: ‘The day my blood boils’: How songs incited hate at a Navratri rally in Rajasthan's Karauli #IndiaNEWS The five men in the back of the dusty mechanic’s shop in Rajasthan’s Karauli town all

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‘The day my blood boils’: How songs incited hate at a Navratri rally in Rajasthan's Karauli #IndiaNEWS
The five men in the back of the dusty mechanic’s shop in Rajasthan’s Karauli town all identified as “kattar� – strict – Hindus. They were lying low. All week, teams of the Rajasthan police had been combing the town to identify and arrest those who had been part of the worst communal violence that Karauli has seen since Independence.The violence had broken out on April 2, during the Nav Samvatsar Shobha Yatra, a rally to celebrate the Hindu New Year. The men in the mechanics shop had helped organise the rally.The Hindu New Year also marks the beginning of Navratri, meant to be a nine-day period of fasting and quiet prayer. This year, however, the celebrations in Karauli town were somewhat louder. Songs had been played at the bike rally that had cut across the town. Many of the revellers had danced to them. In a conversation with Scroll.in on April 8, the Hindu men at the mechanics shop described the songs as “bhakti�– devotional – music. The unanimous favourite was the “topi wala’’, or skull-cap wearer’s, song. The image of the skull cap was an allusion to Muslims. The lyrics of the song are:“Jis din jaag utha Hindut, toh ye anjaam bolegaKi topi wala sar jhuka ke...Read more

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