தோப்பிக்கரணம் tōppi-k-karaṇam, n. < U. tōbākaraṇa. Punishment requiring a person to take hold of his ears with his hands and sit and stand alternately; காதுகளைக் கை களால் மாறிப்பிடித்துக்கொண்டு உட்கார்ந்து எழுந்து நிற்கச் செய்யும் தண்டனைவகை. (Tamil.Urdu)

The Urdu morpheme tōbā is traceable to  ṭobā 'diving' action. In Indian tradition, dorbhihkaraṇa is explained by the exercise imposed on Dhiren Let, CPM MLA of Birbhum. This is also a form of offering prayers to Ganesa, seeking pardon for any adharmic actions and vowing to protect dharma.

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कर्णे करं धा in Samskritam means 'to place the hand on the ear'. The yoga exercise is relatable to the Samskritam word dorAndolan, 'swing of the fore-arm'.

दोर्--ान्दोलन b [p= 499,1] n. swinging the arm Prab. ii , 34 (v.l. दोला*न्द्°). See: दोस् [p= 498,3] n. (m. only R. vi , 1 , 3 ; nom. acc. sg. द्/ओस् S3Br. ; du. दोषी Kaus3. ; दोर्भ्याम् n. MBh. Ka1v. ; pl. °भिस् Ma1lav. ; दोह्षु BhP. ) the fore-arm , the arm &c = दोषन् (q.v.) the part of an are defining its sine Su1ryas.

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*ṭubb ʻ sink, dive ʼ. [Cf. *ḍubb -- ]S. ṭuḇaṇu ʻ to sink, dive ʼ; L. ṭubbaṇ, (Ju.) ṭuḇḇaṇ ʻ to dive, clean out a well ʼ; P. ṭubbṇā ʻ to dive ʼ; -- S. ṭuḇī f. ʻ a dive ʼ, L. ṭubbī f.; P. ṭubbī f. ʻ diving, sinking a well ʼ; Or. ṭuba ʻ small pools full of water ʼ, ṭubā ʻ diving ʼ; -- S. ṭoḇo m. ʻ diver ʼ; L. ṭobā m. ʻ diver, well -- cleaner, diving bird ʼ; P. ṭobī f. ʻ diving ʼ, ṭobhā m. ʻ diver ʼ.*ṭumba -- ʻ hill ʼ see *tappa -- 3.Addenda: *ṭubb -- : S.kcch. ṭubbī f. ʻ a dive ʼ.(CDIAL 5469)

| Sunday , November 22 , 2015 |

At least 10 times they made me hold my ears and squat while barking out an oath - A 70-year-old former MLA recounts Snehamoy Chakraborty An amateur cellphone video, provided to The Telegraph by a local Trinamul leader, shows Dhiren Let, a 70-year-old former CPM legislator, holding his ears, shivering in humiliation and later breaking down in Birbhum’s Mayureshwar on Saturday. Footage image taken by Ramprasad Baidya Suspected Trinamul activists on Saturday allegedly beat up former CPM legislator Dhiren Let, 70, tried to strip him in public and repeatedly forced him to hold his ears and squat during a Left Front protest march in Birbhum's Mayureshwar. The latest in a series of attacks on Left rallies against Trinamul "atrocities" left nine others, including local MLA Ashok Ray and ex-MP Ramchandra Dom, injured and came a day after leader of Opposition Surjya Kanta Mishra was assaulted in West Midnapore. Trinamul has denied involvement. The following is an account in the words of Let,a four-time MLA, who spoke from a Suri hospitalwith gashes in the head, a tear in his left ear anda bruised torso: I joined active politics in 1962 and have been a CPM member since 1968. I have seen a lot but nothing can match today's experience. I was pleading - not for my life but for my dignity - as the attackers wanted to take off my clothes in what would have been a very public humiliation. I had to hold my ears and squat in public, and promise to dissociate myself from the CPM. I did it to spare myself further indignity. Nothing can be more humiliating than a (former) four-time MLA being stripped in his (erstwhile) constituency in public. I feared that could happen and pleaded with them. In the process, tears rolled down my cheeks. We were 250-odd and had begun our march from Gargaria in Mayureshwar (about 190km from Calcutta) at 10am and reached the village of Satpalsa half an hour later. Around 10.35, while passing through Satpalsa's marketplace, the rally was attacked from behind by 50-odd people who carried rods and sticks. We identified some of them as Trinamul activists. Eight to 10 cops had been deployed for our rally but they disappeared. Most of us started running but I came back when I saw from a distance that my colleagues Ray (the MLA), Dom (a party central committee member and former Bolpur MP), Arup Bag and Faridar Rahman (local politicians) were being mercilessly thrashed. That's when some among the attackers got hold of me. There were 15, or perhaps a few more. I knew many of them by face as active Trinamul workers. While some of them started beating me, others - and this was unforgivable - tried to strip me. They kept saying "we'll finish you here today", and (among themselves) "bring out the bombs and wipe them out". They were hurling expletives. Some of them reeked of alcohol. Most were young enough to be my son or grandson. It was all happening in front of hundreds of local people in and around the marketplace. Not one protested. At one point, with my bloodstained clothes half torn, I stood up and tried to scamper away, limping in excruciating pain. But they caught me. That's when that video was taken. At least 10 times they made me hold my ears and squat while barking out an oath for me to repeat - an oath to detach myself from the party. It was extremely insulting. But I was by then determined to live to fight another day. So I went through the motions and they let me off. About 50 metres away, I found an acquaintance on a motorcycle. He offered to help. I climbed onto the pillion with another injured comrade. We were dropped off a few kilometres away, outside the Gopinathpur High School, where one of my sons-in-law teaches. He brought us to the Suri district hospital (about 30km from the attack site). Trinamul response: "All lies; every day there's some new drama," Birbhum Trinamul chief Anubrata Mondal said. "Nobody from Trinamul did anything. There's no Opposition here," Mondal said. "We'd love to face some challenge from the CPM. They should take our protection when they organise these things." At a news conference this afternoon, Trinamul secretary-general Partha Chatterjee slammed the Left and its programme of marches without directly answering questions on his party's involvement in the attacks. Left Front chairman Biman Bose said: "Medieval savagery, that's what this is. Mamata Banerjee speaks against intolerance but she is the epitome of intolerance." CPM state secretariat member Rabin Deb said the Left was facing attacks in places where it was regrouping.

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