BRAHMINS AND BRAHMINISM.....

A week ago, I read a curious news item appeared in a few Kannada dailies and saw news flashes and discussions of the same in a few Kannada TV channels. This was an unique and pious havan, Soma-Yaga, conducted  in Mattur  Village of Karnataka State. 

The ‘Soma-yaga’ conducted in Mattur was one of the most sacred vedic events, in the contemporary times. This yaga or yajna was conducted for the well-being of entire humanity. We all should have been very proud of such a sacred activity carried out by this only Sanskrit-speaking village in the country! Instead, false news of ‘animal sacrifice’ and ‘brahmins consuming meat and alcoholic soma-rasa’, were spread like wild-fire by some Kannada dailies, media channels and several so-called intellectuals. In my opinion, it is an onslaught of worst kind that brahmin community faced and brahminism condemned like hell, in the recent times......

Neither the State nor Central Government uttered a word in this regard.........!

Since childhood days, many of us have seen and experienced deprivation of government support and humiliation of all kinds, simply because we are brahmins. What mistakes the Brahmins have done being borne in that cast? The Brahmins don’t get any government support or subsidies in health, food, education and employment sector that other casts and religions get.  Brahmins are the worst sufferers in our country....

I have traveled world over... It’s only in our country that brahmins are looked down; nowhere else. What a shame..!

D. Jayarama Bhat