tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-167610202024-03-07T14:57:03.822+05:30 Cross Connectionswired to meet, maul, merge, emerge…Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.comBlogger1706125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-53944916039106675362021-05-28T11:38:00.000+05:302021-05-28T11:38:00.946+05:30Is Arafat’s idea of Palestine obsolete today?<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images.hindustantimes.com/img/2021/05/27/550x309/b4eaa4c6-bf0c-11eb-9b14-9eafe278d082_1622135468525.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="550" height="180" src="https://images.hindustantimes.com/img/2021/05/27/550x309/b4eaa4c6-bf0c-11eb-9b14-9eafe278d082_1622135468525.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>“I want a picture with Yasser Arafat,” I said. The American raised his eyebrows as I clicked him gushing over the waxwork of Aishwariya Rai at Madame Tussaud’s. “Why him?” he asked. Arafat, the Robin Hood figure who had managed to get respectability for an organisation created for guerrilla warfare was, for me, the closest thing to Che. <div><br /></div><div>It was in Mumbai over bitter tea with students in hostel canteens and idlis at Laxmi Hotel, a crummy little eatery in a bylane of Colaba, with a member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) that I began to understand the Israel-Palestine conflict three decades ago. Although PLO was seen as a terrorist organisation by many at the time, over a hundred countries had recognised it and more than 90 maintained its diplomatic missions and information offices, including India. That India was captured in photograph's of Arafat's easy camaraderie with Indira Gandhi. </div><div><br /></div><div>Today’s India will ask you, “Why do Indian Muslims get so worked up about Israel?” even as Palestinian homes are bombarded, and many are fleeing once again. </div><div><br /></div><div>***</div><div>Read more in <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/essay-is-arafat-s-idea-of-palestine-obsolete-today-101622135470888.html"> Hindustan Times</a></div>Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-50415165982568280092021-05-01T18:19:00.001+05:302021-05-01T18:19:00.290+05:30Corona in Cow Land – India Critical<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://images.indianexpress.com/2020/08/covid-independence-day.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="800" height="178" src="https://images.indianexpress.com/2020/08/covid-independence-day.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pic: Indian Express</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>“India is gasping for oxygen. Thanks to GOI’s (Government of India) incompetency and complacency.” At any other time, Rahul Gandhi’s comment might have been construed as point scoring by a leader of an opposition party. Not now. </div><div><br /></div><div>In the latest report of April 27, there have been 323,144 fresh cases. In a span of 24 hours, 2,771 people have died. Many could have been saved. </div><div><br /></div><div>People are dying outside hospitals because there are no beds available. A big private hospital known for its celebrity patients has transformed its lobby into a Covid ward. In other hospitals patients are sharing beds; some are getting oxygen while lying down on the floor or even in an autorickshaw parked outside. These are the lucky few. Many are still begging for help. </div><div><br /></div><div>Hustlers see this as an opportunity. A sting operation in a city of Gujarat revealed a hospital bed racket. One desperate relative was told by a hospital worker, “I won’t take anything less than Rs 9,000. You will get the bed in 30 minutes.” $120 is a lot of money for the middle class. Imagine, then, the plight of the poor. </div><div><br /></div><div>In March last year, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a lockdown, giving Indians a mere four hours to stock up, the poor had no money to buy more than a meal. Overnight they were rendered jobless, and most of the migrants from other cities subsist on daily wages. 744 million earn Rs. 44 (58 pennies) a day. They live in sub-human conditions where a quarantine would be impossible. </div><div><br /></div><div>There are an estimated 1.8 million homeless people in India. Vaccination programmes do not include them. They need to produce proof of citizenship and residence; they have none. This is the reality that policy papers and party manifestoes do not address adequately.</div><div><br /></div><div>If last year in March, Modi was flaunting Donald Trump at public gatherings, this year he and other ministers held massive election rallies. </div><div><br /></div><div>Last year the home minister denied that the virus was a threat; this year he denied that there was a shortage of vaccine. The PM announced a ‘tika utsav’, a vaccination festival, in an irony that escaped him because India has had to grant emergency import to the Sputnik vaccine.</div><div><br /></div><div>Last year the PM asked us to clap and bang thalis – steel plates – to honour the medical staff. People came out in large numbers to dance and celebrate what they assumed to be the end of Covid when the truth was a shortage of N95 masks and PPE kits for the doctors and nurses they were applauding.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the pandemic scenario, the government’s failure is not merely short-sightedness, but pig-headedness. </div><div><br /></div><div>Politicking in India includes pandering to religious sentiments. If these sentiments are about the majority, then leaders just look the other way. </div><div><br /></div><div>Even as India was struck by a surge in cases with a new virus strain, 3.1 million devotees bathed in the holy river Ganga on April 12 during the ongoing Kumbh Mela. The fair takes place once every twelve years. This time it was brought forward by a year because the stars in the galaxy apparently deemed it appropriate. The official website claims that “in such a cosmic occurrence, bathing in the Ganga sets human beings free from the cycle of birth and death”.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sanjay Gunjyal, inspector general of police in the state of Uttarakhand, sounded helpless: “We are continuously appealing to people to follow Covid-appropriate behaviour. But due to the huge crowd, it is practically not possible to issue challans (fines).” Even more frightening is his understanding that were the cops to enforce such norms there might be a “stampede-like situation”.</div><div><br /></div><div>For such whimsies, the state has had to deploy 20,000 police and paramilitary personnel to keep an eye on the 600 acres across which the festival is held. Some of the sadhus (many walking naked) have tested positive. The chief minister of the state showered flowers on them and sought their blessings. Before the start, he had assured devotees that “unnecessary” restrictions would be removed and “faith of devotees will overcome the fear of Covid-19”. </div><div><br /></div><div>Most Indians are poor, illiterate and fatalistic. Last year it was cow urine drinking parties where the virus was given a karmic twist. “Coronavirus has come because of the people who kill and eat animals. When you kill an animal, it creates a sort of energy that causes destruction in that place.” Now the chief minister of Gujarat, when asked about the logic behind night curfew, replied, “Corona has originated from bats who can see only in night. Therefore the virus comes out only in night (sic).”</div><div><br /></div><div>Godmen and political charlatans take full advantage of this. Baba Ramdev, a yoga guru who has built an Ayurveda empire due to his proximity with senior leaders, launched Coronil as a cure for Corona. Ministers were present to stand by him, including the health minister. He claimed he had research papers on it but showed none. Later he was forced to market it as an immunity booster and not a cure. But the damage had been done. There was a daily demand for a million packages. It wasn’t as much trust in the efficacy of the product as it was blind faith in a ‘holy’ man. </div><div><br /></div><div>But politicians who have tested positive aren’t using these indigenous palliatives. They are consulting qualified professionals, relying on real science. </div><div><br /></div><div>Religion forms the subcutaneous layer of all politics in India. When the PM addressed the nation recently, he said, “Tomorrow is Ram Navami. Maryada purushottam Ram's message is for us to be disciplined. It is also the 7th day of Ramzan. The festival teaches us patience and discipline. Patience and discipline are both needed to fight Covid.”</div><div><br /></div><div>His government has showed no such qualities. For a while it appeared that even the supporters of the ruling party desperate over the loss of loved ones had tired of the mishandling. That the virus would prove to be a great leveller. That they were waking up and could be the resistance. But the rightwing was back to its old ways. </div><div><br /></div><div>When Naveen Razak and Janaki Omkumar, two medical students, danced to Boney M’s Rasputin and the video went viral, the rightwing started the hashtag #DanceJihad. It was seen as a jihad because the girl was a Hindu, the boy a Muslim. A lawyer said, “I smell something wrong here. Janaki’s parents should be careful. And if they are careful, they won’t have to be sorry later.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Social media rose to the occasion. It pronounced that the two young students were a shining example of communal harmony when all they had wanted to do was spread some cheer around. </div><div><br /></div><div>When Pyare Khan arranged for oxygen worth Rs 8.5 million, his past as a slumdweller was raked up and his faith was highlighted. In fact, his act was referred to as “oxygen zakat” – Muslims offer zakat, a portion of their profits, during the month of Ramadan. Some liberals on social media platforms pointed this out as a reason why Muslims should not be mistrusted. They do not realise how problematic it is to expect a community to be held up to a standard the majority never has to. </div><div><br /></div><div>Heart-warming stories may act as a necessary salve, but they sometimes deflect from the harsh reality. A hospital’s ICU unit caught fire. An eyewitness said there were two nurses, but no doctors around. All he could see was dead bodies. 14 patients died in the fire. </div><div><br /></div><div>Priests are refusing to perform the last rites. In a moving account, a journalist recounts how they had to bathe her dead grandmother before the cremation: “My father cranked up the AC of the car to keep her body protected from heat…My mother, two of her sisters and I tied a bedsheet from the car to a pillar in the basement to create a private space for that. We did all we could to give her as dignified a farewell as possible.”</div><div><br /></div><div>In many places there is a shortage of burial space and wood for cremation. Death, as much as life, is defenceless. </div><div><br /></div><div>Published in <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/30/corona-in-cow-land-india-critical/">CounterPunch</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-78073110101769904062021-01-30T18:02:00.022+05:302021-04-30T18:12:41.374+05:30Modi or Rahul, All Respect the Mahatma. Why No Spirit of Inquiry?<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2021-01%2F4a4db77d-9c6d-4c93-b8d8-600866bee026%2Fgandhi.jpg?rect=0%2C0%2C700%2C394&auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&format=webp&w=700&dpr=1.0" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="700" height="180" src="https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2021-01%2F4a4db77d-9c6d-4c93-b8d8-600866bee026%2Fgandhi.jpg?rect=0%2C0%2C700%2C394&auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&format=webp&w=700&dpr=1.0" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Years ago I had walked into the manual scavengers’ colony at Dadar in Mumbai, and for the first time discovered that there is a Mahatma Gandhi that is not a road name, not a face on currency notes, not a statue or a line drawing, and most certainly not a universal metaphor for all that is virtuous. </div><div><br /></div><div>For the first time I discovered that there is a Gandhi that others see, and not as a human beyond the Mahatma angle, but as a seriously flawed person. The obeisance industry refuses to even consider the viewpoints of Dalits, feminists and anti-communalists. From politicians to the leftist ‘azaadi from poverty’ ring leader Kanhaiya Kumar, they quote the Mahatma when they wish to speak out against Hindutva. </div><div><br /></div><div>Fact is, Gandhi was the Lord Ram and the Chanakya of his time. The rejecter of a throne manoeuvring the game of thrones.
