"Okkari Kosam Andaroo-andari Kosam Okkaru". This was the motto of a meeting held by Kammas at Kamma Sangham a few months back. The agenda of that meeting was to conglomerate community strengths to fight and protest against YSR's government. Murali Mohan was the chief attraction in that meet. Keeping the minutes of that meeting aside, a few months after that- Posani Krishna Murali said on a TV channel that rich Kamma never allow a poor Kamma to grow. He rolled that due to his habitual hurried speech. That has sent wrong signals about the unity of Kammas. That turned an apparent tool for many to disturb the unity of Kammas by developing internal clashes among them.
Similar thing is happening in USA as well. Thanks to TANA that is boasting the pride of internal clashes among the same Telugus and to be precise among the same community people. TANA never gave scope for other community people to play key role in the organization. Kamma chauvinism ruled all these years. Like the Telugu film industry was dominated by Kammas even TANA has been completely dominated by the same groups.
What happens with that? When all educated mobs of same community live together, there will be too many leaders and no followers. This is a natural phenomenon which should be agreed. Everybody wants to become leader and hardly anyone likes to follow the other when same community people live together for longer time. TV9 made big news out of this TANA clashes and sent many wrong signals on a whole. Kakarala Prabhakar Choudary, suspended 20 members those have impeached him a few days back. The popular figures Komati Jayaram, Nannapaneni Mohan and Totakoora Prasad were also present in the suspended list. The new board of members will be announced in July and the next TANA meet will be held in Florida but not Chicago as per the present proclamation.
"It's all 'power politics' that is shaking Kamma community now", is the opinion of a senior journalist working for a News Daily.
Tuesday 7 October 2008
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What kind of castesist crap is this? This so-called article is the worst piece of "journalism" I've ever seen. Clearly written by some unnamed, unidentified bigot.
The Kamma Sangham or whatever has nothing at all to do with TANA. The only bigotry in TANA is that of people who wait in the sidelines, and use "kamma chauvinism" to excuse their own unwillingness and inherent laziness to get involved. No one has ever been turned away from contributing to the organization, it is founded on the concept of volunteerism.
What's going on here is that one guy is flagrantly violating the rules because for some reason he seems to think that they don't apply to him. His buddies, who have their own axes to grind have supported him in setting up a TANA-in exile. They have mired the organization in scandal and lawsuits. No one knows what their caste background is, and it is idiocy and casteist nonsense to be attributing it to caste.
Just because people happen to belong to one caste group, it doesn't inherently follow that they should all hold hands and get along. There are all kinds of people even with in the same ethnic group. To look at this crisis in TANA through the eyes of caste alone is to miss the whole point of what's going on. An arrogant guy did something that he should not have done, and it may cost him personally financially, so he threw a temper tantrum. Is this kamma on kamma? Perhaps it's Telugu on Telugu, or even Kakarala on Kakarala? The last two are more substantiated than the first. Yet the moron who "wrote" this article is fixated on the former, which shows you how ignorant he is not only of grammatical rules, but of facts as well. In which case the so-called journalist should either do his homework or perhaps take a remedial journalism class to learn how to research and write rather than spew verbal diarrhea that betrays his own supreme caste bias against the Kamma ethnic group as a whole. Shame on anyone carrying this anonymous piece of crap as "news".
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