6/30/2023 0 Comments Khairlanji by Anand Teltumbde![]() ![]() Nor will it allow us to think of Khairlanji as an aberration. Those who perpetrate such atrocities visit the courthouse casually, with the full knowledge that their political friends will protect them until the case is forgotten – as so many others are.Īnand Teltumbde has now written a book that will never allow this massacre to be forgotten. The violence against the Bhotmanges was so extreme (the local BJP leader, Bhaskar Kadav, is accused of raping Surekha Bhotmange post-mortem) that it is impossible to discount the rage that comes from ideas of caste superiority. The Bhotmanges are Dalits and their neighbours are OBCs, many of whom resented the dignified and successful lives being led by the victim family. Apart from the animosities inherent in the caste system, there was no motivation for the attack. The three children had done well in school, with Roshan on the road to becoming a computer professional and Priyanka a topper in class 10. With impunity, the gang raped and killed Surekha Bhotmange and her daughter Priyanka, and killed her two sons, Sudhir and Roshan. ![]() ![]() ![]() A gang of Other Backward Castes (OBCs), led by the local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) potentate, raided the home of a Buddhist agricultural family, the Bhotmanges. On 29 September 2006, in a modest town in eastern Maharashtra called Khairlanji, a tragedy occurred. ![]()
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