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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:19:30 +0530
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To: Agastya <firebyagni@animalliberationnow.org>
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From: Samaran Thamarai <samaran@animalliberationnow.org>
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I completely understand you are disappointed in me, and that you don't 
think I am the right leader for ALN! I can promise you that I will 
sincerely do better in the future. I hope you continue the amazing and 
consistent work you are doing currently with ALN! While I don't think a 
"change in leadership" is possible, I ask of you to help me fix this 
instead of throwing away everything.

Thanks.

ST

On 13-07-2025 05:15, Agastya wrote:
> You could have spat on my face and I would have still tolerated that, 
> @Samaran.
>
> Man, you hid things from me, showed extreme cowardice paired with 
> shady practices to deal with the situation, even when others proposed 
> the solution, and what you did was con me into participating in an 
> event which violated my principles.Â  You may be forced to violate your 
> principles, but at least you could have been transparent to me that 
> you would not hesitate one bit to still be a bootlicker of the animal 
> oppressors; you could have been honest about it to me.Â  You could have 
> told me a minute before the commencement of NARD 15 Chennai.Â  This 
> feels like a betrayal.Â  Not a mistake or an oversight.Â  But a 
> calculated action that you keep me in the dark, and carry ahead with 
> the one thing that I was against.Â  Did you stop to think even once, 
> that "Hey, Agastya is clearly not okay with aligning with the 
> oppressors? And that I am going to do these things behind his back.Â  
> The least I can do is to be honest with him?Â  To let him know?"Â  Were 
> you ever going to tell me this, Samaran?
>
> You know other activists feared that ALN! will be a puppet of BCI.Â  
> Your actions proved what they already feared.Â  alnchennai is not 
> posting about the event we did, for the money we collected, for the 
> organisation that we did; all because we want to ensure BCI is not 
> feeling butt hurt.Â  I know ALN! is not a registered organisation, else 
> this message would have been the vote of no confidence in you from my 
> side to be able to lead ALN!Â  My trust was already weakened in the 
> leadership of the organisation, all throughout how we handled NARD.Â  
> It was made much worse, the way, you were still sucking up to BCI 
> afterwards.Â  This just shows recklessness and lack of integrity.Â  You 
> could have been honest, man.Â  I trusted you, and you shattered my 
> trust with this.
>
> ALN! was not a registered organisation, but I took it seriously, and 
> did everything that was asked of me.Â  I can't be associated with ALN! 
> in any capacity until there is an immediate change in the leadership.Â  
> Given that you don't even check the mails, it is safe to assume that 
> nothing is happening immediately.Â  I will still give you a week's 
> time.Â  And by next week, should I not hear from you how ALN!'s 
> leadership is going to change, I would be formally resigning from my 
> positions in ALN! and alnbangalore. That includes IT, copy-editing 
> team, discord moderation, graphic-design team, github organisation 
> maintenance, ALN! core member, alnbangalore activist, mail server 
> admin, bitwarden admin, as well as any workshop conductor (which were 
> tabled for future). Given ALN! never had a notice period, but it may 
> not be easy to find replacement immediately, I'd carry out my duties 
> for a month -- you can consider that as me serving a one-month notice 
> period. Post which, I'd not be associated with, or helping ALN! in any 
> capacity.Â  Given the workshops we had planned were going to happen 
> later this month and then in August -- I'd understand if you would not 
> want to send me for those.Â  Else, I'd reach out to you for tickets and 
> wrap up my responsibilities within 5 weeks from now. Unless if the 
> leadership of ALN! is changed with immediate effect.
>
> Best,
>
> Agastya