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read more <a href="https://www.thequint.com/voices/opinion/other-perspectives-on-mahatma-gandhi-a-flawed-person-casteism-untouchability-soft-hindutva">here</a></span></p></div>Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-32336940403305321692021-01-21T18:28:00.006+05:302021-01-29T18:34:57.820+05:30Blackface and whiteface in the time of Kamala Harris<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><a href="https://images.hindustantimes.com/img/2021/01/20/550x309/kamalaharris1_1611130576905_1611130605747.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="549" height="180" src="https://images.hindustantimes.com/img/2021/01/20/550x309/kamalaharris1_1611130576905_1611130605747.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: times;"><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p>As one woman of mixed race will be sworn in as the vice president of the USA on January 20 despite – or because of – identifying as black, another woman, a civil rights activist, had to give up her job five years ago for adopting a black identity. While Kamala Harris is seen as a symbol, Rachel Dolezal was accused of being a fake.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: times;">Fact is, the Harris “deception” has greater import because of the position she holds and, more importantly, her lack of any real engagement with black lives. Her affiliations have been of the kind a typical white person might have.</span></span></p><p>Read more in <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/essay-blackface-and-whiteface-in-the-time-of-kamala-harris-101611126249076.html">Hindustan Times</a></p>Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-78581927610603195022020-12-31T07:38:00.000+05:302020-12-31T07:38:04.644+05:30How Does One Write For A Revolution? Farmers’ Delhi Protests<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">Writers in an agitation often employ shock value to make a statement. The point here is: where are the authentic voices?</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The question isn’t restricted only to the farmers’ protests. During the anti-CAA protests at Shaheen Bagh, “Hum dekhenge” became the anthem. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A few new poets did emerge, but they came across as ‘outside’ voices. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Read more <a href="https://www.thequint.com/voices/opinion/farmers-delhi-agitation-inquilab-revolution-poetry-faiz-bhagat-singh-incarceration-minorities">here</a></p>Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-22530015392197784242020-11-19T11:00:00.007+05:302020-11-19T11:00:58.777+05:30Did Indira Gandhi Help Shape ‘Anti-Pakistan’ Narrative?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-61708561,width-1200,height-900,resizemode-4/.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-61708561,width-1200,height-900,resizemode-4/.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>103 years ago to the day, Indira Gandhi was born (19 November 1917). And 36 years ago, on 31 October, when Indira Gandhi was shot dead, we were stunned and genuinely sad. She seemed imperishable. </div><div>She had mastered the art of playing both ‘victim’ and ‘rescuer’ – post-Emergency, after her son Sanjay’s death, even after death as her spirit hovered around when her politically-disinclined son was pulled out to save India. </div><div><br /></div><div>As I look back at the three major unfortunate events she was responsible for, we can see how her actions shaped post-Partition politics and that continue to echo today in more insidious forms. </div><div><br /></div><div>Read the full article in <a href="https://www.thequint.com/voices/opinion/indira-gandhi-era-emergency-clampdown-on-democracy-anti-sikh-pogrom-minority-rights-anti-pakistan-narrative#read-more">The Quint</a></div>Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-29959908828349119802020-10-15T11:20:00.006+05:302020-11-19T11:27:05.019+05:30Tanishq Ad and the Conscience Market<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2020-10%2F1d98a144-00ff-4d11-96f7-0e7ebe548fbb%2FTAnishq.jpg?rect=0%2C0%2C1040%2C585&auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&format=webp&w=700&dpr=1.0" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="700" height="180" src="https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2020-10%2F1d98a144-00ff-4d11-96f7-0e7ebe548fbb%2FTAnishq.jpg?rect=0%2C0%2C1040%2C585&auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&format=webp&w=700&dpr=1.0" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>There was a time when people did not need advertisements to teach them about communal harmony or confirm their belief in it. </div><div>Rightwing trolls forced Tanishq, a brand promoted by the Tatas, to remove an ad that depicted a Muslim mother-in-law arranging a baby shower for her Hindu daughter-in-law according to the customs of the latter’s faith. The makers were trolled for promoting love jihad and caved in. </div><div><br /></div><div>What started out as a celebration of “the beauty of oneness” has ended with a capitulation to sentiments that are hurt by such oneness. People are likely to empathise with this position, though, given that there is a smart suggestion of safety of the staff. The storyteller becomes the story. </div><div><br /></div><div>Few are interested in the inherently problematic messaging of such ads, to begin with. </div><div><br /></div><div> -- </div><div><br /></div><div>Read full article <a href="https://www.thequint.com/voices/opinion/tanishq-ad-hindu-muslim-parle-g-advertising-toxic-twitter-threats#read-more">here</a></div>Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-43411998095649310172020-09-05T11:14:00.003+05:302020-11-19T11:43:22.343+05:30Indian Muslims Need Political Representation, Not Sham Secularism<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2020-09%2F46ebcf1a-3b77-4b70-b137-4dd79fe22a2e%2Findian_muslim.jpg?rect=0%2C0%2C700%2C394&auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&format=webp&w=700&dpr=1.0" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="700" height="180" src="https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2020-09%2F46ebcf1a-3b77-4b70-b137-4dd79fe22a2e%2Findian_muslim.jpg?rect=0%2C0%2C700%2C394&auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&format=webp&w=700&dpr=1.0" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>The main roadblock to the Indian National Congress is not dynasty, or the recent dissidence within its ranks, but secularism. <div><br /></div><div>73 years after Independence, we realise that individuals can be secular, but a country cannot, unless it is homogenous.
After the Partition of 1947, unlike Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s offering of secularism as dessert to Pakistan, India had to make a meal of disparate ingredients. Multiculturalism was projected as secularism, even as three other ‘isms’ continued to mock it – communalism, parochialism, regionalism.</div><div><br /></div><div>--- </div><div><br /></div><div>Ironically, Muslims seeking a leader from within the community are viewed with suspicion, when India has voted for a party that not only flaunts its Hindu identity and seeks a ‘Hindu Rashtra’, but also tries to silence those who contest such an idea.</div><div><br /></div><div>---</div><div><br /></div><div>Read more <a href="https://www.thequint.com/voices/opinion/indian-muslims-leadership-political-representation-congress-bjp-secularism-hindu-right-wing#read-more">here</a></div>Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-15574307148589393342020-08-22T11:02:00.008+05:302020-11-19T11:43:39.814+05:30Prashant Bhushan Case: Privileged Dissent and Luxury of Apology<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JToR68pqM9Q/X7YFp5AC1KI/AAAAAAAAI3s/aPcN__hWx70VhkoVPeA2CzNCzLrbzlI6gCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="540" height="192" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JToR68pqM9Q/X7YFp5AC1KI/AAAAAAAAI3s/aPcN__hWx70VhkoVPeA2CzNCzLrbzlI6gCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h192/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>The celebrated lawyer has refused to apologise after a Supreme Court bench held that a couple of his tweets constituted a contempt of court. <div><br /></div><div>Hungry for part-time heroes, social media declared him one; a WhatsApp image showed several fictional superheroes bowing to him as he walks past, head held high.
This case has now transformed into performative art, with its exaggerated portrayals. Bravado is perceived as bravery and privilege as persistence. </div><div><br /></div><div>Read full article <a href="https://www.thequint.com/voices/opinion/prashant-bhushan-contempt-case-apology-dissent#read-more">here</a></div>Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-34758924632497073742020-04-03T17:23:00.001+05:302020-04-06T18:38:59.786+05:30Prayers, Piffle and Privation in the Time of Pandemic <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">While places of worship have been shut down to facilitate social distancing, nobody had the courage to stop a ‘gaumutra’ (cow piss) party on March 14. Guests drank the urine from mud bowls. They recited prayers before a holy fire beseeching the virus to leave. Swami Chakrapani, the president of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha that organised the event, </span><a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/coronavirus-group-hosts-cow-urine-party-says-covid-19-due-to-meat-eaters/article31070516.ece" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">said</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">, “Coronavirus has come because of the people who kill and eat animals. When you kill an animal, it creates a sort of energy that causes destruction in that place. They (global leaders) should get cow urine imported from India because the almighty resides only in the Indian cow and not in any foreign breed. I request all the presidents and prime ministers of the world to take cow urine on a daily basis. You have all these scientists who don’t know the cure, we have the cure given to us by the gods.” He also claimed that this was the “only cure” for COVID-19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">All this took place in the country’s capital even as government officials and ministers were issuing statements about scientific measures used to deal with the virus. This was a well-publicised event, yet there were no calls for a ban on it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">There is a call for a ban on the Tablighi Jamaat centre in New Delhi. The immediate reason is that between March 11-13 it hosted around 2000 people, some from overseas, before the lockdown. 24 of the participants have tested positive, and some are untraceable. This has come as an opportunity for the rightwing; the ruling party’s minority affairs minister called it a “Talibani crime”. However, some questions have been raised regarding the permission granted for the event as well as police laxity; the Jamaat premises share a wall with the police station. For a few days now some media channels are seeking a ban on the organisation under the garb of restraining ‘spreaders’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Such communalisation apart, this event was unnecessary and could be one of the major instances of community spread. Gatherings, be it sects, churches or such jamaats, where devotees have ignored reason to be one with god in the company of others, have </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/world/asia/coronavirus-malaysia-muslims-outbreak.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">resulted in</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> several such spreads.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Since temples, mosques and churches are shut, devotees look for other outlets, other gods. In the South Indian state of Kerala, the </span><a href="https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2020/03/26/st-corona-save-us-from-covid-19-kerala-catholics-pray-to-little-known-saint.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">prayer</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> being shared on social media is, “Saint Corona, protect us from coronavirus.” St. Corona has never been popular in the state nor was she the patron saint of epidemics. Her name has promoted her as the annihilator of the virus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">There have been instances of people dying on the way. The finance minister announced a package worth $22.5 billion as well as rations for three months to reach the poor. Many have not heard about these schemes nor received anything. Returning to their villages isn’t a panacea. As a man on his long trek of 542 kms to home </span><a href="https://theprint.in/india/better-to-die-with-families-no-food-or-money-delhi-migrants-prefer-the-long-walk-home/390037/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">said</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">, “We came to Delhi in the first place because our farms were destroyed due to stray cattle who use to eat our crops. So, if we go back to our village, there also we have to work as labourers, but there is no work anywhere.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">When Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to applaud the doctors, nurses, paramedics who served selflessly despite risk to themselves, those from the informal sector that constitutes 90 percent of the labour force in India were not on anybody’s mind. There is nothing grand about sweeping floors, dusting furniture, doing the dishes, or hawking and collecting garbage; they do not save lives, or minister to the ill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">However, the elite shared their ‘awws’ over a picture of a rag-picker noiselessly clapping, his expression confused. For them, it was evidence that the PM’s message had reached this poor man who cared for the carers. Ironically, social distancing that is embedded in the Indian casteist culture considers people like him to be a virus. Nobody cares that he belongs to the amorphous population of 1.8 million homeless people who do not even figure in the poverty or infected statistics because they do not even exist on any document.</span><br />
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23, the eve of Donald Trump’s visit, mobs had collected in pockets and</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;"> started <span style="border: none;">torch<span style="border: none;">ing<span style="border: none;"> houses. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">Their anger, apparently, was over the anti-CAA
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Afghanistan can seek asylum in India, but only if they are non-Muslim. In North
East states like Assam, detention camps have already been built. To serve the
