नंदिनी जाधव या अंधश्रद्धा निर्मूलन समितीच्या राज्य कार्यकारणी सदस्या आहेत. महाराष्ट्रात 'जटा' निर्मूलनासाठी त्यांचं प्रभावी काम सुरू आहे. पुण्यात व्यावसायिक ब्युटी पार्लर चालवणाऱ्या नंदिनी जाधव या २०११ साली अंनिसशी जोडल्या गेल्या. डॅा. नरेंद्र दाभोळकर यांचं काम त्यांना कायमच प्रेरीत करत आलं. मात्र, त्यांच्या हत्येमुळे नंदिनी काहीशा अस्वस्थ झाल्या होत्या. समाजासाठी आपणही काहीतरी करावं या भावनेनं त्यांनी आपला ब्युटी पार्लरचा व्यावसाय बंद केला आणि कायमचं सामाजिक कार्यासाठी स्वतः ला वाहून घेतलं. गेल्या ११ वर्षांत त्यांनी महाराष्ट्रातील खेडोपाड्यांत जाऊन दोनशेहून अधिक महिलांना जटमुक्त केलं आहे. त्याचबरोबर जात पंचायत, बुवाबाजीविरोधातही नंदिनी यांचं काम सुरू आहे.
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00:00 Dr. Narendra Dabholkar was murdered
00:02 and that question was asked so many times
00:04 that I accepted this work as a way to express my respect.
00:08 The Committee on the Prevention of Misunderstandings never works against God.
00:12 It is very important for women to increase their inner and spiritual beauty.
00:16 For 50 years, there was a hair clasp in a woman's head
00:19 and it was 10.5 feet long.
00:21 She was living with a hair clasp of 8 kg.
00:25 But this work is more important than money.
00:28 Because when I do hair clasp,
00:30 I remove the hair clasp from the woman's head.
00:33 Then the smile on her face
00:35 is worth more than 1.25 lakhs.
00:38 Namaskar!
00:43 Welcome once again to the special episode of
00:46 Lok Satta Online's Ghost Asamanyan.
00:49 Friends, today's topic is a bit different
00:52 and it is equally important.
00:54 It is important because we are living in a society
00:57 where social questions are a part of our lives
01:00 and it is important to discuss them.
01:03 Today, we are going to meet Nandini Jadhav.
01:05 Nandini Jadhav is a member of the State Employees' Committee of the Committee on the Prevention of Misunderstandings.
01:10 She has been working for the Committee for the past 10 years.
01:14 Let us know about her journey.
01:16 Namaskar!
01:17 I am Nandini Jadhav.
01:18 I am working as a member of the State Employees' Committee of the Committee on the Prevention of Misunderstandings.
01:23 Dr. Narendra Dabholkar is the Founder and Executive Director of the Committee on the Prevention of Misunderstandings.
01:30 He was murdered on 20th August 2013 by shooting bullets in his head.
01:35 I joined the Committee on the Prevention of Misunderstandings only 2 months ago.
01:41 I had a strong connection with the Committee.
01:45 I was watching the work of the doctors
01:48 and I was getting interested in it.
01:51 I was thinking that this work is very good
01:53 but I was a beauty parlour worker
01:56 and I could not give much time to the work.
01:59 On 20th August, Dr. Narendra Dabholkar was murdered.
02:03 I was so interested in that question
02:06 that I decided that instead of increasing the external beauty of women,
02:11 it is important to increase the internal beauty of women.
02:16 That is why I started working in the Committee on the Prevention of Misunderstandings.
02:20 The work of the Committee on the Prevention of Misunderstandings
02:23 is to work against the misbeliefs of the different communities.
02:28 The people of the community have a misunderstanding
02:34 that the Committee on the Prevention of Misunderstandings works against God.
02:36 The truth is that the Committee on the Prevention of Misunderstandings never works against God.
02:41 Because we have been given the freedom of religion.
02:45 That is why we work in the limits of our beliefs.
02:49 And if you look at the misbelief,
02:51 there are many misbeliefs in different ways.
02:54 Where we work, where there is exploitation,
02:57 where there is corruption in the name of God,
02:59 that is where the people of the Committee on the Prevention of Misunderstandings work.
03:03 And when I started doing this work of misbelief,
03:06 then I started touching on different topics.
03:09 First of all, I learned some miracles to enlighten the children
03:13 from a scientific point of view.
03:15 And I learned to use it in the school and college.
03:21 And the law that Dr. Narendra Dabholkar was fighting for for 18 years,
03:27 in the context of that law, the law that was passed after the murder of the doctors,
03:31 to promote that law, we had taken out the entire Maharashtra.
