To all those spreading communal spins, here is something I’ve learned today through members of the Bhedkut and Sansi communities: Bhedkuts are nominally Hindu but follow many Sikh practices and customs. I was directed to this website #thread bhedkut.blogspot.com/p/bhedkut-pron…
https://twitter.com/kavita_krishnan/status/1488936076072816642
As the person from the Bhedkut community who runs this website explains “Bhedkut call themseleves Hindu but their traditions are same as Sikh Dharam . Marriages and other ceromonies are based on Sikhism” bhedkut.blogspot.com/p/bhedkut-pron…
The accused are “Naharia” and as this blog explains, that is a sub gotra of the Bhedkuts. So I was 100% accurate when I said that the victim’s family had told our activists that they & the accused were both from the Bhedkut community. bhedkut.blogspot.com/p/custom-and-r…
Will those esteemed persons who were bullying feminists & journalists for exercising caution & avoiding a communal spin on a gender atrocity, bother to recant or express any remorse? Somehow doubt it.
Those who “dug deep” to claim the victim was Sikh (though her family never used that word to describe themselves and insisted they & the accused were Bhedkut), & never dug deep enough to find that the accused were also Bhedkuts, a community that follows some Sikh practices.
For feminist activists, who speak to and care for many survivors daily, most of whom aren’t in the news, all this virtue signalling & noisy bullying by keyboard warriors has been a distraction, draining precious mental and physical energy.
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