பெண்களை பொட்டுக்கட்டி தேவதாசியாக்கும் முறை ஆந்திராவில் உள்ள மாதம்மா
கோவில்களில் உள்ள வழக்கம்,
ஆந்திர சித்தூர் மாவட்டத்திலுள்ள புத்தூர் நகரி நாகலாபுரம் பிச்சதூர்
கேவிபி புரம் ஸ்ரீகாளகஸ்தி எர்பேடு தொட்டம்பேடு கன்டிரிகா நாரயனவனம்
பைரடிபள்ளி பங்காருபளம் பகுதிகளிலும் மாதம்மா என்ற பெயரிலும்,
பசிவி என கர்நூல் அனந்தபூர் மாவட்டத்திலும் சானி என கிருஷ்னா கோதாவரி
மாவட்டங்களிலும் பார்வதி என விசியநகரம் ஸ்ரீகாகுளம் பகுதிகளிலும் உள்ளது,
இப்படி பொட்டுக்கட்டி விடப்பட்டவர்கள் ஆந்திரா சித்தூர் மாவட்டத்தில்
மட்டும் ஆயிரத்திற்கும் மேல் என ஒரு ஆய்வு சொல்லுகிறது இதில் 363 பேர் 4
முதல் 15 வயதுக்குட்பட்ட சிறுமிகள் என்பது வேதனையான விடயம்,
இந்த பொட்டுக்கட்டி முறை தமிழ்நாட்டில் திருவள்ளூர். மாவட்டத்தில்
குமாராவிலாசபுரம் அருகே அருந்ததியர் பாளையம் என்ற இடத்தில் உள்ள மாதம்மா
கோவிலில் உள்ளது என்பது அதிர்ச்சி அளிக்கும் தகவல், ( தகவல்தங்கராசு
நாகேந்திரன் கம்மாளன்)
மா.பா மணிகண்டன்:- இல்லாத இடத்துல ஒழிச்சிட்டோம்னு கூவுறதும் இருக்குற
இடத்துல பொத்தி பாதுகாக்குறதும் தான் உங்க தீராவிட புர்ச்சியா???
இதுக்கு முத்துலெட்சுமி "ரெட்டி"( கணவர் பட்டம்) என்ற பிம்பமும்,கவெரா
என்ற பிம்பமும் வேற தேவைப்படுது, அதுசரி ஆந்திர தீராவிட பழ்கலைக்கழகத்துல
இதுக்குனு பாடப்பிரிவு இருப்பதா சொல்றாங்களே உண்மையா???
தீராவிட மாநிலங்களில் ஒன்றான ஆந்திராவில் இக்கொடுமை
நடந்துக்கொண்டிருப்பதை கண்டும் காணாததுப் போல் இருப்பது தீராவிட
இனத்துக்கே பெரும் இழுக்கா இல்லையா???
என்ன செய்வதாக உத்தேசம்??? சென்னையிலிருந்து இல்லை காட்பாடியிலிருந்து
ரயிலில் போக தீராவிட போர்வாள்களுக்கு பயணச்சீட்டு முன்பதிவு செய்யட்டுமா?
இரா வேல்முருகனோட பதிவு.
தமிழ்நாட்டிலும் விராலிமலையில் தெலுங்கு பேசுவோரே பொட்டுக்கட்டி
தாசியாகும் வழக்கமுண்டு/
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Devadasi: An exploitative ritual that refuses to die
CHITTOOR, OCTOBER 08, 2017 00:01 IST
UPDATED: OCTOBER 08, 2017 00:24 IST Umashanker Kalivikodi
Girls ‘offered’ to the goddess are deemed ‘public property’
It’s a practice that is widely believed to have been abandoned decades
ago. But NGOs and activists have been bringing to light accounts of
young women being initiated into the Devadasi system.
The practice of “offering” girl children to Goddess Mathamma thrives
in the districts of Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh and Tiruvallur in Tamil
Nadu, forcing the National Human Rights Commission to seek report from
the two States.