government’s purpose, legitimate Muslim residents are being<span style="border: none;"> detained as illegal immigrants using the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/what-is-nrc-all-you-need-to-know-about-national-register-of-citizens-1629195-2019-12-18"><span style="border: none; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">National Register of Citizens</span></span></a><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">. If it is introduced in the country there <span style="border: none;">are fears Muslims will be most affected. </span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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identification idea was expressed by <span style="border: none;">Indian Prime <span style="border: none;">Minister<span style="border: none;"> Narendra Modi when he<span style="border: none;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/those-indulging-in-arson-can-be-identified-by-their-clothes-narendra-modi-on-anti-caa-protest/articleshow/72687256.cms"><span style="border: none; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">said</span></span></a><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">
that arsonists could be identified<span style="border: none;"> by their clothes.<span style="border: none;"> <span style="border: none;">The m<span style="border: none;">obs
<span style="border: none;">in Delhi had begun<span style="border: none;"> to <span style="border: none;">place</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;"> saffron flags outside Hindu houses to</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;"> identity whom to not target</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">. </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has been <span style="border: none;">on a high<span style="border: none;">. Among<span style="border: none;"> them a<span style="border: none;">re two members <span style="border: none;">of<span style="border: none;"> the ruling Bhar<span style="border: none;">a<span style="border: none;">tiya Janata Party. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.firstpost.com/politics/anurag-thakur-leading-goli-maaro-chant-tests-limits-of-political-speech-speaks-to-malaise-of-hate-in-indian-polity-7966111.html"><span style="border: none; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">Anurag Thakur</span></span></a><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">’s
chant, <span style="border: none;">“Desh ke gaddaron ko<span style="border: none;">…<span style="border: none;">goli maaron saalon ko<span style="border: none;"> (shoot the
traitors dead)”<span style="border: none;"> <span style="border: none;">has become
the go-to anthem of the<span style="border: none;"> Hindutva herds<span style="border: none;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/world/asia/india-citizenship-protests.html"><span style="border: none; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">Kapil Mishra</span></span></a><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">’s<span style="border: none;"> r<span style="border: none;">ole can be <span style="border: none;">directly linked to<span style="border: none;"> the present
violence. “</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">He threatened to mobilize a mob to clear out the
protesters. He said he did not want to create trouble while Mr. Trump was
visiting, but he warned the police that as soon as Mr. Trump left India on
Tuesd<span style="border: none;">ay night, his followers would clear the streets
if the police did not.</span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">
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Sunday evening approached, gangs of Hindu men and Muslim men began throwing
rocks at each other. This quickly degenerated into wider violence, with Hindu
residents <span style="border: none;">accusing Muslims of attacking Hindu statues
and Muslim residents expressing fear that a Hindu mob was forming to get them.</span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">”</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other <span style="border: none;">areas and would have </span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">continued </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">had the</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;"> mobs not struck</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">.
This was clearly an attempt to derail the protests and to project th</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">e brute power of majoritarian politics</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">. </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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interested? At the press conference in Delhi, when Donald Trump was asked abo<span style="border: none;">ut the violence a few miles from where he was, he said, </span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">"As far as the individual attacks, I
heard about it, but I didn't discuss that with him (PM Modi). That's up to
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200 million Muslims call India home. Widespread <span style="border: none;">anti-Muslim
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complicity of the police force has been evident for a </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">few weeks </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">now. In one chilling</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;"> incident, a guy aimed</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;"> </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">his
gun </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">at protestors at the
Jamia Mil</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">l</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">ia University campus. The cops </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">s<span style="border: none;">tanding </span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">yards away from him </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">merely </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">watch</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">ed</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">. They watch</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">ed silently as he shot</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;"> at a Kashmiri student. Another time, the cops
entered the university library and beat up the students. In </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">N.E.</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">Delhi
there has been a repeat. Many people have said that the police <span style="border: none;">were helping the goons, or had a tacit arrangement not to
interfere. One mob leader </span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">said</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">, “Give us permission, that’s all you need to
do. You just stand by and watch. We will make sure you don’t get</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;"> hurt. We’ll settle the score.”</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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offer the prote<span style="border: none;">ct the police, it ceases to even
qualify as a police state. It is a gangster state that is asserting its
religious identity by using nationalism as a trump card. As happened <span style="border: none;">in<span style="border: none;"> Ashok Nagar. They set fire to
a </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://thewire.in/communalism/delhi-violence-mosque-set-on-fire-in-ashok-vihar-hanuman-flag-placed-on-top"><span style="border: none; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">mosque</span></span></a><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">,
put up a saffron flag on its<span style="border: none;"> minaret while wav<span style="border: none;">ing the national flag; they raised slogans saying, “Hinduon
ka Hindustan”, the na<span style="border: none;">tion belongs to Hindus. In
another mosque, they burned a copy of the Quran, the holy book. A man who
probably had lost everything in the violence was collecting its singed pages. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stopped at random and asked what their religion is. One man lied that he was
Hindu; they asked him to recite the Hanuman Chalisa, a beloved verse for
Hindus. He could not. <span style="border: none;">They beat him<span style="border: none;"> up. </span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Zubair’s photograph pleading for mercy has be<span style="border: none;">come the
</span></span></span><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/cant-bear-to-look-at-my-photograph-man-at-centre-of-vicious-assault-caught-on-camera-6286904/"><span style="border: none; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">face of these riots</span></span></a><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">. </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">“They
beat me till they broke me. I begged them and they beat me some<span style="border: none;"> more, viciously. They made communally charged slurs and
took </span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">(BJP leader) </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">Kapil Mishra’s name.</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;"> </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">I
don’t remember much. I just hoped my children were safe. I can’t bear to look
at my photograph, my legs shiver with pain</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">.”</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Akbari </span></span><a href="https://scroll.in/article/954422/an-85-year-old-woman-was-burnt-to-death-in-her-home-in-delhis-gamri-extension"><span style="border: none; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">burnt to death</span></span></a><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;"> inside her house when they set it on fire. She was too old
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days of silence, and two days of his ostentatious show with Donald Trump, <span style="border: none;">Narendra Modi <span style="border: none;">woke up to comment
on what<span style="border: none;"> i<span style="border: none;">s happening in
Delhi. <span style="border: none;">He <span style="border: none;">did not address
the nation <span style="border: none;">n<span style="border: none;">or <span style="border: none;">did he hold<span style="border: none;"> a press conference,
but he tweeted to say: “</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">Peace and harmon<span style="border: none;">y
are central to our ethos. I appeal to my sisters and brothers of Delhi to
maintain peace and brotherhood at all times. It is important that there is calm
and normalcy is restored at the earliest.</span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">” </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">There
is violence in the streets. People are</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;"> in hospital<span style="border: none;"> <span style="border: none;">and dying</span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">. And</span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;"> all he <span style="border: none;">can think of<span style="border: none;"> are homilies about harmony. There is no reaching out to
the people, no assurances about how such normalcy w<span style="border: none;">ill<span style="border: none;"> be achieved<span style="border: none;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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one to question him. Arvind Kejriwal of the <span style="border: none;">Opposition<span style="border: none;"> Aam Aadmi Party (People’s party), and the chief minister
of Delhi, took a bunch of his ministers to Raj Ghat, a memorial to Mahatma
Gandhi, every politician’s favourite man for all seasons. Kejriwal has been
mimicking Modi by taking a soft Hindutva stance<span style="border: none;">,
reciting verses on television and thanking Hanuman, the saviour of Lord Ram, in
his victory speech. Politicians <span style="border: none;">in India have to use
religious nationalism to <span style="border: none;">appease the majority that
constitutes 80 per cent of the<span style="border: none;"> population<span style="border: none;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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role of mainstream m<span style="border: none;">edia has been questionable. While
the <span style="border: none;">liberals<span style="border: none;"> among them
give a fair exposure to both sides<span style="border: none;">,<span style="border: none;"> as they must, it is the <span style="border: none;">editorialising<span style="border: none;"> with such false <span style="border: none;">equivalences<span style="border: none;"> that is problematic. T<span style="border: none;">here <span style="border: none;">are indeed casualties on both sides, but a pogrom is a
clear agenda<span style="border: none;"> against a particular group.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other casualties. Tahir Hussain, an opposition politician<span style="border: none;">,<span style="border: none;"> has been </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/delhi-violence-case-filed-against-aaps-tahir-hussain-for-murder-arson-2186844"><span style="border: none; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">booked</span></span></a><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="border: none;">
for arson and m<span style="border: none;">urder because they found petrol bombs
on his terrace. Nobody is interested in facts – the <span style="border: none;">fact<span style="border: none;"> that he called the police <span style="border: none;">several<span style="border: none;"> times because a mob had gathered outside<span style="border: none;"> his house<span style="border: none;"> and he was taken to a
safe place.<span style="border: none;"> <span style="border: none;">One is not
opposed to an investigation int<span style="border: none;">o the truth, but there
is a definite bias. <span style="border: none;">Ruling party members who called
for the murder of Muslims<span style="border: none;">, that resulted in Delhi
burning,<span style="border: none;"> are free.<span style="border: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="border: none;">The judge who asked
the police t<span style="border: none;">o issue arrest warrants against<span style="border: none;"> them<span style="border: none;"> <span style="border: none;">for
<span style="border: none;">incendiary speeches has been <span style="border: none;">transferred.<span style="border: none;"> <span style="border: none;">Delhi
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graves. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #353535; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">A few days before Chhapaak, the film on acid attack survivor
Laxmi Agarwal, hit the screens, Deepika Padukone who plays the protagonist
joined the students of JNU University in their protest against the government.
