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After publishing two blog posts about Marathi Brahmans Killing after Gandhi’s Murder. I received many comments on Facebook Groups / Chitpavan Katta page for those people who suffered from these killings of their family members/father/mother/sister/brother or their uncle.
So I am sharing this video I saw on YouTube about Kashmiri Pandits ethnic cleansing by Pakistan Sponsored Muslim Communities.
So go through it let us know in the comments what you think relates to Marathi Brahman’s Killing in the Year 1948.
The Limb is one village situated on the bank of the Krishna river. Historically one Barve family, who belonged to the in-law family of first Peshva Balaji Vishvanath. Barve family migrated from Konkan to Limb and built the first ghat on the Krishna river. Thereafter Lakshman Ballal Apte, who was a Sardar of Madhvrao Peshve. He built a very Hugh Lakshmi Narayan mandir on the bank of the Krishna river, and built a big house and also a ghat on the Krishna river. The big house and temple complex was covered by a rampart and four buruj structures on four corners. The third generation of Lakshman Ballal was of four brothers and there was one adopted ranch of Visaji Lakshman, his branch continued to stay in Limb, but our cousin branch represented by Shankar Narahar Apte use to conduct Sangh shakha in limb and he was a close friend of Barve family. The descendant of the Barve family one Narhar Dattatray Barve also continued to stay in Limb. On 30th January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, who happened to be a Marathi Brahmin. However Limb village had 100 Brahmin families, and they were happily living peacefully. Narhar Dattatray was a small boy and while playing near a ‘Pimpal Paar’ he overheard that a message has come from Kolhapur that Brahmins houses should be burnt as revenge for Gandhi’s murder. He reported it to his mother who had arranged a get together of women folk for Haldi Kunku. She did not believe in the report of her child because the Limb atmosphere was calm, but within one hour the houses of Limb Brahmins were set on fire and Brahmins had to take shelter within Satara etc. This is the sad story of Limb where our forefather came and settled 250 years back. Now the debris of Apte houses is near Lakshmi Narayan Temple. In gram panchayat record it is noted as Apte Gadhi and the big house of Shankar Narhar Apte was burnt after Gandhi murder in the year 1948. One archaeologist Anita Agashe excavated the debris of the potter’s settlement.
आमचे मूळ गाव लिंब सातारा जिल्हा तेच गाव गजानन मिलचे मालक वेलणकर यांचे. त्यांनी लिंब वर एक पुस्तक लिहिले आहे. त्यांच्या पुस्तकात १०० वर्षापूर्वीचे लिंब हे भरभराटीचे असावे असे दिसते. १९४८ साली ज्या दिवशी लिंब मध्ये जाळपोळ झाली त्या दिवशी आमच्या लक्ष्मी नारायण मंदिरात पूजा करणारे नरहर दत्तात्रय बर्वे हे लहान होते आणि त्यांच्या घरात हळदीकुंकू असल्याने ५० -६० ब्राह्मणां च्या सुवासिनी आलेल्या होत्या, त्यावेळी त्यांचा मुलगा फिरत फिरत पारावर गेला त्यावेळी गावातील काही ब्राह्मण द्वेषी मंडळी जमली होती आणि कोल्हापुराहून आपल्याला सांगावा आला आहे की ब्राह्मणांचि घरे पेटवायची ते ऐकून तो मुलगा धावत आला व त्याने आईला ती बातमी सांगितली. पण त्या बायकांनी तुला काय कळते म्हणून दुर्लक्ष केले आणि तासाभरात बर्व्यांसह १०० ब्राह्मणाची घरे जळून खाक झाली त्यात सरदार आपट्यां चा प्रचंड मोठा वाडा पण जळाला त्यावेळी बर्वे व अभ्यंकर अशी दोन कुटुंबे सोडून बाकी सर्व सातारला पळून गेले. बर्वे यांच्या वाड्याशेजारी विष्णूचे देऊळ आहे ते सुरक्षित राहिल्याने त्याच्या भिंतीला पत्रे लावून बर्व्यांनी आडोसा केला तो अजून तसाच आहे. आपट्यांच्या विष्णू मंदिराला सांगली जिह्यातील सागाव येथे जमीन आहे. तिथे कुलकर्ण्यांचा वाडा आहे, ते कुलकर्णी संघाची शाखा चालवत म्हणून गुंडांनी त्यांचा पाठलाग केला आणि फरशी कुऱ्हाडीने त्यांच्यावर प्राणघातक वार केले. ते जेंव्हा जमिनीवर कोसळले तेंव्हा हा खरच मेला आहे का याची खात्री करण्यासाठी त्यांनी त्यांचा उजवा अंगठा तोडला तरी त्यांनी हूं की चूं केले नाही त्यानंतर ते कसेतरी चालत चालत कोल्हापूरला पोहचले. त्यानंतर एकदा साताऱ्यात संघाची बैठक जिल्हा कार्यवाह अण्णा भोई हे 63 साली घेत होते त्यावेळी संघाच्या स्वयं सेवकांनी त्याग केला पाहिजे असे ते म्हणाले त्यावेळी त्या कुलकर्णींनी तुटका अंगठा दाखवून आणखी काय त्याग करायचा असा प्रश्न विचारला त्यावेळी सर्वजण स्थब्ध झाले. पुढच्याच वर्षी कऱ्हाड जवळील कोले या गावी शाखा चालविणाऱ्या अण्णा भोईंचा संघ कार्यकर्ते म्हणून निर्घृण खून झाला.