As part of the ritual, girls are dressed as brides and once the
ceremony was over, their dresses are removed by five boys, virtually
leaving them naked. They are then forced to live in the Mathamma
temples, deemed to be public property, and face sexual exploitation,
according to the NHRC.
Mathammas can be found in the villages of Chittoor district, on the
border areas with Tamil Nadu but also right in the heart of Tirupati.
The system is prevalent in 22 mandals of Chittoor district, mostly
eastern mandals, such as Puttur, Nagari, Nagalapuram, Pichatur, KVB
Puram and Srikalahasti, Yerpedu, Thottambedu, B.N. Kandriga, and
Narayanavanam. The western mandals where the practice is prevelant
include Palamaner, Baireddipalle and Tavanampalle and Bangarupalem.
The Mathamma system has its equivalent in other regions of Andhra
Pradesh and Telangana.
The system is called ‘Basivi’ in Kurnool and Anantapur districts,
‘Saani’ in Krishna, East and West Godavari districts, and ‘Parvathi’
in Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts. Women are unable to leave
the exploitative system due to social pressures.
A. Mathamma, 40, of KVB Puram mandal said though she wanted to leave
her hamlet and settle at Srikalahasti as a domestic help, the village
youth would not allow her to do so. Nor would they let her stay with
her ‘owner’, making her retreat to her home.
A daily wager, Mathaiah, father of a 14-year-old Mathamma at M.R.
Palli in Tirupati, said his daughter has had a heart condition since
birth.
“We dedicated her to Goddess Mathamma, when she was three, and she
survived. She will live without marriage for life. It is painful, but
we have to honour the divine powers,” he said.
Social activists say the girls are exploited, and forced to live as
sex workers. Many die old and lonely and sick as they are forced to
sleep in the Mathamma temples or outside the homes where they work as
domestic help.
A survey by the Mother’s Educational Society for Rural Orphans based
in Chittoor district says a number of awareness camps were organised
by voluntary groups between 1990 and 1992. The society has worked with
these women for over two-and-a-half decades after the abolition of the
practice with the passage of the Women Dedication (Prevention) Act,
1988.
The organisation found a number of Mathammas had ventured into the red
light areas of Mumbai and other metropolitan cities. Since 2011, seven
of them died of AIDS in Chittoor district. At present, there are an
estimated 1,000 Mathammas in the district. Of them, 363 are children
in the age group of 4-15. The Dedication of Women (Prohibition) Act
has had no effect on the Mathamma system in the district. So far, just
one case was booked in Puttur in 2016 and another in Thottambedu. Only
in 2016 were rules formed for the Act. R.K. Roja, Sugunamma and D.K.
Satyaprabha, MLAs from the district, raised the issue in the Assembly
last year.
Poor rehabilitation
The Child Development Project Officers of the Puttur and Srikalahasti
divisions said though the Mathamma system was still in vogue in
several mandals, no scientific rehabilitation measures were possible
due to lack of proper data and non-cooperation from the victims and
village elders.
After the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, there are no stipulated
guidelines for the implementation of the Act. As it is linked with the
sentiments of the community, the official machinery and the political
parties shy away from taking on the tradition. Moreover, the
victimised community is largely viewed as a minority group, with no
influence on vote-bank politics, said N. Vijay Kumar, MESRO
chairperson.
Former Union Minister Chinta Mohan, who represented Tirupati Lok Sabha
constituency for nearly three decades, told The Hindu that the
Mathamma system was a testimony to centuries of exploitation of the
Madiga community. He said the practice would continue as long as the
community was deprived of economic development. “In the name of
rehabilitation, the governments just provide them a pittance,
amounting to cheating the unfortunate women, which is as bad as the
system itself,” the former MP said.
