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HINDU GIRL TELLS SUPREME COURT SHE WOULD RATHER DIE THAN CONVERT TO ISLAM
SEIZED by an influential Muslim, with the "political cover" of an elected official, 19 year old Rinkel Kumari launches a desperate appeal to the courts. “Justice is denied Hindus in Pakistan” and therefore asks to" kill me here "in the courtroom. The family, after reporting to police, forced to leave the village in Sindh. Each year there are 300 forced marriages and conversions
Islamabad (AsiaNews) - "In Pakistan there is justice only for Muslims, justice is denied Hindus. Kill me here, now, in court. But do not send me back to the Darul-Aman [Koranic school] ... kill me". This is the desperate, heartbreaking outburst of Rinkel Kumari, a Hindu girl aged 19, who has entrusted her heartfelt appeal to the judges of the Supreme Court in Islamabad. Her story is similar to that of many other young women and girls belonging to religious minorities - Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Ahmadis - kidnapped by extremist groups or individuals, most of the time lords or local mafia, which convert them by force and then marry them . And that is what the girl said on 26 March, before the judges of the capital's court.
The drama of Rinkel Kumari, a student of Mirpur Mathelo, a small village in the province of Sindh, began the evening of February 24: A handful of men seized her and delivered her a few hours later into the hands of a wealthy Muslim scholar, the man then called her parents, warning them that their daughter "wants to convert to Islam."
Nand Lal, the girl's father, a teacher of an elementary school, accused Naveed Shah, an influential Muslim, of kidnapping his daughter. The man has the "political cover" provided by Mian Mittho, an elected National Assembly Member, suspected of aiding and abetting. After identifying the perpetrators of the kidnapping of his daughter, he was forced to leave the area of origin to escape the threats of people affiliated with the local mafia. The father found refuge and welcome in Gurdwara in Lahore, in Punjab province, with the rest of his family.
As often happens in these cases, even the judiciary is complicit: a local judge ordered that the girl should be given to the Muslims, because her conversion is "the result of a spontaneous decision" and also stated the marriage was above board. A claim that was repeated on February 27, at the hearing before the court, after which the girl was "renamed" Faryal Shah.
However, the story of Rinkel is not an isolated case: every month between 25 and 30 young people suffer similar abuses, for a yearly total of about 300 conversions and forced marriages. Hindu girls - but also Christian - who are torn from their family and delivered into the hands of their husbands / torturers.
On March 26, she appeared before the judges of the Supreme Court in Islamabad, while the Hindu community waited with bated breath for the girl's statements in court. To avoid pressure, the presiding judge ordered the courtroom cleared and - later - the dramatic testimony was relayed: in Pakistan, "there is no" justice, "kill me here but do not send me back" to the kidnappers.
Speaking to AsiaNews Fr. Anwar Patras, the Diocese of Rawalpindi, condemned "with force" the kidnapping and forced conversion. "The Hindus in Sindh - adds the priest - live a hard life. The reality is getting harder for them, they are forced to migrate because the state is unable to protect them and their property.
The Importance of Bhai Dooj
For Hindus, the stories behind each festival play a very important role in the formation of their culture and have a very deep significance and values. Most of the Indian festivals are attached to specific characters and personalities that help the masses to understand and know the true significance of the festival. Just like all-important Indian Festivals, Bhai dooj also has a story to follow that have carved a niche with its unique presence and strength.
Through generations, the story of Bhai Dooj has been passed from generation to generation either by word of mouth or through carefully stored scriptures. The narration of the story marks the end of the Bhai dooj puja. Once the various rituals of Bhai dooj such as the sister applying the teeka on the forehead of the brother, giving him the eatables and in return receiving the gifts are over, the women and children sit around, to hear the story behind Bhai Dooj from the elders of the family.
The story goes that once there was a family living in a village that had only a sister and a brother. The sister was very elder to her brother, thus when she got married, the brother was at a very tender age. The boy did not remember any thing about his sister's marriage. After the marriage, the sister never returned to her mother's home. As the brother grew up, the image of her sister started fading with each passing years. He terribly missed his sister, especially on the Bhai Dooj day, as he used to see his friends with teeka on their forehead and plates full of sweets.
On one particular Bhai dooj, when the boy had turned up into a handsome young boy, he inquired his mother about the reason as to why his sister never visited her original home after her marriage. The mother replied that she
Through generations, the story of Bhai Dooj has been passed from generation to generation either by word of mouth or through carefully stored scriptures. The narration of the story marks the end of the Bhai dooj puja. Once the various rituals of Bhai dooj such as the sister applying the teeka on the forehead of the brother, giving him the eatables and in return receiving the gifts are over, the women and children sit around, to hear the story behind Bhai Dooj from the elders of the family.
The story goes that once there was a family living in a village that had only a sister and a brother. The sister was very elder to her brother, thus when she got married, the brother was at a very tender age. The boy did not remember any thing about his sister's marriage. After the marriage, the sister never returned to her mother's home. As the brother grew up, the image of her sister started fading with each passing years. He terribly missed his sister, especially on the Bhai Dooj day, as he used to see his friends with teeka on their forehead and plates full of sweets.
On one particular Bhai dooj, when the boy had turned up into a handsome young boy, he inquired his mother about the reason as to why his sister never visited her original home after her marriage. The mother replied that she
Why Media Is Silent Over The Demolished Mandirs?
On May 1, a dargah, reported to be 200 year-old was demolished in Vadodara inviting ‘violent protests’ from Muslims in that area. In the course of the protests four were killed in police firing. The Times of India (May 2) carried a brief report on page 1 which said that "the demolition of a mazaar that encroached on a road caused a major riot" in Vadodara, "leaving four persons dead and over 30 injured". A fuller report on page 8 began by saying that "the demolition of more than 200 year old dargah by civic authorities spared a widespread violence in which four persons were killed in clashes and police firing..." Para 4 of the inside story said that "the trouble began when a VMC squad began demolishing the dargah which authorities said was encroaching on government land". Para 13 of the report said that "the minority community had requested authorities and city Mayor Sunil Solanki not to demolish the dargah as it was more than 200 years old and its destruction could hurt the feelings of the community". No newspaper explained how a 200-years old dargah could encroach on government land. Did it take 200 years for the authorities to realise that the dargah was built on government land and was an encroachment?
The Hindu ( May 2) carried two stories on the subject. The front page report said in para 4 that Minister of State for Home, Amit Shah, made it clear that "it was not a communal violence but a clash between police and Municipal Corporation staff on one side and Muslim residents who objected to the demolition of the dargah on the other". Para 9 of the report quoted Mayor Sunil Solanki as saying that "the demolition of unauthorised structures had been going on for a fortnight to widen roads and that nearly 1, 500 illegal structure had been removed, including more than a dozen religious places of different communities and that at many places the members of different communities volunteered to remove the obstructions. The mayor further said that three meetings had been held with representatives of the Muslim residents but they had not volunteered to remove the dargah and that the road needed to be widened to accommodate increasing traffic. In para 11 the report quoted Municipal Commissioner R.K.Pathak as saying that the demolition of unauthorised structures would continue despite the disturbances. Some questions arise: Which are the "more than a dozen religious places of different communities" that were demolished? Shouldn’t they —and their importance to the communities—be mentioned?
Was the dargah—or an extension of it—really encroaching on government land? How old were the "religious places" of different communities and why were they allowed to be built on government land in the first place? No reporter of any newspaper and certainly not the news agencies seem to have done any home work leaving one to believe that an injustice has been done to ‘the minority community’. How come that Vadodara Municipality looked the other way when "nearly 1,500 illegal structures" were built on government land? Questions, questions, questions. Where is the dargah situated couldn’t any newspaper provide a sketch of the area showing where the dargah is located and why it is imperative that it should be demolished? If the dargah needed to demolished was any attempt made to convince the Muslims of its need and at what level was the issue discussed and who participated in the discussions with representatives of the Muslim community? One is afraid that the story about the demolition of the dargah has been treated too casually. In Saudi Arabhia dargahs or masjids are routinely demolished; only recently a Pakistani paper reported that the ancient residence of the Prophet in Saudi Arabia was demolished to make way for a high-rise apartment.
Apparently in Saudi Arabia no particular significance is attached to masjids. Here in India one has to be careful in such matters. Already the National Commission for Minorities has reportedly urged the Gujarat State Government to conduct a judicial enquiry into the matter to ascertain when the classification of the dargah as an "encroachment" was correctly done. The Vadodara Municipality would have been wise to issue a Press Note long before the demolition of illegal structures was undertaken stating what the situation was. We get into communal trouble needlessly when a little thoughtfulness would have gone a long way in promoting understanding of the issues involved.
Was the dargah really an encroachment or did it just happen that it was standing in the way of the planners? It may be pointed that in Mumbai, under almost similar circumstances, a Muslim place of worship at Dhobi Dalao was left to stand even if it did not help in the smooth flow or vehicular traffic? At times it may be necessary to make some small concessions to any community in the larger interests of peace. The demolition of the dargah in Vadodara cannot be treated lightly considering that it might have national repercussions.
Our secularists would be the first to attack the Gujarat Government on "communal" grounds. One has also to blame poor—or thoughtless—reporting. If, for example, it was reported that violence erupted when "a dargah, along with one dozen religious places of different communities" was demolished, then at least the impression would have been given that a dargah alone was not singled out for demolition. The fact of religious places of different communities being demolished was not mentioned by many reports and The Hindu reported it in para 9. If a dargah has stood on its site for 200 years, obviously it could not possibly have been an encroachment. It can’t be given the same ranking as other religious places of different communities. Illegal ‘Hindu’ shrines are frequently built in cities on pavements which the authorities turn a blind eye to. Is it too much to ask our municipal authorities to be sensitive to religious issues. Gujarat is not Saudi Arabia; the latter may not think too highly of mere buildings under any name. But Muslims in India are sensitive and up to a point their sensitivity needs to be respected. The problem of widening roads is a perennial one and most cities in India face it.
According to one report, the mazaar of Chishti Rashid-ud-din was 300—not 200—years old, but demolishing it has cost four lives. The point to note is the very inadequate reporting in our dailies. Whether in this instance it is deliberate—to create an impression that the Gujarat Government is anti-Muslim, we can’t tell. But it seems likely. With secular dailies one never knows.
Our secular media is mum over the demolished almost 250 Hindu temples constructed over the government land creating traffic problems and so on in Madurai.
Last but not the least,on the banks of river Yamuna—adjoining to the Red Fort wall—so many graves have come up in the last 8/10 years? Whose graves are they? And when the Hon’ble Courts will order to remove all these unauthorised graves these psuedo-secularists/media will start to beat their chests.
