Assam: Fight against foreigners singes native Muslims

“every person has her or his own say in her or his own voice”. nice. too many characters talk in the author’s voice. do you write a dairy? it is nice to write about the little things like my mum’s aloo-potol one afternoon and then come back to the entry 3 years later and remind myself of the things I enjoy.

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Kushal Reply:
April 9th, 2012 at 4:48 am

No, I don’t keep a diary, Abhiroop. I guess the blog works in that way. I’ve been writing it for some years now.

And welcome back to this space. Where are you now? Still in rural India?

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Abhiroop Banerjee Reply:
April 10th, 2012 at 8:44 am

Good to be back

Eyeing a job in a village in district Nainital now. I’m going to stay a poor hungry struggling bachelor all my life, yes!!

I’m going to read ALL the posts here that I’ve missed. The blog does work like a diary. Web Log. That’s how they started I think. You’ve been writing it for just over 3 years which is brilliant.

Is your new daily Cafe available in Delhi? You are the boss of the whole paper? Congratulations!
Can I hope for a Jayanto Special/Retrospective/Book, somewhere, in some HT Media publication anytime in my lifetime (I am 25)?
Where is Samar Halarnkar?

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Kushal Reply:
April 11th, 2012 at 4:47 am

Cafe is HT Bombay’s version of HT City, Abhiroop. So now you know what I do for a living. Bollywood, Bollywood and more Bollywood. No more books.

I don’t know about a Jayanto retrospective from HT, but it certainly is an idea and I certainly know some publishers – thank you for the idea!

Samar is still with HT, but is on a sabbatical in the US, teaching at a university in San Francisco. He still writes his weekly column on the edit page though, and his food blog, so there’s lots for you catch up on.

And finally – the fact that you’re apparently fine with staying a poor hungry struggling bachelor in rural India makes me extremely grateful. Thank you for that.

Abhiroop Banerjee Reply:
April 13th, 2012 at 7:17 am

I think I can live anywhere as long as the place lets me have a bathroom I can waste 30 minutes in planning my imaginary bathroom library everyday.

I would like to see HT do a Junior Statesman. And also do a quiz show on the radio! Because then you wouldn’t have the time to Google the answers.

But you know what would I’d really like to see?

I’d like to see Bollywood start a paper of its own and publish masala stories about the pivate life of journalists. Lets see headlines like – “Sagarika hits back at Shobhaa for calling her a screeching banshee” “Arnab denies drunken brawl with Rajdeep” “Grand Fromage arrested in midnight swoop on Koh Samui rave party” “Still friends? Upala replaces KG in Chick Click!” “Revealed! Ex-wife claims she left Gadgety Vikram after catching him with his USB dongle in Guru Rajiv’s Advanced Graphics Port. Read all about it in this week’s *** (Xplosive, Xlusive, Xposed!) on TimesofJournostan.com/rakhi”

Not that I’m interested. But it would be cool to see Bollywood grow a pair instead of just taking lame schoolboy-like digs at media people on Twitter because they need the same people to stay famous. Like women clinging to abusive husbands because they’re afraid of poverty.

Wait. I’m going to pester Oswald Pereira to write something about this. Or talk about it at least. His recently published novel ‘The Newsroom Mafia’ is a tale about the’seamy underbelly’ of big media and reads exactly like a racy bollywood blockbuster.

Yes, Mahabharat by Samar Halarnkar is still there! I’m happy.

I am adding all the books you’ve written about liking to my wish-list.

I’m sure you will find the time to read books, Kushal. Or manufacture a 3 day weekend every month. You have to! Will you give yourself a column in your paper? I hope you do because your articles are ALWAYS enjoyable

Kushal Reply:
April 14th, 2012 at 10:26 am

Aww, thank you for your confidence in me, Abhiroop. I wish I had it in myself.

“Maybe I need to write a friend a letter like this, asking her or him to keep it and remember it and get me back on track on the occasions that I lose my way.”

but for this to happen you first need a friend, right?

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Kushal Reply:
April 10th, 2012 at 4:38 am

Oh, I have some of those, Akhilesh.

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Akhilesh Mishra Reply:
April 10th, 2012 at 1:58 pm

Any scope that you might expand that list?

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Kushal Reply:
April 11th, 2012 at 4:49 am

Friendships grow by themselves, Akhilesh. When they grow by order, that’s networking. Two completely different things.

