Experts have been fearing communal polarisation as an outcome of the recent terror attacks in Mumbai. The sufferers in that case would be people of the same religion as the terrorists, who have nothing to do with the terror issue.
There have been some reports of disharmony in certain parts of the country where realtors in a certain locality have decided to as a measure of caution, not trade in rent and lease with Muslims.
On the one hand, Muslims of Surat have been staging protests against the terror attack on Mumbai. On the other, there have been cases of estate brokers in a prime locality coming together to pass a resolution that none of them will either sell or rent out property to Muslims. Their excuse is that terrorists use local help.
"Muslims should stay in their own area. Why should they come into ours. We've decided to join hands and ensure that none of us sells or rents out houses to them," said Shashank Vaidya, a leading broker in Adajan locality.
This kind of a bizarre resolution maybe recent but many Muslims complain they have been victims of religious discrimination for years. Like college professor Sharifa Bijliwala who says that no builder was ready to sell or rent her a house. One agreed on the condition that she writes her name as S B Bijliwala.
"I consider myself neither Hindu nor Muslim, but Indian. Yet, it's my name that is causing problems. I've met at least 50 builders for a house, but in vain," said Dr Sharifa Bijliwala.
Legal experts say such discrimination amounts to a violation of fundamental rights of humans, especially citizens in a democracy where all are equal.
"Such a resolution is a violation of fundamental rights and these people should be booked under sections of the Indian Penal Code," said Babu Pathan, an Advocate.
In fact, some societies have already put up boards asking people not to sell or rent their houses outside the community. This is a sad reflection on the increasing communal polarisation in the state.
--CNN-IBN News Report.
This is exactly what the terrorists and pakistan wants.Indians should not fall into this trap.It's true that some Indian Muslims did turn out to be traitors and are helping pak terrorism.But this does not mean that the Indian Muslim community as a whole should be isolated.The acts of a few should not be held against the vast majority of Patriotic Indian Muslims.India has more number of Muslims than pakistan.India needs all her citizens to unite and not be divided in the fight against terrorism and pakistan.We should not target or threaten our own innocent citizens.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
My India
Not where the musk of happiness blows,
Not where darkness and fears never tread;
Not in the homes of perpetual smiles,
Nor in the heaven of a land of prosperity
Would I be born
If I must put on mortal garb once more.
Dread famine may prowl and tear my flesh,
Yet would I love to be again
In my Hindustan.
A million thieves of disease
May try to steal the body’s fleeting health;
And clouds of fate
May shower scalding drops of searing sorrow –
Yet would I there, in India,
Love to reappear!
Is this love of mine blind sentiment
That sees not the pathways of reason?
Ah, no! I love India,
For there I learned first to love God
and all things beautiful.
Some teach to seize the fickle dewdrop, life,
Sliding down the lotus leaf of time;
Stubborn hopes are built
Around the gilded, brittle body-bubble.
But India taught me to love
The soul of deathless beauty in the dewdrop
and the bubble –
Not their fragile frames.
Her sages taught me to find my Self,
Buried beneath the ash heaps
Of incarnations of ignorance.
Though many a land of power, plenty, and science
My soul, garbed sometimes as an Oriental,
Sometimes as an Occidental,
Travelled far and wide,
Seeking Itself;
At last, in India, to find Itself.
Though mortal fires raze all her homes
and golden paddy fields,
Yet to sleep on her ashes and dream immortality,
O India, I will be there!
The guns of science and matter
Have boomed on her shores
Yet she is unconquered.
Her soul is free evermore!
Her soldier saints are away,
To rout with realization’s ray
The bandits of hate, prejudice, and patriotic selfishness;
And to burn the walls of separation dark
Between children of the One, One Father.
The Western brothers by matter’s might
have conquered my land;
Blow, blow aloud, her conch shells all!
India now invades with love,
To conquer their souls.
Better than Heaven or Arcadia
I love Thee, O my India!
And thy love I shall give
To every brother nation that lives.
God made the earth;
Man made confining countries
And their fancy-frozen boundaries.
But with newfound boundless love
I behold the borderland of my India
Expanding into the world.
Hail, mother of religions, lotus, scenic beauty,
And sages!
Thy wide doors are open,
Welcoming God’s true sons through all ages.
Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan caves, and men dream God –
I am hallowed; my body touched that sod.
- P.Yogananda
- From Songs of The Soul
Not where darkness and fears never tread;
Not in the homes of perpetual smiles,
Nor in the heaven of a land of prosperity
Would I be born
If I must put on mortal garb once more.
