By Sushil Kutty
The Supreme Court will Friday
hear a plea from Ayyappa celibacy-busters Kanaka Durga and Bindu Ammini for
police protection. The two want protection in the aftermath of the
image-shifting feat they conjured up in the Kerala chaos they are in part
responsible for, along with the top court itself; which, in a majority
decision, informed that Swami Ayyappa has no special denomination or the right
to remain aloof from female aged 10-50.
The apex court lifted the ban
on this age group of women from entering the temple and set up a series of
events, including a march of “symbolic vaginas” through a major Kochi thoroughfare,
Kerala’s commercial city which now carries the added notoriety of being
Kerala’s ‘Menstrual Capital.’ Men and women under the banner ‘Arpov Arthavam’
took to the street with pink cardboard and flex impressions of the vagina.
The sham copy of the
‘Constitution of India’ held aloft led them into controversy, and more, as
Kerala refused to let go the title ‘Lunatic Asylum’ given to it by none other
than Hindu renaissance saint Swami Vivekananda, whose birthday, incidentally,
fell the day the ‘Arpov Arthavam’ march took place. ‘Arthavam’ is Malayalam for
menstrual blood and while there are those who consider ‘Arthavam’ untouchable,
and there are also those positively drenched in it, chanting the celebratory
‘Arpov’.
‘Navothana Nayakan’ Kerala Chief
Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was scheduled to flag-off the march on January 12,
2019, but then “intelligence reports” warned that some of the ‘Arpov’ activists
are “Maoists and extremists” and he decided that the better part of valour is
to ditch ‘Arpov’ and hide in the trench. That did not stop Kanaka Durga and
Bindu Ammini from gracing the event with their presence, the first time the two
were spotted in public after the epoch-making sneak-a-look-at-Ayyappa.
Till then, they were in
“hiding” in trench on their own while family of Kanaka Durga speculated where
she could be and who all were putting her up to the game and the family in
“shame”. Kanaka Durga answered the question in part earlier this week when she
arrived home with police and “party activists” in tow. Not surprisingly, Kanaka
Durga’s 71-year-old mother-in-law, steeped in conservatism and Ayyappa-bhakti,
barred her entry and allegedly pushed her down to the cold floor and “hurt her
bad”, leading to Kanaka Durga’s hospitalization.
People gasped in shock but
Kanaka Durga’s brother Bharat Bhushan lifted the lid off the “lies and
insanity” of his sister. “How can a frail old woman, weighing hardly anything,
lift a healthy young woman and smash her to the ground? My sister is lying and
it’s her mother-in-law who continues to be in hospital,” the brother said,
adding that if anybody needed police protection, it was the “family” and not
already “police and party-protected” Kanaka Durga.
And Bindu Ammini, whose family
is not dogging her every step of ‘Arpov Arthavam’, Wednesday revealed she has
taken the ‘untouchability’ piled on her by Ayyappa temple chief tantri
Kandararu Rajeevraru to the Supreme Court and top advocate Indira Jaising will
be arguing for her. In fact, the Pinarayi Vijayan government is banking on
Kanaka Durga and Bindu Ammini’s entry into Sabarimala as proof that the state
government has implemented the top court’s order against all odds.
That, say the Ayyappa bhaktas
and the Sangh Pairvaar, explains why “Pinarayi’s police” continue to escort
“menstruating age” women to the “celibate shrine”. Wednesday, two more in the
age bracket made it almost to the shrine. The sortie failed only because alert
Ayyappa bhaktas saw through their “pant-and-monkey-cap” disguise and raised
Ayyappa Saranam, forcing police in mufti to pull back the two “trespassers” out
of the line of devotee-ire.
The theory bandied about is
that Pinarayi Vijayan is bent on adding “proof of entry” to Supreme Court by
sending “police-protected activists” to the embroiled shrine. Monday, the top
court cancelled the January 22 hearing of review petitions till further notice
and it was like God was with atheist Pinarayi. Setback for bhaktas and Sangh
Parivaar, ironically, because Justice Indu Malhotra, their sole flag-bearer in
the SC, took ill.
Tuesday, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi arrived to open to traffic the Kollam Bypass and he, more or
less, bypassed the Sabarimala issue except for a passing mention of Pinarayi’s
“contemptible” manners. January 12 and 13, the ‘Arpovs’ took out the ‘Arthavam’
march and Kerala looked like it had once again become Vivekananda’s ‘lunatic
asylum’ with swinging flex vaginas and painted breasts doing a tango on main
street.
The day after, Women’s League
state president Shahina Niyas took to Facebook and made a scathing attack on
the “Arpov Arthavam” for parading women’s privacy on the road and for
displaying menstrual blood like “cow milk” to the world. In reply, feminist Dr.
Vina reminded Shahina that menstrual blood is not “cow milk” but quality
protein that is being researched in the United States to find cures for cancer
and Alzheimer. In short, Kerala is in its elements, God’s Own Country fighting
the lunatic fringe.(IPA Service)
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