Nepal Earthquake, Relief and You

Every one who got involved promptly in relief work deserves praise for the speed and agility which resulted in rescuing many Earthquake victims .The Indian government also deserves praise for extending quick relief to Nepal, following an equally challenging mission in Yemen, India has shown the world that it is a force to reckon with whether it is a case of war or disaster. The tragedy in Nepal once again raises the issue of the state of disaster preparedness in South Asia. Events across the last decade show that SE Asia is becoming vulnerable to natural disasters. In crises, it is very difficult for one government and country alone to put together its resources. Thus, SAARC and ASEAN shall join response team and should be standby at all times.

Some of the headlines in the electronic and print media are odd. I came across one example — “Kannadigas in quake-hit Nepal moved to safety” — that was prominent and found it shocking that in such a tragic time, we find it comforting to be told that “Kannadigas” are safe. What about the countless others who are alive and suffering? Don’t they count enough to be mentioned in the same light? Such appeasement is in bad taste.

When international efforts are on in full swing to undertake rescue, relief and rehabilitation operations in Nepal, the possibility of there being politics in all this is upsetting (“No turf war with India on relief, clarifies China”,. Let the two neighbours not even try to recreate the Cold War mentality of the U.S. and then USSR, by playing dirty politics and posing themselves as being the only saviours of humanity. Natural disasters are often the glue that binds and stirs humanity into action. Even though there has been a denial, that there is no politics, let India and China participate in the enormous humanitarian task with an Olympic spirit where winning is only secondary and registering presence in the “integration of nations” is primary.

That China has set aside all its geopolitical differences with India and is teaming with us in the relief and rescue work is gratifying. The task of rebuilding Nepal is a strenuous one that requires the concerted will of people across the world and the coordination of world leaders. There is no doubt that the rehabilitation of victims should be done on a war-footing.

It is evident that there is great suffering in Nepal. With India playing the role of a guardian, there must be an emphasis on ensuring the supply of essential commodities on a war footing. It is unpardonable that there is profiteering in this moment — there are reports of a packet of biscuits selling for Rs.500 and a water bottle for Rs.450. With so much of food grain not being put to good use in India, is there no way it can be sent to Nepal?

Giving charity generously to the needy has always been part of Islam and its followers, there fore All India Milli Council Karnataka chapter has decided to go and collect the relief fund at grass root level as Asst General secretary of All India Milli Council Karnataka , i humbly request the readers of this blog to donate generously for the earthquake victims in india the funds collected will be later sent to All India Milli Council New Delhi.

Your support through Cheques/DD shall be in the name All India Milli Council.

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فرانس، جرمنی اور کناڈا دورہ،کیا ’میک اِن انڈیا‘ کا خواب پورا ہوگا؟

ڈاکٹر محمد منظور عالم

وزیر اعظم نریندرمودی حکومت کا جلد ہی ایک سال پور امکمل ہورہا ہے۔ اس عرصہ میں وہ جہاں ملک کے اندر اپنی طرز حکمرانی کے سبب موضوع بحث رہے وہاں اپنے غیر ملکی دوروں سے یہ خوشخبری بھی سنائی کہ بڑے پیمانے پر ملک میں سرمایہ کاری ہوگی جس کی وجہ سے ملک تیز رفتاری سے خوشحالی کی جانب بڑھے گا۔ 11مہینے کی دور حکمرانی میں انھوں نے 15ملکوں کا دورہ کیا۔ ان کے دورے کے فوائد ملنے شروع ہوئے یاصرف زبانی خرچ ہے، پرکوئی تبصرہ کرنا جلد بازی ہوگی البتہ حالیہ دنوں میں جس طرح تین ملکوں فرانس، جرمنی اور کناڈا کا دورہ کیاا ور اس کو لیکر جو دعوی کیے جارہے ہیں اس پر سماجی اور اقتصادی اداروں کی جانب سے ملے جلے رد عمل کا اظہار کیا جارہا ہے۔ اس لیے یہ سوال بہت اہم ہے کہ ان تین ملکوں کے دورہ سے ملک کو کیا ملا؟ اور اس کے اثرات ملک کی اقتصادیات پر کیااور کتنے مرتب ہوئے؟ کیونکہ جس طرح وہاں انھوں نے پیش رو کانگریس پارٹی کا نام لیے بغیر کہا کہ لوگ گندگی کرکے چلے جاتے ہیں، ہم صفائی کرنے آئے ہیں۔ اس کو لیکر یہ عام تاثر پایا جارہا ہے کہ اس طرح کے بیانات سے بیرونی ملکوں میں ہندستان کی ساکھ کو مجروح کرنے کی کوشش ہے جس کے سہارے خود نمائی مقصود ہے تاکہ سستی شہرت حاصل کی جاسکے۔ سوال یہ ہے کہ کیا ملک میں سرمایہ کاری کے لیے ملک کی ساکھ کو مجروح کرنا ضروری ہے یا یہ ڈھول کا پول ہے جو صرف دکھاوے تک محدود ہے۔

