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MUTALIK’S
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Acerbic as ever, Pramod Mutalik’s
insisting that every Hindu woman bear a brood of 12!
Pramod Mutalik says he really wants women to consummate
their marriages and produce dozens of babies.
54-year-old, Mutalik, it appears, is a worried man. He’s
the chief of the Rashtriya Hindu Se na (the parent
organisation of the Sri Ram Sena), who found prominence
in the news in late-January, following an incident
involving the beating up of young women in a Mangalore
pub – an act that he approved. The statement about
making babies, however, does have a clarification: it
applies only for Hindu women; the rest of you are
advised to practice abstinence!
“The Hindu population is on the decline. A good Hindu
woman must have many children. Their motto should be
`hum do, hamare baarah bacche’ [“we two, our’s twelve”,
or 12 children in every family],” said Mutalik. Such are
the inspirational thoughts that occur to him, he added,
in the course of his morning dhyana (meditation)
sessions, which give him “spiritual strength”.
On an average day, Mutalik really belongs to his
“workers” (volunteers who joined him in his days with
the Bajrang Dal) and is herded across the state by them.
Lunch is often on the road on such days, maybe a light
snack, or a meal at a chosen worker’s house. “Lunch is
wherever I get it, if nothing else, I can survive on
biscuits and bananas wherever I am going. I love jowar
roti and vegetables. I can cook rice and do not know how
to make anything else,” said the bachelor. “At 54 it’s
too late for love and marriage for me now. I’ve never
been in love. I’m a brahmachari [celibate],” said the
man who’s referred to by his followers as a guardian of
hindutva (or Hindu nationalism).
Hindu ideology apart, there’s little else to speak of in
terms of the man’s career. “I’ve never held a job. I
left my home in Hukkeri, Belgaum, 33 years ago. I have
no bank account, no belongings. The workers feed and
clothe me. In my B.Com. final, I was influenced by [Vinayak
Damodar] Savarkar’s teachings. My parents Sumathi Devi
and Hanumanth Rao were RSS supporters too and they let
me go. My mother was a bit upset, but I was adamant,” he
explained. “If someone asks me for my profession, I say
I’m a social worker.”
“I’m allergic to politics. I do not accept [BJP chief
Lal Krishna] Advani as my leader. He uses hindutva for
political reasons.” Instead, he’s influenced by Narendra
Modi [Chief Minister of Gujarat] and Praveen Togadia
[General Secretary of the Vishva Hindu Parishad]. Said
Mutalik: “For them hindutva and development are core
issues.”
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This page
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