THE AUROVILLE WAY & THE BBC PEDOPHILIA BROADCAST
Since this eye revealing broadcast has been in discussion among the public of India and Aurovilians, people often wonder where is this video? We got in touch with Rachel Wright, the BBC Correspondent, who graciously gave us the Broadcast and swore that everything said in the video is after thorough research and thought Aurovilians would be happy to get rid of such anti-social elements. The True Aurovilians are scared to say anything openly is what she did not fathom. She could not follow up if any Criminal Action was taken on the Aurovilian/s by Auroville Working Committee and The Chairman...
We dug deeper and came across the Report of Mr. Nadhivaraman expressing his concerns that The Chairman of Auroville and Working Committee did not fulfill their duties. Tarnishing Auroville is what they say but actions of certain Aurovilians and mismanagement is the reason why BBC Broadcast of Rachel Wright and Report of Nandhivarman exist.
We will speak broadly more about "The Auroville Way" in days to come but everything is in front of your eyes.
Can there be so many coincidences ?
HONEST INTROSPECTION NEEDED OVER AUROVILLE - Mr. Nandhivarman
DR. KARAN SINGH INITIATE CORRECTIVE STEPS
You remain in ivory towers and have no touch with ground realities, I am sorry to point out. Let me quote from The First Post, the online daily magazine dated 24th May 2008 published in United Kingdom.
My Bizarre childhood in Auroville
The New Age commune revealed on TV is guiltier of child neglect than abuse, says Loic Rich.
"I was not surprised by the allegations of child abuse at Auroville – a progressive European community in India- that BBC news team made this week. As a 9 year old boy I lived there for three months in 1982. The place is a religious sect which shows up the arrogance, naivety and denial of liberal middle class values. It puts children in serious danger.
A town of great temple like structures set among palm trees in Tamilnadu region of south –east India, Auroville promotes a humanist philosophy, elements of Indian mysticism and a US frontier –style attitude. This either wore you down or toughened you up.
Adults work in construction, farming or even a newspaper, parenting is pretty low priority. Anyone could be a guardian, and children were left to run from the age of six. My own mother left me and my 7 year old sister to fend ourselves and disappeared to a remote section of the community to be with her lover. We had somewhere to sleep, a well managed primary school, and day trips on week ends. At meals time children ate by themselves, with a set of unwritten rules-if you got your hands on sweets you shared them with the group, else you ate outside.
Adults seemed to be there to provide for us, but with complete emotional disengagement. When the infection from a blister spread throughout my arm and I sought my mother for help, she just dismissed me as an attention seeker and I had to cycle to the doctor on my own. He rushed me to a hospital that had run out of anesthetic. I remember being held down by six medics while one made an incision with a scalpel and another squeezed the poison out of my arm.
I learned to fit in with the other children and we became emotionally dependent on each other, a kind of family, with the older children looking after the younger ones. Sex was a hot topic of discussion. Being only 9 I knew little of the facts of life, until they were graphically, alarmingly described by my Auroville peers. I heard of acts between fellow pupils, acts with children from the surrounding Tamil villages, and even what I would now regard as serious child abuse by adults.
Indeed, my sister twice had to fend off an attempted attack by an adult who persistently tried to get her to accept a lift home on his bicycle.
There were terrifying incidents of indecent exposure. We children rationalized the alleged abuse as something-along with snakes, monsoons and scorpions- that you just had to deal with in Auroville.
The solidarity among us was part Lord of the Files, part Jonestown cult. Together we shared a hatred for local Tamil children, who would apparently engage in sex for as little as five rupees, and those who had been excluded from school for various misdemeanors. I suffered this fate myself when I was wrongfully convicted of stealing a purse by a self appointed council of children. I was banned from the primary school, no longer welcome in my lodgings, distrusted even by the adults and sent to live in an isolated hut on stilts in a wood. I found the solitude strengthening, I made friends with two other exotically named outcasts-Gandalf and Mooney. Despite the horrors, there was something hopeful and well meaning about the place.