M.F.Husain :THE HINDU HATER
MAQBOOL Fida Husain comes through as a sexually perverse person. To paint nudity is an old tradition. To portray sex play may be pornographic, but it is not unnatural and not considered perverse. However, to depict copulation between an animal and a woman is revolting to the normal person.
Think of a horse and woman, a bull and a woman, a lion and a woman, an elephant and a woman! The photographs of many of the paintings are printed in a volume entitled Husain. The book was conceived and designed by M.F.Husain himself.
An individual suffering from a mental disease is ultimately his personal concern. However, when the fall out of his perversity touches persons unknown to him, it is slanderous. When the pornography of the perversity embroils deities, it is sacrilegious.
Prime facie, Husain has insulted the Hindu ethos in general and believing Hindus in particular. Can he be forgiven for painting Durga and Saraswati naked? And Sita masturbating on the long tail of Hanuman; in another painting she is shown sitting naked on the thigh of Ravana. Imagine a bull copulating with Parvati and Shankar watching the act on Shivratri. On the other hand, Durga in union with her lion! The painting of Krishna with his flute sitting on a cow but with no feet and no hands.
How can so many instances be by inadvertence? Suppose Husain is allowed the benefit of doubt and a judgement is suspended for a while. Look at some of his other paintings, only to find that he painted Muslim women all fully dressed. His step mother Shirin. Prophet Mohammed’s daughter Fatima, Mother Teresa, also got the benefit of all her clothes, a privilege denied to Hindu deities.
On a panel painting, Husain has portrayed Einstein, Gandhi, Mao Zedong and Hitler, sitting in a row. The former three are dressed but the Nazi leader is naked. Does that not mean that he painted in the nude all those he hated? Hindu deities painted by Husain fall in the same category as Adolf Hitler, the killer of six million innocent Jews and thousands of others.
A few years back, he had dared to paint Bharat Mata nude. Can any self-respecting Hindu forgive Maqbool Fida Husain? It is matter of shame for all the Hindus, living in India or abroad should strongly protest him and should sent letters of protests to the Honb’le President of India to snatch brush from him and throw him behind the bars. Above all, he should be interrogated that at whose behest he is bent upon in doing these nefarious paintings or throw him out along with his supporters from India. If he or his supports say that unintentionally, all this happened where were his intentions for showing Fatima in full dress. Why she is not painted nude. Why Mohammed’s( peace be upon him) wives are painted nude so far? It’s clear a sign to instigate the Hindus, so that the Muslim fundamentalists may bake their share of loafs. Where have all the Muslim clergies, Imams, Maulvies, Human Right activists, Shabanas, Javed Akhtars, Dilip Kumars alias Yusuf Bhai and other pseudo-secularist leaders gone. Are they living on this earth, seeing all this nonsense?
More so, our Parliament can dare to overt and covet the courts’ decisions going against Muslims; could dare to call Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi with different names over the riots in Ahmadabad.See, one after the other is trying to cash the Gujarat riots but ignoring the root cause, e.g., burning of Ram bhakhts in Sabarmati train (our pseudo-secularist leaders say "the fire was an accident"), but why are they all become deaf, dumb and blind on Husain’s such nonsense paintings. It’s a matter of shame for every Hindu if he/she tolerates such non-sense paintings of their gods and goddesses to whom they worship, such painters should not allowed in live in this country for a moment. Any moment he could spark the riots then all will come forward beating their chests/breasts.
If Husain’s such paintings could be called an art then why the caricatures of Mohammed (Peace be upon him) by the Danish cartoonist be called objectionable? Is it not the double standard?
Over the demolition of the disputed structure at Ayodhya the world had reacted but in that reaction how many Hindu temples are broken, did any one of them asked the Muslims why they done so. If Ayodhya was a heinous act then to break and fire Hindu temples was a good deed. Did our government or any parliamentarian ask the Pakistan government to rebuild that broken Hindu temple made by Motilal Nehru.Almost every newspaper, that time had carried the photo of that broken temple?
In the end,it is better to say in this context that WOH KATAL BHI KARTE HAIN TO CHARCHA NAHIN HOTI, HUM AAH BHI BHARTE HAIN TO AFSANE BAN JAATE HAIN.
Think of a horse and woman, a bull and a woman, a lion and a woman, an elephant and a woman! The photographs of many of the paintings are printed in a volume entitled Husain. The book was conceived and designed by M.F.Husain himself.
An individual suffering from a mental disease is ultimately his personal concern. However, when the fall out of his perversity touches persons unknown to him, it is slanderous. When the pornography of the perversity embroils deities, it is sacrilegious.
Prime facie, Husain has insulted the Hindu ethos in general and believing Hindus in particular. Can he be forgiven for painting Durga and Saraswati naked? And Sita masturbating on the long tail of Hanuman; in another painting she is shown sitting naked on the thigh of Ravana. Imagine a bull copulating with Parvati and Shankar watching the act on Shivratri. On the other hand, Durga in union with her lion! The painting of Krishna with his flute sitting on a cow but with no feet and no hands.
How can so many instances be by inadvertence? Suppose Husain is allowed the benefit of doubt and a judgement is suspended for a while. Look at some of his other paintings, only to find that he painted Muslim women all fully dressed. His step mother Shirin. Prophet Mohammed’s daughter Fatima, Mother Teresa, also got the benefit of all her clothes, a privilege denied to Hindu deities.
On a panel painting, Husain has portrayed Einstein, Gandhi, Mao Zedong and Hitler, sitting in a row. The former three are dressed but the Nazi leader is naked. Does that not mean that he painted in the nude all those he hated? Hindu deities painted by Husain fall in the same category as Adolf Hitler, the killer of six million innocent Jews and thousands of others.
A few years back, he had dared to paint Bharat Mata nude. Can any self-respecting Hindu forgive Maqbool Fida Husain? It is matter of shame for all the Hindus, living in India or abroad should strongly protest him and should sent letters of protests to the Honb’le President of India to snatch brush from him and throw him behind the bars. Above all, he should be interrogated that at whose behest he is bent upon in doing these nefarious paintings or throw him out along with his supporters from India. If he or his supports say that unintentionally, all this happened where were his intentions for showing Fatima in full dress. Why she is not painted nude. Why Mohammed’s( peace be upon him) wives are painted nude so far? It’s clear a sign to instigate the Hindus, so that the Muslim fundamentalists may bake their share of loafs. Where have all the Muslim clergies, Imams, Maulvies, Human Right activists, Shabanas, Javed Akhtars, Dilip Kumars alias Yusuf Bhai and other pseudo-secularist leaders gone. Are they living on this earth, seeing all this nonsense?
More so, our Parliament can dare to overt and covet the courts’ decisions going against Muslims; could dare to call Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi with different names over the riots in Ahmadabad.See, one after the other is trying to cash the Gujarat riots but ignoring the root cause, e.g., burning of Ram bhakhts in Sabarmati train (our pseudo-secularist leaders say "the fire was an accident"), but why are they all become deaf, dumb and blind on Husain’s such nonsense paintings. It’s a matter of shame for every Hindu if he/she tolerates such non-sense paintings of their gods and goddesses to whom they worship, such painters should not allowed in live in this country for a moment. Any moment he could spark the riots then all will come forward beating their chests/breasts.
If Husain’s such paintings could be called an art then why the caricatures of Mohammed (Peace be upon him) by the Danish cartoonist be called objectionable? Is it not the double standard?
Over the demolition of the disputed structure at Ayodhya the world had reacted but in that reaction how many Hindu temples are broken, did any one of them asked the Muslims why they done so. If Ayodhya was a heinous act then to break and fire Hindu temples was a good deed. Did our government or any parliamentarian ask the Pakistan government to rebuild that broken Hindu temple made by Motilal Nehru.Almost every newspaper, that time had carried the photo of that broken temple?
In the end,it is better to say in this context that WOH KATAL BHI KARTE HAIN TO CHARCHA NAHIN HOTI, HUM AAH BHI BHARTE HAIN TO AFSANE BAN JAATE HAIN.
Land Mafia behind the demolition drive in Delhi
FOR more than two Delhi is disturbed with the demolition drive by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi(MCD), Delhi Development Authority of Delhi (DDA) and New Delhi Municipal Committee(NDMC) over the Delhi High Court’s orders over a Public Interest Litigation (PIL).
Throughout the operation, it is observed that the real facts are not placed before the Hon’ble court. The petitioner(s) has hit directly the encroachers not the defaulters which could be the one of the important feature of all this. And the Hon’ble court(s) too ignored it due to the wrong implementation procedure of the law, and it is one of the very important reason of pendency of the cases for a longer period.
Everybody knows that without the favour of the police none could dare to do even legal necessary repairing in the house then how come the unauthorised constructions, or shops/factory (is) in residential areas.
Anyway, crime is a crime but why a criminal be let free. Since long our police is playing double role, i.e., of defender and offender. If our Hon’ble court(s) and the PIL petitioners are really serious in rooting out the corruption then first of all keeping the demolition and sealing order standing, police and the inspectors of concerned departments be questioned that how all this happened and what amount you took in all these illegalities. None can deny the fact that while encroaching the government land or opening the shop the owner had to bribed the officials and now the official of the same department are busy in offending the public.
One Should remember that the cattle’s never die with the crow’s cursing if the PIL petitioners or the court(s) think that they are working in the right direction its their wrong assumption. Ask the court to check the bank balance and assets of the concerned officials.
Reasons of encroachment
The courts should also thrash the government, for making the courts a laughing stock and still keeping the public in dark of which an advertisement on page 3 of Hindustan Times,dated April 2,2006 is on record. Through this ad. the MCD in alliance with the Delhi’s Chief Minister,Smt. Sheila Dixit and other Congress leaders have invited the public to witness the programme on an unauthorised colony.And when the Hon’ble courts will order of demolitions what will happen to the hard earned money of the residents there. Will the Delhi Government, Congress or the MCD will fill the gap.Till when they all will befool the public.
There are so many centuries old houses in the walled city of Delhi some of them are in a dilapidated conditions did any PIL is filed to allow the residents to renovate this hearths. None came forward so far because they are small in numbers. Though the sometime back the MCD had issued an ordinance that "no permission is necessary for doing necessary constructions in those houses built before ……,if without changing the map" but the house owner tries to have some repairing or so-called sincere police comes in-between. Obviously, the owner had taking his own decision tries to grab the government land and resultantly encroachments are supposed as legal.
If there is any crime the police never comes in action at once for which they are assigned but as soon as there is any construction work they will reach themselves to have lofty cake of bread and if anybody, exceptional a few, denied them the loaf of bread tries to threaten with so many sections of the IPC. Is it fair? The writer of these lines is the sufferer. Many examples could be cited to prove the charge.
