AnthoBLOGy

Subscribe to Site Feed
RSS Feed for AnthoBLOGy

 

Vikas Kamat
 Vikas Kamat is a programmer- entrepreneur living in Atlanta. This blog is a complex mix of Indian culture, life in southern USA, computer sciences, and sports. Opinions are his own.
 About - Bio - Contact


Friend Me on Facebook

 

Best of AnthoBLOGy

Unripe Revolution
Rooster's Dharma
Don't Know Jack
No Love for Condi
Blogger's Block
Father of the Bride
TinTin's Diary - I
TinTin's Diary II
Hate Bollywood
Child Labor
M.F.Husain Guilty
Marathi & Konkani
Artist's Daughter
India's First IT Guru

 

Computing, Libraries, Tennis, India & other interests of Vikas Kamat

Anatomy of a Riot in India Durable Link to this BLOG
Anatomy of a Riot

via telephone from Amma: A student at the New English School has been slacking off -- not doing homework, skipping school, untidy uniform etc., and as has been the practice was being punished by a teacher. The punishment required encircling the school three times in humiliation.

Unfortunately this particular boy had a weak heart or was recovering from an ailment and begged not to be punished. Half way through his punishment he collapsed and later died in a local hospital.

A very sad event.

The boy belonged to a poor migrant Muslim community (called Maplis).

Poor families in India struggle a lot to educate their young. So in this particular case, the community's anger was understandable.

Things turned worse as some angry men visited the school and rampaged the library, laboratory, and the computers. They wanted revenge against the school and the teachers. They beat up the principal and the teachers.

The New English School is a very dear and respected institution in Honaver. A mob of uneducated men -- especially migrants and that too Muslims -- taking law into their hands and roughing up the beloved teachers was too much to bear for local parents (caste Hindus).

So in a reciprocal show of strength, thousands of people observed a "bundh" --threatening Muslim businesses and closing down a national highway. Lots of people arrested, a lot of damage to public property, increase distrust of communities.

Deccan Herald: Punished Student Dies

See Also:
• A Guide to Ethnicity and Conflict in India


(Comments Disabled for Now. Sorry!)First Written: Saturday, January 15, 2011
Last Modified: 1/15/2011 9:04:25 PM

Browse More Entries

 

About Me:

SimplyBlog

Powered  NOT by Blogger or MovabaleType or WordPress, but by SimplyBlog, a software I wrote to create blogs.
See details of implementation or download SimplyBlog.

 

 

Dictionary Look up

Kamat PICTURESearch

Kamat Glossary Search

Kamat BLOGSearch

Amazon Search

News
BBC News
Google News
Kamat News
NewsLogic
Blogs 
Amma
Indian Blogs
AutoBlog
Blog Network
@Kamat.com
What's New
What's Old
Frequent Visits
Dave Winer
Birmingham Local
Facebook
Atlanta Tennis

 

This is how I surf the web. Turns out creating your own start page beats all portals, back-flipping, personalized corporate pages, and book-marking tools.
Kamat's Potpourri Vikas KamatBlog

© 1996-2022 Kamat's Potpourri. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without prior permission. Standard disclaimers apply

Merchandise and Link Suggestions

Top of Page