Akhilesh Mishra Reply:
April 11th, 2012 at 7:46 am

Brilliant line. I am going to post it on Twitter

Hahaha! “Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.” I so believe that, Parvana.

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President has no power in the Indian Democratic System.

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Does it matter, who we get as President? A post with no power, with all trim and perquisites and good retirement benefit, who ever gets it will be lucky for life. Why we should bother?

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Congress will no doubt will choose some one with corruption baggage in the background so all they can stay in the league and if necessary strings can be pulled to fall in line in “bad” times.

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The qualification requirement for Indian President as desired by Congress-
1. Should be extremely loyal to Sonia Gandhi and the dynasty.
2. Should have experience in polishing shoes, doing menial jobs, cooking in Nehru-Gandhi household.
3. Should be corrupt.
4. Must lack spine.
5. Must be ready to act as rubber stamp for Sonia Gandhi and her clan.
6. Should flout constitution at the direction of Congress high command.
7. Should have drab personality.
8. Should not be a mass leader.
9. Should read speeched like zomby.
10. Must NOT be loyal to India or its constitution.

Almost all the congressmen/women qualify for this job. We have no dearth of president material in India.

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Please UPA do not chose another lady like Prithbha Patil who has no personality we already have one Sardarj find some one intelligent and has good personality.

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Abhishek Manu Singhvi is an outstanding legal mind and smart. The Congress party should consider him as their candidate.

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Vir Sanghvi will never admit it but APJ Abdul Kalaam was certainly one of India’s best presidents. It was unfortunate that Vir went into a tirade against Kalaam in his Counterpoint columns when there was talk o a second term for him. At that time I was surprised at Vir’s obstinacy towards Kalaam, but it all fell in place when Radia tapes happened.

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This woman even do not qualify as a housemaid in Rashtrapati Bhavan. Period.

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Neither man president nor lady president has no weight at all, and useless almost, except making solid philosophical statements and going round the world at the cost of poor man’s paise; I have seen most of them made worthy statements after they got off the sticky chair.

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Presidents are hand picked for their loyalty to the party president. The post should be scrapped and an elected person should be appointed. As a matter of fact, India should move towards a presidential type of system.

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Former President Giani Zail SIngh declared as HOme Minister that he was willing to clean the untensils in Mrs Gandhi’s house. He was promptly nominated to become the president.

Pratibha Devi has actually cooked meals for Mrs Gandhi and SOnia and taken care of bartans (as per Indian Express reports) and she became the president.

So please dont discount kitchen services to teh royal family as a quaification for becoming the President.

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If the president’s job is all about Modi bashing, yes, I would back Dr(?). Mallika Sarabhai or even Teesta Setalvad, because Teesta has better credentials at Modi bashing than all the others put together.

In the end, I suspect, Sonia Gandhi may go for Shivraj Patil who it is rumoured, used to change his safari suits thrice a day to “impress” a highly impressionable Sonia Gandhi.

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THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION IS SUCH THAT THE WOKING FORCE IS ALWAYS AN IMMIGRAT FORCE LIKE IN ASSAM,AS A WHOLE INDIA,US UK AND EVERYWHERE.IiN ASSAM , THERE IS NO DEMAND FOR INTRODUCING VALID PASSPORT FOR THIS WORKING FORCE COMINGF F ROM BANGLADESH, THEY ARE DEPENDENT ON HIGH PROFILE AGENTS AND THEY ARE THEIR MASTERS tHEY ARE POLITICAL AGENTS TOO.it is assamese middle class who depenent on those hardworking labour force without them the middleclass assamse is helpless. So we should demand a identifiable labour force instead of masked one.Can Assamese speak that truth?? .

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Samujjal’s allegations are not justified, because Ajmal tried to polarise or score much later, already riot has happened and 4 lakh people displaced. Samujjal is angry because Ajmal does not shout “Bangladeshi go back ..”. You can savely call it a Bodo-Muslim clash, because both the native and migrant muslims are equally affected. Native muslims speak Goalpariya (Rajbanshi language) and locally called “Ujani”, while migrants speak Mymensingiya or Bangali dialect and locally known as “Bhatia”. But upper Assam assamese people term both the “Ujanis” and “Bhatias” as Miya or Bangladeshi. People like Samujjal calls Ajmal or AIUDF as Bangladeshi agents. But muslims are equally angry with present state of affairs, govt’s weak approach, communal force like Bajrang’s bandth call and support, use of automatic arms in riots, media bias. So people saw spontaneous reaction on the AAMSU (28 Aug) bandth day.