Secondly, the Muslim pockets are the well of encroachment. Of which Ajmeri Gate, Turkman Gate, Jama Masjid chowk, Bazar Matia Mahal, Matia Mahal Chowk etc. Take +out the road map of 1950s result will be before the courts and PIL petitioners. Have anybody dare to held culprit(s)? Resultantly the law-axe will fall on the poor public.
One should remember that the law is never blind but the corruption has made the law a blind.
Throughout this demolition or sealing drive the actual guilty is escaping --, still resting on scented bed of roses -- ,is expedient not punished so far. However,the victim and their families’ account is suffering.
It is observed some land Mafia is working behind these PILs there are so many markets built by the Mafia lay vacant for months and to sell/rent they have to bow before the property dealers.
Till some years back, Building Department of MCD used to visit the areas before it is rained and notices were issued to the dangerous/dilapidated buildings and on getting notices several hurdles were sided automatically, but by issuing the ordinance the government thought we have done our duty by facilitating the public but it is not so. It has created more hurdles before the actual maintenance of the property.
Throughout the operation, it is observed that the real facts are not placed before the Hon’ble court. The petitioner(s) has hit directly the encroachers not the defaulters which could be the one of the important feature of all this. And the Hon’ble court(s) too ignored it due to the wrong implementation procedure of the law, and it is one of the very important reason of pendency of the cases for a longer period.
Everybody knows that without the favour of the police none could dare to do even legal necessary repairing in the house then how come the unauthorised constructions, or shops/factory (is) in residential areas.
Anyway, crime is a crime but why a criminal be let free. Since long our police is playing double role, i.e., of defender and offender. If our Hon’ble court(s) and the PIL petitioners are really serious in rooting out the corruption then first of all keeping the demolition and sealing order standing, police and the inspectors of concerned departments be questioned that how all this happened and what amount you took in all these illegalities. None can deny the fact that while encroaching the government land or opening the shop the owner had to bribed the officials and now the official of the same department are busy in offending the public.
One Should remember that the cattle’s never die with the crow’s cursing if the PIL petitioners or the court(s) think that they are working in the right direction its their wrong assumption. Ask the court to check the bank balance and assets of the concerned officials.
Reasons of encroachment
The courts should also thrash the government, for making the courts a laughing stock and still keeping the public in dark of which an advertisement on page 3 of Hindustan Times,dated April 2,2006 is on record. Through this ad. the MCD in alliance with the Delhi’s Chief Minister,Smt. Sheila Dixit and other Congress leaders have invited the public to witness the programme on an unauthorised colony.And when the Hon’ble courts will order of demolitions what will happen to the hard earned money of the residents there. Will the Delhi Government, Congress or the MCD will fill the gap.Till when they all will befool the public.
There are so many centuries old houses in the walled city of Delhi some of them are in a dilapidated conditions did any PIL is filed to allow the residents to renovate this hearths. None came forward so far because they are small in numbers. Though the sometime back the MCD had issued an ordinance that "no permission is necessary for doing necessary constructions in those houses built before ……,if without changing the map" but the house owner tries to have some repairing or so-called sincere police comes in-between. Obviously, the owner had taking his own decision tries to grab the government land and resultantly encroachments are supposed as legal.
If there is any crime the police never comes in action at once for which they are assigned but as soon as there is any construction work they will reach themselves to have lofty cake of bread and if anybody, exceptional a few, denied them the loaf of bread tries to threaten with so many sections of the IPC. Is it fair? The writer of these lines is the sufferer. Many examples could be cited to prove the charge.
Secondly, the Muslim pockets are the well of encroachment. Of which Ajmeri Gate, Turkman Gate, Jama Masjid chowk, Bazar Matia Mahal, Matia Mahal Chowk etc. Take +out the road map of 1950s result will be before the courts and PIL petitioners. Have anybody dare to held culprit(s)? Resultantly the law-axe will fall on the poor public.
One should remember that the law is never blind but the corruption has made the law a blind.
Throughout this demolition or sealing drive the actual guilty is escaping --, still resting on scented bed of roses -- ,is expedient not punished so far. However,the victim and their families’ account is suffering.
It is observed some land Mafia is working behind these PILs there are so many markets built by the Mafia lay vacant for months and to sell/rent they have to bow before the property dealers.
Till some years back, Building Department of MCD used to visit the areas before it is rained and notices were issued to the dangerous/dilapidated buildings and on getting notices several hurdles were sided automatically, but by issuing the ordinance the government thought we have done our duty by facilitating the public but it is not so. It has created more hurdles before the actual maintenance of the property.
CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN ON THE RISE; REMEDY NOWHERE
OUR leaders make us believe that our country is fast developing and would be in the league of great nations. How can we become a developed and powerful nation when politician-criminal-bureaucrat nexus has grown into a gangrenous disease that is destroying the very socio-economic fabric of our society? How, when a poor Raja Ram spends 35 years in Faizabad jail without trial for a petty theft while high-heeled murderer(s) of model Jessica Lall are acquitted for lack of evidence even after seven years of investigation and prosecution? She was killed from point blank range in the presence of at least one hundred people on April 29,1999 in posh Tamarind Court restaurant in New Delhi.
Why crimes are on the rise and what are the remedies. Until and unless we tackle this social monster, we would be befooling ourselves if we think we are developing and everything is hanky-dry.
The GDP rate is fluctuating but the rate of crime is steadily rising, never looking back. Murder and molestation and robbery and rape have become commonplace. Not only in small, remote towns but also in glittering giant metros, crimes are being committed with much impunity. The offenders do not seem to have any shed of fear of law, law enforcing agencies or even judiciary. A Jessica Lall and a Daya Nayak embolden them rather.
Ms.Kiran Bedi,IPS, is right in her capacity what she writes in "Guest Column" in "The Hindustan Times", dated March 5,2006, "Our police force is one reason why Manu Sharma got away with murder. And the rot in the system is due to a blinked leadership and poor man management…The outcome of Jessica Lall’s case is a product of yeas of neglect or indifference in just too many areas of policing. The tragedy is that each passing day; things seem to further decline. There are many reasons for this. And one primary reason is that the huge human resource that is the police force is not getting as much attention as the current challenges demand." And in the last of the article she says, "…A person who cannot be trusted in sensitive departments, which involve internal security, cannot be made to hang around. He needs to be directed instead to ‘stay at home till further orders’ and not be in the sensitive department where he can have access to all information or responsibilities…it is the men writing the case diaries who matter considerably. Our leadership has to tell us who they are. And how things have come to such a pass. And how many more."
The reasons of the rising crime graph are not unknown. We all know that unemployment is considered one of the big reasons. Drug abuse in youth, who from nearly half of the total population of the country, is another big reason. The gross social and economic disparity, which is on the increase day by day, an exploitation of the poor and illiterate by politicians are also contributing their share. Earlier it was said that politicians’ soft attitude towards criminal elements and history-sheeters is helping the society in becoming crime-prone, Now it is very difficult for common people to distinguish which of the two is true-crime is being politicised or politics being criminalised. Moreover, poverty and illiteracy are making people from the lower strata of society violators of law. They easily fall prey to drug addiction and trafficking in girls and children.
To make society peaceful and prosperous, you will have to minimise the unemployment of youth to nil and illiteracy to zero, and to make poverty an alien word. You will have to vote out criminal politicians irrespective of their political and /or ethnic affiliations.
Furthermore, these should be reform programs for jail inmates so that they should feel encouraged and motivated to live a civil life. We have to change laws to maintain the law and order as well as peace in the society.
There is no denying the fact that society and environment sow the seeds of crime. So until you root out the causes of the menace, you cannot succeed in containing the crime by pruning its branches. The government should be vigilant about the sources that are inculcating criminal mentality and violence in children and youth. There is an urgent need to have check and balance regime for silver screen, Internet, films, media and publications. They are collectively ruining the moral integrity of the children and youth. Moral teaching should be incorporated in the school and college syllabi, and fear of law of the land.
CLASH OF CIVILISATION AND OF DOUBLE STANDARD
UNDER the guise of free speech, a leading Danish newspaper published a dozen provocative anti-Islamic cartoons clearly designed to offend Muslims. The predictable result has greatly increased the possibility of violence and left Denmark in a costly and dangerous predicament.
Four months after "Jyllands-Posten (JP)", Denmark’s most widely read morning paper, published 12 cartoons, Denes woke up to the fact that there is a high price to be paid for promoting the "clash of civilisations".
The fact that the editors behind the anti-Islamic images claim to be excercising free speech while refusing to address Europe’s strict censorship laws regarding discussion of the Holocaust and the ongoing imprisonment of historical revisionists reveals the existence of a more sinister agenda behind thecartoons.
"Agents of certain persuation" are behindthe egregious affront to Islam in orer to provoke Muslims, Prof. Mikeal Rothstein of the University of Copenhagen told the BBC. The key "agent" is Flamming Rose, the cultural editor of JP, who commissioned cartoonists to produce the blasphemous images and then published them in Denmark’s leading newspaper last September(2005).
The "International Herald Tribune", which reported on the offensive cartoons on January 1,2006,noted that even the liberalism of Rose had its limits when it came to criticism of Zionist leaders and their crimes. Rose also has clear ties to the Zionist Neo-Cons behind the ‘war the terror’.
Later on, Rose told the media that "he would not publish a cartoon of Israel’s Ariel Sharon strangling a Palestinian baby, since that could be construed as "racist".Asked why he was protecting Sharon, a known war criminal, while abusing Muslims and their Prophet in the name of free speech, Rose told "American Free Press" that he had been "misquoted" in the "Times" article.
Rose travelled to Philadelphia in October 2004 to visit Daniel Pipes, the Neo-Con-ideologue who says the only path to Middle East peace will come through a total Israeli military victory. Rose then penned a positive article about Pipes, who compares "militant Islam" with fascism and communism.In April 2003, President George Bush nominated the rabid anti-Muslim Pipes to the board of the United States Institute of Peace, a congressionally sponsored think-tank dedicated to the peaceful conflicts.Ministers from 17 nations condemned thepublication of the cartoons as an egregious offence to Islam and called on the Denish government to ensure that it would not be repeated.
When the Danish government, which supports the war on terror with more than 500 troop in Iraq, refused to issue an apology for the offensive cartoons, Muslims consumers across the Middle East began a boycott of Danish products.
As the boycott damaged Danish business and a bomb scare closed the office of its newspaper, Rose continued to defend his decision to commission and publish the offensive cartoons. "We stand by the publication of these 12cartoons," he said. "I would say that I do not regret having commissioned those cartoons and I think asking me that question is like asking a rape vistim if she regrets wearing a short skirt Friday night at the discotheque."