تین ملکوں کے دوروں کی اس سیریز میں وزیر اعظم نریندرمودی سب سے پہلے فرانس پہونچے جہاں انھوں نے مہاراشٹر کے جیتاپور میں واقع بجلی پلانٹ جو کہ التواء میں پڑا ہوا تھا، اس پر گفت وشنید کی۔ یہ پروجیکٹ فرانس کی ایک کمپنی اور ہندستان کے تعاون سے مہاراشٹر کے جیتا پور میں قائم کیا جانا تھا لیکن لاگت سے متعلق کچھ شرائط کو لیکر معاملات نہیں بن پائے جس کی وجہ سے پچھلی حکومت نے ان شرطوں کو ماننے سے انکار کردیا اور یہ معاملہ ہنوز معلق ہوکر رہ گیا۔ نریندرمودی نے 2010میں ہوئے اس سمجھوتے پر اپنی رضامندی ظاہر کردی ہے۔ 10ہزار میگاواٹ بچلی پیدا کرنے والے اس پلانٹ کے تعلق سے ماہرین پلانٹ لگانے والی ایورا نامی کمپنی کے بیک گراؤنڈ کو لیکر مطمئن نہیں ہیں۔ اس تعلق سے نیوکلیائی ماہرین اور سماجی کارکن اس پر سوالات کھڑے کررہے ہیں۔اس بابت ان لوگوں نے باضابطہ وزیر اعظم نریندرمودی کو ایک عرضداشت پیش کر ان کی توجہ اس جانب مبذول کرائی کہ اس سے معاہدہ نہ کیا جائے، کیونکہ ایورا نامی کمپنی کو 2014میں 5.6بلین ڈالر کا گھاٹہ ہوچکا ہے اس کی وجہ یہ ہے کہ فن لینڈ جیسے ملک کی الکی لوڈومیں تین جوہری ری ایکٹرس کمپنی کو بنانے تھے اس میں طے شدہ وقت سے زیادہ کا وقت لگا جس کی وجہ سے اس کی قیمت بہت زیادہ بڑھ گئی۔ اس کے علاوہ شمالی فرانس میں بھی یہ کمپنی ایک پلانٹ بنارہی ہے اس میں بھی ماہرین نے خامیاں پائی ہیں۔ اس لیے اس بات کا خطرہ ہے کہ ہندستان میں بنائے جانے والے پلانٹ میں حفاظتی تدابیر اختیار کی جائیں گی یا نہیں۔ وہ بھی جب فرانس کے لوگ اس کمپنی کی کارکردگی سے مطمئن نہیں ہیں تو ہندستان کو اس میں اتنی دلچسپی کیوں ہے؟

یہاں انھوں نے لڑاکو طیارے رافیل کی خریداری کا سمجھوتہ کیا۔ اس پر کافی بحث ومباحثہ ہوا ہے اور ہر کوئی اپنے اپنے نقطۂ نظر سے اس کا جائزہ لے رہا ہے لیکن اس سے زیادہ ضروری یہ ہے کہ اس سمجھوتہ کا جائزہ ملک کی ضرورت کے نقطۂ نظر سے لیا جائے۔ دفاعی ماہرین کے تجزیوں کے مطابق اس سمجھوتے پر غور کرنے سے اندازہ ہوتا ہے کہ اس میں ایسی کئی باتیں شامل ہیں جو طے شدہ راستے سے الگ ہیں۔ مثال کے طور پر شروع میں طے ہوا کہ 18طیارے فرانس سے خریدے جائیں گے اور 18طیارے ہندستان میں بنائے (Assemble)جائیں گے لیکن اب کہا جارہا ہے کہ 36طیارے فرانس ہی تیار کرے گا۔ اس طرح ان طیارے کے اندرون ملک جوڑنے کا جو کام ہوناتھا وہ نہیں ہوگا۔ ظاہر سی بات ہے کہ یہ وزیر اعظم نریندر مودی کے ’میک ان انڈیا‘ نعرے کے خلاف ہے کیونکہ جب یہ ملک میں نہیں بنیں گے تو روزگار کیسے ملے گا اور کن بنیادوں پر غیر ملکی کمپنیاں سرمایہ کاری کریں گی۔ یہ بات بھی ناقابل فہم ہے کہ میڈیا نے ان سودوں سے متعلق تفصیلات پر کوئی بحث نہیں کی جبکہ بی جے پی رکن سبرامنیم سوامی نے واضح طور پر یہ دھمکی دی کہ اگر حکومت رافیل لڑاکو طیاروں کی خریداری کا معاہدہ کرتی ہے تو وہ قانونی چارہ جوئی کریں گے۔ ان کے مطابق لیبیا اور مصر میں رافیل طیارے کی کارکردگی جنگی طیاروں سے خراب رہی ہے اس لیے کئی ممالک نے اپنے آرڈر منسوخ کردیے۔ اس جہاز کو بنانے والی ڈیسالٹ کمپنی دیوالیہ ہونے کے درپے ہے جس کی وجہ سے اس کے کل پُرزے بھی ملنا مشکل ہے۔