This was viewed as a PR exercise, an extension of the film’s promotion. The
politics over this act has left for little room to understand the more vital
queries regarding whether cinema succeeds in replicating real life and to what
extent it should without compromising on the merit and necessity that art
demands. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">PR is often necessary for any work, and more so a film that
is not populist and deals with a sombre subject. Besides, on almost every
promotional event, Laxmi has been present alongside Deepika and has received
much respect. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">However, the laudatory comments on Deepika’s brave act have
overshadowed the bravery of Laxmi as well as those even further down the
pecking order. In fact, is bravery the right word at all? Many films have been
made on heroes of our freedom struggle – are the actors considered brave for
doing so? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">The media as well as social media got divided into the RW
dismissing the film because the actor was present at a place they have
political issues with and the liberal fraternity that couldn’t stop raving
about it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">The Uttarakhand government has decided to give a monthly pension
of upto Rs.10,000 to acid attack survivors. While this is welcome, the crux of
acid availability and legal laxity in dealing with attackers remains. Laxmi was
attacked in 2005. Her attacker Naeem Khan got bail and even got married. Later,
he was given a mere seven years in jail. She filed a PIL to ban the sale of acid,
but it did not lead to a complete ban. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Her life was ruined forever. Yes, forever. Because while she
has risen to become a motivational speaker, a TV anchor, an activist, and the
subject of a film, she is still viewed as an oddity. One young female actor
even used the word “cringing”, and it was meant as a compliment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Laxmi said in an interview, “Although a trained beautician,
my face became a hurdle after the acid attack. When I went looking for a job,
they said that customers would get scared of my looks. I applied at a call
centre and told them no one would be seeing my face. But they replied that to
get a job, I need to have a face to begin with.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">The fact is that even the film on her life does not carry
her face. So, what really did the film achieve? With all its good intent,
performances and projection, it was an underwhelming experience for me. There
are many positive aspects, but those also work against it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Director Meghna Gulzar does not sensationalise any bit.
There is no gaze of pity. This is great. However, at points it becomes so
legalistic and technical that it overshadows the emotive aspects. That scream of
Malti (Laxmi renamed in the film) before the mirror when she first sees herself
after the attack by Basheer Khan (Naeem in real life) is real, but we don’t
feel the core of her trauma. She seems unmoved in court in the presence of her
attacker too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">While it was important to focus on the main character and
not give too much attention to the attacker, this non-demonisation leaves him
looking like a wishy-washy bystander and not the epitome of evil that he was. There
is also not much said about the patriarchal notion of ownership of a woman. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">The title Chhapaak refers to the sound of acid being flung. It really is the sound of destruction, and in a movie that speaks about rising about it, mending one's life, I wonder how apt it is. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Malti has generous friends, lawyers and doctors, which is
heartening. But there is no attempt at looking at the lesser privilege of the
other victims who also work at the NGO. In fact, she does not show enough
empathy towards one of them when she mentions the surgeries she needs to have,
whereas Malti herself has managed to get herself seven. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">There are beautiful moments of Malti’s joy over small
victories and her general optimism. It posits beautifully against the NGO
founder Amol’s cynicism. Their love story is one of hope. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">The film begins with a reference to the protests following
Nirbhaya’s rape and the lack of media interest in acid attacks. Amol says,
“Rape ke aage acid attack ki kya pohunch (What say does an acid attack case
have when compared to rape)?” It would’ve been a good observation on hierarchy
of victims except that Malti herself is the subject of a film and he says at a
later stage that Malti was now a celebrity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-60987946431100766172019-05-26T14:07:00.000+05:302019-05-26T18:21:08.193+05:30And this is how liberals will speak out in a Modi-fied India...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1">Following the victory of the Bhartiya Janata Party and another term for a Narendra Modi government, social media was awash with liberals promising to fight, to dissent and projecting themselves as allies of Muslims.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Elite Muslims were quick to feel indebted for the kindness, quite forgetting that their supporters have not done anything that would qualify as real opposition to the Hindutva ideology.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">So, how exactly will they fight this government?</span></div>
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<li><span class="s1">They will post memes.</span></li>
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<li><span class="s1">They will unsubscribe to certain newspapers/TV channels that have posted/aired a bigoted report. (Two days later they’ll quote from the same papers/channels they unsubscribed from.)</span></li>
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<li><span class="s1">They will praise Ravish Kumar for his emotion-laden speech against a black backdrop.</span></li>
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<li><span class="s1">Those in the media will, pathetically, even on primetime shows they anchor, announce that they do not believe in shouting like some other channels, as though that is enough to make them better than Arnab Goswami.</span></li>
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<li><span class="s1">They will wait eagerly for The Telegraph to read its front page headline. After which they announce that journalism isn’t dead. Clearly, all it takes is smart wordplay to be alive.</span></li>
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<li><span class="s1">They will have shows on the hijab where primacy will be given to their version of the good Muslim, the one not wearing the scarf, while the ones wearing it, who are the subject, are given short shrift, if not shirked.</span></li>
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<li><span class="s1">Some will write books on why they are liberal and some on why they are Hindu. They like such balancing acts...it’s just a way of life thing.</span></li>
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<li><span class="s1">Following any unfortunate act of terror anywhere in the world, they will be quick to declare that not all Muslims are terrorists. After the lynchings against Muslims, they never feel the need to say that not all Hindus are like that because that is supposed to be a given.</span></li>
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<li><span class="s1">They will post videos of lynchings. Within minutes they’ll be posting screenshots of the hateful responses they get from Sanghi trolls. Soon enough, their victimisation becomes more important than the person being lynched.</span></li>
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<li><span class="s1">They will take out a caravan to the homes of the victims. But...karwaan guzar gaya, ghubaar dekhte rahe...</span></li>
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<li><span class="s1">They will protest against a horrible incident at some elite location. Those who cannot make it will ask <i>them</i> to be safe. </span></li>
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<li><span class="s1">They will pull up the Congress party to show they don’t have political affiliations, but will happily project Kejriwal, Mamata Banerjee and even newbie Kanhaiya Kumar as messiahs.</span></li>
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<li><span class="s1">They will talk about the moderate faces of the BJP, each time one of their leaders criticises it, forgetting that they have been a part of it during the worst moments in its history.</span></li>
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<li><span class="s1">They tell you they are allies of Muslims because they eat biryani, quote Faiz (whatta rebel, also atheist, no?), go to Nizamuddin Dargah on Thursday nights for qawwali, and think Sufism rocks.</span></li>
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<li><span class="s1">They will call themselves dissenters because they stand with a Kunal Kamra or a Swara Bhasker.</span></li>
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<span class="s1">There should’ve been memes after this, but liberal selective amnesia is quite a thing. They lecture others on the need to take an ideological position, but seem quite comfortable with the idea of Swara Bhasker campaigning for six candidates from different parties.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1">How can she even qualify as an intellectual asset when <a href="https://www.m.timesofindia.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/swara-bhasker-i-lost-four-brands-after-i-started-campaigning/amp_articleshow/69385848.cms">she says</a>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">“I knew that people were calling me because I am a heroine. As soon as I learnt that I would be campaigning, I went and bought 20 saris and got my wardrobe sorted. Maine blouse silva liye, jewellery leli and curated my look. I used to blow dry my hair in morning, put on my hair extensions and makeup, and wear my chunky earrings. I knew that the media would come for pictures and interviews, which in turn could be used as a platform to talk about issues that matter. For the public, it’s not a politician joh white kurta and jacket mein aa raha hai, they see a young person with colourful clothes.”</span></blockquote>
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<span class="s1">So much poppycock. She is far removed from reality, and yet gets so much traction when her destination is clear: “I am so tired after campaigning. I can’t wait to go back to Bollywood now.”</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1">It amazes me that self-important people, those whose online profile is buffered by who hates them rather than what they stand for, are the heroes of liberals.</span></div>
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have taken over the Muslim story <span style="border: none;">once again <span style="border: none;">from <span style="border: none;">the <span style="border: none;">Muslims. <span style="border: none;">To<span style="border: none;">
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fee<span style="border: none;">l they belong. </span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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distinction between state and reli<span style="border: none;">gion was lost.<span style="border: none;"> Also<span style="border: none;">, instead of an expression
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<span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><span style="border: none;">E<span style="border: none;">ntitled brown folks <span style="border: none;">were, however, over the crescent moon. They <span style="border: none;">we<span style="border: none;">re <span style="border: none;">complicit
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raised a whole lot <span style="border: none;">of money for his legal fees and
for being “a good egg”. Using him as an example of how the West responds to
hate speech ignores the immensity of the </span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/australian-senator-fraser-anning-criticised-blaming-new-zealand-attack-on-muslim-immigration"><span style="border: none;"><span style="border: none;">vile comments by Sen Fraser
Anning</span></span></a></span><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><span style="border: none;"> blaming immigrants for the terror act. </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none;">a potent image<span style="border: none;"> of a caring
leader, but would a Muslim leader reaching ou<span style="border: none;">t to his
people be greeted with as much enthusiasm?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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totems they reduce the Muslim identity <span style="border: none;">to a <span style="border: none;">community <span style="border: none;">that <span style="border: none;">cannot m<span style="border: none;">anage without an Other’s
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tie it<span style="border: none;">?” asked<span style="border: none;"> an
enthusiastic white woman expressing her support for the March 22 </span></span></span></span></span><u style="text-underline: #191919;"><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><a href="https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2305064683042698&id=2305026926379807&__tn__=*s*s-R"><span style="border: none;"><span style="border: none;">Scarves in Solidarity Day</span></span></a></span></u><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><span style="border: none;">. </span></span><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Geldard decided on </span></span></span></span><u style="text-underline: #191919;"><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><a href="https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/country-urged-to-colour-your-day-for-christchurch-mosque-victims/#ath"><span style="border: none;"><span style="border: none;">Colour Your Day</span></span></a></span></u><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><span style="border: none;">: <span style="border: none;">“<span style="border: none;">Colour Your Day has come from asking how do
4.8 million<span style="border: none;"> people respond to an event like this? You
get a sense that there's this desire, and it's like people who have been quite
