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I was in my 4th year at college, when I heard the words : "PinjaTod" for the first time. One of my buddies, in the room adjacent to mine, was laughing hilariously, looking at a video in FB. Out of curiosity, I too watched the video. Even I was aghast, but at the same time, (1/n)
burst into an uncontrollable fit of laughter. The video showed a few girls shaking the gates of the hostel& climbing over them, with the security-guard begging them to come down. For a moment,it seemed as if some Devil& #39;s soul has possessed them, like in the film "Conjuring" (2/n)
& considering their show, the only plausible cure seemed to us : an exorcism by some Tantrik ! Anyways, jokes apart, but one word struck me : "PinjaTod". And then, I started a bit of my own research. While we may laugh at their histrionics, we can& #39;t deny that they had (3/n)
become a formidable force in the top-tier campuses in DU. DU Politics was usually a fulcrum of caste-driven cacophony, with ABVP pitted against the NSUI. Though AAP& #39;s student wing tried to break the glass ceiling after AAP& #39;s massive win in 2015, their efforts ran into (4/n)
rough weather, with many of their candidates losing deposits. DU& #39;s Center-Left space is often occupied by NSUI & the radical Left never found a foothold in the campus politics, because the student crowd of DU isn& #39;t charmed by the paeans of poverty-porn that would trigger (5/n)
inexorable orgasms in the JNU junta, which, unfortunately, is still stuck in the time-warp of puritanical Communism. DU, in terms of diversity, is a simulacrum of a mini-India, with kids flocking to the campus across every nook & corner of the country. In such a rush-driven (6/n)
pandemonium, one of the foremost priorities of outstation students : room allocations in hostels. The 1st listers usually get the accommodation, but for the 3rd/4th listers, it is like a round of Russian Roulette. And all student political groups, feast on this issue : (7/n)
"Room Dilwa Do, Bhaiyya ! Please... Saadar Aapke Charan Sparsh". Now, in this clientele of accommodation seekers, there is one niche silo that nobody ever heeded too : girls& #39; accommodation in a city like Delhi, where women safety is indeed a pertinent issue. Outstation (8/n)
girls would often gravitate towards a PG in a safe area, since getting a solo-accommodation in a judgemental society is as arduous as extracting a needle from a haystack. So, the radical Left used this "serious" issue as its opening for foray into the campus politics of DU,(9/n)
with PinjaTod being the eponymous clarion for a "change in the status quo ! Sounds good, eh ? [P.S :Every Communist Revolution starts with lofty claims of changing the status quo, but at the end of the day, it usually ends up with the tiger replacing the incumbent tiger !
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].And yeah,this movement got considerable traction, with regular articles on the tentacles of the Liberal Hydra : Quint, Scroll, YouthKiAwaz, Raoit[.]in, Wire, kafila[.]org,.... And how did they solicit attention?Social Media histrionics, on change of time-tables in girls& #39; (11/n)
hostels, or getting WiFi router fixed, which could& #39;ve been done by a simple application to a Warden or consulting the hostel administration via elected student parliament. But they deliberately morphed a trivial issue of dialogue into a form of class struggle : "women" (12/n)
pitted against "the Saruman& #39;s eye of administration infested with patriarchy, in a dehumanising society en route to Hindu Rashtra". Hold on, sounds convoluted ? Aah, that is what the Left is adept at : sophistication of trivial matters to obfuscate the space of (13/n)
sanity-driven debate. But like every communist movement that ebbs away with a struggle of "internal contradictions", the PinjaTod Movement too had its pitfalls. Most of its office-bearers were girls from privileged families in gated urban communities of Delhi, with a (14/n)
father itching to send them to an Ivy League college so that he can tell to his neighbours : "Hamari Bitiya Amrika me parh rahi hai !". In its purest form, this movement was a certificate that would be flaunted in the Statement of Purpose for admission into Ivy League (15/n)
universities, embellished with an internship at Oxfam or Amnesty or Civil Society groups mushrooming in Delhi. So, despite a plethora of SM theatrics, it lacked the dedication of cadres of an organised outfit, like NSUI or ABVP, & hence, electorally, till date, they r (16/n)
struggling to win a major seat despite faculty-members endorsing them !
Now, fast forward to the CAA violence, especially the blockade of the Jaffrabad Station. The recent arrest of 2 of their members on the grounds of fomenting riots has sent a shivering chill to many. (17/n)
Now, fast forward to the CAA violence, especially the blockade of the Jaffrabad Station. The recent arrest of 2 of their members on the grounds of fomenting riots has sent a shivering chill to many. (17/n)
Because usually in violence related to student wings, there was an omerta code in the Police circles with endorsement from the "top" : "Go slow.. bacche hai... samjhakar wapas bhej do......Pura jeewan para hai in logo ka...". This "go-slow" lackadaisical attitude of Police(18/n)
in campus violence is one of the few reasons why political parties, of all shades, often put their cadres in universities using the pretext of courses that need nominal academic rigour : the most commonly ones being distance-learning courses. Now, in Jaffrabad violence, (19/n)
who did the damage? Radical u-know-who youths from Seelampur& #39;s ghettos, mobilised by a plethora of "Civil Society" organisations, with PinjaTod being one of the leading luminaries. But they did 2 major mistakes: Firstly, they didn& #39;t even expect in their wildest nightmares(20/n)
that the violent protest would pan out to a full-blown riot & secondly, they failed to cover their "digital" trail of "organising mobs". The Delhi Police is proceeding the riots contour-by-contour : First, they arrested a few footsoldiers, & after making them squeal out, (21/n)
they are going after the big fishes : student leaders of Jamia & Pinja Tod; which is, unprecedented considering the omerta code of tolerance of violence by student-groups. I feel a bit sorry for the rioters from the slums. Their reactionary attitude was ignited by these (22/n)
sophistry-laden "educated" civil society groups, only to be left all alone when the riots blew out. These groups have blood on their hands. Obviously, they won& #39;t literally murder someone, but they incited the riots with the poor,vulnerable sections as foot-soldiers after a(23/n)
blitzkreig of Whatsapp propaganda & arousing speeches with "Kagaz Nahi Dikhayenge" as the theme. Does the rot end with the arrest of these 2 "female" students ? I doubt, because if u go by the facebook page of this group, u will find big "esteemed" names endorsing them :the(24/n)
The same lot that often floods Modi& #39;s spam-box with letters citing "intolerance".
I would end this thread with a small request : Don& #39;t troll them with foul language because that would turn them from a "Soorpanakha" to a "Draupadi" & also, do not underestimate them. After (25/n)
I would end this thread with a small request : Don& #39;t troll them with foul language because that would turn them from a "Soorpanakha" to a "Draupadi" & also, do not underestimate them. After (25/n)
all, the sympathy for ISIS started when Western Media glorified a few radical students who died in custody of Assad& #39;s police !
Borrowing a few words from Rahul Gandhi& #39;s parlance, I would suggest : maintain "strategic" silence !https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Winking face" aria-label="Emoji: Winking face">
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Borrowing a few words from Rahul Gandhi& #39;s parlance, I would suggest : maintain "strategic" silence !
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