اس دورے میں وزیر اعظم نے جس طرح کانگریس قیادت والی یوپی اے IIکو نشانہ بنایا اس کی مثال نہیں ملتی ہے۔ ہماری تاریخ رہی ہے کہ جب بھی کوئی بیرونی دورے پر جاتا ہے تو وہ اپنے ملک کے اندرونی جھگڑوں یا آپسی نااتفاقیوں کو بیان نہیں کرتا ہے اس کے پیچھے منشا یہ ہوتی ہے کہ ملک کی ساکھ بیرونی دنیا میں مجروح نہ ہو۔ لیکن وزیر اعظم نریندر مودی نے اس روایات کا احترام نہیں کیا اور حکومت کے کام کاج کو وہاں نہ صرف تنقید کا نشانہ بنایا بلکہ بعض باتیں ایسی بھی کہیں جو حقائق کے خلاف ہیں اور لاعلمی پر مبنی ہیں۔ کناڈا میں آنے والا خود کو پہلا وزیر اعطم بتاتے ہوئے اپنی پیٹھ تھپتھپائی لیکن اس حقیقت کو نظر انداز کردیاکہ 42سال قبل اندرا گاندھی نے وہاں کا دورہ کیا تھا ۔ ان کے ذریعہ اس طرح کی لاعلمی کوئی پہلی بار سامنے نہیں آئی ہے۔ بلکہ لوک سبھا کی انتخابی مہم کے دوران انھوں نے کئی مواقعوں پر تاریخی حقائق کو غلط طور پر پیش کیا جس پر ماہرین نے گرفت بھی کی اور حقائق کو واضح کیا۔ معروف صحافی اور تجزیہ نگار سدھارتھ ورد رجن نے اپنے ایک مضمون میں لکھا ہے کہ ’’وزیر اعظم نریندرمودی نے پہلے جاپان پھر برلن میں سیکولرازم اور سیکولرسٹس کا مذاق اڑایا ہے جبکہ انہیں کی حکومت نے گرین پیس نامی تنظیم کی کارکن پر یا پِلئی کو لندن جانے سے اس لیے روک دیا تھا کہ وہ وہاں ہندستان کے ایک کان کنی پروجیکٹ کے خلاف تقریر کرنے والی تھیں۔ اگر پریا پلئی کے عمل کو حکومت ’ملک مخالف‘ قرار دے سکتی ہے تو مودی کی حرکتوں کو بھی اسی زمرے میں کیوں نہ رکھا جائے؟‘‘

کناڈا سے یورینیم سمیت کئی معاہدوں پر دستخط ہوئے۔ کناڈا پہلے ہندستان کو یورینیم سپلائی کرتا تھا لیکن 1970کے ایٹمی دھماکے کے بعد اس نے پابندی لگادی تھی لیکن نریندر مودی کی کوششوں سے وہ دوبارہ یورینیم سپلائی کرنے پر تیار ہوگیاہے۔ لیکن جس میک ان انڈیا کا خواب نریندرمودی نے دکھایا ہے وہ ابھی بھی دور ہے۔ حالیہ ایک سروے کے مطابق کناڈا کی ایک بڑی تعداد آج بھی ہندستان کے مقابلے چین سے باہمی تجارت کے حق میں ہے اورباہمی تجارت کے جو اعداد وشمار ہیں اس کے مطابق چین سے ہی کناڈا کی تجارت سرفہرست ہے۔ چین کے اثر کو وہاں کس طرح کم کیا جائے گا، یہ اپنے آپ میں ایک بڑ اسوا ل ہے ۔ فرانس، جرمنی اور کناڈا کے دورے میں جیتاپور میں نیوکلیائی کارخانہ میں 1650میگاواٹ کی چھ یونٹوں کی تعمیر کے لیے تکنیکی اور تجارتی مذاکرات کو جلد از جلد انجام تک پہونچانے، ہندستان کے تین شہروں ناگپور، پانڈوچیری اور ایک دیگر شہر کو اسمارٹ سٹی بنانے، کناڈا سے پانچ سال تک یورینیم سپلائی کا معاہدہ سمیت تقریباً دو درجن معاہدوں پر دستخط ہوئے ہیں۔ ان معاہدوں سے ’میک ان انڈیا‘ کے لیے کتنی سرمایہ کاری ہوگی یہ تو آنے والا وقت ہی بتائے گا۔ ’اسکل انڈیا‘ کے دعویٰ کو بھی ماہرین حقیقت سے دور بتارہے ہیں۔ ملک کی 65فیصد کی نوجوان آبادی 35سال سے کم عمر کی ہے اس کو استعمال کرکے ملک اسکل ڈیولپمنٹ کا بہترین نمونہ بن سکتا ہے لیکن جس طرح گزشتہ ایک سال کی حکمرانی میں بی جے پی آر ایس ایس اور اس سے جڑی تنظیموں کے لوگوں نے اشتعال انگیزی کر کے منافرت پیدا کی ہے اس سے ماحول اسکل ڈیولپمنٹ کے خلاف بن رہا ہے۔ یہی وجہ ہے کہ سماج کے کمزور اور پسماندہ طبقات میں بالخصوص اور مسلمانوں میں بالعموم خوف پایا جارہا ہے۔ وزیر اعظم اور وزیر داخلہ باربار اقلیتوں او رکمزور طبقات کے تحفظ کی بات کرتے ہیں لیکن اس کا عملی نمونہ سامنے نہیں آتا ہے جس کی وجہ سے شر پسند عناصر اکثر وبیشتر اپنے اشتعال انگیز بیانات سے ماحول کوزہر آلود کرتے رہتے ہیں اور ملک کو ترقی کے ایجنڈہ سے دور کرتے ہیں۔ ملک میں عملی اقدامات اور شر پسندی عناصر پر لگام لگانے کے بجائے بیرونی ممالک میں معاہدوں، یقین دہانیوں اور وعدوں کو جس طرح باشندگان ملک کے سامنے پیش کیا جارہاہے اس پر عام تاثر یہی ہے کہ مودی سانتا کلاز کی طرح تحفے بانٹ رہے ہیں اور یہی تحفہ فرانس کی رافیل لڑاکو طیارہ بنانے والی کمپنی کو دیا گیا۔