03:37 Then the issue of caste system,
03:39 that after the murder of the doctors,
03:41 the social justice law of the caste system,
03:45 in that context, we started touching on different cases.
03:50 And while doing this, many cases were brought up in different areas in the context of misbelief.
03:55 When I had a case,
03:57 there was a manager in Bank of India,
04:00 and he came to meet me,
04:02 and he said that there is a problem in my wife's head.
04:05 When I was in the parlour, I had made a lot of women's hair.
04:10 But I didn't want to tell anyone outside.
04:13 Because if you look at it from the perspective of hygiene,
04:16 it results in a problem in the parlour.
04:18 So I didn't tell anyone.
04:20 But when the case came, I told him that I will cut my hair.
04:24 But he had such a great superstition in his mind,
04:28 that he felt that if he cut his hair, he would die.
04:30 I mean, I am a barber, and he is my wife's husband.
04:35 So he was afraid that he would cut his hair.
04:37 Because he had told me so.
04:39 And for the last seven years, that hair was on my wife's head.
04:42 And I had to counsel him a lot.
04:45 And only after that, I got rid of that hair.
04:49 And this superstition,
04:51 when such cases come up,
04:54 I mean, we say that there is a lot of superstition in the minds of educated people.
04:59 But there is a lot of superstition in the minds of illiterate people.
05:03 An example of hair loss came to me.
05:06 And when the hair was cut,
05:08 I got an answer from him that
05:11 I have spent seven years of my life with hair.
05:14 And then some rumors started coming in the paper.
05:18 News was shown on TV.
05:20 And from that, in the case of hair loss,
05:22 this news spread all over Maharashtra.
05:26 Similarly, some people were calling me and asking me,
05:29 what is hair loss, how does it happen,
05:32 and if it is cut, the consequences do not get white.
05:36 And then, by getting rid of the superstition in their minds,
05:39 I accepted this work to Dr. Narendra Dabholkar
05:44 and Dr. Jatin Irumulya for a spiritual talk.
05:49 I mean, for 20-22 years,
05:52 I had my own parlour in 2000 sq. ft.
05:55 And that parlour, I mean,
05:58 I was free in it,
06:00 that is, if there is a single woman, a widow woman,
06:03 or there are women in the red light area,
06:06 I was doing social work for them from the beginning.
06:10 I mean, I had an income of 1.5 lakh rupees a month.
06:13 But this work is much more important than money.
06:16 Because now when I do hair removal,
06:19 at that time, the smile on the face of the woman
06:21 whom I remove the hair from,
06:24 I feel that smile is of a child more than 1.25 lakh rupees.
06:27 And because of that, I feel happy to do this work.
06:31 Because Dr. Narendra Dabholkar always used to say
06:34 that you should enjoy while working.
06:36 And in fact, I enjoyed doing this work.
06:39 When I removed the first hair,
06:42 I mean, counselling is a very important topic in it.
06:46 Because when I removed one hair in the beginning,
06:48 after that, for a couple of years,
06:50 no one was ready to cut the hair of a woman.
06:52 But I was in contact with many women,
06:54 I could see them around,
06:55 I was communicating with them.
06:57 If so much faith is attached to that hair,
07:01 it is a Goddess's hair,
07:02 if it is cut, it can become white.
07:04 This is what was in their minds.
07:06 So, while counselling them,
07:08 I used to feel very...
07:10 People used to give shivya,
07:12 do marahan, come on our body,
07:14 or take out the hand from the house,
07:17 and then insult us.
07:19 But even if we gave shivya in all these things,
07:22 they used to think that we are being pampered.
07:26 Because the way Dr. Narendra Dabholkar
07:29 used to tell us how to do the work,
07:31 and how to do it,
07:33 this is the ideal in front of us.
07:35 I have been counselling such women for 2-7 years,
07:40 and so far, I have freed 277 women from Jata.
07:44 So far, I have created 277 women's Jata.
07:48 And if you look at the entire Maharashtra,
07:50 I have created Jata in 20 districts.
07:55 And if you look at the longest Jata,
07:58 it was in a woman's head for 50 years.
08:02 And it was 10.5 feet long,
08:04 and it weighed about 8 kilos.
08:07 She was living with that Jata for 50 years.
08:12 So, she had severe physical pain,
08:15 but she was not ready to cut that Jata.
08:19 But when her physical problems increased,
08:21 the doctor told her that it was not possible without cutting it.