After my mother separated from her partner and fell ill we returned to the UK. Naïve young people come to Auroville searching for spiritual contentment. Although it espouses a seemingly charitable philosophy of living in harmony with Nature and your neighbors, and although it attracts support of the United Nations and Indian Government, the community fails in its most basic purpose. Auroville just does not know how to care for the people who come there."
Courtesy: THE FIRST POST.
This is the first confession which spontaneously came out from a British in the aftermath of BBC news night.
Adecom Network, an non-governmental organization based in Puducherry in its Report on Women and Child Trafficking in Pondicherry released in 13th February 2003 .Adecom is a social voluntary organization registered in 1991, which stands for Animation, Development, Employment and Communication. Instead of quoting the full report let me quote the paragraph wherein Auroville finds mentions.
"Places like Auroville woman were exploited by the tourist people. They keep the woman for housemaids and using for indulging in sex activities also for a minimum salary. Some of the older tourists in the age of 60 or more marry very young girls in the age of 16 to 20. Because of poverty the young girls accept for marriage and lose their future. The foreigners called as Aurovillians take more advantage on widows for sexual abuse. Some women become drug addicts and underwent treatment too. In Auroville they have nice buildings for childcare and hostel for boys. In these places the boys were misused by the foreigners. For any awareness creation or rehabilitation the Foundation does not allow outsiders or sectors to their place. The information we collected is that Auroville itself did not take any effort to reduce the above mentioned problems."
Courtesy: Report on Women and Child Trafficking in Pondicherry by Adecom.
The language of the report may not be scholarly but it conveys the message. This is published in Tamil in book form by an NGO from Bangalore known as Equations.
These will not be sufficient to convince our Dr.Karan Singh, who always thinks that curbing such crimes or weeding out weeds are not his job, and his duty is to ensure all such crimes should not tarnish the image of the institution. He is furious with the BBC reporter, conveniently forgetting that when his views were sought there was no response from his side, and after repeated attempts, emails to his official and personal ID did not bring the replies sought, it is reliably learnt. Ample opportunity was given to the self appointed spokesperson of the Auroville Foundation Mr. Carel Theime, and we leave it to those who saw the BBC to arrive at their own conclusion, when he said Didier Kiem was asked to leave, when he was suspected to be a peadophile. No other peadophile, he asserted. The question that haunted the minds of the viewers is instead of handing over to Police, why such pedophiles were just sent out?
Let me quote a letter in verbatim,[ the signed copies are available], a letter written by Mr.C.Balakrishnan, Joint Secretary [P] Tel: 3381096 Letter marked as Confidential/Most immediate Ref : No.F-27-39/2003-UU dated 30th June 2003, addressed to Dr.Kireet Joshi Chairman Auroville Foundation 36 Tuglabad Institutional Area , Near Batra Hospital, MB Road New Delhi.
Dear Dr.Kireet Joshi
It has brought to the notice of this Ministry that the Ashram inmates of Auroville Foundation, Pondicherry including foreigners are corresponding with the Ministries/Department of GOI directly to elicit favorable decisions.
It has also been brought to our notice that in the absence of Secretary Auroville Foundation, the Ashram inmates, especially foreigners are indulging in undesirable activities including acquisition of BENAMI private properties around the Ashram taking up commercial ventures, involvement of ANTI SOCIAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDING CRIMINAL GANG ACTIVITIES.etc.
Further it had been suggested that with a significant number of inmates being foreigners, there is an urgent need to fill up the post of Secretary to ensure proper monitoring of foreigners and their activities.
I shall be grateful if you could kindly look into these serious issues for immediate action and take appropriate security measures under intimation to this Ministry, while giving permission to foreigners in Auroville Foundation.