The dangerous game that was styarted by the Damish editor has now been picked up by at least 7 newspapers across Europe. Supposedly in support of the Danes, papers in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland simultaneously reprinted the cartoons on February1. The timings suggest that this response was coordinated by a hidden hand. In Paris, for example,Arnaud Levy, editor-in-chief of financially-strapped "France-Soir", was fired by the paper’s owner Raymond Lakah, an Egyptian magnate, according to employees.Peter Mandelson, Trade Commissioner for the European Union strongly reprimanded the newspapers for pouring oil on the fire by reprinting the offensive cartoons.
Robert Menard, secretary general of "Reporters with Borders" a Paris based media monitor, however, supported the publication of the cartoons saying: " All countries in Europe should be behind the Danes and Danish authorities to defend the principle that a newspaper can write what it wished to, even if it offends people. I understand that it may shock Muslims, but being shocked is part of the price of being informed," he told "The New York Times".
However, when it comes to discussion, let the leaders of political parties, religious heads, and media—India and abroad—response, why they all remained silent when an Indian painter, M.F.Husain painted Hindu gods and goddesses as nude? Why this indifferent attitude towards Hindus or Hinduism? It’s a million dollar question to be answered by them all.Till when Hindus/Hinduism or its creators be humiliated?Why they remained mum when Taliban—a Muslim terrorist organisation—broken the Buddha idols in Afghanistan; why they sat their fingers crossed.
TILL WHEN THIS APPEASEMENT POLICY BE ADOPTED.ON ISLAMIC TERRORISM ALL THESE HUE AND CRY CREATORS ARE BLIND AND DEAF. WHY THIS DOUBLE STANDARD OF LAW AND ORDERS.
Four months after "Jyllands-Posten (JP)", Denmark’s most widely read morning paper, published 12 cartoons, Denes woke up to the fact that there is a high price to be paid for promoting the "clash of civilisations".
The fact that the editors behind the anti-Islamic images claim to be excercising free speech while refusing to address Europe’s strict censorship laws regarding discussion of the Holocaust and the ongoing imprisonment of historical revisionists reveals the existence of a more sinister agenda behind thecartoons.
"Agents of certain persuation" are behindthe egregious affront to Islam in orer to provoke Muslims, Prof. Mikeal Rothstein of the University of Copenhagen told the BBC. The key "agent" is Flamming Rose, the cultural editor of JP, who commissioned cartoonists to produce the blasphemous images and then published them in Denmark’s leading newspaper last September(2005).
The "International Herald Tribune", which reported on the offensive cartoons on January 1,2006,noted that even the liberalism of Rose had its limits when it came to criticism of Zionist leaders and their crimes. Rose also has clear ties to the Zionist Neo-Cons behind the ‘war the terror’.
Later on, Rose told the media that "he would not publish a cartoon of Israel’s Ariel Sharon strangling a Palestinian baby, since that could be construed as "racist".Asked why he was protecting Sharon, a known war criminal, while abusing Muslims and their Prophet in the name of free speech, Rose told "American Free Press" that he had been "misquoted" in the "Times" article.
Rose travelled to Philadelphia in October 2004 to visit Daniel Pipes, the Neo-Con-ideologue who says the only path to Middle East peace will come through a total Israeli military victory. Rose then penned a positive article about Pipes, who compares "militant Islam" with fascism and communism.In April 2003, President George Bush nominated the rabid anti-Muslim Pipes to the board of the United States Institute of Peace, a congressionally sponsored think-tank dedicated to the peaceful conflicts.Ministers from 17 nations condemned thepublication of the cartoons as an egregious offence to Islam and called on the Denish government to ensure that it would not be repeated.
When the Danish government, which supports the war on terror with more than 500 troop in Iraq, refused to issue an apology for the offensive cartoons, Muslims consumers across the Middle East began a boycott of Danish products.
As the boycott damaged Danish business and a bomb scare closed the office of its newspaper, Rose continued to defend his decision to commission and publish the offensive cartoons. "We stand by the publication of these 12cartoons," he said. "I would say that I do not regret having commissioned those cartoons and I think asking me that question is like asking a rape vistim if she regrets wearing a short skirt Friday night at the discotheque."
The dangerous game that was styarted by the Damish editor has now been picked up by at least 7 newspapers across Europe. Supposedly in support of the Danes, papers in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland simultaneously reprinted the cartoons on February1. The timings suggest that this response was coordinated by a hidden hand. In Paris, for example,Arnaud Levy, editor-in-chief of financially-strapped "France-Soir", was fired by the paper’s owner Raymond Lakah, an Egyptian magnate, according to employees.Peter Mandelson, Trade Commissioner for the European Union strongly reprimanded the newspapers for pouring oil on the fire by reprinting the offensive cartoons.
Robert Menard, secretary general of "Reporters with Borders" a Paris based media monitor, however, supported the publication of the cartoons saying: " All countries in Europe should be behind the Danes and Danish authorities to defend the principle that a newspaper can write what it wished to, even if it offends people. I understand that it may shock Muslims, but being shocked is part of the price of being informed," he told "The New York Times".
However, when it comes to discussion, let the leaders of political parties, religious heads, and media—India and abroad—response, why they all remained silent when an Indian painter, M.F.Husain painted Hindu gods and goddesses as nude? Why this indifferent attitude towards Hindus or Hinduism? It’s a million dollar question to be answered by them all.Till when Hindus/Hinduism or its creators be humiliated?Why they remained mum when Taliban—a Muslim terrorist organisation—broken the Buddha idols in Afghanistan; why they sat their fingers crossed.
TILL WHEN THIS APPEASEMENT POLICY BE ADOPTED.ON ISLAMIC TERRORISM ALL THESE HUE AND CRY CREATORS ARE BLIND AND DEAF. WHY THIS DOUBLE STANDARD OF LAW AND ORDERS.
CASTE SYSTEM AND VARNASHARAM
THE caste system is not likedby many educated Hindus. But what do they really propose to do about it ? Total abolitionists of caste are stil in a minority and include only persons who have some real experience of western society. The masses are certainly vehement supporters of the systyem.
Those among the educated classes, who want to retain the institution as it is ,sometimes wrongly identify it with the Shastric Varnashrama institution. But neither Varna nor Ashrama has anything to do with caste. Varnma did not mean colour. Varna is explained by the Mahabharata as individual disposition. Asharama means the four-fold division of the life of a twice-born,prescribed by the Shastras.
Caste is the division of the Hindu society into a very large number of exclusive hereditary groups. This arrangement is wrongly believed, on the supposed authority of the Shastras, to be the Karma of individuals in their previous births. A person is supposed to be born in a higher or a lower caste according as his Karma in the previous births is better or worse.
Such belief is sometimes sought to be supported by misinterpretation of certain passages ofthe Shastras with Varna and not with jati (birth,heredity). The inborn disposition of a person is the result of his deeds in his previouslives. It is changed by deeds performed during the present lige. There are many texts to the effect that a Brahman isliable to lose his Varna, by unspiritual conduct,during his life-time.Rebirth in the forms of lower animal,tree,or stone is declared to be the result of the deliberate practice of thoughtlessness by a person in his previous births as man. There is no mention of cast in this connection.
The Varnashrama organisation of society is part and parcel of the Vedic religion. The present Hindu society is however, not organised into castes by reference to the stage of life and individual disposition. The caste-system is proobably te historical descendant of the tribal organisation of pprimitive society on which was imposed, in an unwarrantable way , the decayed tradition of the Vasrnashrama organisation. It seems to be one of the worst crimes that have been ever committed against the well-being of a eole by ecclesiastical self-seeking.
Current Hinduism has learnt to take its stand on the caste under the wrong impression that it is identical with the Varnashrama organisation. Sufficient cogent historical causes have made the caste system a necessary part of the present social order of the Hindus, and its summary abolition is, therefore sure to lead to social anarchy and far worse confusion that what we are experiencing by its retention.
Nevertheless it is not less true that the Vedic religion can be practised in its living form only within the Varnasharma oooooooorganisation. In caste-ridden India however it is very difficult to obtain a sympathetic hearing for the Varnashrama organisation which is altogether different in its form and spirit from the caste. The tradition of this Shastric organisation is maintained in the caste arrangement by the retention of certain designatins and forms of practice. Under the cover of these forms of practice. Under the cover of these names and forms there have grown up very strong vested interests within the caste,whose very life is threatened by any proposal for the re-establishment of the Varnasharama organisation in India.
The soocial supremacy of the caste-Brahmanass is.however, opposed to the democratic sirit of the Age. It is also being assailed by the labours of scholars who are restoring the ppproper reading of the texts of the Shaastras, on the deliberate perversions of which the superstitiooous andirrational upholders of a spurious system have been accustomed upptil now to place their chief reliance.
Those among the educated classes, who want to retain the institution as it is ,sometimes wrongly identify it with the Shastric Varnashrama institution. But neither Varna nor Ashrama has anything to do with caste. Varnma did not mean colour. Varna is explained by the Mahabharata as individual disposition. Asharama means the four-fold division of the life of a twice-born,prescribed by the Shastras.
Caste is the division of the Hindu society into a very large number of exclusive hereditary groups. This arrangement is wrongly believed, on the supposed authority of the Shastras, to be the Karma of individuals in their previous births. A person is supposed to be born in a higher or a lower caste according as his Karma in the previous births is better or worse.
Such belief is sometimes sought to be supported by misinterpretation of certain passages ofthe Shastras with Varna and not with jati (birth,heredity). The inborn disposition of a person is the result of his deeds in his previouslives. It is changed by deeds performed during the present lige. There are many texts to the effect that a Brahman isliable to lose his Varna, by unspiritual conduct,during his life-time.Rebirth in the forms of lower animal,tree,or stone is declared to be the result of the deliberate practice of thoughtlessness by a person in his previous births as man. There is no mention of cast in this connection.
The Varnashrama organisation of society is part and parcel of the Vedic religion. The present Hindu society is however, not organised into castes by reference to the stage of life and individual disposition. The caste-system is proobably te historical descendant of the tribal organisation of pprimitive society on which was imposed, in an unwarrantable way , the decayed tradition of the Vasrnashrama organisation. It seems to be one of the worst crimes that have been ever committed against the well-being of a eole by ecclesiastical self-seeking.
Current Hinduism has learnt to take its stand on the caste under the wrong impression that it is identical with the Varnashrama organisation. Sufficient cogent historical causes have made the caste system a necessary part of the present social order of the Hindus, and its summary abolition is, therefore sure to lead to social anarchy and far worse confusion that what we are experiencing by its retention.
Nevertheless it is not less true that the Vedic religion can be practised in its living form only within the Varnasharma oooooooorganisation. In caste-ridden India however it is very difficult to obtain a sympathetic hearing for the Varnashrama organisation which is altogether different in its form and spirit from the caste. The tradition of this Shastric organisation is maintained in the caste arrangement by the retention of certain designatins and forms of practice. Under the cover of these forms of practice. Under the cover of these names and forms there have grown up very strong vested interests within the caste,whose very life is threatened by any proposal for the re-establishment of the Varnasharama organisation in India.