(مضمون نگار آل انڈیا ملی کونسل کے جنرل سکریٹری ہیں)


فرانس، جرمنی اور کناڈا دورہ،کیا ’میک اِن انڈیا‘ کا خواب پورا ہوگا؟
ڈاکٹر محمد منظور عالم
 آل انڈیا ملی کونسل کے جنرل سکریٹری

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DEATH ON HER WEDDING NIGHT!!! [True Story]

“After performing Salat Al Maghrib, she
put her make-up, wore her beautiful
white dress preparing herself for her
wedding party, Then she heard the
Adhan of ‘Ishaa and she realized that
she broke her Wudu she told her
mother : “mother, I have to go to make
wudu and pray ‘Ishaa”
Her mother was shocked : “Are you
crazy?!! Guests are waiting for you, to
see you! what about your make -up? It
will be all washed away by water!!” then
she added:
” I am your mother and I order you not
to perform salah now! wallahi if you
make wudu now, I will be angry at you”
Her daughter replied :”wallahi I won’t
go out from here till I perform my
salah! Mother you must know that
“There is no obedience to any creature
in disobedience to the Creator.”!!
Her mother said:”what would our
guests say about you when you’ll show
up in your wedding party without
make-up?! You won’t be beautiful in
their eyes! and They will make fun of
you!”
The daughter asked with a smile :”Are
you worried because I won’t be
beautiful in the eyes of creations? What
about my Creator?! I am worried
because, if I miss my salah, I won’t be
beautiful in His eyes”
She started to make wudu, and all her
make-up was washed away, but she
didn’t care
Then she began her salah and at the
moment she bowed down to make
sujud, she didn’t realize that it will be
her last one!
Yes! She died while in sujud! What a
great ending for a Muslimah who
insisted on obeying her Lord! Many
people who heard her story were so
touched!!
She put Him and His obedience first in
her priorities, so He granted her the
best ending that any Muslim would
have!
She wanted to be closer to Him, so He
took her soul in the place where
Muslim are the closest to Him!
Subhana Allah!
She didn’t care if she would be
beautiful in the eyes of creatures so
she was beautiful in the eyes of Her
Creator!
O Muslim sister, imagine if you are in
her place! What will you do? What will
you choose : pleasing creations or your
Creator?
O dear sister! Do you guarantee that
you will live for the next minutes?
Hours? Months?!!
No one knows when their hour will
come? Or when will they meet angels
of death? So are you ready for that
moment?
O non-hijabi sister! What do you
choose : Pleasing yourself by not
wearing Hijab or pleasing your Lord by
wearing hijab?
Are you ready to meet Him without
Hijab?
And what about you, sister who are “in
relationship” or “open relationship”,
are you ready to meet your Lord
today? Tomorrow?! What do you
choose pleasures of this Dunya or
pleasures of akhirah?!
May Allah guide us all to what pleases
Him and grant everyone who is
reading these lines good ending,
Ameen.
[told by Shaykh “Abdul Mohsen al
Ahmad”, it happened in Abha (the
capital of Asir province in Saudi Arabia)

NHRC issue notice to Telangana Govt over alleged fake encounter of under trials

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken a suo motu cognizance of a gory ‘encounter’ by Telangana police – but their families and rights activists have refused to call it so and alleged deliberate killing- in which five under trial terror accused were killed. It has issued notices to chief secretary and DGP of the state.

“Commission has taken suo muto cognizance of media reports that Telengana police have shot dead five under trials alleged to be militants while they were being brought by them to Hyderabad in connection with a court case on April 7, 2015," NHRC said in a statement from its camp at Thiruvananthapuram.

Five under trials, accused in terror cases, namely Mohammed Vikaruddin, Amjed Ali, Mohammed Haneef, Riyaz Khan and Izhar Khan on Tuesday morning were shot dead while they were being shifted from Warangal prison to Hyderabad Criminal court for a trial. Police claimed to have opened fire when the accused tried to snatch a weapon from a policeman in the running vehicle between Aler and Jangaon, about 80 km from Hyderabad in an area bordering Warangal and Nalgonda districts. However, their families, lawyers and civil rights activists find the police version questionable and have termed it as a ‘revenge’ and ‘retaliation’ against the death of cops in another encounter few days back.

“According to media reports, the incident took place when the vehicle carrying the under trials crossed the Warangal district border and reached the outskirts of Tangupuru village in Aler Mandal of Nalgonda district. One of the under trials asked the police to halt the vehicle for a toilet break. While getting back to the van he allegedly snatched an INSAS rifle from a policeman and fired two bullets at a Sub-Inspector sitting in the front row, who ducked and escaped. Sensing danger, other constables immediately opened fire resulting in the instant death of five under trials,” the NHRC release stated.

NHRC went on to make a critical observation, “The Commission has also observed that from the news report, it transpires that at the time of the incident, at least four of the under trials were inside the van duly guarded by the accompanying policemen. Prima facie, it appears that this is an instance of blatant use of disproportionate force resulting in loss of lives of five under trials who were in judicial custody and gross violation of human rights.”