With Regards
Yours sincerely
C.Balakrishnan
I hope that Dr.Karan Singh will now feel relieved that such complaints had been aired even during his predecessor's time, and his tenure is not the starting point of such crimes.
The BBC carried my interview, where I told "Till one gets exposed they shield them, and once exposed send them out. These people come to Pondicherry and continue there abuse against children. I had to take it up at national level". In order to throw more light on this statement let me quote in verbatim a letter written by then Defense Minister of India, Comrade George Fernandes. {Ref: D.O No.99/RMR/VIP/868 dated 26th October 1999 addressed to Home Minister L.K.Advani.
"Dear Lalji
Enclosed herewith in its original a letter from Mr.N.Nandhivarman, General Secretary of the Dravida Peravai along with the enclosures attached thereto. As you can see the letter is addressed to you and has been sent to me only to forward to you.
The documents sent by him provide evidence of the practice of pedophilia in Pondicherry.It also appears that the law enforcement authorities have turned a blind eye to what is happening.
I hope you will direct the concerned authorities to take necessary action against all those involved in this crime against our children.
With Kind Regards
Yours sincerely
George Fernandes
HOME MINISTER REPLY:
Ref: No.U-677/HMP/99 dated 29th October 1999
Dear Shri Fernandesji
I am in receipt of your D.O. letter No: 99/RMR/VIP/868 dated 26th October 1999 enclosing therewith a letter addressed to you by Shri.N.Nandhivarman, General Secretary Dravida Peravai, 28, Romain Rolland Street, Pondicherry regarding alleged practice of pedophilia in Pondicherry.
I am having the matter looked into.
With Regards
Yours sincerely
L.K.Advani.
These letters prove my statement I took the issue up to national level culminating in the arrest of Didier Kiem in 2002, a man honorably sent out of Auroville without being handed over to Police, finally got the punishment.
In blogs so many people have started to debate about the happenings in Auroville, in response to my blogs. Let me quote a few here.
sampradayak Says: June 11, 2008 at 11:48 am e
You are so right!
Auroville is a neo-colonialist village occupied by the foreigners who enslaved the local Tamil populations!
Every foreigner has a personal Tamil amma or gardener now. But the French woman Mira Richard who founded Auroville said that there must be no personal servants.
95% of Matrimandir was build by the hands of hired Tamil workers from villages. But Mira Richard said that Matrimandir must be built by Aurovillians. Not by hired labor.
Bharath Nivas, Pavilion of India, was to showcase the best of India culture. The Central Gov. spends crores of rupees each year on it. At the cost of Indian tax-payer the French and Germans do their salsa, jazz and western ballet/theater shows&workshops. The French Aurovillians occupied Pavilion of India. There are almost no programs about Indian culture. But even these rare Indian cultural programs mostly are staged by foreigners who can pay the rent! SriAurobindo auditorium rent fee for showing French and German films is 10 times more than the rent fee for Indian cultural programs!!!!!!
joywave77 Says: June 11, 2008 at 3:42 pm e
It's a bit more complicated, there are progs about Indian culture, -what progs, eh? Are they the best of India culture? no, 1 French told me frankly - they don't want the best, they allow only the worst (uncultured locals, awkward oldies, graceless v.i.p.'s from Delhi), to show that Indian culture is junk!
balachander cv said...
11:16 AM | 7/Jun/08 | |
It is true. Tamil culture is very much discriminated against in Auroville. Proof of it is for example this. The Central Government gives generous grants to maintain the Bharat Nivas complex, and to conduct activities in Sri Aurobindo auditorium. Jazz, salsa and hip-hop workshops? In Bharat Nivas, pavlion of India, only 5% of activities have some connections with Indian culture. But even in these 5% mostly foreigners are allowed to perform Indian cultural shows! As per Bharat Nivas rates, for showing a French movie, the French managers of aurofilm pay rs.400.For organising bharathanatyam programmes it costs rs.4000 -10 times more than for showing a French movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Is Auroville is still a French colony????????????
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