08:25 And then we did a consultation with that woman,
08:28 and we have created Jata for her.
08:31 Cutting Jata does not mean just cutting the head of that woman.
08:35 First, we have to remove the suspicion in her head,
08:38 and the suspicion of her family members.
08:41 And we have to remove the suspicion in the minds of the people around her.
08:46 Because when the Jata in her head is cut,
08:48 at that time, people around her are scared of that woman.
08:52 So, it is very important to explain this to the people around her.
08:57 And then we have to gather people from the surrounding villages,
09:00 like the village head, social workers,
09:03 and the people from the Anganwadi community.
09:05 We have to call such women together and create a Jata for that woman.
09:10 In Pune, I have created a Jata for about 100 women.
09:15 And one of the questions that I get asked is,
09:20 "Which Jati does the woman you are talking about belong to?"
09:25 I have never seen a Jata.
09:27 I only see a woman in front of me,
09:29 and I have never seen a woman's Jata,
09:32 which is more painful and more severe than that.
09:35 Because in the Andhra Shraddha Nirbhulan Samiti,
09:38 we have two Jats, a woman and a man.
09:42 And religion is of the human being.
09:45 And when I asked a question,
09:48 and when I studied it,
09:50 I found that the Jats of all the women of all castes and religions are created.
09:54 There are Muslims, Christians, Jains, Hindus,
09:59 and all the different castes and religions have been created in this Jata.
10:06 Jat means a knot in the hair.
10:09 If the hair is not shaved,
10:11 a knot is created in the hair.
10:13 Because of this, a small knot is created in the hair.
10:16 And if that knot is not left for a while,
10:19 then the other hair is also entangled in it.
10:22 And all the hair is entangled together.
10:24 And then the hair does not get waxed,
10:26 or the hair is not properly cleaned,
10:29 or washed.
10:30 And then in the vast majority of the hair,
10:33 there is hair loss,
10:34 and in some places,
10:35 in the vast majority of the hair, there is a wound in the head,
10:38 and there are bruises in it.
10:40 And then these people have to be told that
10:43 this Jata has nothing to do with God.
10:48 Because the Jata and God have such a strong connection,
10:52 that this Jata is of God,
10:53 and if it is shaved, it will be white.
10:55 Such superstitions are removed from the head,
10:58 and then the Jata is created.
11:00 And when we shave the hair of the women,
11:03 and before shaving the hair, we are in contact with the women,
11:08 and after shaving the hair, we are in contact with the women.
11:11 And the women who are there,
11:14 they work as our counsellors.
11:16 If a woman comes to cut her hair,
11:19 the counselling, the woman who has cut her hair,
11:23 that woman says that my hair has been cut,
11:24 but I have not had any white damage.
11:27 Through this, those women also
11:30 connect with the blind creation committee.
11:32 I have experienced this,
11:35 when we do Jata creation,
11:36 that is, we see that
11:38 if a Jata is created in the head of a child,
11:41 then she gets married to God as a Devdasi.
11:44 That is, Devdasi is a law,
11:46 but in a secret way, she still gets married to God.
11:50 That is, in Gahavar village,
11:52 there is a village called Gahavar on the foot of Rajgarh,
11:54 there was a Jata in the head of a 10-year-old girl.
11:58 And because of that Jata,
12:00 her school was opened.
12:02 And honestly, in her extreme situation,
12:06 she was in extreme distress,
12:08 and a girl from her village called me and told me
12:12 that there is a Jata in the head of a girl,
12:15 and she is going to get married to God,
12:17 can you do something for her?
12:19 And then I got the girl's mother's number,
12:23 and through the phone, I contacted her mother,
12:27 but she was not ready to listen to me,
12:29 and in extreme circumstances,
12:31 she was being insulted,
12:32 she was being humiliated,
12:34 it is the question of our daughter,
12:36 my husband is dead,
12:37 and if I cut the girl's Jata,
12:39 then my daughter's death can happen.
12:42 So my daughter should definitely get married.
12:44 This is what one outside sage had told her.
12:47 And then we,
12:49 the people of the Andashatda Nirmuland Samiti,
12:52 went to that village and did counselling there.
12:55 At that time, the people of the village opposed us,
12:58 and we did their consultation.
13:00 And then it took us about 4-5 hours to do that consultation.
13:05 And then we started doing the consultation of the girl's mother.
13:10 When I cut the girl's Jata,
13:12 the girl started crying very badly.
13:15 And her mother told me,
13:16 my daughter had not cried for 4-5 years,
13:19 and she was in trouble because of the cut of her Jata.
