year 1947 & around the time of Indian Independence & my Dad was in Calcutta studying for his Bachelors in Commerce during the evening & during the Day working for A Jewish & Armenian Shipping Company as an accountant. The large shipping company was called Pillman Agencies Private Limited.

Those were scary days to live in Calcutta or any where in West Bengal as Hindu Muslim Riots would break out frequently & lots of Property etc would be damaged & Killings Too.

Dad kept himself fully busy & engaged with Work during the Day & Night College studying for Bachelors & then his Masters.

Well post Indian Independence the Jews determined to leave India & the Management Of The Shipping Business was shifting to An Indian Marwari Family & Tycoon.

The Jewish Management offered Dad a choice of a Golden Handshake or continuing on with The Marwari Company.

Dad opted for the Golden Handshake & got INR 5,000. His plan was to pursue Chartered Accountancy.

Getting admission into Chartered Accountancy with Ford, Rhodes & Parks a top Chartered Accountancy firm those days meant shelling out INR 5,000 in Bombay or Calcutta.

Dad being the Self Made Man that he is preferred to move to Madras (Chennai) where the asking rate was INR 3,000. Which meant he could use the balance towards stay etc.

So he bid Goodbye to his favorite Calcutta & headed for Madras & pursuing Chartered Accountancy. This was in the mid 1950s’.

He was hungry one day afternoon & stepped into a Vegetarian Restaurant to eat.

The Owner Of The Restaurant came up & asked him his name & after hearing Dad’s name went on to ask him if he knew the type of Restaurant he was in?

Dad responded Vegetarian & The Owner said ‘Well Yes, But You are not supposed to enter or eat here’.

Dad had a quizzical look on him. The Owner said come with me & took him outside & showed him a Board that read:

“BRAHMINAAL MATTAM”

Which meant that Only Brahmins could eat there.

The Owner then told Dad that he was never supposed to step in to this restaurant because of who could eat there.

He then went on to point to a different section of the restaurant where people were sitting on the floor & eating.

The Owner said ‘you are expected to sit & eat there’.

The Restaurant Owner went on to say: “Since this is your first mistake we are sparing you. The next time you enter a Brahmin Restaurant you will be dealt with”. Meaning Dad could be physically harmed.

For Dad it was A SHOCK!!!

He had Never Experienced something like this in Kerala growing up or in Calcutta.

Madras was different back then & he experienced DISCRIMINATION for the First Time in Independent India.

I wrote it as my Dad had told it to me long back & I was reminded about it when I read about the ill treatment meted out to Swami Agnivesh]

With RSS & BJP in Power in these Contemporary Times in a Sense “BRAHAMINAL MATTAM” is Back. You could say APARTHEID is Back. Modi has left many trails in these last 4+ years through incidents through out India & ripple effects abroad among Indians. So much so that it is Scary. This is The Primary Reason I am Opposed to Modi & The RSS. They leave very little to imagination not to feel Despair in the years to come.

John Abraham made a film to expose many such similar matters through A Movie titled “AGRAHARATHIL KAZHUTAI” (The Donkey in the Village Agraharam)

The piece I wrote & published here last night is NOT meant to stir up hate. Far be that & perish that Thought.

I was Stirred to write 
it ‘Cause I come from The Land Of Swami Vivekananda, Raja Rammohan Roy, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore & Mahatma Gandhi.

All these People extolled the Virtues Of India. 

It’s JUST cannot be that They are Wrong & The Present Ruling Dispensation in India who Spread Hate & Market Hate Too are Right.

Is INDIA Dying?

That is The Question that came to mind when I saw an 80 year old Swami (who btw is A Global Citizen from India: Swami Agnivesh) being beaten up & disfigured by A Mob Of RSS Urchins.