The aspect which hasn’t been talked about in the whole Tirupati Laddu controversy is the idea of ‘pure vegetarianism’ and how the same is defamed, specifically by those calling themselves secular. Anyone who demands pure vegetarian environment is attacked and termed as casteist. Here are the various examples in recent times.
Zomato came up with an idea to introduce a pure veg fleet to deliver orders few months back, but the food delivery company had to withdraw the order as it faced backlash that accused the company of aiding discrimination, casteism. The online outrage turned into misinformation campaign where fake advertisements of Zomato’s rival Swiggy started doing the rounds, declaring how their service will keep the customers eviction safe. Zomato soon had to take the decision back, declaring that their delivery partners would continue to wear the same uniform.
The former chairperson of Infosys Foundation, writer, and philanthropist, Sudha Murthy was criticised last year by the same liberals. Murthy said that she carries her own bag of food and cooking items when travelling abroad because she is a pure vegetarian. She was even labelled a ‘casteist’ for being a pure vegetarian. A group of students at IIT Bombay wanted a vegetarian corner for themselves in the institute mess, but students were defamed. The hate was at such a level that Suryakant Waghmare, a Professor of sociology at the same institute, equated the students to militants.
In an opinion piece of a newspaper, Waghmare typically blamed the Hindu, more so the upper caste Hindu, for ‘militant vegetarianism’ whose followers seek to continually sustain the traditional ethics. He even blamed such vegetarians, who he has implied are upper-caste Hindus. Devdutt Patnaik, controversial ‘mythologist’ who has been accused of distorting Hindu beliefs and practices, was one of the persons who tried to go down this path. “As per Google AI, ghee is animal fat. Pure Vegetarians disagree. Yes?” he posted on X, which he had to finally delete after facing backlash.
People can understand what he really meant that if ghee is also animal fat, what is wrong if some bit of beef tallow, a kind of animal fat only, finds its way into the ghee? He was saying no big cause of concern if beef tallow is found in Tirupati Laddu prasadam. Devdutta wasn’t alone. Many folks came up with such arguments if they can be called so, especially followers of Dravidian ideology that vows to eradicate Sanatan Dharma.
These incidents are about trolling the vegetarians. The aim is to strike the belief systems, to weaken the faith.
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