It comes a day after NHRC issued similar notice to sister state Andhra Pradesh where 20 tribal’s alleged to be red sandal smugglers were shot dead in cold blood.

The Commission after it issued notices to the Chief Secretary and Director General of Police, Telengana, has called for reports within two weeks. NHRC informed that it will further take up the matter in its Camp Sitting to be held at Hyderabad on the April 23, 2015.

Dr. Babasaheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar:

April 14, 2015 will kick off celebrations of Babasaheb Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar’s 125th birth anniversary. Though Dr. Ambedkar’s stature and image is growing larger with time, his prominence as India’s foremost advocate of Dalit empowerment often does not do much justice to several sterling aspects of the man’s multi-faceted personality.

Dr. Ambedkar was an economist par excellence and his work in this field had laid the foundation for the country’s central bank, Reserve Bank of India. He planned India’s first river valley project to generate power and irrigation facilities. As the chairman of the drafting committee of the Indian Constitution he was its chief architect. He had also drafter the far-reaching Hindu code bill to liberate vast majority of women and finally resigned from union cabinet when this bill was not passed by the Parliament.

However, Dr. Ambedkar’s greatest and least known contribution was to be able to stretch the idea of the nation-state to include India’s vast diversity of people, cultures and their differing aspirations. For him, nation is a philosophical entity with shared dreams as its central theme. 

Academicians and scholars across India & the World are increasingly recognising Dr. Ambedkar’s role as the nation builder of modern Indian State. Dr. Ambedkar had written eloquently on his idea of nation and this is documented in Writings & Speeches of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, published by Ambedkar Foundation, a central government sponsored body to carry on the work of Babasaheb and also by the education department of Government of Maharashtra.

Dr. Ambedkar’s idea of nation is not only of a political or geographical entity, having a map and a flag. He didn’t subscribe to the popular definition of nation something as “large group of people living in one area with their own government, language, traditions, etc. (Cambridge Dictionary).” For him idea of nation has to have a philosophical and spiritual connotation with welfare, equity and fraternity as central themes. While explaining his idea of nation he had quoted French philosopher Ernest Renan saying that “A nation is a living soul, a spiritual principle. Two things, which in truth are but one, constitute the soul, this spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the common possession of a rich heritage of memories; the other is the actual consent, the desire to live together, the will to preserve worthily the undivided inheritance which has been handed down. The nation, like the individual, is the outcome of a long past of efforts, and sacrifices, and devotion…A heroic past, great men, glory, these form the social capital, upon which a national idea may be founded.”

Babasaheb, in his entire life tried to achieve this cherished goal of nationhood. For him, at that point of time in history, India was a nation in the making. He argued with another towering personality of his times, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on this issue. That great debate is now part of our national consciousness.

Any evaluation of Dr. Ambedkar’s contribution should keep this philosophical and spiritual framework he had in mind for the sub continent. In his seminal but undelivered speech known as ‘The Annihilation of Caste’ he deliberated that a casteless society is prerequisite for a strong nation. Keeping this idea in the mind he led many social movements like Mahad Satyagraha for equal right to drink water from a public tank, temple entry rights movement and movement to burn the Manusmriti. He had warned that without having social and economic equality, our nation may face existential crisis. While concluding the debate in the constituent assemble, as chairperson of drafting committee, Babasaheb had said that, “On the 26th January, 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality. In politics we will be recognizing the principle of one man one vote and one vote one value. In our social and economic life, we shall, by reason of our social and economic structure, continue to deny the principle of one man one value. How long shall we continue to live this life of contradictions? How long shall we continue to deny equality in our social and economic life? If we continue to deny it for long, we will do so only by putting our political democracy in peril. We must remove this contradiction at the earliest possible moment or else those who suffer from inequality will blow up the structure of political democracy which is Assembly has to laboriously built up.”

It was to resolve these contradictions that Dr. Ambedkar laboured hard to push the idea of affirmative action for the deprived sections of the society and women. It sprang from his steadfast belief that there could not be sustainable liberty without equality and fraternity.

“How can people divided into several thousands of castes be a nation,” he said.

Forefathers of Indian constitution had agreed to Babasaheb’s view on the need to have reservations for oppressed classes. If we go through the constituent assembly debates, we can notice that there were practically no conflicting views on the issue of equal rights and affirmative action. In the case of the Hindu code bill prepared by Babasaheb, Dr. Ambedkar’s view to have equal rights for women in the family was later endorsed by the Parliament. Though in the initial phase there was resistance to this bill and sensing this baba sahib had resigned from the position of the law minister. For Babasaheb had famously said, “I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.”

As Earnest Renan had rightly said that a nation must forget the bad memories of the past and cherish the dream of a shared future, the constituent assembly of India passed that test of having social equality and fraternity with flying colours. That’s the legacy we have, when we remember the great son of India, Baba Saheb Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar.

Lets all celebrate this year remembering the dream Babasaheb had for a great nation, called India.