Dread famine may prowl and tear my flesh,
Yet would I love to be again
In my Hindustan.
A million thieves of disease
May try to steal the body’s fleeting health;
And clouds of fate
May shower scalding drops of searing sorrow –
Yet would I there, in India,
Love to reappear!
Is this love of mine blind sentiment
That sees not the pathways of reason?
Ah, no! I love India,
For there I learned first to love God
and all things beautiful.
Some teach to seize the fickle dewdrop, life,
Sliding down the lotus leaf of time;
Stubborn hopes are built
Around the gilded, brittle body-bubble.
But India taught me to love
The soul of deathless beauty in the dewdrop
and the bubble –
Not their fragile frames.
Her sages taught me to find my Self,
Buried beneath the ash heaps
Of incarnations of ignorance.
Though many a land of power, plenty, and science
My soul, garbed sometimes as an Oriental,
Sometimes as an Occidental,
Travelled far and wide,
Seeking Itself;
At last, in India, to find Itself.
Though mortal fires raze all her homes
and golden paddy fields,
Yet to sleep on her ashes and dream immortality,
O India, I will be there!
The guns of science and matter
Have boomed on her shores
Yet she is unconquered.
Her soul is free evermore!
Her soldier saints are away,
To rout with realization’s ray
The bandits of hate, prejudice, and patriotic selfishness;
And to burn the walls of separation dark
Between children of the One, One Father.
The Western brothers by matter’s might
have conquered my land;
Blow, blow aloud, her conch shells all!
India now invades with love,
To conquer their souls.
Better than Heaven or Arcadia
I love Thee, O my India!
And thy love I shall give
To every brother nation that lives.
God made the earth;
Man made confining countries
And their fancy-frozen boundaries.
But with newfound boundless love
I behold the borderland of my India
Expanding into the world.
Hail, mother of religions, lotus, scenic beauty,
And sages!
Thy wide doors are open,
Welcoming God’s true sons through all ages.
Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan caves, and men dream God –
I am hallowed; my body touched that sod.
- P.Yogananda
- From Songs of The Soul
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Arundhati Roy on Mumbai Terror Attack
Arundhati roy continues with her malicious campaign against India.Her hatred for India and all things Indian is sooooo huge that she won't spare us even when we all are in deep sadness and shock after the Mumbai terror attack.
She continues to spit venom on Indians.Her latest anti-India column was published in the British daily The Guardian on Saturday 13 December 2008.
She says some people in India are saying 26/11 is India's 9/11.
So what?If it is,what's her problem?And if it's not so,will she be happy?
Why is she bothered if Indians call it 9/11 or some thing else?
The article 'tries to give the impression' of talking in the context of the Mumbai incident,but actually it's not.The whole article reflects her contempt for India and an attitude of making fun at the expense of India,the land where she was born.There is also an attempt to link the Mumbai terror attack to Kashmir,which is highly barbaric.
She even says "If Kashmir won't willingly integrate into India, it's beginning to look as though India will integrate/disintegrate into Kashmir."
First of all from where Kashmir came into picture,if she is talking about Mumbai's nightmare.
Who told her that Kashmir has not willingly integrated with India?Kashmir was part of India,so where is the question of integration?
Still an instrument accession to the Indian Union was signed by the then ruler of Kashmir,at the time of partition.
arundhati infers that if her friends like syed ali shah geelani,umar farooq etc does not integrate with India,India might disintegrate...!!!
This is the height of treachery.
Indians in Kashmir are with India.It's the group of geelanis,farooqs and sundry who wants to be part of pakistan.Those people can go to pakistan,arundhati too can go,because she is now a great defender of pak terrorists.
In the article she also says
"we have a military occupation in Kashmir and a shamefully persecuted, impoverished minority of more than 150 million Muslims who are being targeted as a community and pushed to the wall, whose young see no justice on the horizon, and who, were they to totally lose hope and radicalise, end up as a threat not just to India, but to the whole world. If ten men can hold off the NSG commandos, and the police for three days, and if it takes half a million soldiers to hold down the Kashmir valley, do the math.".
Military ocupation in Kashmir?
She doesn't know why the Indian Army is in Kashmir?Even when the Indian Army is in Kashmir,pakis tried to snatch Indian territory as recently as what happened in Kargil.The Indian Army is in Kashmir primarily to safeguard India's Kashmiri territory and also to protect our citizens in J&K from the pakis terrorists.If pakis stop sending terrorists to Kashmir and Kashmir is free from pak terror,India surely will pull-off the army from the streets of Kashmir.
