This could fear all. Not simply Indians in Aotearoa however everybody. Whereas it would look like a benign multicultural occasion aimed to uplift and empower Indian ladies in Aotearoa, i.e. ladies of color, the picture clearly informs us that could be a gathering of higher caste Hindu ladies throughout the umbrella of the Hindu Council of New Zealand and HOTA, Hindu Organisations, Temples and Associations. We’ve got written extensively concerning the Hindu Council and that it’s the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, deemed a spiritual militant organisation by the CIA.
HOTA is simply one other extension of the identical. We advocate the reader will get conversant in the symbols and language of Hindu extremists. All of them exist in Aotearoa.
The feminist aspirations of this Hindu Ladies Convention then are only a carrot to dangle in entrance of the horse of multiculturalism, the Pākeha liberals use to showcase Aotearoa as an inclusive nation.
We need to remind all Indian ladies right here, and people who have no idea the feminist historical past of India, Brahmin ladies can get a proper schooling at this time due to Savitribai Phule, a Dalit lady, a caste-oppressed lady who began the primary lady’s faculty in India.
So, for higher caste Hindu ladies to speak about management throughout the framework of Hindutva is just not feminism. It’s about their function in perpetuating the patriarchy and keep their very own hierarchy.
These ladies need to discuss choice making in temples however have doubtless forgotten that when the Supreme Courtroom of India permitted menstruating ladies within the Sabarimala Temple, it was the identical conservative teams that protested and rioted.
A disgrace the Excessive Fee of India has forgotten its function as a diplomatic mission and as assist for ALL Indians. As a substitute internet hosting Hindu extremists and their terrorist organisations at the price of making our minorities right here really feel unsafe.
There may be another excuse although. Having such an occasion in digicam maybe, permits the organisers to regulate the narrative.
Higher caste Hindu ladies are all the time taught to concern Muslim males. This convention is made for that. And one can not discuss such points if the attendees aren’t the already transformed. Or politicians who suppose they’re attending a multicultural-women-of-colour occasion.
We state right here that each one ladies are unsafe from Hindutva males, the Hindu trads with their inherent violence and misogyny. In individual and on-line.
Lately considered one of our activists Dr. Sapna Samant had Indian male trolls assault her for commenting on a narrative concerning the upcoming Auckland Diwali occasion.
We write this primary, however it’s doubtless the mainstream will hear of this from RNZ’s IndoNZ journalists the place it’s framed as a multicultural occasion with all traces of Hindutva eliminated. And legitmised by a politician or two.
We additionally publish right here a hyperlink to Professor Mohan Dutta’s white paper Cultural Hindutva and Islamophobia that we advise the readers go to/revisit to know and perceive how Hindutva works to be culturally acceptable in Aotearoa.
Republished from https://www.aotearoaprogressiveindians.org/ with minor edits. Learn the unique article right here.