*Sh. Dilip Mandal is Formerl Managing Editor, India Today Group and Executive Editor, CNBC Awaz. (Views expressed by the author are personal)

IPL 2015

Indian Premier League, 3rd match: Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals at Pune, Apr 10, 2015
Rajasthan Royals start their campaign with a 26-run win

Tim Southee and Karun Nair celebrate their stunnings relay catch near the boundary, Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals, IPL 2015, Pune, April 10, 2015

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Lecture on " Relevance and significance of Tasawwuf in contemporary Era"

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the Qazi Mujahidul Isalm Memorial Lecture on

" Relevance and significance of
 Tasawwuf in contemporary Era"

Insha Allah
on Saturday, 18th April 2015, 4 : 00 p.m

at Conference Hall, Institute of Objective Studies​, New Delhi.

Shah Qadri Syed Mustafa Rifai Jeelani Nadvi.
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Urdu Invitation

Red sanders smugglers - Tirupati encounter -

Are we living in a civilised country ruled by law? The massacre shocks the conscience of the country. As an act of deliberate savagery and malignant insanity, it will not be enough if the proximate killers are punished. The higher-ups in the police and the government will have to find credible answers. They should also explain why it is that while tonnes of minerals and other state resources are illegally mined and smuggled out under political and state patronage, petty woodcutters must get executed in inhumanly manner.

Even though there can be no dispute that the woodcutters were doing something illegal, the claim that the special force resorted to such an extreme step as they were attacked with stones and sickles lacks credibility. It is also not clear why the taskforce did not take aim at the woodcutters below the knee. Instead of swooping down on the poor woodcutters, the taskforce should have identified the kingpins who are sure to have political connections and taken action against them.

The incident cannot be justified on any ground. Although there have been attempts to control red sanders smuggling, the State machinery in Andhra Pradesh has not succeeded in this because of an inadequate number of checkpoints at the borders. There are reports that the smuggling is driven by the international mafia. In order to prevent such incidents, greater coordination between the States that share borders with Andhra Pradesh, proper checks using even drone surveillance technology and electronic barriers may be needed.

Further, it wouldn’t have been difficult for the Andhra Police, with all their might and weaponry, to have surrounded the woodcutters, made them surrender and interrogated them to get the real names. The act, which amounts to a ‘mowing down’ of the woodcutters, is inhuman. I hope there is adequate compensation to the families apart from ordering a judicial inquiry.

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Red sanders encounter: Tamil Nadu govt announces Rs 3 lakh each to kin of those killed in AP; NHRC seeks reply

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Traditional Paper Sizes

These traditional paper sizes are mostly of British origin. They are quite obsolete in Britain today, replaced by the modern ISO paper sizes. Some of them are still used, at least informally, in the U.S.This size information is based on Matt Roberts and Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the conservation of books: a dictionary of descriptive terminology. This reference, published by the U.S. government and not copyrighted, has been posted online by Stanford University. Some additional sizes are taken from the Brainy Encyclopedia web site.

	Dimensions (inches)
Executive	7.25 x 10.5
Quarto	8 x 10
Letter	8.5 x 11
Legal	8.5 x 14
Ledger (Tabloid)	11 x 17
Foolscap	13.5 x 17
Foolscap, oblong double	13.5 x 34
Pinched post	14.5 x 18.5
Crown (Post)	15 x 20
Post	15.25 x 19
Large post	16.5 x 21
Foolscap, double	17 x 27
Demy	17.5 x 22.5
Medium	18 x 23
Post, double	19 x 30.5
Royal	20 x 25
Crown, double	20 x 30
Large post, double	21 x 33
Imperial	22 x 30
Demy, double	22.5 x 35
Elephant	23 x 28
Medium, double	23 x 36
Royal, double	25 x 40
Atlas	26 x 34
Foolscap, quad	27 x 34
Crown, quad	30 x 40
Imperial, double	30 x 44
Demy, quad	35 x 45
Medium, quad	36 x 46
Crown, double quad	40 x 60

 

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Bad omen for democracy

Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam

The recent remark of the Prime Minister at the conference of chief justices and chief ministers of Indian states that “five star activists” are driving the judiciary was a clear attack on civil society, putting a question mark on the legitimacy of activism for social causes. To top it all, the language used was highly offensive which, sadly, has become a hallmark of the PM’s style.

The use of scornful language for some of the most noble and altruistic people has been widely looked at with disapproval. Understandably, Prashant Bhushan, eminent lawyer and activist, has called the language “unacceptable.”

Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam

Bhushan, whose NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation, brought to the notice of the Supreme Court 2G scam, coal scam and Radia tapes, without charging any fees, said the Modi government got a lead about Rs. 1 lakh crore in black money stashed abroad through the scam they unearthed.

Bhushan said (about Modi) that “the gentleman who cosies up to crony capitalists, wears a 10,000 dollar suit and gets a Rs. 6, 000 crore loan to Adani has “the gall to call us five star activists.” The fact is that minus the high-quality, high-profile civil society leaders the quality of democracy in India would be extremely poor. Naturally, an attack on them would be an attack on Indian democracy.

Coming in the wake of talks of establishment of a judicial appointments commission to replace the present collegiums system for appointment of judges in the higher judiciary this remark of the PM is worrisome.

Prime Minister Modi, since he was the chief minister of Gujarat, has left no stone unturned to harass civil liberties and human rights activists like Teesta Setalvad and Mallika Sarabhai. False cases have been filed against them and police have been unleashed to hound them just to deter them from working for human rights in Gujarat. The “five-star” activists in the PM’s remark must have included Setalvad also, a criminal case against whom was transferred by the Supreme Court from the court of two judges known to be close the Prime Minister.