While fighting hardcore suicide terrorist squads,it's possible that some human rights violations could happen.Indian state and the Army does have adequate means to address such grievances.
Now talking about Indian Muslims,it's true that a few amongst our Muslim brothers have taken to terrorism,but that doesn't mean that the whole Muslim community will get radicalised or become terrorists..!!
Also it's not true that there is no 'justice on the horizon' to the Indian Muslims.There could be a delay in providing justice in some cases,but justice and truth will prevail finally.To tackle carnages like what happened in Gujrat or those which happened during the anti-sikh riots,it's necessary that Hindus,Muslims,Sikhs,Christians and all other communities join hand and fight democratically.There is enough means available in India to fight injustice and communal forces other than the terror route arundhati is suggesting.For one, Gandhian methods could be adopted.If the mighty British empire could be defeated by his methods,why can't we adopt those methods and make our own leaders do what is right?
Any way if she is soooo concerned and if her concern is genuine,why is she not suggesting any solution,other than blindly uttering non-sense...!
Now talking about 10 terrorists holding off NSG Commandos and police for 3 days...,arundhati should once again look at what happened in Mumbai.It was not a simple case of 10 terrorists holding on against the might of India's Elite Commando Force.The terrorists were inside huge hotels having more that 300 to 400 rooms and there were hostages inside.
In the article she shows her comic admiration for India by saying that India
is a "a country with a shadowy history of suspicious terror attacks, murky investigations, and fake encounters.A country that boasts of the highest number of custodial deaths in the world and yet refuses to ratify the International Covenant on Torture. A country where the ones who make it to torture chambers are the lucky ones because at least they've escaped being "encountered" by our Encounter Specialists. A country where the line between the Underworld and the Encounter Specialists virtually does not exist."
Nothing to say about this.Just a feeling of regret that she too was born in this Country.Look at her admiration for her motherland...!!!
She just generalises taking one or two instances.Few fake encounters or custodial deaths might have happened.Such occurances are unfortunate and should be condemned and properly dealt with.But to say that the Country boasts of it,just shows her overall attitude of an 'all-powerful-step-mother-of-India',who has the right to write rubbish and punish Indians.
Now in the same article she says
"Even today we don't really know who the terrorists that attacked the Indian parliament were and who they worked for."
Ohhhh..reallyy??Sorry madam,the whole world knows who was behind it.There is no real need that you should be knowing all the things that happen in this world.Even though you consider yourself as a very very important person,we Indians just don't care about you.You don't know,because, may be, you were in pakistan when the media and the international community came to know who was behind the Indian parliament attack.
Now to continue with her article,she says
"We're told one of these hotels is an icon of the city of Mumbai. That's absolutely true. It's an icon of the easy, obscene injustice that ordinary Indians endure every day.
If you were watching television you may not have heard that ordinary people too died in Mumbai. They were mowed down in a busy railway station and a public hospital. The terrorists did not distinguish between poor and rich. They killed both with equal cold-bloodedness. The Indian media, however, was transfixed by the rising tide of horror that breached the glittering barricades of India Shining and spread its stench in the marbled lobbies and crystal ballrooms of two incredibly luxurious hotels and a small Jewish centre."
She says the Taj Mahal hotel is an icon of injustice to ordinary Indians...!!!
What does that mean?
What is her logic?
She says media did not report that ordinary people also died in the terror attack.
So according to her what was the media reporting?
Media was reporting the death of 'extra-ordinary' people?
Is that what she mean?
How on earth she came to the conclusion that there was distinction between the rich and poor who got killed?
The railway station and hospital attacks were also covered by the media.It's just that the hostage situation was in the two hotels and the Jewish centre..
Is she not having the commonsense to understand this,or in her blind hatred for India,she conviniently forgets these facts?
Two killed 'ordinay' citizens' families,if they can be called ordinary based on arundhati's language,one among whom was a street vegetable seller,were given compensation by the Kerala government(since they were malayalees).Like-wise I read that the Maharastra government also announced compensation irrespective of whether they were rich or poor.
Is arundathi implying that just because the rich are rich,their death should not matter???
These are some of her opinions she expressed in that article.It's,as always,obviously an article to stay in limelight using her favourite topic - India bashing.Also,at a time when the international community is fully focused on neutralizing the terror groups operating from pakistan,she wants to tell the international community 'ok,Mumbai was attacked.160 plus people got killed.So what?What about Kashmir,what about Gujrat,
what about the Indian army,Police,Custodial death,encounters,rich,poor..'.