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SARKARI-SECT

NATION
WITHIN NATION

Recently a report was published in the major newspapers of
the country about the status of minorities in India. The report was based on the
study carried out by Washington based Pew
Research Centre, a highly respected US think-tank. But the findings of
the centre can be branded as the worst joke of the year. It found India next only to Iraq on religious discrimination.
The strange study has found even Saudi Arabia,
Afghanistan and Pakistan better than India.

The
study titled ‘Global Restrictions on Religion’, which blamed India for religious discrimination
but the ground realities are just opposite to the findings. India is a secular nation and
everybody is euphoric about this provision. But when it comes to practice one
can see that religion plays an important role in the working of the nation and
minority groups exploit this tendency for their benefit. For the present UPA
government at the center Islam is the most important religion. Muslim first is
the war cry of Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh. Working on this design he
has also formed a number of commissions for this purpose like, Sachhar
committee and Rang Nath Mishra Committee etc., whose sole aim was to grant
special benefits to Muslims only. In no other country no one can find such
religion based commissions. Minority groups enjoy a special status in this
country.

Huge
amount of money is spent on the communal activities of Muslim. When last year
the Allahabad High Court declared Haj subsidies, unconstitutional, the UPA
government at the centre immediately rushed to the Supreme Court. When the
Supreme Court restored the Haj subsidy, there was jubilation in the UPA camp.
Now in India
the scholarships for higher education are given to a very small number of students
that too after great difficulty, but Haj subsidy is rained on, around one lakh
and fifty thousand Muslims. If this huge amount is spent on education or health
the picture of the nation would be much brighter and happier.

Although
the apex court lifted the ban but expressed unhappiness about subsidies granted
to a religion in a secular state but it did not dares to ban the Haj subsidy.
Indian secularism does not permit to finance or promote any religion and
religious activities. This is mentioned in the constitution in Part-III, which
deals with fundamental rights. All religions are equal before the state and no
religion can be given preference over the other.

But
in India
one can see that all the so called minorities or non Hindu religions are financed
and promoted by the state openly and Islam is much more than equal due to his
big vote bank. One can see the plethora of minority commissions, minority
educational institutions, madarsas, Haj Houses, Waqf Boards, mosques, etc., financed and patronized by the government. All the more
deplorable is the fact that these bodies are spreading communalism and hatred.
In case of noted writer Taslima Nasreen and Salman Rushdie they all demonstrated
their communal and violent color nakedly.

The
insertion of term ‘secular’ in the Preamble in 1976 was simply a reiteration of
earlier provision in the constitution. Under the provision the policy of given
subsidy to religious activity like Haj, Madarsa etc., amounts to an
infringement of the principal of secularism, but UPA and its allies who always shout
for secularism, should realize that by extending subsidies to Hajjis and
financing Islamic and minority bodies, they are not only spoiling the secular
fiber of the nation but are also falling pray to Islamic and minority communal-ism and a party in its abatement.

The
government must put an end to the policy of funding religions. Only on Haj
alone, the centre and state governments have to spend thousand of corers.
Government funding is un-Islamic also. An honest Muslim who can financially
afford to perform the Haj can go to Mecca.
A Muslim should not go on pilgrimage to MECCA
by borrowing money from any source. He should undertake the pilgrimage to Haj
only with his own honestly earned money.

A
trip to Mecca
with state subsidy or grant cannot be called Haj in the true Islamic sense.
Moreover, the money collected by the state as taxes is largely given by Hindus.
Muslims in India
are not in a habit to pay taxes to the state. Even they are not honest in
paying electricity, water, house tax and VAT. In the areas dominated by
Muslims, the theft of electricity is almost a common feature. The former Chief
Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
Shri Gulam Nabi Azad has once himself admitted this bitter truth. So Haj and all the
other Islamic activities are performed on state largesse, contributed by Hindus
by paying taxes.

Haj
is not the isolated case, financed, heavily by the state, but large number of
madrasas, mosques, Haj Housed, Waqf Boards, minority
institutions, minority commissions etc are financed and patronized by the
state. Due to big vote banks state plays a very active role in promoting
Islamic and minority communalism. Even in judicial disputes Indian states
always side with Islamic bodies. For example when Allahbad High Court quashed
the communal character of Aligarh Muslim University,
centre immediately rushed to safeguard the communal character of Aligarh Muslim University.
Similarly when Allahabad High Court declared that Muslims cannot be treated as minorities,
again UPA government joined the Mullahs in opposing the court ruling.