The Supreme Court of India intervened to grant her bail. It also intervened in the case of environmental activist Priya Pillai of Greenpeace, who was illegally taken off a plane to London by the government. It is such bold interventions of the judiciary to protect citizens from a malignant state authority that was behind the acidic remark of the PM. It was the intemperate language of a frustrated man.

To his eternal credit, Chief Justice of India HL Dattu said that the judiciary today was as frank and fearless as ever. There was no question of its being driven by anybody.

ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಜಾತಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಶೈಕ್ಷಣಿಕ ಗಣತಿ-2015( ಎಪ್ರಿಲ್ 11 ರಿಂದ 30)

ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಈ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು  ಓದದೆ ಡಿಲೀಟ್ ಮಾಡಬೇಡಿ. ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ತಲುಪಿಸಿ. 

ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ  ಜಾತಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಶೈಕ್ಷಣಿಕ ಗಣತಿ-2015( ಎಪ್ರಿಲ್ 11 ರಿಂದ 30):

ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ  ಸರಕಾರವು ರಾಜ್ಯ ಮಟ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾರ್ವತ್ರಿಕ ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆಯೊಂದನ್ನು ನಡೆಸಲು ತೀರ್ಮಾನಿಸಿದೆ. ಈಗ ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆ ಎಪ್ರಿಲ್ 11 ರಂದು ಆರಂಭವಾಗಿ ಎಪ್ರಿಲ್ 30 ರಂದು ಮುಗಿಯಲಿದೆ. ನಮ್ಮ ದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ 1931 ರ ಬಳಿಕ ಇಂತಹ ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆಯೊಂದು ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಿರುವುದು ಇದೇ ಮೊದಲ ಬಾರಿ. ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆಗಾಗಿ ನಿಯುಕ್ತ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಗಳು 55 ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿರುವ ಒಂದು ಪ್ರಶ್ನಾವಳಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬರ ಮನೆಗೆ ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡಲಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಯಾವ ಸಮುದಾಯ ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಹಾಗೂ ಶೈಕ್ಷಣಿಕವಾಗಿ ಯಾವ ಸ್ಥಿತಿಯಲ್ಲಿವೆ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನು ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸಲು ಈ ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆಯು ಆಧಾರವಾಗಲಿದೆ. ಮುಂದಿನ ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸರಕಾರವು ಘೋಷಿಸುವ ವಿವಿಧ ಕಲ್ಯಾಣ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳು, ಮೀಸಲಾತಿ, ವಿನಾಯಿತಿ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ ಸವಲತ್ತುಗಳಿಗೆ ಈ ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆಯ ಮೂಲಕ ಸಿಗುವ ಮಾಹಿತಿಗಳೇ ಆಧಾರವಾಗಲಿದೆ. ಇದು ರಾಜ್ಯದ ಮುಸ್ಲಿಂ ಅಲ್ಪಸಂಖ್ಯಾತರ ಪಾಲಿಗೆ ಒಂದು ಅತ್ಯಮೂಲ್ಯ ಅವಕಾಶವಾಗಿದೆ. ಈ ಮೂಲಕ ಅವರು ತಮ್ಮ ಸಮಾಜದ ಹೀನಾಯ ಆಥಿ೯ಕ, ಶೈಕ್ಷಣಿಕ ಹಾಗೂ ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಸ್ಥಿತಿಗತಿಗಳನ್ನು ಸರಕಾರದ ಗಮನಕ್ಕೆ ತರಬಹುದಾಗಿದೆ. ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ಸಮುದಾಯದ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಬಾಂಧವರು ಈ ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ವಹಿಸಿ ಇದರಲ್ಲಿ ಸಕ್ರಿಯವಾಗಿ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಬೇಕು. ಸಮಾಜದ ನಾಯಕರು ಮತ್ತು ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಕಾರ್ಯಕರ್ತರು ಈ ಕುರಿತು ಸಮುದಾಯದ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಸದಸ್ಯರಿಗೆ ಅವಶ್ಯಕ ಮಾಹಿತಿಗಳನ್ನು ಒದಗಿಸಿ ಅವರಲ್ಲಿ ಜಾಗೃತಿ ಬೆಳೆಸಬೇಕು. ಪ್ರಶ್ನಾವಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಸಮರ್ಪಕ ಉತ್ತರ ನೀಡಬೇಕು.

ವಿಶೇಷ ಸೂಚನೆ:

ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಂದು ಮಸೀದಿಯ ವ್ಯಾಪ್ತಿಗೆ ಬರುವ ಮುಸ್ಲಿಂ ಸದಸ್ಯರನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ಒಂದೆಡೆ ಜಮಾಯಿಸಿ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಪ್ರಶ್ನಾವಳಿಯನ್ನು ತುಂಬುವ ಕುರಿತು ಪ್ರಾಥಮಿಕ ತರಬೇತಿ ನೀಡಬೇಕು.

