Threatened existence of Tadvis bheels, Muslims

ThreatThreatened existence of Tadvis (Bheels, Muslims,etc) The death of Dr Payal Tadvi a second year post graduate at the Nair Hospital in Mumbai is regrettable and unfortunate. She was doing her post graduation and that in itself is enviable because of difficulty in getting admission. But for her nomadic tribe reservation such coveted opportunity of post graduation education in medical course is a matter of envy for others. It was easy to climb the ladder of progress and advancement. Even so that proved a bane for her. Those of the upper castes sometimes grudged it and tried to take it out (exhaust) by insulting and humiliating. But it is certain that the three doctors committed gross violation of her human rights of dignity and work. These rights are also enshrined in the Constitution of India. If she committed suicide then it was terror of being tortured in such a demeaning manner that drove her to end her life. There are examples in galore. But coming to the particulars of her own life; on the fateful day of May 22 she had called up her husband Dr Salman and told him that she would be meeting him soon. So there was no fear of anything. It was quite casual. The three accused doctors Aniketa Khandelwal, Hema Ahuja and Bhakti Mehare lived in different wings of the hostel. And yet they were at Payal’s room. By design or accidentally? They took Payal’s body to the casualty ward. Why did not they call for help, sound alarm or call the police? Why did they then go absconding instead of mourning and showing solidarity with the dead? The absence of these manifests the sucourless threatened existence of Payal. The accused three show signs of shunning police and media. They give excuse of needing a fair trial. This idiotype made the people in Mumbai turn against the three. The sophistication of language and argument smacks lack of sincerity on their part. Members of the Tadvi community have faced threat to their existence in group as well. The authentic account of the bomb blasts in Malegaon begins in Gujarat nomadic region of Dangs. Swami Aseemanand organized the Shabri Kumbh Mela near Pumpa pond of Shabri Dham on February 11, 12, and 13, 2006. A much publicized part of the mammoth gathering was to welcome Tadvi Bhil Muslims back to the Hindu fold. The Muslims in the Dangs Districts of Gujarat, the negihbouring districts of Nandurbar, Dhule and Malegaon town saw red in this. On February 5, they organized a move to make their fellow religionists desist from attending the ceremonies at the Shabri Kumbh Mela. Ahmad Burhan Khan Tadwi of Haripura, Yawal Gujarat, Masoom Rahim Tadwi of Maharad, Chopra and Ramzan Sardar Tadwi of Palan Taluka, Rawer, all from Gujarat issued a pamphlet calling for abstaining Muslims from joining Aseemanand. This angered Aseemanand who visited the rural areas of Dhulia in the vicinity of Malegaon. Within eight days of the attack on the Sankat Mochan Temple of Allahabad he called a meeting and asked the Hindutva groups primarily Abhinav Bharat, Jai Vande Matrum, etc to explode bombs in Malegaon in retaliation. Malegaon was the first target as it had a huge population of Muslims. It is worth noting that Akkalkjuwan and Navapur areas are in Maharashtra where Tadvis are in large numbers living as primitive life as their fellow tribal natives there. But Akkalkuwan also has the best education campus of Islamic seminary and educational hub, an eye sore of Hindutiva groups. Aseemanand’s move against the Tadvis posed an existential threat to the community. The case of Dr Payal also is of the same nature. She was the first of her community to have become a doctor. She was humiliated in the operation theatre with her file thrown at her in anger. She had performed operation well. Payal had natural talents and so she was not idiotype. The set of genetic determiners could not obstruct her in divining the cause and diagnosing the disease. As a gynaecologist she was a non-judgmental gynaecologist. She was not opinionated. She saw the case as it is and what best should be done for the remedy. The name in the case paper would not sway her from the principles of medical science. She was quite professional in her work and had done two caesarian operations successfully.