The soocial supremacy of the caste-Brahmanass is.however, opposed to the democratic sirit of the Age. It is also being assailed by the labours of scholars who are restoring the ppproper reading of the texts of the Shaastras, on the deliberate perversions of which the superstitiooous andirrational upholders of a spurious system have been accustomed upptil now to place their chief reliance.
An alternative to forest resources
IN 1973, there were around 70,000 people living around the Ranthambore National Park in south-eastern Rajasthan.Today,that number has increased to over 200,000 people. This tremendous growth has led to dwindling tiger populations, thanks to rampant poaching and habitat destruction,aggravated by the demand for fuelwood. Recognising the need fro pproviding people with alternative renewable resources,Goverdhan Rathore,son of Fateh Singh Rathore,Ranthambore's celebrated park director set up the Prakratik Society in Sawai Madhopur in 1994."I could see that this park verss ppeopple conflict would ultimately result in the destruction of both the tiger and Ranthambore. I knew the long term solution lay in finding a way in which both improve the livesof the local people and allow them to have a symboitic relationship with the park and its tigers," says Rathore. The PrakratikSociet works with local people to help fin alternative means of reaning a lielihood;means that are not dependent on the park as a aresource. The society hasinitiated anintergrated programme incorporation healthcare and family planning,alternative energy sources,education afforestation efforts and community building. "The PrakratikSociety has offered three valuable means to improve the quality of our lives, I have used the artificial insemination prgramme to improve the quality of my cattle,planted trees under the agro-forestry programme to become self-releaint for my fuelwood requirements and built biogas units for my entire joint family,provideing light and energy for the family. Today,our need for fuel and fodder from inside the park have been minimised. I don't rememberwhen I last went inside th park," says Pparmand Meena of Charoda village. Providing villagers living around the park with 'biogas digesters' for cooking has been one of the Prakratik Society's most important contributions,helping ease the pressures on dwindling forest resources. The digester uses cowdung as a raw material. It not only produces gas for cooking but also provides organic fertiliser in the form of slurry-- a better and cheaper alternative to commercial fertilisers. Crop yields have gone up 25 %. So far the society has insalled 225 biogas ppplants; over 1350 villagers are currently benefitting from this technology.People are also gainfully employed in the construction and maintenance of the biogas plants. "The benefits of biogas have changed our lives forever. We no longer have to go inside the forest for fuelwood collection and the by-product isexcellent manure, which inreases the productivity ofor land. Today,nearly every household in our village is using biogas," says Prithviraj Meena, a tribal from Padli village. "People have improved the breed of their cattle the aretrificial inseminbation certre ar Kundera,started by the Pprakratic Society. As a result, stall-feeding hasbecome ciable andmilk yields have increaed 10-fold. Our dependence on the tiger reserve has reduced dramatically," Prithvi adds. Biogas degestyers offer many benefits. They save around 1500 metric tonnes of fuelwood,which contributes towards saving entire habitats and their animal andplant populations. Biogas also improves the health of women by reducing their exposure to smoke. In recognition of its innovative renewable energy prooject, the Prakritik Societ has been nominated a contender for the prestigious Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy to be announced later in the year.
Hindus,the suffering society of India
SINCE Independence,what is the position of Hindus in India? They are dishonoured. All rules and laws are against Hindus in the name of secularism, a total fraud in state aided educational institutions. Non-Hindus shall be given education in their respective religion,but not the Hindus,why?
Temple of Hindus are being robbed, robbed of the money and of the landed property by anti-Hindus. The money given by Hindus in temples as worship of God,isjust taken away by anti-Hindus, Do these anti-Hindus touch the religious money of landed property of non-Hindus?If the state authorities dare to indulge in such folish things in respect of the religious money and landed property of non-Hindus, they will riot and the state goernment will come down on its knees to apologize to them. Then,why this indiscrimation in the treatment of Hindus and non-Hindus by the state?
Should we then conclude that for getting justice from the Government in India,rioting is only way?
However,when a government responds not to straight simple resoning but bends only before riots, then that government is just not fit to remain in power.
We must practice our Hindu Dharma,non-practice of our Hindu Dharma is a sin. They why should we commit a sin?
Why has the condition of Hindu society in India become so miserable as we see it today? Because we have given up the parctice of our Hindu Dharma.
Yatra Yogeshwara Krishno,
Yatra Partho Dhanur Dharh,
Tatra Shree Vijayo Bhooti,
Dhroov Neetir Matir mamah
(The Geeta,chapter 18,sloka 78)
(Wherever,there is combination of Yogeshwara Shri Krishna and Dhanushdhari Arjuna, there shall be Mother Luxmi, victory,prosperity,steadfastness and correct polity that is my firm principle.)
This shloka is as clear as daylight to guide the Hindu society, Shri Krishna teaches the path of Dharma,for ability to move along the path of Dharma,we must also haveDhanushdhari Arjuna, whose arrows shall disperse and destroy the enemies.
The meaning of these is that instead of infighting every Hindu should be united to have its right. Whenever any law of encraochment is applied that apply only on Hindus why not on non-Hindus? A few days back,a temple,opposite Pahar Ganj, was removed saying it unauthorised. But the government can't remove any graves behind Red Fort,on the bank of Yamuna came unauthorisedly in the last ten years.
So many encraochements and unauthorised constructions is removed from the Hindu pockets of Delhi but not from the non-Hindus areas .When in the eyes of laws everyone should be equal but our vote-bank policy is pushing us back and themselves are provoking the Hindus.The Public Interst Litigation(PIL) can be filed against the hawkers of Chandani Chowk but not against of non-Hindus.
Secondly, Ramvilas Paswas can be rigid on his stand to make a Muslim the chief Minister of Bihar,is there anyone to dare to question him "when you critcise BJP and RSS, as communals, for playing Hindu card and mixing the religion into politics then why this Muslim based politic from your camp?"Is this the way of secularism by playing, openly, communal politics? Is he playing the role of another Jinnah?
Thirdly, during elections the BJP leaders speeches are taken seriously that lest they name Ramjanmabhoomi to provoke the voters but on theother hand in non-Hindu pockets Babri Masjid is mentioned in the speeched by the other parties.Hindus laws could be twisted in the name of reform but not the laws of non-Hindus.
Believe it or not,even after Independence,our government is following what Jinnah wanted.It is observed that under the name of secularism every politician as well as government is making us fool and we are becoming happily.
Temple of Hindus are being robbed, robbed of the money and of the landed property by anti-Hindus. The money given by Hindus in temples as worship of God,isjust taken away by anti-Hindus, Do these anti-Hindus touch the religious money of landed property of non-Hindus?If the state authorities dare to indulge in such folish things in respect of the religious money and landed property of non-Hindus, they will riot and the state goernment will come down on its knees to apologize to them. Then,why this indiscrimation in the treatment of Hindus and non-Hindus by the state?
Should we then conclude that for getting justice from the Government in India,rioting is only way?
However,when a government responds not to straight simple resoning but bends only before riots, then that government is just not fit to remain in power.
We must practice our Hindu Dharma,non-practice of our Hindu Dharma is a sin. They why should we commit a sin?
Why has the condition of Hindu society in India become so miserable as we see it today? Because we have given up the parctice of our Hindu Dharma.
Yatra Yogeshwara Krishno,
Yatra Partho Dhanur Dharh,
Tatra Shree Vijayo Bhooti,
Dhroov Neetir Matir mamah
(The Geeta,chapter 18,sloka 78)
(Wherever,there is combination of Yogeshwara Shri Krishna and Dhanushdhari Arjuna, there shall be Mother Luxmi, victory,prosperity,steadfastness and correct polity that is my firm principle.)
This shloka is as clear as daylight to guide the Hindu society, Shri Krishna teaches the path of Dharma,for ability to move along the path of Dharma,we must also haveDhanushdhari Arjuna, whose arrows shall disperse and destroy the enemies.
The meaning of these is that instead of infighting every Hindu should be united to have its right. Whenever any law of encraochment is applied that apply only on Hindus why not on non-Hindus? A few days back,a temple,opposite Pahar Ganj, was removed saying it unauthorised. But the government can't remove any graves behind Red Fort,on the bank of Yamuna came unauthorisedly in the last ten years.
So many encraochements and unauthorised constructions is removed from the Hindu pockets of Delhi but not from the non-Hindus areas .When in the eyes of laws everyone should be equal but our vote-bank policy is pushing us back and themselves are provoking the Hindus.The Public Interst Litigation(PIL) can be filed against the hawkers of Chandani Chowk but not against of non-Hindus.
Secondly, Ramvilas Paswas can be rigid on his stand to make a Muslim the chief Minister of Bihar,is there anyone to dare to question him "when you critcise BJP and RSS, as communals, for playing Hindu card and mixing the religion into politics then why this Muslim based politic from your camp?"Is this the way of secularism by playing, openly, communal politics? Is he playing the role of another Jinnah?
Thirdly, during elections the BJP leaders speeches are taken seriously that lest they name Ramjanmabhoomi to provoke the voters but on theother hand in non-Hindu pockets Babri Masjid is mentioned in the speeched by the other parties.Hindus laws could be twisted in the name of reform but not the laws of non-Hindus.
Believe it or not,even after Independence,our government is following what Jinnah wanted.It is observed that under the name of secularism every politician as well as government is making us fool and we are becoming happily.
Endangering Muslim population of India
ON the one hand efforts are being made to put Indo-Pak relations on a friendly track and on the other hand terrorist organizations active in Jammu and Kashmir are trying to extend their activities to Uttar Pradesh and other states of India. On July 5 the terrorists made a bid to destroy the Ram Temple inAyodhya. In an encounter within two hours the PAC and CRPF jawans killed all the five terrorists and the temple was saved from damage. Within a few days there was a big bomb explosion on July 28 in the Shramjivi Express near Jaunpur. As a result five passengers died on the spot and more than 50 were injured.
With the help of J&K police force the UP Police Task force four terrorist were nabbed. They were said to have colluded with suicide bombers in this task. The Delhi Police and theSpecial Task Force of the UP police after investigation into the conspiracy,arrested a doctor of Saharanpur district who was practicing inFelhi andwas continuoously helping the terrorists. In order tofurther investigate the conspiracy.Dr Irfan was brought to Ayodhya on transit and handed over to police remand. Whatever activities of the terrorists are carrying on will neither bring any benefit to Kashmiris nor to Muslims in any other state of India.
According to information recieved from the border areas ofNepal thePak secret agency ISI was also trying to indoctrinate and mislead students in madrasas in these areas and if it continued with such activitiesit would be difficult to believe thePak Prresident Perves Musharraf thathe really seeks friendly relations with India and solution of all mutual problems through negotiations.If hewas not playing politics and truly a military commander then he would have to control the control the activities of ISI.