Exactly the same sort of diversionary tactics that pakistan is using to divert attention away from the immediate tragedy and it's consequences.
In the entire article,there is not a single expression of genuine sorrow for the innocent Indian public,which continuously suffer from the pak sponsored terror.Not a single condemnation of pakistan,even though a pakistani terorist is caught red-handed.
If some body mistakes arundhati's column to be an article written by a pak ISI or intelligence agent,he cannot be blamed.
She is an obnoxious little creature,a cancer.The Indian government in a normal circumstance should not be giving any attention to her attention-seeking-mad-rantings.But since she won some booker prize,her articles are getting published in international media,thereby giving wrong data to the international public about India.It's a humble opinion that the government of India should seriously think about what could be done to avoid this cancer from spreading.
She seems to have reached an agreement with the pakistan government.pakistan will fight the proxy-war with terror and she will fight the pen war or media war against India in the western media.
It's absolutely stunning to know that not even pakistani writers have written as badly of India as arundhati has done from the time she won the 'cooker' prize.
She continues to spit venom on Indians.Her latest anti-India column was published in the British daily The Guardian on Saturday 13 December 2008.
She says some people in India are saying 26/11 is India's 9/11.
So what?If it is,what's her problem?And if it's not so,will she be happy?
Why is she bothered if Indians call it 9/11 or some thing else?
The article 'tries to give the impression' of talking in the context of the Mumbai incident,but actually it's not.The whole article reflects her contempt for India and an attitude of making fun at the expense of India,the land where she was born.There is also an attempt to link the Mumbai terror attack to Kashmir,which is highly barbaric.
She even says "If Kashmir won't willingly integrate into India, it's beginning to look as though India will integrate/disintegrate into Kashmir."
First of all from where Kashmir came into picture,if she is talking about Mumbai's nightmare.
Who told her that Kashmir has not willingly integrated with India?Kashmir was part of India,so where is the question of integration?
Still an instrument accession to the Indian Union was signed by the then ruler of Kashmir,at the time of partition.
arundhati infers that if her friends like syed ali shah geelani,umar farooq etc does not integrate with India,India might disintegrate...!!!
This is the height of treachery.
Indians in Kashmir are with India.It's the group of geelanis,farooqs and sundry who wants to be part of pakistan.Those people can go to pakistan,arundhati too can go,because she is now a great defender of pak terrorists.
In the article she also says
"we have a military occupation in Kashmir and a shamefully persecuted, impoverished minority of more than 150 million Muslims who are being targeted as a community and pushed to the wall, whose young see no justice on the horizon, and who, were they to totally lose hope and radicalise, end up as a threat not just to India, but to the whole world. If ten men can hold off the NSG commandos, and the police for three days, and if it takes half a million soldiers to hold down the Kashmir valley, do the math.".
Military ocupation in Kashmir?
She doesn't know why the Indian Army is in Kashmir?Even when the Indian Army is in Kashmir,pakis tried to snatch Indian territory as recently as what happened in Kargil.The Indian Army is in Kashmir primarily to safeguard India's Kashmiri territory and also to protect our citizens in J&K from the pakis terrorists.If pakis stop sending terrorists to Kashmir and Kashmir is free from pak terror,India surely will pull-off the army from the streets of Kashmir.
While fighting hardcore suicide terrorist squads,it's possible that some human rights violations could happen.Indian state and the Army does have adequate means to address such grievances.
Now talking about Indian Muslims,it's true that a few amongst our Muslim brothers have taken to terrorism,but that doesn't mean that the whole Muslim community will get radicalised or become terrorists..!!
Also it's not true that there is no 'justice on the horizon' to the Indian Muslims.There could be a delay in providing justice in some cases,but justice and truth will prevail finally.To tackle carnages like what happened in Gujrat or those which happened during the anti-sikh riots,it's necessary that Hindus,Muslims,Sikhs,Christians and all other communities join hand and fight democratically.There is enough means available in India to fight injustice and communal forces other than the terror route arundhati is suggesting.For one, Gandhian methods could be adopted.If the mighty British empire could be defeated by his methods,why can't we adopt those methods and make our own leaders do what is right?
Any way if she is soooo concerned and if her concern is genuine,why is she not suggesting any solution,other than blindly uttering non-sense...!