down don't know how to respond. So it's saying, let's just put on something
bright. It could be socks, it could be scarves, it could j<span style="border: none;">ust be mufti - you'll just see people in bright colours and
you'll know you are all together.”</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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gestures<span style="border: none;"> is that <span style="border: none;">they do <span style="border: none;">not go deeper than<span style="border: none;"> the displayed
symbolism<span style="border: none;">. While wearing colourful socks could <span style="border: none;">have <span style="border: none;">work<span style="border: none;">ed<span style="border: none;"> as <span style="border: none;">casual <span style="border: none;">week<span style="border: none;">end dressing, it being a
Friday –<span style="border: none;"> the day of prayer for Muslims, the day when
the attacks took place while they w<span style="border: none;">ere on their knees
in obeisance –<span style="border: none;"> the sense of joyousness <span style="border: none;">was <span style="border: none;">a bit incongruous. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><span style="border: none;">However, it was<span style="border: none;"> not as
disingenuous as wearing a scarf in so<span style="border: none;">lidarity. <span style="border: none;">As a Muslim<span style="border: none;"> woman who does not
wear one<span style="border: none;">, I often get <span style="border: none;">praised
for <span style="border: none;">my assumed breaking of shackles by the rightwing
and the liberals in India. <span style="border: none;">The hijab has been a red
rag for democratic regimes as well<span style="border: none;"> as feminists. <span style="border: none;">Curiously, b<span style="border: none;">oth <span style="border: none;">these <span style="border: none;">pro-choic<span style="border: none;">e proponents <span style="border: none;">use it to indicate <span style="border: none;">oppression and refuse to grant the wearer the dignity of
having made a choice to assert an identity. <span style="border: none;">They also
seem to forget that women are<span style="border: none;"> shamed <span style="border: none;">in the streets <span style="border: none;">for wearing this<span style="border: none;"> identity.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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solidarity <span style="border: none;">amounts to a <span style="border: none;">denial
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people <span style="border: none;">to stand up for themselves<span style="border: none;"> without <span style="border: none;">being caricatured, <span style="border: none;">howsoever <span style="border: none;">benevolent the motive <span style="border: none;">might be<span style="border: none;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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community is <span style="border: none;">not inclusive but exclusi<span style="border: none;">ve. It is <span style="border: none;">a declaration <span style="border: none;">that white is<span style="border: none;"> the mainstream, <span style="border: none;">the standard g<span style="border: none;">old. To belong, <span style="border: none;">immigrant<span style="border: none;">s<span style="border: none;"> <span style="border: none;">will have to look through this<span style="border: none;"> prism.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is a criminal, he is an extremist, but he will, when I speak, be nameless, and
to others I implore you: Speak the names of those who were lost rather than the
name of the man who took them. He may ha<span style="border: none;">ve sought
notoriety, but we in New <span style="border: none;">Zealand will give him
nothing –<span style="border: none;"> not even his name.” </span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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peop<span style="border: none;">le. His manifesto clearly stated<span style="border: none;"> that. <span style="border: none;">Terrorism by a white ma<span style="border: none;">n cannot be explai<span style="border: none;">ned away as an <span style="border: none;">attention-seeking exercise. <span style="border: none;">By
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<span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><span style="border: none;">Aiding in this process are <span style="border: none;">the
elite among the immigrants who rarely speak about such entrenched racism in
their adopted homes and help in sidestepp<span style="border: none;">ing the
dangerous fact that such violent responses are not really an exception that
commentators and Ms. Ardern<span style="border: none;"> herself makes it look
like<span style="border: none;">. They do the white thing by deifying a <span style="border: none;">man who lost his wife <span style="border: none;">in the
attacks <span style="border: none;">but </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-47602781/christchurch-shooting-survivor-says-he-forgives-his-wife-s-killer"><span style="border: none;"><span style="border: none;">forgave the killer</span></span></a></span><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><span style="border: none;"> because he represents <span style="border: none;">‘<span style="border: none;">the spirit of Islam<span style="border: none;">’<span style="border: none;">. How different is it from the
West creating binary stereotypes of the good Muslim and the bad Musli<span style="border: none;">m? </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an immigrant <span style="border: none;">speak<span style="border: none;"> up
against <span style="border: none;">supremacists, <span style="border: none;">a<span style="border: none;">nd not just with eggs, and unless<span style="border: none;">
Muslim<span style="border: none;"> societies<span style="border: none;"> stop<span style="border: none;"> feeling beholden for tokens, the white killer <span style="border: none;">will <span style="border: none;">remain in <span style="border: none;">whitened <span style="border: none;">public perception<span style="border: none;"> <span style="border: none;">merely <span style="border: none;">a
gunman seeking noto<span style="border: none;">riety <span style="border: none;">and
not the terrorist<span style="border: none;"> that <span style="border: none;">he
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="border: none; color: black;"><span style="border: none;">Despite all the <span style="border: none;">intellectual <span style="border: none;">titillation<span style="border: none;"> provided by an open letter where an <span style="border: none;">actor<span style="border: none;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: black;"><a href="https://thewire.in/218456/end-magnum-opus-i-felt-reduced-vagina/"><span style="border: none;"><span style="border: none;">claimed that she felt reduced to a vagina after watching </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="border: none;"><span style="border: none;">Padmaavat</span></span></i></a></span><span style="border: none; color: black;"><span style="border: none;"> (more on that later)<span style="border: none;">, the film did not reduce or elevate me to anything. <span style="border: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="border: none; color: black;"><span style="border: none;">I sat through </span></span><span style="border: none; color: black;"><span style="border: none;">it</span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="border: none; color: black;"><span style="border: none;">,</span></span></i><span style="border: none; color: black;"><span style="border: none;"> not squirming as</span></span><span style="border: none; color: black;"><span style="border: none;"> much as feeling detached. There was no emotional connect, as character after character piled on bravado and bluster in th<span style="border: none;">e automated manner of updated robots. </span></span></span><span style="border: none; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali has taken to making epic-type films that beneath their grandeur manage to camouflage the caricatures his characters come across as. </b>For a movie that spouted honour, it struck one as a weakling constantly seeking affirmation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The primary criticism of Padmaavat has been from the feminist point of view, and because one actor Swara Bhasker has decided to reduce the whole female population of India to genitals while smartly trying to win brownies by flattering the director with terms like “brilliant auteur” as well as the online coteries by adding mandatory references to “today’s India”, I’ll address a few points:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p> </o:p>“Yes, women have vaginas, but they have more to them as well. So their whole life need not be focused on the vagina, and controlling it, protecting it, maintaining it’s purity. (Maybe in the 13th century that was the case, but in the 21st century we do not need to subscribe to these limiting ideas. We certainly do not need to glorify them.)”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">You’ve got to be an obstetrician if that is all you see. This is ridiculous, whether the reference is to the film or to reality. Khilji has heard about Padmaavati’s beauty and wants to acquire her because “har nayaab cheez par hamara haq hai” (he has claims over every beautiful thing). His actions, at least according to this film, do not show him to be an aesthete and I’m afraid he does not appear to be terribly interested in the vagina either. His lust is essentially about jerking off the excess pressure of immense power he imagines he has.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">You can’t find the jauhar scene glorified and not have a problem with the glorification of a queen who conveniently married a married man and let the first wife get side-lined.</span><br />
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You cannot have a problem with women choosing to end their lives instead of falling prey to the enemy and not flinch when men routinely speak of embracing death fighting the same enemy. What is so valorous about the latter? That they don’t have a vagina? So who is being reductive?<br /><div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">You can’t talk about Nirbhaya, the Delhi gangrape victim’s brave fight against her assaulters and not see Padmaavati fighting a similar threat. For all we know, had Khilji made it anywhere close to her she, a warrior herself, would have put up a good fight. All women do, unless they are muffled, shackled or rendered immobile. <b>And people should just stop using rape and Dalit girls for their posh little consciences.</b></span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“I felt like all the ‘minor’ achievements that women and women’s movements have made over the years– like the right to vote, the right to own property, the right to education, equal pay for equal work…all of it was pointless; because we were back to basics.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There is so much hyperbole here that it sounds like she is cloning Bhansali. <b>Nobody, and certainly not rape victims, feels reduced to a vagina. They suffer from trauma not because their vagina was violated but because they were. </b>I wish people would stop demoting the strides in law and social justice regarding women only to use it to make the self-righteous point that they, as opposed to the rest, care. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“I understand that Jauhar and Sati are a part of our social history…but then so were the lynchings of blacks by murderous white mobs in the 19th century in the US – sensational, shocking dramatic social occurrences. Does that mean one should make a film about it with no perspective on racism? Or, without a comment on racial hatred?” </span></blockquote>
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Feroz Abbas Khan’s take on the Anarkali-Prince Salim love
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How could K.Asif’s landmark movie translate in the confined space of a stage,
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As a tribute it succeeds; it has the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>head-bowed quality about it, aware all the
time of looking up to an icon. And it has improvised marvellously. That battle
scene is breath-taking because it relies on lights, sound and choreography. The
same applies to the kathak interludes – these are professional dancers and, to
be honest, it was they who elevated the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pyar
kiya to darna kya</i> song sequence by adding heft to Anarkali’s challenge, and
pathos; in the film the song was about Madhubala. There was also an innovative
use of ‘mirrors’ and light to create the sheesh mahal, although the light
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There was also live singing. Neha Sargam as Anarkali did a
marvellous job, but was it necessary, considering it was the same music? It was
also rather disappointing when at curtains down, the announcer mentioned how
people weren’t convinced that it was live singing and asked her to sing a few
lines right there. To my mind, this was insulting to the artiste. The makers do
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If the original was about performances, this was not. For a supposedly
more intimate medium, the acting was alienating. Probably it is the stage where
expressions rely on voice and body language. Nissar Khan as Akbar was powerful
at moments and desultory at others. Sunil Palwal as Salim has presence, but
where was the angst? And where was the passion with Anarkali, the understated
caresses, that choke in the voice? As for Jodha, there is no real pining for a
son nor the conflict between suhaag and motherhood. Bahar’s - the daasi hoping
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had overtaken Madhubala in the qawaali not due to the lines but gumption (<a href="http://farzana-versey.blogspot.in/2013/04/sunday-ka-funda_28.html">aidedhugely by Shamshad Begum’s voice</a>).<o:p></o:p></div>
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revisit it ‘pictorially’, even if not entirely satisfactorily. Theatre, unlike
cinema, is not really a director’s medium. But here the director rules,
followed by stage design, lighting, choreography. It was treated like an
occasion. People were taking selfies before the posters in the lobby…after all