Despiter Musharraf's statements and claims, the terrorist training camps are still active in Pakistan. In hisfederal cabinet even today there is a minister who had been running his own training camps for terrorists. Will Musharraf oust this minister from his cabinet? If Musharraf is a true well wisher of Muslims of India he shouldtake steps to ensure that cross border terrorists are not allowed to infiltrate into India and the Indian Muslims are allowed to live in peace and security.
Only a few days ago, the President had claimed that the Command Control System of Al-Qaeda in his country had been completely destroyed and was now in a position to engineer terrorist bombings like those carried out in London and in Egypt. He also denied that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan.He had said thatit was possible that small Al Quaeda groups might still be present in the tribal area of Waziristan but their capacity to carry out terrorist strikes has been considerably reduced. The President offered this clarifications because the responsibility for the London bombings was being placed on people of Pak origin.But examining the Musharraf's statements carefully,it could be concluded that terrorist traing camps are still running in Pakistan and they are destined to send infiltrators to India tocreate a climate of terror.
On the other hand the famous Pak cricket icon and formber test captan Imran Khan has said that the Pak President will not succeed in reforming the madrasas because he has no moral standing for that. He is viewed as a puppet in the hands of the anti-Islamic Americans.
In this environment, it is to be seen,which is the next target of the terrorists?Will they extend their strikes now to Delhi besides UP or concentrate their activities to J&K.
With the help of J&K police force the UP Police Task force four terrorist were nabbed. They were said to have colluded with suicide bombers in this task. The Delhi Police and theSpecial Task Force of the UP police after investigation into the conspiracy,arrested a doctor of Saharanpur district who was practicing inFelhi andwas continuoously helping the terrorists. In order tofurther investigate the conspiracy.Dr Irfan was brought to Ayodhya on transit and handed over to police remand. Whatever activities of the terrorists are carrying on will neither bring any benefit to Kashmiris nor to Muslims in any other state of India.
According to information recieved from the border areas ofNepal thePak secret agency ISI was also trying to indoctrinate and mislead students in madrasas in these areas and if it continued with such activitiesit would be difficult to believe thePak Prresident Perves Musharraf thathe really seeks friendly relations with India and solution of all mutual problems through negotiations.If hewas not playing politics and truly a military commander then he would have to control the control the activities of ISI.
Despiter Musharraf's statements and claims, the terrorist training camps are still active in Pakistan. In hisfederal cabinet even today there is a minister who had been running his own training camps for terrorists. Will Musharraf oust this minister from his cabinet? If Musharraf is a true well wisher of Muslims of India he shouldtake steps to ensure that cross border terrorists are not allowed to infiltrate into India and the Indian Muslims are allowed to live in peace and security.
Only a few days ago, the President had claimed that the Command Control System of Al-Qaeda in his country had been completely destroyed and was now in a position to engineer terrorist bombings like those carried out in London and in Egypt. He also denied that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan.He had said thatit was possible that small Al Quaeda groups might still be present in the tribal area of Waziristan but their capacity to carry out terrorist strikes has been considerably reduced. The President offered this clarifications because the responsibility for the London bombings was being placed on people of Pak origin.But examining the Musharraf's statements carefully,it could be concluded that terrorist traing camps are still running in Pakistan and they are destined to send infiltrators to India tocreate a climate of terror.
On the other hand the famous Pak cricket icon and formber test captan Imran Khan has said that the Pak President will not succeed in reforming the madrasas because he has no moral standing for that. He is viewed as a puppet in the hands of the anti-Islamic Americans.
In this environment, it is to be seen,which is the next target of the terrorists?Will they extend their strikes now to Delhi besides UP or concentrate their activities to J&K.
In Saudi Arabia,Hindus forced to eat beef,jailed for keeping "Satyartha Prakasha"
SO far, the news of atrocities on Hindus used to come only from our neighbouring countries--Pakistan and Bangladesh-- and we perhaps remained unaware of the maltreatment meted out to Hindus in other Muslim countries. Recently, I had an opportunity to chat with some Hindus, who,in January1986, left India for Dehran in Saudi Arabia,the kingdom of King Khalid,on a two-year service contract with M/s Dallah Group, Riyadh,KSA--but before completing the said contract returned to India in sheer frustration.
On asking about their living there,they told a very sordid stroy. They were asked to work in the military regime ofKing Khalid, where they were not allowed to come out of their apartments after 8pm; if anyone was found violating rules and regulations, he had to face rigorous imprisonment, they were specifically told.
Instead of providing them good food,they were given half-boiled rice,chapattis(Khabus) like that given to prisoners etc. Four da a week they were suplied non-vegetarian dish,in which for two days beef was served. Thus Hindus,250 in number,objected to it alongwith some 300 Pakistanies. Sri Lankans,about 2500 in number,did accept beef dish, but Pakistanis said it would be better if mutton was served at least once instead of supplying beef for two days. But their voice got drowned in Arabian sands.
During their ten-month service-tenure, they had to face a very crucial day, when one of their colleagues, Ram Kumar was put behind the bars and awaded three months' rigorous imprisonment for having a copy of "Satyartha Prakasha". In jail, he was given only one-time meal and was kept on remand. After this incident, all the Hindu apartments used to be raided by the securitymen. During raids,every belonging of theirs was checked lest they should be having any religious book or a picture of any one of their god or goddesses. The securitymen were cruel and they used to say,"Kafir! is zamin par Allah ke alawa kisi aur ka nam lene ki jurrat ki to tarap tarap kar jan se hath dhona padega..."(You infidel, if you show the audacity to take anybody else's name excepting that of Allah, you would be tortured to death.)
Narrating their harrowing tale they further said, "instead of giving any special leave during any Hindu festival, we were strictly watched by securitymen. Every letter of a Hindu was opened by the admiistration as the festival of
"Raksha Bandhan" drew near and on seeing Rakhi in every letter, Hindus were asked to instruct their families not to send any Rakhi in future; otherwise, they would be beatten up mercilessly. Most of us were not even allowed to receive the Rathis sent to us from India. Due to military area we were not allowed to come out," said they.
Pakistanis fraternise with Hindus to protest
against Saudi behaviour
During their say there, the Pakistanis' role was much appreciable, said they. "On the day of any Hindu festival, a Pakistani,supposed to be an arist,used to draw a picture of a Hindu god or goddess on a post-card size paper. On the day of Holi, he drew a picture of Bhagawan Vishnu as Narasimha Avatar; on Rakha Bandhan day a picture of Durga; and on the day of Deepavali after drawing pictures of Ganesha and Lakshmi, he called Hindus in his apartment turn by turn to celebrate their prestigious festival, they added. Then all the Hindus collected their fruits, distributed to the co-employess and sad them with their Muslim brethren.
But on the day of Diwali when everyone was busy in sharing one's joys, all of a sudden for the third time in a day, securitymen raided their apartments, without uttering any word they left; but later on ,they raided Hindus' apartments at mid -night.
However, Sri Lankans never tried toshare the festivities with Indians or Pakistanis. Respecting Hindus' sentiments, Pakistanis would not eat beef when in the company of their Hindu colleagues from India, while Sri Lankans are beef withoyt any hesitation or regard for the sentiments of their Hindu colleagies.
Saudi Arabian Govt. further showed resentment towards the fixation of the salary for Indian labour settled by the Indian Government. This was also due to the negligence of the Ministry of Labour, Government of India
Further,"although every appointment letter would as usual be cheched by our Ministry ofLabour, we were not paid the actual prescribed salary.Only 700 Riayals(almost half of the actual ) were paid to in Item Manager,whose sanctioned basic pay was 1200 Riyals. It was said that our Labour Ministry was having a lion's share in this type of bunglings; otherwise,how it could have passed such a low grade of labourers there."
"No attention was paid by the Hon'ble Ambassador of India, when we 250 Hindus (from India) brought all these bunglings to his knowledge," said they woefully. Though on every appointment letter it is written that Indian Ambassador is bound to visit his countrymen and solve their problems, yet not even once did he move about or given word of assurance," they added.
By seeing such maltreatment of the Saudi government and ,above all, the negligence of our Labour Ministry as well as of the Indian Embassy there, all the Hindus serving the tenure jobs decided to leave this gulf country. Though some American concerns offered them more emoluments plus perks in deserving cases, Indian Hindus rejected everything.
It is high time that the Govt. of India checks such type of cheatings and bunglings in the Ministry of Labour, and also looks into the negligence of duty by our Indian Embassy to maintain which huge public funds are wasted.
(Published in Organiser dt.Dec.21,1986)
On asking about their living there,they told a very sordid stroy. They were asked to work in the military regime ofKing Khalid, where they were not allowed to come out of their apartments after 8pm; if anyone was found violating rules and regulations, he had to face rigorous imprisonment, they were specifically told.
Instead of providing them good food,they were given half-boiled rice,chapattis(Khabus) like that given to prisoners etc. Four da a week they were suplied non-vegetarian dish,in which for two days beef was served. Thus Hindus,250 in number,objected to it alongwith some 300 Pakistanies. Sri Lankans,about 2500 in number,did accept beef dish, but Pakistanis said it would be better if mutton was served at least once instead of supplying beef for two days. But their voice got drowned in Arabian sands.
During their ten-month service-tenure, they had to face a very crucial day, when one of their colleagues, Ram Kumar was put behind the bars and awaded three months' rigorous imprisonment for having a copy of "Satyartha Prakasha". In jail, he was given only one-time meal and was kept on remand. After this incident, all the Hindu apartments used to be raided by the securitymen. During raids,every belonging of theirs was checked lest they should be having any religious book or a picture of any one of their god or goddesses. The securitymen were cruel and they used to say,"Kafir! is zamin par Allah ke alawa kisi aur ka nam lene ki jurrat ki to tarap tarap kar jan se hath dhona padega..."(You infidel, if you show the audacity to take anybody else's name excepting that of Allah, you would be tortured to death.)
Narrating their harrowing tale they further said, "instead of giving any special leave during any Hindu festival, we were strictly watched by securitymen. Every letter of a Hindu was opened by the admiistration as the festival of
"Raksha Bandhan" drew near and on seeing Rakhi in every letter, Hindus were asked to instruct their families not to send any Rakhi in future; otherwise, they would be beatten up mercilessly. Most of us were not even allowed to receive the Rathis sent to us from India. Due to military area we were not allowed to come out," said they.