S.V. Rajasekhar Babu, Superintendent of Police, Chittoor, said he
would initiate a study of the living conditions of Mathammas and bring
the facts to the notice of the government. Voluntary organisations
estimated that there are as many as 2,000 Mathammas in various Madiga
villages. Of this, those aged 19 to 30 would be around 400; and
children below 15 years would be about 350.
Alternative livelihood
The system is, however, slowly disappearing in certain mandals such as
Varadaihpalem and Satyavedu, thanks to Sri City Special Economic Zone
which has allowed women and girls to move into the labour force. There
are instances of Mathammas marrying and having children in Srikalahsti
and KVB Puram mandals with the intervention of voluntary groups. A
negligible number of Mathammas were provided with small economic
benefits between 2000 and 2010.
At Kurmavilasapuram, a village in Tiruvallur in Tamil Nadu, a group of
villagers were discussing the controversy outside the Mathamma temple
in Arundhatiyar Palayam. “It was an enactment on the life of Sage
Jamadagni and Renuka Devi (Mathamma) that kicked off the controversy,”
A.K. Venkatesan, former president, Kurmavilasapuram village panchayat,
says.
The villagers say the Mathamma festival was held in the village from
August 2 to 6. “On the fifth day, we held a drama to explain to the
new generation the life of Mathamma. A little girl plays the role of
Renuka Devi who takes food to Jamadagni. Four boys act like robbers
who prevent her from doing so by different means, even an attempt to
disrobe her,” Mr. Venkatesan says. The villagers say the boys only
touch the sari and not the girl. “It is part of our mythology. It was
this drama that people mistook as disrobing the little girl,” says
A.S. Dhandapani, president, Arundhatiyar Viduthalai Munnani.
“The practice of offering children was present more than 50 years ago
when superstitious belief was common. But it is no longer being
practised here,” claims Mr. Venkatesan.
Apart from children, even cattle are offered to Mathamma, if the
calves are cured of their illness. “This is done by people from other
castes too,” Mr. Venkatesan says.
Tiruvallur Collector E. Sundaravalli said a detailed inquiry was under way.
(With Vivek Narayanan in Tiruvallur)
http://www.thehindu.com/news/
கோவில்களில் உள்ள வழக்கம்,
ஆந்திர சித்தூர் மாவட்டத்திலுள்ள புத்தூர் நகரி நாகலாபுரம் பிச்சதூர்
கேவிபி புரம் ஸ்ரீகாளகஸ்தி எர்பேடு தொட்டம்பேடு கன்டிரிகா நாரயனவனம்
பைரடிபள்ளி பங்காருபளம் பகுதிகளிலும் மாதம்மா என்ற பெயரிலும்,
பசிவி என கர்நூல் அனந்தபூர் மாவட்டத்திலும் சானி என கிருஷ்னா கோதாவரி
மாவட்டங்களிலும் பார்வதி என விசியநகரம் ஸ்ரீகாகுளம் பகுதிகளிலும் உள்ளது,
இப்படி பொட்டுக்கட்டி விடப்பட்டவர்கள் ஆந்திரா சித்தூர் மாவட்டத்தில்
மட்டும் ஆயிரத்திற்கும் மேல் என ஒரு ஆய்வு சொல்லுகிறது இதில் 363 பேர் 4
முதல் 15 வயதுக்குட்பட்ட சிறுமிகள் என்பது வேதனையான விடயம்,
இந்த பொட்டுக்கட்டி முறை தமிழ்நாட்டில் திருவள்ளூர். மாவட்டத்தில்
குமாராவிலாசபுரம் அருகே அருந்ததியர் பாளையம் என்ற இடத்தில் உள்ள மாதம்மா
கோவிலில் உள்ளது என்பது அதிர்ச்சி அளிக்கும் தகவல், ( தகவல்தங்கராசு
நாகேந்திரன் கம்மாளன்)
மா.பா மணிகண்டன்:- இல்லாத இடத்துல ஒழிச்சிட்டோம்னு கூவுறதும் இருக்குற
இடத்துல பொத்தி பாதுகாக்குறதும் தான் உங்க தீராவிட புர்ச்சியா???
