Scroll.inDissent is ‘anti-national’ in Modi’s India – no matter where it comes from https://scroll.in/article/946488/dissent-is-anti-national-in-modis-india-no-matter-where-it-comes-from
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Rammanohar ReddyVidya Subramaniam writes in The Hindu Centre about what the Muslims feel today:
”We are Indians first and last. This is our land as much as it is anybody else's. You can intimidate us, deny us justice but we will keep fighting. There is a strange sense of confidence we have in this country. There is a lot of anger but there is also assertion, a pride in our identities. I'm Muslim, I'm also Indian." #AYODHYAVERDICT
https://www.thehinducentre.com/the-arena/current-issues/article30024468.ece
The Ayodhya Verdict: When Fear-struck Muslims Prayed to Lose
It was common knowledge that the Supreme Court would deliver its judgment in the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit before the Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi, retired on November 17, 2019. As the hour drew close, however, there was panic in Muslim homes, particularly in the Hindi belt. Parents wanted their wards to be safe and preferably among Muslims. Many fervently prayed for the judgment not to be in favour of the mosque because the consequences of that would impact Muslims more than any joy they felt at winning back the mosque. But losing the case, which they did, crushed their spirit, more so because the court had accepted almost all the claims of the Muslim plaintiffs. In contrast, the court rejected the central plank of the Hindu side that the Babri Masjid had been built by demolishing a pre-existing Ram temple. The court also accepted that the Masjid had been desecrated in 1949 by the surreptitious placement of idols and was illegally demolished by Hindutva vandals on the fateful day of December 6,1992. How then was the site handed over to the Hindu side?Following the Allahabad High Court’s three-way partitioning of the site in 2010, Vidya Subrahmaniam, Senior Fellow at The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy had spoken to a cross-section of young Muslims. She recalls that at the time, they expressed no despair, and were confident about moving on with their lives, leaving behind the bitter past of the Mandir-Masjid conflict. She spoke to another set of younger generation Muslims after the Supreme Court verdict and this time, as she notes in this essay, the finding was a disturbing one: In majoritarian India, young Muslims had to reconcile to being second-class citizens.
MusafirSecurity forces indicted for killing 17 innocent Indians – but does anyone care?
@supriya 's report.
Aniket Alam@supriya
Unbelievably stupid and criminal of the police (and state govt) to do so, but then only to be expected.
10,000 people charged with sedition in one district means the State accepts that it has lost its legitimacy to rule.
Also, in a functional democracy, the courts would take suo motu cognisance of this, restore peoples rights, and the State's sanity.
This is possibly the largest number of people booked for sedition at one time in one district anywhere in India.
How did this slip below the radar?
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Rohan V.
@AarefaJohari spoke to Muslim voters in Mumbai and found that most of them were happy to accept the unlikely alliance between Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress as long as it kept the BJP out of power in the state.
How a champion NCC aero-modeller is reviving the forgetten instruments of the Sikh Gurus
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