Pakistanis fraternise with Hindus to protest
against Saudi behaviour
During their say there, the Pakistanis' role was much appreciable, said they. "On the day of any Hindu festival, a Pakistani,supposed to be an arist,used to draw a picture of a Hindu god or goddess on a post-card size paper. On the day of Holi, he drew a picture of Bhagawan Vishnu as Narasimha Avatar; on Rakha Bandhan day a picture of Durga; and on the day of Deepavali after drawing pictures of Ganesha and Lakshmi, he called Hindus in his apartment turn by turn to celebrate their prestigious festival, they added. Then all the Hindus collected their fruits, distributed to the co-employess and sad them with their Muslim brethren.
But on the day of Diwali when everyone was busy in sharing one's joys, all of a sudden for the third time in a day, securitymen raided their apartments, without uttering any word they left; but later on ,they raided Hindus' apartments at mid -night.
However, Sri Lankans never tried toshare the festivities with Indians or Pakistanis. Respecting Hindus' sentiments, Pakistanis would not eat beef when in the company of their Hindu colleagues from India, while Sri Lankans are beef withoyt any hesitation or regard for the sentiments of their Hindu colleagies.
Saudi Arabian Govt. further showed resentment towards the fixation of the salary for Indian labour settled by the Indian Government. This was also due to the negligence of the Ministry of Labour, Government of India
Further,"although every appointment letter would as usual be cheched by our Ministry ofLabour, we were not paid the actual prescribed salary.Only 700 Riayals(almost half of the actual ) were paid to in Item Manager,whose sanctioned basic pay was 1200 Riyals. It was said that our Labour Ministry was having a lion's share in this type of bunglings; otherwise,how it could have passed such a low grade of labourers there."
"No attention was paid by the Hon'ble Ambassador of India, when we 250 Hindus (from India) brought all these bunglings to his knowledge," said they woefully. Though on every appointment letter it is written that Indian Ambassador is bound to visit his countrymen and solve their problems, yet not even once did he move about or given word of assurance," they added.
By seeing such maltreatment of the Saudi government and ,above all, the negligence of our Labour Ministry as well as of the Indian Embassy there, all the Hindus serving the tenure jobs decided to leave this gulf country. Though some American concerns offered them more emoluments plus perks in deserving cases, Indian Hindus rejected everything.
It is high time that the Govt. of India checks such type of cheatings and bunglings in the Ministry of Labour, and also looks into the negligence of duty by our Indian Embassy to maintain which huge public funds are wasted.
(Published in Organiser dt.Dec.21,1986)
Kerala "diverted" tsunami funds
THE Kerala government has been accused of diverting Rs 8 crores from the tsunami relief fund it collected.
Both the opposition and the judicialry have sought explanations from the government on the diversion.
The issue was brought to light on August 3,with the Lokayukta asking the government to explain how itspent the money in the tsunami relief relief fund. The Lokayukta was hearing a petition filed by a tsunami victim who complained that the government diverted funds for other purposes.
Much tothe goverments's discomfiture, the Kerala High Court intervened in the issue on Aug.4 and asked the Lokayukta to contact a detailed probe while admitting a public inerest petition. The government also faceda barrage of criticism in the Assembly from the CPI(M)-led Opposition,which staged a walkout after accusing it of behaving irresponsibly.
Kerala chief ministerOommen Chandy said the government had received Rs 40 crores for the tsunami relief fund and of thisit had spent Rs 36 crores. Of the rupees 36 crores, Rs 27 croes was spent on tsunami rerlief activities. "We will explain to the Lokayukta how the rest of the funds were utilised." he said.
Moving an adjournment motion on the issue, Mr Benoy Vishwam of the CPI said the Lokayukta's order was nothing short of an indictment of the government. Mr Chandy,however,pointed out that the Lokayukta had merely sought details of the funds spent. After walking out of the House,the leader of the Opposition,V.S.Achuthanandan in the House told the media that Chandy's replies were vague and misleading. Meanwhile Water Resources ministerTiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan admitted that the funds had been diverted to give relief to farmers who suffered severe crop losses."There isnothing wrong in that,"he said.
Both the opposition and the judicialry have sought explanations from the government on the diversion.
The issue was brought to light on August 3,with the Lokayukta asking the government to explain how itspent the money in the tsunami relief relief fund. The Lokayukta was hearing a petition filed by a tsunami victim who complained that the government diverted funds for other purposes.
Much tothe goverments's discomfiture, the Kerala High Court intervened in the issue on Aug.4 and asked the Lokayukta to contact a detailed probe while admitting a public inerest petition. The government also faceda barrage of criticism in the Assembly from the CPI(M)-led Opposition,which staged a walkout after accusing it of behaving irresponsibly.
Kerala chief ministerOommen Chandy said the government had received Rs 40 crores for the tsunami relief fund and of thisit had spent Rs 36 crores. Of the rupees 36 crores, Rs 27 croes was spent on tsunami rerlief activities. "We will explain to the Lokayukta how the rest of the funds were utilised." he said.
Moving an adjournment motion on the issue, Mr Benoy Vishwam of the CPI said the Lokayukta's order was nothing short of an indictment of the government. Mr Chandy,however,pointed out that the Lokayukta had merely sought details of the funds spent. After walking out of the House,the leader of the Opposition,V.S.Achuthanandan in the House told the media that Chandy's replies were vague and misleading. Meanwhile Water Resources ministerTiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan admitted that the funds had been diverted to give relief to farmers who suffered severe crop losses."There isnothing wrong in that,"he said.
Women Power and Nature
The mythological and spiritual traditions have highlighted the women’s connection with nature.The influence of these traditions can be witnessed in everyday life such as “mother nature”,and “mother earth”etc.The women’s health is the health of the earth. Most of the rivers in Bharat are named after women e.g. Ganga,Yamuna,Saraswati etc.The hill ranges like Aravalli,Amaravathi etc arealso given the name of women. So none can afford to neglect women’s role in preserving the environment.
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maatha because of her 30 years of campaign to protect and restore the environment as well as defend human rights. She is the first African woman and the first environmentalist to be awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize since it was handed out in 1901.While honouring her for her contribution to the sustainable development,democracy and peace , the Noble Committee said “Peace on earth depends on our ability to secure our living environment”.
The women power is very much involved in farming. The farming by the Angamis in Nagaland involves the cultivation of 15 to 20 crop species ,pest control through multi-cropping and spreading the availablity of diverse food over several months of the year. It has been called a female farming system as sowing maturing, weeding, seed selection and storage are all done by women while men do the tree cutting,clearing and burning of the jhum cultivation plot.The positive role of women in tribal areas is well known. Women contribute about 70 to 80per cent to the family labour in hilly areas due to seasonal male migration. However, the representation of women in local institutions and training is disproportionately low in relation to their contribution.
In the past years, the awareness on the depletion of natural resources, the degradation of natural systems and the dangers of polluting substances has increased remarkably. The deterioration of the environment is an increasing threat to a safe and healthy environment. In both urban and rural areas, environmental degradation results in negative effects on the health, well-being and quality of life of the population at large, especially girls and women of all ages.Women have an essential role to play in the sustainable development and ecologically sound consumption and production patterns. The deterioration of natural resources displaces communities, especially women from income generating activities. Environmental risks in the home and workplace may have a disproportionate impact on women’s health because of women’s different susceptibilities to the toxic effects of various chemicals. These risks to women’s health are particularly high in urban areas,as well as in low income areas where there is a high concentration of polluting industries. Decentralised action on environmental issues is most needed and decisive.
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maatha because of her 30 years of campaign to protect and restore the environment as well as defend human rights. She is the first African woman and the first environmentalist to be awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize since it was handed out in 1901.While honouring her for her contribution to the sustainable development,democracy and peace , the Noble Committee said “Peace on earth depends on our ability to secure our living environment”.
The women power is very much involved in farming. The farming by the Angamis in Nagaland involves the cultivation of 15 to 20 crop species ,pest control through multi-cropping and spreading the availablity of diverse food over several months of the year. It has been called a female farming system as sowing maturing, weeding, seed selection and storage are all done by women while men do the tree cutting,clearing and burning of the jhum cultivation plot.The positive role of women in tribal areas is well known. Women contribute about 70 to 80per cent to the family labour in hilly areas due to seasonal male migration. However, the representation of women in local institutions and training is disproportionately low in relation to their contribution.
In the past years, the awareness on the depletion of natural resources, the degradation of natural systems and the dangers of polluting substances has increased remarkably. The deterioration of the environment is an increasing threat to a safe and healthy environment. In both urban and rural areas, environmental degradation results in negative effects on the health, well-being and quality of life of the population at large, especially girls and women of all ages.Women have an essential role to play in the sustainable development and ecologically sound consumption and production patterns. The deterioration of natural resources displaces communities, especially women from income generating activities. Environmental risks in the home and workplace may have a disproportionate impact on women’s health because of women’s different susceptibilities to the toxic effects of various chemicals. These risks to women’s health are particularly high in urban areas,as well as in low income areas where there is a high concentration of polluting industries. Decentralised action on environmental issues is most needed and decisive.
Nikahnama.....
Nikahnama---A model or a misnomer…?
The controversy raised over the model Nikahnama recently drafted by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) raises several questions about the need as well as credibility of this code. What cannot be ignored is that Muslim women are subject to many of the problems affecting the society at large e.g. wife abuse as well as dowry problem. As dowry regulations drafted for the majority community women are still known to be violated in most parts of the country, the suggestions made by AIMPLB cannot be expected to instantly put into practice.
Secondly,the Bhopal Declaration of AIMPLB has failed to ban the practice of much-cursed triple talaq, a licence with which Muslim men can divorce their wives on a single sitting (and without seeking the wives’consent) by uttering the word talaq thrice.Those who wanted the AIMPLB,a body that has no legal status but wields considerable influence on questions of Muslim personal law, to come out unequivocally against the practice(triple talaq )have reasons to be thoroughly disappointed by the model nikahnama. The board has shown has gumption to call the spade a spade.
It would be better if we understand the background of the Muslim Personal Law Board and the purpose ofr which it was formed.Is it representative of all Muslims and shades of opinion? It was formed in 1972 in Mumbai by some Ulema who gathered there in response to the campaign for uniform civil code by some people.The fear was that as a result of this campaign Muslim Personal Law will be abolished and uniform civil code will come into existence.Thus most orthodox ulemas and others like advocates,academics and others from all sections of Muslims like Sunnis, Shias,Deobandis ,Barelvis,and Bohras etc came together to protect the Shari’ah.
Thus the basic task of the Board was to protect the MPL than to reform it or to change it in keeping with the demands of time.With the spread of education and awareness among Muslim women, pressure began to be built up for necessary changes.It is important to note that more and more Muslim girls are opting for modern education,which in turn makes them aware of their rights and they begin to campaign for the same.
In true sense, the Bhopal Declaration has sparked off a series of debates and expression of anguish and thus provided gunpowder for the fusillades of many more Muskans – who dared to tear apart the Model Nikahnama on a public platform in Mumbai--and Nawabs.