இதுக்கு முத்துலெட்சுமி "ரெட்டி"( கணவர் பட்டம்) என்ற பிம்பமும்,கவெரா
என்ற பிம்பமும் வேற தேவைப்படுது, அதுசரி ஆந்திர தீராவிட பழ்கலைக்கழகத்துல
இதுக்குனு பாடப்பிரிவு இருப்பதா சொல்றாங்களே உண்மையா???
தீராவிட மாநிலங்களில் ஒன்றான ஆந்திராவில் இக்கொடுமை
நடந்துக்கொண்டிருப்பதை கண்டும் காணாததுப் போல் இருப்பது தீராவிட
இனத்துக்கே பெரும் இழுக்கா இல்லையா???
என்ன செய்வதாக உத்தேசம்??? சென்னையிலிருந்து இல்லை காட்பாடியிலிருந்து
ரயிலில் போக தீராவிட போர்வாள்களுக்கு பயணச்சீட்டு முன்பதிவு செய்யட்டுமா?
இரா வேல்முருகனோட பதிவு.
தமிழ்நாட்டிலும் விராலிமலையில் தெலுங்கு பேசுவோரே பொட்டுக்கட்டி
தாசியாகும் வழக்கமுண்டு/
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Devadasi: An exploitative ritual that refuses to die
CHITTOOR, OCTOBER 08, 2017 00:01 IST
UPDATED: OCTOBER 08, 2017 00:24 IST Umashanker Kalivikodi
Girls ‘offered’ to the goddess are deemed ‘public property’
It’s a practice that is widely believed to have been abandoned decades
ago. But NGOs and activists have been bringing to light accounts of
young women being initiated into the Devadasi system.
The practice of “offering” girl children to Goddess Mathamma thrives
in the districts of Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh and Tiruvallur in Tamil
Nadu, forcing the National Human Rights Commission to seek report from
the two States.
As part of the ritual, girls are dressed as brides and once the
ceremony was over, their dresses are removed by five boys, virtually
leaving them naked. They are then forced to live in the Mathamma
temples, deemed to be public property, and face sexual exploitation,
according to the NHRC.
Mathammas can be found in the villages of Chittoor district, on the
border areas with Tamil Nadu but also right in the heart of Tirupati.
The system is prevalent in 22 mandals of Chittoor district, mostly
eastern mandals, such as Puttur, Nagari, Nagalapuram, Pichatur, KVB
Puram and Srikalahasti, Yerpedu, Thottambedu, B.N. Kandriga, and
Narayanavanam. The western mandals where the practice is prevelant
include Palamaner, Baireddipalle and Tavanampalle and Bangarupalem.
The Mathamma system has its equivalent in other regions of Andhra
Pradesh and Telangana.
The system is called ‘Basivi’ in Kurnool and Anantapur districts,
‘Saani’ in Krishna, East and West Godavari districts, and ‘Parvathi’
in Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts. Women are unable to leave
the exploitative system due to social pressures.
A. Mathamma, 40, of KVB Puram mandal said though she wanted to leave
her hamlet and settle at Srikalahasti as a domestic help, the village
youth would not allow her to do so. Nor would they let her stay with
her ‘owner’, making her retreat to her home.
A daily wager, Mathaiah, father of a 14-year-old Mathamma at M.R.
Palli in Tirupati, said his daughter has had a heart condition since
birth.
“We dedicated her to Goddess Mathamma, when she was three, and she
survived. She will live without marriage for life. It is painful, but
we have to honour the divine powers,” he said.
Social activists say the girls are exploited, and forced to live as
sex workers. Many die old and lonely and sick as they are forced to
sleep in the Mathamma temples or outside the homes where they work as
domestic help.