Now talking about 10 terrorists holding off NSG Commandos and police for 3 days...,arundhati should once again look at what happened in Mumbai.It was not a simple case of 10 terrorists holding on against the might of India's Elite Commando Force.The terrorists were inside huge hotels having more that 300 to 400 rooms and there were hostages inside.
In the article she shows her comic admiration for India by saying that India
is a "a country with a shadowy history of suspicious terror attacks, murky investigations, and fake encounters.A country that boasts of the highest number of custodial deaths in the world and yet refuses to ratify the International Covenant on Torture. A country where the ones who make it to torture chambers are the lucky ones because at least they've escaped being "encountered" by our Encounter Specialists. A country where the line between the Underworld and the Encounter Specialists virtually does not exist."
Nothing to say about this.Just a feeling of regret that she too was born in this Country.Look at her admiration for her motherland...!!!
She just generalises taking one or two instances.Few fake encounters or custodial deaths might have happened.Such occurances are unfortunate and should be condemned and properly dealt with.But to say that the Country boasts of it,just shows her overall attitude of an 'all-powerful-step-mother-of-India',who has the right to write rubbish and punish Indians.
Now in the same article she says
"Even today we don't really know who the terrorists that attacked the Indian parliament were and who they worked for."
Ohhhh..reallyy??Sorry madam,the whole world knows who was behind it.There is no real need that you should be knowing all the things that happen in this world.Even though you consider yourself as a very very important person,we Indians just don't care about you.You don't know,because, may be, you were in pakistan when the media and the international community came to know who was behind the Indian parliament attack.
Now to continue with her article,she says
"We're told one of these hotels is an icon of the city of Mumbai. That's absolutely true. It's an icon of the easy, obscene injustice that ordinary Indians endure every day.
If you were watching television you may not have heard that ordinary people too died in Mumbai. They were mowed down in a busy railway station and a public hospital. The terrorists did not distinguish between poor and rich. They killed both with equal cold-bloodedness. The Indian media, however, was transfixed by the rising tide of horror that breached the glittering barricades of India Shining and spread its stench in the marbled lobbies and crystal ballrooms of two incredibly luxurious hotels and a small Jewish centre."
She says the Taj Mahal hotel is an icon of injustice to ordinary Indians...!!!
What does that mean?
What is her logic?
She says media did not report that ordinary people also died in the terror attack.
So according to her what was the media reporting?
Media was reporting the death of 'extra-ordinary' people?
Is that what she mean?
How on earth she came to the conclusion that there was distinction between the rich and poor who got killed?
The railway station and hospital attacks were also covered by the media.It's just that the hostage situation was in the two hotels and the Jewish centre..
Is she not having the commonsense to understand this,or in her blind hatred for India,she conviniently forgets these facts?
Two killed 'ordinay' citizens' families,if they can be called ordinary based on arundhati's language,one among whom was a street vegetable seller,were given compensation by the Kerala government(since they were malayalees).Like-wise I read that the Maharastra government also announced compensation irrespective of whether they were rich or poor.
Is arundathi implying that just because the rich are rich,their death should not matter???
These are some of her opinions she expressed in that article.It's,as always,obviously an article to stay in limelight using her favourite topic - India bashing.Also,at a time when the international community is fully focused on neutralizing the terror groups operating from pakistan,she wants to tell the international community 'ok,Mumbai was attacked.160 plus people got killed.So what?What about Kashmir,what about Gujrat,
what about the Indian army,Police,Custodial death,encounters,rich,poor..'.
Exactly the same sort of diversionary tactics that pakistan is using to divert attention away from the immediate tragedy and it's consequences.
In the entire article,there is not a single expression of genuine sorrow for the innocent Indian public,which continuously suffer from the pak sponsored terror.Not a single condemnation of pakistan,even though a pakistani terorist is caught red-handed.
If some body mistakes arundhati's column to be an article written by a pak ISI or intelligence agent,he cannot be blamed.
She is an obnoxious little creature,a cancer.The Indian government in a normal circumstance should not be giving any attention to her attention-seeking-mad-rantings.But since she won some booker prize,her articles are getting published in international media,thereby giving wrong data to the international public about India.It's a humble opinion that the government of India should seriously think about what could be done to avoid this cancer from spreading.
She seems to have reached an agreement with the pakistan government.pakistan will fight the proxy-war with terror and she will fight the pen war or media war against India in the western media.
It's absolutely stunning to know that not even pakistani writers have written as badly of India as arundhati has done from the time she won the 'cooker' prize.
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