The Prince of Arcot,Nawab Muhammed Ali, a noble man of Muslims in South India has every reason to be disappointed by the Bhopal Declaration.He feels that the model Nikahnama would fail to bring out any reform since it was not enforceable in asny court of law because AIMPLB has no statutory powers.
Dr.Zafarul Islam Khan,an eminent Islamic thinker and editor of the Milli Gazette is of the opinion that “the nikahnama has no legal validity,in practice,any party --husband or wife—can violate it and breach what is written in it. This is the right time for the State to step in.”
Popular perception about Sharia, is that it is outdated because prominent Islamic counties including,Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran,Iraq and Tunisia have amended it but the old-fashioned Indian clergy clings on it to maintain their hegemony.The reforms that take place in Islamic countries is a matter of envy because in a diversified society like India, Muslim community is scattered that Kerala Muslims have nothing in common with his Kashmiri counterpart,except faith.
The women activists say that it is a deliberate attempt to destabilize the women’s position among the community. “This is dangerous for Muslim women.Our personal issues are being pushed into the ghetto.What country do we live in if we are speaking of a Sharia court when after years ofstruggle we now have family courts to deal with these matters?”, says Ms Hasina Khan of Awaz-e-Niswan.
It is really unfortunate that the AIMPLB has failed the Indian Muslims once again by missing an opportunity to undo an un-Islamic practice known as triple talaq.It has shown utter cowardice by not admitting that nowhere in the Quran this kind of practice is sanctioned.Describing the Declaration as discriminatory, the All-India Democratic Women’s Association(AIDWA) has said that measures favoring women have been included “only as a pious piece of advice.”
Several women activists have voiced objection to the AIMPLB having not taken a clear stand against the “retrograde practice” of divorce, by which the husband can divorce the wife by pronouncing talaq thrice in one sitting.In their opinion,AIMPLB’s wordings of the sentence “to avoid talaq in one sitting” or to “avoid talaq without compulsion” is extremely vague and will not give any relief to women victims of this practice.AIDWA has ,also,objected to omission of “khulla” ,the woman’s right to divorce.
The controversy raised over the model Nikahnama recently drafted by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) raises several questions about the need as well as credibility of this code. What cannot be ignored is that Muslim women are subject to many of the problems affecting the society at large e.g. wife abuse as well as dowry problem. As dowry regulations drafted for the majority community women are still known to be violated in most parts of the country, the suggestions made by AIMPLB cannot be expected to instantly put into practice.
Secondly,the Bhopal Declaration of AIMPLB has failed to ban the practice of much-cursed triple talaq, a licence with which Muslim men can divorce their wives on a single sitting (and without seeking the wives’consent) by uttering the word talaq thrice.Those who wanted the AIMPLB,a body that has no legal status but wields considerable influence on questions of Muslim personal law, to come out unequivocally against the practice(triple talaq )have reasons to be thoroughly disappointed by the model nikahnama. The board has shown has gumption to call the spade a spade.
It would be better if we understand the background of the Muslim Personal Law Board and the purpose ofr which it was formed.Is it representative of all Muslims and shades of opinion? It was formed in 1972 in Mumbai by some Ulema who gathered there in response to the campaign for uniform civil code by some people.The fear was that as a result of this campaign Muslim Personal Law will be abolished and uniform civil code will come into existence.Thus most orthodox ulemas and others like advocates,academics and others from all sections of Muslims like Sunnis, Shias,Deobandis ,Barelvis,and Bohras etc came together to protect the Shari’ah.
Thus the basic task of the Board was to protect the MPL than to reform it or to change it in keeping with the demands of time.With the spread of education and awareness among Muslim women, pressure began to be built up for necessary changes.It is important to note that more and more Muslim girls are opting for modern education,which in turn makes them aware of their rights and they begin to campaign for the same.
In true sense, the Bhopal Declaration has sparked off a series of debates and expression of anguish and thus provided gunpowder for the fusillades of many more Muskans – who dared to tear apart the Model Nikahnama on a public platform in Mumbai--and Nawabs.
The Prince of Arcot,Nawab Muhammed Ali, a noble man of Muslims in South India has every reason to be disappointed by the Bhopal Declaration.He feels that the model Nikahnama would fail to bring out any reform since it was not enforceable in asny court of law because AIMPLB has no statutory powers.
Dr.Zafarul Islam Khan,an eminent Islamic thinker and editor of the Milli Gazette is of the opinion that “the nikahnama has no legal validity,in practice,any party --husband or wife—can violate it and breach what is written in it. This is the right time for the State to step in.”
Popular perception about Sharia, is that it is outdated because prominent Islamic counties including,Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran,Iraq and Tunisia have amended it but the old-fashioned Indian clergy clings on it to maintain their hegemony.The reforms that take place in Islamic countries is a matter of envy because in a diversified society like India, Muslim community is scattered that Kerala Muslims have nothing in common with his Kashmiri counterpart,except faith.
The women activists say that it is a deliberate attempt to destabilize the women’s position among the community. “This is dangerous for Muslim women.Our personal issues are being pushed into the ghetto.What country do we live in if we are speaking of a Sharia court when after years ofstruggle we now have family courts to deal with these matters?”, says Ms Hasina Khan of Awaz-e-Niswan.
It is really unfortunate that the AIMPLB has failed the Indian Muslims once again by missing an opportunity to undo an un-Islamic practice known as triple talaq.It has shown utter cowardice by not admitting that nowhere in the Quran this kind of practice is sanctioned.Describing the Declaration as discriminatory, the All-India Democratic Women’s Association(AIDWA) has said that measures favoring women have been included “only as a pious piece of advice.”
Several women activists have voiced objection to the AIMPLB having not taken a clear stand against the “retrograde practice” of divorce, by which the husband can divorce the wife by pronouncing talaq thrice in one sitting.In their opinion,AIMPLB’s wordings of the sentence “to avoid talaq in one sitting” or to “avoid talaq without compulsion” is extremely vague and will not give any relief to women victims of this practice.AIDWA has ,also,objected to omission of “khulla” ,the woman’s right to divorce.
Child Marriage
Child marriage:A curse
The Supreme Court's directive to Collectors and Superintendents of police in every district of India to initiate immediate steps for preventing the child mrriage is commendable.However ,it is seen that thousands of child marriages are taking place in India. Despite laws to check such practices,young boys and girls who otherwise should be studying in schools are pushed into matrimony.
The cause for concern is that rising child marriages are virtually relegating women's rights and seem to be leading to other problems like soaring infant mortality,low-life expectancy,poverty,malnutrition and high illiteracy,espeacially among rural women.
Earlier too, the Supreme Court had criticised 10 states including the economically-developedKarnataka, Maharashtra andAndhra Pradesh for not preventing child marriages by enforcing the law forcefully.
The origin ofchild marriages dates back to Muslim invasions about 1000 years ago.Legend has it that parents would marry off their daughters almost at birth to protect them from Muslim invaders as unmarried Hindu girls were raped or carried away as booty.
Child marriage is a global problem but is pervasive in parts of Africa and South Asia.According to UNICEF, the percentage of girls aged between 15 and 19 in select countries who are already married,include:
Congo 74
Niger 70
Afghanistan 54
Bangladesh 51
Honduras 30
Iraq 28
In India,girls aged between 15 and 19 give birth to 15 million children ayear,many of whom without attending an antenatal clinic or receiving the help of a professional midwife. An early pregnancy has serious repercussions on the health of both the mother and the child leading to high rates of maternal and infant mortality.
Accounts from poor developing countries indicate that early marriages andpoverty areinter-related andin child marriage,abuse is commonly observed . Data from Egypt indicates that 29 per cent adolescent wives have been beaten up by their husbands and of these adolescents 41 per cent were beaten up during their period of pregnancy. In Jordon,26 per cent of reported cases of domestic violence were committed against wives under 18.Child marriage is also a kind of child labour in its worst form,as the bride is put to work in her in-laws' in may cases,girls as young as six or seven per cent year olds are reportedly taken away by their husbands' families to work as servants or as field hands.
Beit boy or girld, the physical ,intellectual,psychological and emotional consequences of an realy marriage can generate a series of roblems.
It needs to be realised that child marriage not only violates a girls' rights to personals freedom and growth but is a crime against theentire humankind. Such early marriages have grave implications on their health and education.Besides depriving these youngsters of educational opportunities and normal physical development, they are rendered vulnerable to stunted growth,both mentally andphysically.
The Supreme Court's directive to Collectors and Superintendents of police in every district of India to initiate immediate steps for preventing the child mrriage is commendable.However ,it is seen that thousands of child marriages are taking place in India. Despite laws to check such practices,young boys and girls who otherwise should be studying in schools are pushed into matrimony.
The cause for concern is that rising child marriages are virtually relegating women's rights and seem to be leading to other problems like soaring infant mortality,low-life expectancy,poverty,malnutrition and high illiteracy,espeacially among rural women.
Earlier too, the Supreme Court had criticised 10 states including the economically-developedKarnataka, Maharashtra andAndhra Pradesh for not preventing child marriages by enforcing the law forcefully.
The origin ofchild marriages dates back to Muslim invasions about 1000 years ago.Legend has it that parents would marry off their daughters almost at birth to protect them from Muslim invaders as unmarried Hindu girls were raped or carried away as booty.
Child marriage is a global problem but is pervasive in parts of Africa and South Asia.According to UNICEF, the percentage of girls aged between 15 and 19 in select countries who are already married,include:
Congo 74
Niger 70
Afghanistan 54
Bangladesh 51
Honduras 30
Iraq 28
In India,girls aged between 15 and 19 give birth to 15 million children ayear,many of whom without attending an antenatal clinic or receiving the help of a professional midwife. An early pregnancy has serious repercussions on the health of both the mother and the child leading to high rates of maternal and infant mortality.
Accounts from poor developing countries indicate that early marriages andpoverty areinter-related andin child marriage,abuse is commonly observed . Data from Egypt indicates that 29 per cent adolescent wives have been beaten up by their husbands and of these adolescents 41 per cent were beaten up during their period of pregnancy. In Jordon,26 per cent of reported cases of domestic violence were committed against wives under 18.Child marriage is also a kind of child labour in its worst form,as the bride is put to work in her in-laws' in may cases,girls as young as six or seven per cent year olds are reportedly taken away by their husbands' families to work as servants or as field hands.
Beit boy or girld, the physical ,intellectual,psychological and emotional consequences of an realy marriage can generate a series of roblems.
It needs to be realised that child marriage not only violates a girls' rights to personals freedom and growth but is a crime against theentire humankind. Such early marriages have grave implications on their health and education.Besides depriving these youngsters of educational opportunities and normal physical development, they are rendered vulnerable to stunted growth,both mentally andphysically.
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