I have been planning to write this blog post for many years. I have been facing this issue since I had my first Microsoft Windows Operating System-based computer in 2002. After that, it was partially solved on a Mac in 2008. I faced the issue of Marathi on the web when I had my website mandarapte.com in 2010 and then my community Marathi website chitpavankatta.com in 2012.
The idea of writing this blog post or writing documentation about why we face the problem of typing Marathi / Sanskrit / Hindi with Devanagari Script on a computer got more critical when some category of journalists or people who started false propaganda to tell the Marathi population at large that Devanagari Script for the Marathi language is no more relevant anymore instead we should abandon Devanagari Script Alphabets and start using Latin Script to write the Marathi Language. These people gave an example of the young generation who are writing, chatting, or texting on their mobile phones using Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. They use Latin script to write Marathi rather than Devanagari script.
At that time, I attended a few lectures on Devanagari Calligraphy and Typography, where I met an important person like Mr Mukund Gokhale from Pune, who had done extensive work in building Marathi Typewriter with his two or three seniors in his field. He also worked with famous calligraphers and typographers to bring Devanagari onto the computer, i.e. designing popular Devanagari fonts for Computers. At that time, I was working at IITB as a web designer. After that, I met Mukund Gokhale at his Pune home to discuss why Marathi Typing is so tricky and why it is targeted by anti-nationals with no linguistic background to speak about abandoning the Devanagari script. We discussed it at length. He even showed me software he developed with his developer tech support to design Marathi-based digital artworks and designs. It was his initiative to create an alternative solution to Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator that doesn’t support Devanagari Script in 2014/17. And now it’s the year 2021. Because of these long conversations on the phone or when we met each other personally, I even developed the Devanagari Learning app for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
When this propaganda started by abusing the Marathi language and falsely showcasing its irrelevance in today’s world, I talked with popular Hindu Orators who were tirelessly working to stop it. People like me were middlemen between famous Hindu orators and calligrapher/typographer Mukund Gokhale to share knowledge and know-how and connect the dots.
So, I am going to write here my observations that I learned while talking with Mukund Gokhale. Some observations are in my capacity as I am myself a designer and developer who wants to talk and design/develop in Marathi.
I have written a complete, in-depth review and analysis of the Suyog Ranade Vivaha or Shree Suyog Vivaha Mandal Matrimony website that I used for 6 to 7 months, mainly on WhatsApp groups, because of bad user experience on website format. I reported the following issues to them, but they were not ready or in the right frame of mind to accept it.
So, I just unregistered myself from their portal and exited their WhatsApp groups.
Following are the points that I noticed about their matrimony service:
Point 01: No or Failed Business Model. The matrimony section mainly runs on WhatsApp Groups of 250 people. The group is unmanaged sometimes; people post their profiles multiple times. Some people even post political or comic forwards. Because all members are in an open WhatsApp group, there is no contact number security or number privacy. Sometimes, admins or business owners post repeated WhatsApp Messages asking every user to register and pay a fee to use WhatsApp groups or websites. Admins even warn users they will remove everyone who never pays the matrimony section fee, which showcases the main point that there is no thought behind Successful Business Model or Revenue Generation.
Point 02: No Privacy or Security: Because of the open group with visibility of contact numbers to everyone, users are prone to scammers and fake profiles or spam calls
Point 03: Suyog Ranade Vivaha lost complete user profile data and even registered account data three times while upgrading their website and transferring the website to their new domain. They had to ask every user individually to reregister for their website repeatedly—a failed system.
Point 04: Website owners had to change their Web Domain as a similar web domain was used by its competitor with a slight name difference. This shows no thought about branding or company structure. Because of this exact domain by competitors, Suyog Ranade Vivavha’s Matrimony users were registering wrongly on competitors’ websites, thinking competitors that they were the original company. This shows a loss of identity and company branding, and a loss of revenue.
Point 05: As you can see in the screenshots, the website structure is broken and faulty, with buggy coding and development.
I was going through the Dribbble jobs page, and almost 175 jobs were posted. Nearly 160 of them were from the USA, 10 were from the UK and Europe, and 3 were from locations posted ‘anywhere’, but nothing was posted from Indian or even Asian locations.
What’s wrong with India? Has it forgotten about running Design-Directed Companies, or do they just love working for US and UK companies?
The actual terrible situation here in Mumbai.
The government says a person can live on 20 Cents, or 12 INR, daily, including lunch and dinner.
Update: 14th December 2014 Google AdSense Now supports Websites in Indic Languages like Hindi. So, if your website is in Hindi, you should be able to fetch AdSense Ads now. See Image below:
I have a few blogs in English & few others that utilise my mother tongue, i.e. Marathi…
& It was weird that Ads on my Marathi Blog wasn’t showing Ads at all, All ad slots were appearing blank…
I even checked the original Adsense ad code back & forth, even rechecked my website’s HTML code, I even revalidated my HTML Code with w3c standards but found no errors, then I reported it to ‘Google Support’ but no use…
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