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Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-85276965577876773832017-10-14T14:20:00.000+05:302017-10-14T14:20:27.280+05:30Of Murder and Innocence: the Aarushi Case<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I would have been tempted to title this piece, ‘Nobody Killed Aarushi’, which has become the standard headline for media prominent stories where the murderer is not found or let off because of lack of evidence. This sort of headline acts like a salve for the media that feeds off a death, a murder, and sensationalises it to the most cringing level, and then when the verdict goes against all their salacious intent, they find relief in throwing irony in our face: ‘Nobody killed X,Y,Z.’</div>
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They blame the police, the CBI, false witnesses, everybody but themselves. In fact, after Thursday’s verdict pronouncing Aarushi’s parents Nupur and Rajesh Talwar not guilty, one finds media persons blaming the media. As though they had no part to play in it, as though their sudden concern for other victims of child marriage and rape makes any frikkin difference now, except to flaunt their throbbing consciences. They ask selfconsciously: do we bother about the poor? My question is: Did you? Did anybody even mourn for or raise questions about the murder of Hemraj, the domestic help of the Talwars who was killed on the same day of May 16, 2008?<br />
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There have been other court verdicts before this. It points to the fallibility of the judiciary, not to speak of its judgements not being watertight ever. This is the <a href="https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiXu8CX2u_WAhXDo48KHcSFDJUQFghEMAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Findianexpress.com%2Farticle%2Findia%2Faarushi-talwar-murder-case-rajesh-talwar-nupur-talwar-hemraj-allahabad-high-court-cbi-witness-was-tutored-and-evidence-tampered-4889448%2F&usg=AOvVaw2a_fdotDnw4JI0E2UglPOZ">latest</a>:<br />
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Ordering the release of Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, sentenced to life imprisonment four years ago by a special CBI court for the murder of their teenaged daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj in May 2008, the Allahabad High Court has meticulously detailed instances of falsification of evidence by investigating agencies — ranging from “subjective findings” by medical and forensic experts to tutoring of a witness and planting of another, evidence tampering to “deliberate concealment” of evidence.</blockquote>
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The Supreme Court had earlier restrained the media from scandalous reporting of what was then seen as the rape and murder of Aarushi. The judges were perturbed that the information the media had was either leaked by the investigating body, the CBI, or was made up of “imaginary reports”.<br />
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<b>I am surprised that none of the judges questioned Avirook Sen’s book <i>Aarushi</i> and Meghna Gulzar’s film <i>Talvar</i> that had pretty much the same insider look.</b> Since there is such a noise about the media reportage (some are saying this should be taught in journalism school on how not to report a murder, something you’d never hear these elite do over the murders of the dispossessed), one wonders how these efforts were not questioned since the case was still sub judice.<br />
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Most important cases have been leaked out to the media. If there are to be guidelines on reporting, will it prevent opinions? It was Aarushi’s mother who was on the TV channels a day after her daughter was killed. Was she dragged into it? Does anyone recall how Aarushi’s friends were giving out certificates to her? Does anyone even know that many of the ordinary people are trained before they go ‘live’ with their spontaneity?<br />
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The problem is when reportage turns into an agenda. It is not the business of the media to pronounce a verdict. Unfortunately, news channels need stories that are not about an occurrence. They rely increasingly on the ability to play messiah. The cult of the exposé is flawed for it starts with a premise and tries to prove it.<br />
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It is titillating to watch blurred faces or little black highlighters over body parts to convey that the newspaper or channel are protecting the identity of the victims. These are victims created by the media, just as they are transformed into heroes for no reason other than having once been victims before those cameras.<br />
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<b>Now that the CBI has become the bad guy, a gentle reminder that it was the CBI that had earlier washed its hands off the case</b>:<br />
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“The agency has filed a final report for the closure of the case on grounds of insufficient evidence in the competent court.”</blockquote>
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The CBI came into the picture only after the Noida police made no headway.<br />
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They had found a weapon, they had a reasonable motive – “immediate provocation”, they knew of missing files and a swapped vaginal swab, they knew that someone was tampering with evidence. Then, why was it so difficult to find out who and why?<br />
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It is impossible that the findings revealed absolutely nothing - the DNA sample? The brain-mapping? Who cleared the room before the police came in? It need not have been one person. These were people in different places doing different things. Who was calling the shots? And why?<br />
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The judgment speaks of falsification of evidence. What, then, is the truth? Who will try the falsifiers? Who will find the killers? What will Nupur and Rajesh Talwar do next? It must be tough to have a reputation sullied and so many years lost in prison and it must have been even more tough on them to have a daughter murdered in the next room and the place cleaned up while they were around just a few metres away. They should file a case against the Noida police, the CBI and the hospital authorities for shirking their duty and making a mockery of justice. And the media for making a mockery of everything.<br />
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They have the power, being educated and relatively better-off than many who do not have the means. Let this be a fight for the silent Aarushis and the silenced ones.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Much of the material here has been collated from my previous posts.</span></i><br />
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Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-25357942245582535172017-08-30T18:50:00.002+05:302017-08-30T19:23:10.678+05:30India’s Tryst with Godmen Criminals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Charlatan godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan, head of the Dera Sacha Sauda, has been <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/gurmeet-ram-rahim-singh-sentenced-to-20-years-of-imprisonment-dera-sacha-sauda-chief/"><span class="s2">sentenced</span></a> to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for the rape of two of his devotees. To prepare for this court pronouncement, the army had to conduct a flag march, the police was on high alert, some areas were placed under curfew. One might have imagined that a terrorist was on the loose.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>In India when a godman is arrested on rape or murder charges, his followers can and will <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/dera-sacha-sauda-guru-ram-rahim-rape-case-verdict-live-updates-panchkula-sirsa-haryana-punjab-4812524/"><span class="s3">take to the streets</span></a> to avenge a court order. This happened on Friday, August 26 as a Central Bureau of Investigation court convicted Singh. The country was shocked that 200,000 of his band of followers had congregated well before the verdict precisely as a strategy to create mayhem — they stoned building windows, torched buses and cars, including television broadcast vans; 30 people were killed and over 250 injured. What the country does not get shocked over is the existence of such fake gurus and the respect they command among those who matter and their constant presence in the media.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Gurmeet Singh has been sentenced for a crime he committed 15 years ago; the sexual assault on the two young women continued over three years. It was Ram Chander Chhatrapati, a journalist from a small local Hindi newspaper called Poora Sach (the full truth), who had exposed the sins of the saint. A few months after he carried the letter of a victim, he was shot dead outside his house. The murder case is still pending.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://m.indiatoday.in/lite/story/sadhvi-anonymous-letter-full-text-baba-gurmeet-ram-rahim-dera-sacha-sauda/1/1034495.html">The letter</a></span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-stroke: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> was addressed to the then prime minister, BJP’s Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The young woman had given a detailed account of her trauma. She was not the only one. Her turn to be used came once every month. When she was sent for the first time, Singh was sprawled in his bed watching porn, a remote in his hand, a revolver by his side. Her parents who were followers had insisted that she join the sect. She was stunned by what she saw. She is educated and asked questions. He silenced her protests with threat, flashing her parents’ devotion as well as his clout.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">And then he used his spiritual hold over her: “He told me that at the time of becoming his disciple, I had dedicated my wealth, body and soul to him and he had accepted my offering. By this logic, your body is mine now.”</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">In fact, many female disciples were asked to go into his private chambers for ‘maafi’, forgiveness. He sold sexual assault as penitence although there was nothing they had to repent for. “We appear like devis (pious women), but our situation is that of prostitutes.”</span><br />
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US">It was always about religion, perhaps by a few skewed minds. 25 years ago Bal Thackeray, the leader of the militant Shiv Sena, had asked for the disenfranchisement of Muslims. He would address huge rallies at an open ground referring to Muslims as “katuas”, the cut ones without a foreskin. After the Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya, on the instructions of these political parties, and the riots reached what was then Bombay, the men in the streets would point at the crotches of Muslim men and snigger, “katua”. They were stopped and asked to strip for a random check by random people. Unlike the Sikhs after the riots in 1984 who discarded their turbans and shaved off their hair to protect themselves, Muslims could not get back their foreskin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US">The fallout of such brainwashing is not restricted to the extremist Hindutva proponents alone. There is a not-so-subtle attempt to deflect from the Hinduness of the terror by liberals too. An academic who has taken it upon himself to explain India to Indians on social media from his perch in the US has </span></span><span class="Hyperlink4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><a href="https://www.newslaundry.com/2017/06/26/on-the-global-muslim-victimhood-industry"><span style="color: #222222;">written</span></a></span></span><span class="None"><span lang="EN-US"> about the global Muslim victimhood industry by playing victim: “One cannot use the term ‘Muslim terror’ (but Hindu or Christian or Left terror is fine) or even Islamic terror without worry of being termed communal, bigoted, or Islamophobic. The appropriate phrase is 'Islamist terror,' which, we are expected to clarify, has nothing to do with Islam.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-52440126447478026352016-11-20T20:04:00.000+05:302016-11-20T20:15:07.952+05:30Show me the money<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="text-align: start; clear: both;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTMUxyo1JzmzyTAe0bvJ2LXtcroK2_pKidsKrpjoPJq55TI5JiBX6j6Pfc9Gg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTMUxyo1JzmzyTAe0bvJ2LXtcroK2_pKidsKrpjoPJq55TI5JiBX6j6Pfc9Gg" width="320"></font></a></div><br>
</div>For over ten days now, all of India is talking about money. A nation where over 32 per cent people live below the poverty line, and where some have not even seen big denomination currency notes, this itself seems like dark comedy. Dark comedy becomes a reality when the demonetisation move ostensibly introduced to get rid of black money mocks itself with a bureaucrat seeking and getting a bribe in the new currency notes. <br>
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On November 8, <a herf="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/live-pm-narendra-modi-addresses-nation/1/805755.html"><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Prime Minister Modi decided that all ₹500 and ₹1000 notes were not to be legal tender from midnight onwards.</span></a> This pushed even those who did not have black money to rush and offload these stacks. <br>
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A lot has been said and discussed on the subject, and it is rather obvious that the PM's populist move, and the false premise of how such money is used for terror funding, is not going to work this time. <br>
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What the overnight tamasha has done, though, is to challenge the social dynamics of class. Suddenly, anybody not categorised as poor is assumed to be rich. <br>
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I did not suffer because I did not have too many old notes with me. Just ₹15,000. The just is deliberate when you consider that four people in India would survive on this much for one month. As though this is not humbling enough, there have been stories of deaths, violence, illness, quarrels, hunger, of marriages postponed, of empty markets, half-stocked stores...people are affected.<br>
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I thought I was the affected, too. On the first day, I landed up at the bank. This was most unusual for me. I suspect I wanted to experience the moment. A friend I bumped into said, "Why do you need money? I thought you lived on ideas."<br>