This
communal appeasement is also visible on Eid. There is large scale slaughtering
of goats and other animals. No body tries to prevent this cruelty against
animals although under the provisions of the Constitution of India, this is a
crime under the Prevention of Cruelty against Animals Acts. Not only this our
State leaders, extend greeting to Muslims on this slaughtering of animals and
some even joins them with great pride.

Similarly
our Prime Minister could not sleep when a doctor Haneef was arrested for terror
links, but same prime minister remained unperturbed when large scale Hindus are
killed by Islamic terrorists. Even when in Malaysia, large scale Hindus were
arrested and tortured our Prime Minister remained hale and healthy. Now
communal reservation and communal budgeting are the other divisive acts done to
consolidate Muslim vote banks.

Even
when noted writer Taslima Nasreen was attacked, the State of India danced with
fanatics. Even the people connected with minority bodies, financed by the
State, joined the Mullahs in attacking and demanding the banishment of the
writer, but the three crore Bangladeshi intruders are permanent guests of the
country, who are involved in unlawful activities and are a serious threat to
the nation.

When
any Muslim criminal is sentenced big hue and cry is made against the judge and
the judgment. This list can be extended. All this discussion clearly shows that
the State of India is one with Mullahs and fanatics in spreading Islamic
communalism, but the nation is blinded to the threat posed by such activities
in the name of secularism. The so called secular parties never question,
challenge and comfort the Muslim communalism. They are responsible for the
growth of minority communalism. Due to this type of Islamic secularism, Islam
and other Islam religions has become the Sarkari Religion. The state of Jammu and Kashmir has
become almost an Islamic state, which has not seen any Non- Muslim chief
minister, where Capt. Bana Singh, Parm Vir Chakra winner gets only Rs. 166 /=
pm as pension but Islamic terrorists get huge financial packages on the name of
healing touch and rehabilitation.

In India due to special provisions to minorities
the Punjab has become a Sikh state, Nagaland
and Mizoram are become Christian states and these religions are become states
religions unofficially. Till date states of Jammu and
Kashmir, the Punjab, Nagaland and
Mizoram have never seen a Hindu as a chief minister, although states dominated
by Hindus have seen many non Hindus chief minister. Similarly in India number Muslims have been elected as presidents and VPs where as no other country in the world have ever elected their head from
minority groups.

Wherever
any communal disturbance takes place, minorities are paid very handsomely by
the states. In Gujarat compensation to Muslims victims were paid very liberally
and handsomely where as in Jammu and
Kashmir Hindus who were killed by Islamic terrorists
were either paid very poorly or never got any compensation.

In India
terrorists and criminals belonging to minority groups are treated very
softly. Criminals like Afzal Guru,
Dawood Ibrahim etc., are treated in a special manner. Very few terrorists have
been punished in India while
lakhs of people have been killed by them in more than five decades of terror
killings in Jammu and Kashmir, the Punjab and in North eastern states perpetuated by
minority groups solely. Unfortunately in the name of healing touch and
rehabilitation very attractive and liberal financial packages were given to
them. General amnesty is a common reward to theses minority criminals and
terrorists.

All
this shows that minorities in India
are treated in a much better way than the majority community. Due to their
special status minorities are become a nation within a nation. States of Jammu and Kashmir, the Punjab,
Mizoram, Nagaland are very appropriate example of this kind. Reason behind this
type of malicious report is the misinformation campaign let loose by some
corrupt Non Government Organizations and opportunist secular right groups
assisted by left wing activists. They are all financed and motivated by
minorities groups and foreign powers. For this they are also paid and financed
by them. Indian intelligence bodies and security forces have enough proves in
this regard but due the vote bank greed no action has ever been initiated
against such elements.

On
the basis of these deliberations it can be very safely and honestly put on
record that the findings of Pew Research Centre are far away from the factual
positions of minorities in India and before going to public in such sensitive
matters ground realities should be studies by talking into the positions and
views of both the minority and majority group. One way presentation may tarnish
the image of the organisation and may add to hostilities in the minority
groups.

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Shahid Masud Reply:
September 27th, 2012 at 5:18 pm

We all have to learn how to co -exist, because no religion no matter if its Islam,Hinduism,christianity etc allows us to butcher human beings and this goal can only be achieved if we respect All the Religions .

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For true reconciliation between people can happen within their hearts, they must first be reconciled to God………
………2 Corinthians 5:17-21…….17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

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