A survey by the Mother’s Educational Society for Rural Orphans based
in Chittoor district says a number of awareness camps were organised
by voluntary groups between 1990 and 1992. The society has worked with
these women for over two-and-a-half decades after the abolition of the
practice with the passage of the Women Dedication (Prevention) Act,
1988.
The organisation found a number of Mathammas had ventured into the red
light areas of Mumbai and other metropolitan cities. Since 2011, seven
of them died of AIDS in Chittoor district. At present, there are an
estimated 1,000 Mathammas in the district. Of them, 363 are children
in the age group of 4-15. The Dedication of Women (Prohibition) Act
has had no effect on the Mathamma system in the district. So far, just
one case was booked in Puttur in 2016 and another in Thottambedu. Only
in 2016 were rules formed for the Act. R.K. Roja, Sugunamma and D.K.
Satyaprabha, MLAs from the district, raised the issue in the Assembly
last year.
Poor rehabilitation
The Child Development Project Officers of the Puttur and Srikalahasti
divisions said though the Mathamma system was still in vogue in
several mandals, no scientific rehabilitation measures were possible
due to lack of proper data and non-cooperation from the victims and
village elders.
After the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, there are no stipulated
guidelines for the implementation of the Act. As it is linked with the
sentiments of the community, the official machinery and the political
parties shy away from taking on the tradition. Moreover, the
victimised community is largely viewed as a minority group, with no
influence on vote-bank politics, said N. Vijay Kumar, MESRO
chairperson.
Former Union Minister Chinta Mohan, who represented Tirupati Lok Sabha
constituency for nearly three decades, told The Hindu that the
Mathamma system was a testimony to centuries of exploitation of the
Madiga community. He said the practice would continue as long as the
community was deprived of economic development. “In the name of
rehabilitation, the governments just provide them a pittance,
amounting to cheating the unfortunate women, which is as bad as the
system itself,” the former MP said.
S.V. Rajasekhar Babu, Superintendent of Police, Chittoor, said he
would initiate a study of the living conditions of Mathammas and bring
the facts to the notice of the government. Voluntary organisations
estimated that there are as many as 2,000 Mathammas in various Madiga
villages. Of this, those aged 19 to 30 would be around 400; and
children below 15 years would be about 350.
Alternative livelihood
The system is, however, slowly disappearing in certain mandals such as
Varadaihpalem and Satyavedu, thanks to Sri City Special Economic Zone
which has allowed women and girls to move into the labour force. There
are instances of Mathammas marrying and having children in Srikalahsti
and KVB Puram mandals with the intervention of voluntary groups. A
negligible number of Mathammas were provided with small economic
benefits between 2000 and 2010.
At Kurmavilasapuram, a village in Tiruvallur in Tamil Nadu, a group of
villagers were discussing the controversy outside the Mathamma temple
in Arundhatiyar Palayam. “It was an enactment on the life of Sage
Jamadagni and Renuka Devi (Mathamma) that kicked off the controversy,”
A.K. Venkatesan, former president, Kurmavilasapuram village panchayat,
says.
The villagers say the Mathamma festival was held in the village from
August 2 to 6. “On the fifth day, we held a drama to explain to the
new generation the life of Mathamma. A little girl plays the role of
Renuka Devi who takes food to Jamadagni. Four boys act like robbers
who prevent her from doing so by different means, even an attempt to
disrobe her,” Mr. Venkatesan says. The villagers say the boys only
touch the sari and not the girl. “It is part of our mythology. It was
this drama that people mistook as disrobing the little girl,” says
A.S. Dhandapani, president, Arundhatiyar Viduthalai Munnani.
“The practice of offering children was present more than 50 years ago
when superstitious belief was common. But it is no longer being
practised here,” claims Mr. Venkatesan.
Apart from children, even cattle are offered to Mathamma, if the
calves are cured of their illness. “This is done by people from other
castes too,” Mr. Venkatesan says.
Tiruvallur Collector E. Sundaravalli said a detailed inquiry was under way.
(With Vivek Narayanan in Tiruvallur)
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