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"Yes. But what if right now that idea is money?"<br>
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In the queue I did not see any poverty. In keeping with its international reputation, the bank was plying us with tea and coffee. We, the few people ahead and behind, were jokey and relaxed. We were more concerned about Americans under Donald Trump. But live jokes can't be played in a loop. After an hour and a bit, I gave up. <br>
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My banking is these days restricted to using the ATM. One is in control there and not waiting before a teller who will scrutinise your cheque to authenticate whether your money is indeed yours. <br>
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The doctor did not have a credit card swiping machine. His secretary pointed at a bundle of notes that were used to return as change. I didn't have the cash and I had got this appointment after a month. "You stay quite nearby, don't you? Then you can issue a cheque."<br>
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"Oh, that would be nice. I'll be back soon."<br>
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"We have that much trust in you."<br>
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I wondered why I was trusted. This was my first visit, we did not know each other. Trust in social situations is based on class factors - I wore a fragrance, was reasonable dressed, seems educated, and spoke in English. Would this courtesy have been extended to a person who would speak in Hindi or Marathi, who would be shabbily dressed? <br>
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We, all of us, judge people on superficial aspects. It isn't always wrong to do so, but is it a foolproof yardstick? <br>
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<br><div style="text-align: start;"><font color="#000000" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://images.financialexpress.com/2016/11/Rs-2000-note.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" src="http://images.financialexpress.com/2016/11/Rs-2000-note.jpg" height="213" width="320"></a></font></div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;"><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Eight days later when I managed to get the new notes, I had my first encounter with the streets. At a small store where I made some purchases, I told the seller that I had the ₹2000 notes and he would have to get me the change and, no, I would not accept the old currency. In the next ten minutes he had tapped people around his store and brought me the change, some in ₹10 denomination. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was accepting old money because he had no choice. "I wait in the bank for 4 hours to exchange and then come here. Can't afford to lose clients."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"But there is a limit to the amount changed..."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We try all sources...different banks, different people."</span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">***</span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">At the signal, a eunuch approached me. "Dus, bees rupaiyya de do, sab achcha hoga..."</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">For 10-20 bucks I was being promised utopia. I had no change and said so.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">"To phir 500 de do, saree khareed loongi aur tumko yaad karoongi..."</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">For 500 bucks, I'd be remembered by a eunuch. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">This was an unusual barter, especially since I have an inbuilt need to be forgotten. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">***</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Any such upheaval brings forth genuine sympathy, and then there is a segment that will ride on it. On public fora, such displays reek of opportunism where this becomes one more chance to <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">build up a samaritan profile. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div>
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Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-71262564657045100692016-09-16T21:40:00.000+05:302016-09-16T21:40:26.065+05:30"Come near me..."<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Few people realise that you could fear the familiar. The places and spaces you've been to before might have memories that claw at you. We stand by the door because of trepidation, unsure of our ability to walk beyond...<br />
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Anyhow, here is one trance-like walk:<br />
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"We've been here before, don't fear me</div>
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Don't stand by the door, come near me</div>
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We've been here before, don't fear me</div>
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Don't stand by the door, come near me"<br />
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Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-72262687565827722142016-08-28T19:14:00.000+05:302016-08-28T20:04:21.550+05:30The Naked and the Political<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
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<b>A naked man addressing politicians in the assembly <i>should</i> raise eyebrows. But in India this is cause for reverence. It is the same India whose moral police has problems with the way people dress up.</b> <br />
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So why is it okay for Tarun Sagarji <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/tarun-sagar-jain-religious-leader-monsoon-session-female-foeticide-eradication-pakistan-haryana-2998501/">to be nude before MLAs</a> at the Haryana Assembly, discussing subjects ranging from female foeticide to Pakistan? Because he is a monk of the Digamber sect. This sect believes in being 'sky-clad', and one accepts the different forms of worship and the reasons for it. <br />
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However, one does not see other Digamber Jains go around without clothes. Besides, if it is the Muni's religious uniform, then he should be adhering to it in the religious confines. The Assembly is not one. <b>Religious figures of various stripes should not even be permitted in these halls, let alone become political leaders, as indeed some are.</b> <br />
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The whole point of abstaining from clothes is to divest oneself of comfort and arrogance, of specific markings and attachment. <br />
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Would these ministers listening to him in rapt attention offer the same respect to any other member not clothed according to their moral prism? They would be sniggered at, and if a woman we to dress 'inappropriately', whatever that means, then she would be objectified. <br />
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As happens often, much of the reaction is not to the monk, but to a response to him. Music director Vishal Dadlani is said to have "mocked" him when he posted on a site: "If you voted for these people, YOU are responsible for this absurd nonsense! No #AchcheDin, just @NoKachcheDin ."<br />
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He belongs to the Aam Aadmi Party, and his chief Arvind Kejriwal was quick to say: "Tarun Sagar ji Maharaj is a very reverred saint, not just for jains but everyone. Those showing disrespect is unfortunate and shud stop" and "I met Shri Tarun Sagar ji Maharaj last year. Our family regularly listens to his discourses on TV. We deeply respect him and his thoughts."<br />
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Ideally, Mr. Kejriwal should be questioning religious people being in a political space. But, he is himself at the mercy of them. Nobody should care what he or his family personally believe in, but by stating it as a response he conveys clearly that he is a part of the rotten system. Vishal apologised and says he will quit politics. <br />
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We cannot blame only the Hindutva parties, for even the secular ones kowtow to religious leaders from every faith and use them to influence the electorate even though they have precious little real influence. <br />
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I am not against religion or anybody practising it. We all need spiritual sustenance (and not everybody can handle their drinks well!), but, seriously, god is in her/his heaven and therefore perhaps nothing is right with the world. <br />
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Speaking of which, this photograph of Olympics winning athlete P.V. Sindhi on her way to thank the deity. Again, this is personal. <br />
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But India's showing at the Olympics is not something to crow about. The few exceptions only underline the apathy. Besides, the athletes have complained about neglect and paltry conditions. It is their talent alone that stands with them despite everything.<br />
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If they think the talent is god-given, then it should be looked after by the gods too. Or at the very least the gods should do something about Indian officials. <br />
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Indians are big on 'mannat', asking for favours at various shrines and dargahs. In that sense, we are all greasing palms, if not of babus then babas. <br />
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Speaking of babus and government servants, here is Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Chouhan carried by policemen when he was on a tour of flood-hit areas in his state. Was the water too wet?<br />
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</div>Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-90145524886206028272016-07-31T19:35:00.000+05:302016-07-31T19:40:02.905+05:30The Defence Minister as Local Bully<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<b>Did the Defence Minsiter of India have to <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/parrikar-takes-swipe-at-actor-aamir-khan-intolerance-remark-those-who-speak-like-this-must-be-taught-lesson-2945440/">sound like a gully bully</a> to make a point about the rightwing version of patriotism?</b> <br />
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Unfortunately, his lesser crime is being highlighted and not the one that's truly dangerous. <br />
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Let's get done with the lesser one first. <br />
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He took a potshot at actor Aamir Khan's comment sometime last year about his wife feeling insecure about living in India anymore. One may or may not agree with such sentiments or their expression, and the canny Khan almost took back all that he had said, but dragging it in reveals a gameplan. And that gameplan is to ensure that those who critique the government are boycotted. Aamir lost his endorsement deal with Snapdeal and Parrikar said, "Some of our people are very smart, I know. There was a team which was working on this."<br />
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<b>The Defence Minister is admitting that the BJP has a team that will see to it that your work and livelihood can be snatched from you if you utter a word against the government or the country</b>: “I am only trying to point out…if anyone speaks like this, he has to be taught a lesson of his life. That was a very arrogant statement, we have to love our nation.”<br />
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The BJP has been in power for barely two years now and the party's supporters have shown us just how much they love the nation by stilling voices — verbally or by putting an end to the owner of the voice.<br />
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Randeep S. Surjewala, spokesperson of the Congress asked, "Can this be the 'Raj Dharma?" Under no circumstances must this become common lexicon. The Indian republic does not need any such terminology. We have had enough references to epics that, in a sense, confirm the Hindutva Rashtra dream. <br />
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<b>What is far more worrying is that Parrikar has justified the use of force and weapons by the armed forces with the taunt, "I do not want to train the Army to use the lathi."</b> Earlier this month, following the killing of Burhan Wani in Kashmir, the police and the army used pellets that grievously injured and blinded civilians. This goes against every norm of civilised society, not to forget human rights abuses. <br />
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The army knows how to use the lathi when forcing out confessions. There is nothing innocent and tame about the lathi; the person who holds it wields control. A mob running amok pelting stones in anger is often first shown the lathi that transmogrifies into a gun. Perhaps, it is a gun already. <br />
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The minister further stated:<br />
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“Where to use the Army is a civilian decision. However, whenever the Army is used, full power has to be there, otherwise do not use the Army."<br />
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In sensitive areas, the Army is used as a political tool. That is as far as a civilian decision is concerned. <b>But if you arm the Forces with teeth and the power to use weapons at any time, then it is about militarising a region and not for civilian support.</b> <br />
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When called upon in civilian areas, the job of the Army cannot be to shoot at sight but to maintain the peace. It should also have mastered target training and not hit at random people, including children. One major had the audacity to ask on national television, "What was a child doing there?"<br />
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Children, women and men are free to roam the areas. Even if some militants occasionally use them as shields, the figures of killings just do not add up. <br />