13:22 But when I called her mother and showed her,
13:26 I told her, "Look, how is this?"
13:29 So her head,
13:31 when the top of her head was cut,
13:33 and a papudra was formed in her hair,
13:37 and when that papudra was cut with a scissor,
13:40 and there was a lot of hair in that papudra,
13:46 and when that papudra was cut,
13:48 that hair started coming out.
13:50 I mean, it was completely on my hands.
13:53 I mean, just like the hair was coming out of the head,
13:56 the hair was coming out of her head.
13:58 There were spots in her head.
14:01 And Harsha, her name was Harsha,
14:04 she was crying very badly.
14:06 I mean, I didn't know what to do,
14:08 because it was the first time I had done this.
14:11 And this Jata was 100% my Jata.
14:15 And this little girl's Jata was made,
14:18 I mean, this little girl,
14:19 I had made this little girl's Jata for the first time.
14:23 And when her Jata was cut,
14:25 Harsha also felt good,
14:28 because the wounds on her head,
14:30 and her mother's suspicion that
14:35 something will happen after the Jata is cut,
14:37 but when the Jata was cut,
14:39 her mother also felt good,
14:41 her mother herself accepted that
14:43 I had made my daughter's Jata with my own hands.
14:46 And because of you,
14:48 my daughter's Jata has become very good.
14:52 And now Harsha is very good.
14:54 I mean, this was a very important experience for me,
14:59 because I had stopped the marriage
15:01 that was going to be arranged
15:03 as a goddess of that girl.
15:04 And her freedom was very important.
15:07 And now Harsha is getting education in school properly.
15:10 Her mother, the people of her village,
15:13 the change of her family,
15:15 this was very important for the
15:17 Indra Shraddha Nirmalan Committee.
15:18 We have handled many such cases of aunt and uncle.
15:22 Some have been caught by doing string operations.
15:28 So, in many such cases,
15:29 because of the support of the law against black magic,
15:33 many uncle and aunt have been jailed
15:35 under this law.
15:38 But we say that the law has come,
15:40 but because of the law,
15:41 the law's stain must have been on this aunt and uncle.
15:44 But this is a misunderstanding.
15:47 Because the law that was there,
15:48 but it is very important to promote the law.
15:52 And it is not promoted by the government.
15:55 It is necessary to take the training of the police.
15:59 But the police themselves are aware of this law against black magic.
16:03 The cases that come to the police station,
16:06 the cases are not brought up.
16:08 Because of that,
16:10 such cases are not brought up.
16:13 Because of that, aunt and uncle are being caught.
16:15 In the same way, the law against black magic is there for aunt and uncle,
16:20 in the same way, some people in the society are being discriminated against.
16:24 That is, there are some groups in the society,
16:26 how will the status of those groups be on the people of the society?
16:32 And the people of the society,
16:34 that is, if they have married a transgender person,
16:37 or if they have done any act without their consent,
16:42 then the groups of the society discriminate against these people from the society.
16:45 And then, the social discrimination law is there for this.
16:51 This law has been brought up after the murder of doctors.
16:56 Under this law,
16:57 we have done many cases in the society,
17:00 that the caste system,
17:02 the entire society is in a state of discrimination.
17:06 And it is very necessary to take action against that discrimination.
17:10 So that the society,
17:13 that is, if you see, women are being filled in it.
17:18 Through democracy,
17:20 those who are watching this video,
17:22 I want to tell each and every person,
17:25 that there should be faith in God,
17:28 but not blind faith.
17:29 Because in the name of God,
17:31 you are exploited in an extreme way,
17:34 you are deceived,
17:35 and then your physical, economic and mental exploitation is done.
17:39 You do not realize this.
17:41 So it is very necessary to take care of yourself at the right time.
17:44 And if you are being exploited in this way,
17:47 then we have branches in the entire Maharashtra,
17:50 of Maharashtra Blind Faith and Innocence Committee.
17:52 So if you have been exploited,
17:55 or you have been deceived by blind faith,
17:58 then you can contact the Blind Faith and Innocence Committee.
18:02 And I am sure,
18:03 that after hearing this experience,
18:05 you will not be able to force any blind faith.
18:08 Thank you.
18:09 Instead of increasing the beauty of women's skin,
18:12 it is necessary to increase their inner and external beauty.
18:16 With this intention, the social work that Nandini Jadhav is doing,
18:19 is really going to give a new direction to the society.
18:22 So this was our today's topic of Innocence.
18:25 We will meet again with new information in the next part.
18:28 [Music]