Prof K Satyanarayana when the Police allegedly asked these qtns to him in 2018.👇
Why are there so many books in ur house?
Why do u read so many books?
Why are u reading books on Mao & Marx?
Why r there photos of Phule & Ambedkar but no photos of gods?’
Plz stay. 🙏1/9
28/8/18 Police from Mah & Telangana raided Prof K. Satyanarayana’s house as being the son in Law of Varvara Rao, one of the accused in Bhima Koregaon.
Satyanarayana a prof of cultural studies & dean at the English & Foreign Languages Uni(EFLU) in Hyd.
Book matters? 📕 🙂2/9
Delhi Police in a charge sheet against Sharjeel Imam named these books.👇
1. Exodus before Partition: Paul Richard Brass.
Police said JNU scholar was "radicalised" by the book.
2. Why I Am A Hindu: Shashi Tharoor.
Reading Books may become injurious to health. 😀
More. 3/9
In 2019 Activist Elgar Parishad- Bhima Koregaon case accused Vernon Gonsalves was seeking Bail.
Justice Sarang Kotwal said "such books" indicated they contained some material against the nation.
It was Leo Tolstoy’s classic worldwide renowned book "War and Peace". 📕 4/9
In the Bhima Koregaon case,
PP Ujjwala Pawar argued in Court all 5 Activists arrested were part of setting up the "Anti-fascist Front".
What is the abstract?
Making an 'Anti-fascist' force is a crime in the Mother of Democracy. 😀
Coming back to books. 📕😊 5/9
Dec 2019 NIA officials reported seizure of a few books The Communist Manifesto, Vladimir Lenin’s Selected Works & titles related to Mao Zedong & Lenin from the Krishak Mukti (KMSS) office.
It is a peasant org based in Assam formed by RTI activist Akhil Gogoi. 😎 6/9
NIA in the chargesheet said one of them had used phrases such as “Comrade” & “Lal Salam” on FB. 😱
In Jan, 2020 NIA charged them wid UAPA.
(EFLU) prof K. Satyanarayana in 2018 claimed that the Pune police questioned him over books with red covers & Marx books. 📕7/9
Nagpur Uni Eng Prof Shoma Sen also arrested linked to Bhima Koregaon Case.
Her daughter Claimed, "The literary evidence they collected from my mother’s house includes basic Communist literature, like books by Marx & Lenin, which u will find in any left-leaning household".📕 8/9
After Hitler seized power 1933, tens of 1000s of books were incarcerated in Germany.
But we are in the Mother of Democracy also Democracy is in our DNA. 🥰
This yr in Bihar Ramnavami violence 4500 Islamic literature books in Azizia Masjid library burned.
Stop Reading.🙂 9/9
However Dalit Prof's wife claimed
one policeman asked her
"Ur husband is a Dalit, so he does not follow any tradition. But u are a Brahmin, so why are u not wearing any jewellery or sindoor? Why are u not dressed like a traditional wife?’’
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