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<b>More importantly, it is time ministers stopped using organisations to promote patriotism politics.</b> The person who is killed on the land he tilled and lived off had a very close association with and love for it. Every individual who lives in the country is a nationalist, especially the one who wants the betterment of the country and questions it. Farzana Verseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891229615361937135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761020.post-22198098820617102742016-07-27T19:54:00.000+05:302016-07-29T20:34:32.342+05:30How Social Media Dishonoured Qandeel Baloch<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4onJ5dldUCE/V5jDFjYTDAI/AAAAAAAAIIM/RIYSL57GMkwekXOPVM7KSb496ldONpw3ACLcB/s1600/qandeel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4onJ5dldUCE/V5jDFjYTDAI/AAAAAAAAIIM/RIYSL57GMkwekXOPVM7KSb496ldONpw3ACLcB/s320/qandeel.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><br />
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<b>Qandeel Baloch sometimes looked like Amy Winehouse; her death was as tragic as Amy's. Both were on drugs. Winehouse was on the hard stuff; Baloch on the harder one.</b> <br />
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Addiction to social media is narcotic. I do not mean the persistent need to check the walls and timelines or click on likes, or even to voice an opinion or an inanity, but the recreating of life online — to be completely subsumed by the persona one has birthed as well as the perceptions. In fact, Baloch was no more her own creation. She was an opinion. As she had said, "Love me or hate me both are in my favour. If you love me I Will always be in your heart, if you hate me I'll always be in your mind."<br />
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In the real world, she was killed by her brother — sedated and then strangulated, as her parents slept in the other room, sedated too. This murder falls into the honour-killing category. And immediately, we hear of the yawn-producing argument that these murders should be called dishonour-killings because, they ask, where's the honour. <br />
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<b>Such ridiculous assertions forget that by doing so they suggest the victim would have brought dishonor as much as the perpetrator has, when we are in fact talking about misplaced ideas of honour, prevalent in almost all societies.</b> <br />
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In Pakistan, the victim's family can forgive the man. Baloch's father has refused. He wants to wreak vengeance upon the son. One article even quoted the parent calling out, "Qandeel, Qandeel!" Strange, because that was not the name she was given at birth. She was Fouzia Azeem. Qandeel Baloch was the pseudonym she chose for herself. To escape, among other things, memories of being forcibly married off by her parents when she was a teen. <br />
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It was her new life that took care of them. Baloch was the only earning member. Her brother says he killed her because of the stuff she posted. But it could also be because his male ego could not handle being dependent on a sister, that too one who was unapologetic about her self-portrayal.<br />
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The latest news is that her mother says the brother was taunted by his friends regarding his sister's shenanigans, somehow softening the opinion against him. Nobody seems to want to take responsibility for judging her. She is now, as she was then, just a daughter, a sister, a trigger for the self-righteous. <br />
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Qandeel Baloch was not as unusual a phenomenon as is made out. The pretty provocative at 26 is often what rebellions are made of. I watched an interview in which she referred to herself as a social media sensation. That was her identity. <br />
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<b>It is no different from the social media celebrities around who primarily feed their followers minutiae of their lives — the animals they rear, the food they eat, the places they visit, the clothes they wear.</b> They flash these as a badge of frankness, when what such trivia does is to act as a camouflage for their opinions and feelings or, more likely, lack of them. <br />
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They feed on events and trolls. The more trolls they get for a stray comment the more they begin to market their boldness. Being in-your-face is projected as honesty. The cliques to which they belong — and they sure as hell wouldn't survive without them — ensure that their machinery is well-lubricated with their fan-like leech behaviour. <br />
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The Qandeel supporters were different. They might have enjoyed her exhibitionism, but they could not possibly invest in her emotionally because they felt they were not equal. As long as she could be patronised, it was okay. In some cases, she reminded them of their own struggles. But, yet again, there was a kid glove treatment. <br />
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I watched <a href="https://youtu.be/4hyMTY3q3JE">The Ali Saleem Late Night Show</a> where she appeared alongside Pakistani comic actor Rauf Lala. The latter had the audacity to leer at her and make it seem like doing so was a part of his acceptance of her. He resorted to the typical subcontinental trope of, "You are like my sister." She shot back, "Can't you say daughter?" He agreed, in the same leering manner, "Ok, ok, like a child I've rocked in my lap."<br />
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If you think this was just another character from the entertainment industry, then you are wrong. <b>I've witnessed much sniggering by Pakistani liberals online. Upon her death, they might have surely spoken some shit about how horrible honour killing is and how she was merely a misguided youngster.</b> Short of calling her a floozy, because they are so desperate to be politically correct, they meant just that. <br />
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Qandeel, obviously, had a different opinion of herself and her agenda. In a Facebook post a day before her death, she had written:<br />
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<blockquote>"I believe I am a modern day feminist. I believe in equality. I need not to choose what type of women should be. I don't think there is any need to label ourselves just for sake of society. I am just a women with free thoughts free mindset and I LOVE THE WAY I AM."</blockquote><br />
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But this love for herself was the result of going regularly viral due to the 'love' of others. Did the liberal society ever grant her the status of feminist? Even Mathira, a model and actress known for her item numbers, had mentioned in an earlier interview about her drawing the line somewhere as opposed to Qandeel, who apparently knew of no such line. <br />
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<b>Qandeel did a bad version of twerking, she wore transparent clothes and seduced the camera. The viewers were added bonus. And she sang. That's what she wanted to do. That's what nobody was interested in.</b> Unless she sang wearing night clothes in bed just before signing off in a video she shot to share with strangers. <br />
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Did anybody notice her voice? Clearly not. Even in that 'understanding' interview with Ali Saleem, the host made her run on a treadmill and sing. To be fair, he made the other guest do so too, but Rauf Lala had no singing ambitions. Qandeel did. <br />
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But she was just time-pass for those on social media who even as they while away the hours in their echo chambers look down on people like Qandeel who do the same.<br />
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They refuse to accept her not only on her terms, but even on theirs, should she have made it. She had to be kept in her place, even as they pretended not to show her her place. <br />
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<b>“Snapchat or drought?” demanded Arnab Goswami on Newshour. That one cryptic query bears witness to how reductive debates are and what freedom of expression has come down to. </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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A standup comic Tanmay Bhat put up a short video where he impersonated Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar in a mock battle. Impersonation and mimicry are a staple of comedians and if done well can caricature the subjects and throw in more than just laughs. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Tanmay Bhat does nothing of the sort. It’s the kind of thing your friends might slap their thighs over as you crack off-colour jokes at the pub, and that too only if you are paying for the drinks. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>However, everyone has their rights. He to do what he did, and I to find it objectionable. But, there are people who will fight for his right to be stupid but not yours to be offended by such stupidity. </b>And how do they justify it? <o:p></o:p></div>
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It so happens that the MNS party and the like issued threats calling for the removal of the video, and of beating up Tanmay. The police too got into the act. <o:p></o:p></div>
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All of this happened after the controversy broke out. It is ridiculous to assume that those who object to the video want it censored or the comedian arrested or harmed in any way. (I am putting it up, too.) If they want a bloody disclaimer with that line, “I may not agree with what you say but I’ll defend your right to say it”, then I’ll just ask them to shut up since they think there will be fewer clicks on their liberalism were they to defend another’s right to have a differing opinion. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>I have one major objection to that video, and it is Tanmay as Sachin poking fun at Lata’s age – her face looks like it has been in water for eight days apparently – and urging her to die. To anybody who has elderly parents, this should hurt deeply. </b>It isn’t about the pop taunt of “hurt sentiments” – it is closer to the bone. You are a hypocrite if you go online to outrage over an old person being ill-treated by her family or post pained captions on seeing pictures of old age homes but think that Mr. Tanmay Bhat’s act is just fine. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The funny thing is that the Tanmay camp finds it offensive when there are girth jokes about him. Fat-shaming, they say. It is and it is offensive. Wonder why they do not find age-shaming offensive too. Clearly, a level-playing field satisfies nobody.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They say people are just obsessed with this icons business and both are Bharat Ratnas. The irony is that even suppose they are ‘protected species’, just what are these urban legends like Tanmay Bhat? One does not see social media denizens support the right of a Johny Lever or a Kamaal R. Khan for similar ‘humour’; they are, in fact, dismissed as crass. This proves that it is not about freedom of speech but about elitist cliques.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b>For those who think Tanmay Bhat as well his AIB group are independent-minded rebels, do not forget that they had sent their queries in advance to be vetted for their roast on Bollywood </b>celebrities and apologised to the Church. [I had written about <a href="http://farzana-versey.blogspot.in/2015/02/cry-censorship-then-apologise-aib.html">AIB Knockout's fake fight for FoE</a>]<br />
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Somebody even posted that those “hounding Tanmay” would return after a couple of days to their old task of “harassing Muslims”. This is just so pathetic to even put them on par. The hounding is done by some political parties/idiots; minority harassment is social behavior in its varied forms.</div>
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Also, all manner of caste and regionalism has come into play, and while these aspects of the ‘hounders’ (including weirdly enough the people spoofed) are highlighted, the comedian’s caste etc. are not dragged in. One says it is because Lata and Sachin are Brahmins people are protecting them, another says Marathi pride should be hurt by drought in Maharashtra and not a Snapchat video. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Nobody can deny that casteism is prevalent in India, but in this case is it being milked dry to support bad humour, reducing the genuine debate over it. Ask these same people to do a Snapchat funny video of our other Brahmins – TV anchors and newspaper editors (who should naturally stand for their FoE) and they have no answer.<br />
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I suspect some even think that the comedian was making an anti-casteist statement...except that the Brahmin Lata trills to Sachin, "Vinod (Kambli) is better than you". Kambli is from a backward class community. And if we really want to get into this, then it is again the Bhat way to get a high-caste to legitimise him. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The worst is dragging in the drought. Media people who were pained about the time wasted on such stupid debates as against the drought went on to host shows discussing Tanmay Bhat. Do they even have a spine, forget a conscience? </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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The drought vs. Snaphat idea is opportunistic and insensitive. Nobody is censoring the drought, so give it attention, and not only when it is ‘happening’ to do so. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Then there were those saints who said if you don’t like it don’t watch it. They seem to have reached a Zen state where they know without watching whether something is likeable or not. And if switching off is the answer to deal with what we find offensive, then I guess we can apply if to hate speech and government policies too. In fact, these zombies probably do, except for they Twitter/Facebook forays where they lend their shoulders to the martyrs they create. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Director Mahesh Bhatt posted this quote by George Carlin:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I think it's the duty of a comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Yeah sure. Our PM has been doing this for a while now. And the joke is on us.</div>
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