ಸಮೀಕ್ಷಾ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಗಳ ಜೊತೆ ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಕಾರ್ಯಕರ್ತರು ಮನೆಮನೆಗೆ ಹೋದರೆ ಇನ್ನೂ ಉತ್ತಮ

ದ.ಕ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಬ್ಯಾರಿ ಸಮುದಾಯದವರು (ಬ್ಯಾರಿ ಮತ್ತು ಮಾಪಿಳ್ಳ ಭಾಷೆ ಮಾತನಾಡುವವರು) ಪ್ರಶ್ನಾವಳಿಯ ಈ ಕೆಳಗಿನ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಹೀಗೆ ಉತ್ತರಿಸಬೇಕೆಂದು ನಮ್ಮ ವಿನಂತಿ.

ಪ್ರಶ್ನಾವಳಿ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ:ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ,: ಉತ್ತರ: ಕೋಡ್

 5 : ಧರ್ಮ : ಇಸ್ಲಾಂ: 02

6 : ಜಾತಿ : ಮುಸ್ಲಿಂ : 0862

7 : ಉಪಜಾತಿ: ಬ್ಯಾರಿ ಮುಸ್ಲಿಂ: 0218

10 : ಮಾತೃಭಾಷೆ : ಬ್ಯಾರಿ : 12 , ಉರ್ದು  ಆಗಿದ್ದರೆ (ಕೋಡ್ 03)

ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿದ್ಧವಾಗಿ ಇಟ್ಟುಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕಾದ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ದಾಖಲೆಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಮಾಹಿತಿಗಳು

ರೇಷನ್ ಕಾರ್ಡ್  * ಆಧಾರ್ ಕಾರ್ಡ್  (ಇದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ)  * ವೋಟರ್ ಐ.ಡಿ   * ಜಾತಿ ಮತ್ತು ಆದಾಯ ಪ್ರಮಾಣ ಪತ್ರ (ಇದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ)    * ಶಾಲೆಯ ಮಾಹಿತಿ  *  ಜಮೀನಿನ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾಹಿತಿ * ಸರಕಾರದಿಂದ ಪಡೆದ ಸವಲತ್ತುಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾಹಿತಿ * ಶೈಕ್ಷಣಿಕ ಸೌಲಭ್ಯಗಳ ಮಾಹಿತಿ * ಮದುವೆಯಾದ ವಯಸ್ಸಿನ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾಹಿತಿ

* ಜಾನುವಾರುಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾಹಿತಿ * ಸ್ಥಿರ ಮತ್ತು ಚರ ಆಸ್ತಿಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾಹಿತಿ

ಗಮನಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಅಂಶಗಳು:

* ಸಮೀಕ್ಷಾದಾರರು ಫಾರO ಪೆನ್ ಬಳಸಿ ಭರ್ತಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆಯೇ ಎಂದು ಗಮನಿಸುವುದು.  ಇಲ್ಲವಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಪೆನ್ ಬಳಸುವಂತೆ ಸೌಜನ್ಯತೆಯಿಂದ ವಿನಂತಿಸುವುದು.

* ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆಗೆ ಬರುವ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಗಳು ಕೇಳುವ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳು ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಅರ್ಥವಾಗದೇ ಇದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ಮತ್ತೊಮ್ಮೆ ಸೌಜನ್ಯದಿಂದ ಕೇಳಿ ತಿಳಿದುಕೊಳ್ಳಿ.

* ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಸರಿಯಾದ ಕೋಡ್/ಉತ್ತರವನ್ನು ತುಂಬಿದ್ದಾರೆಯೇ ಎಂದು ಪರಿಶೀಲಿಸಿದ ನಂತರವೇ ಕುಟುಂಬದ ಮುಖ್ಯಸ್ಥರು/ಮಾಹಿತಿದಾರರು ಸಹಿ ಹಾಕುವುದು.

ಈ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ತಲುಪಿಸಿ.

Say Alhamdulillah

★Say Alhamdulillah when you sit with your family, Because there is someone somewhere who wishing to be with family.

★Say Alhamdulillah when you go to work, Because many people are still looking for a job.

★Say Alhamdulillah because you are healthy, the sick ones wish to buy health no matter how high the price is.

★Say Alhamdulillah because you are still alive, The dead wish to come back to life to do more good deeds

★Say Alhamdulillah because you worship ALLAH, Others worship false idols!

★Say Alhamdulillah because You are You and others wish to be in your place.

★O ALLAH thank you for everything in my life! Alhamdulillah

Ignore pictorial warnings Ban Tobacco !

The fact that tobacco lobbyists still need evidence to prove that tobacco consumption has deleterious health effects seems strange especially when much of the advanced world has reached a stage where banning smoking there will be almost complete.The argument that pictorial warnings would eventually lead to discouraging tobacco use which would then have an adverse impact on the livelihood of people involved in the tobacco industry seems to be just an exercise in fooling the people. It all boils down to the importance of revenue.

Tobacco consumption is hazardous and there are numerous studies to prove this. Policy makers have to bite the bullet and make statutory warnings clear. Steps such as increasing pictorial warnings and sales tax must be thought of to discourage people from smoking. The importance of the family as a social unit is still intact in India. Therefore, there must be emotional appeals using the media to make people think twice before consuming tobacco products.

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Justice - towards Invisibility?

Modi won the Lok Sabha Elrctions on the name of all round Changes.No tangible changes evenafter 10 Months,where as there are changes for MUSLIMS. Life has been made more difficult and tedious for them. Culprits involved in killing of Muslims are being released with Clean Chits, AMIT SHAH! Tyrant officers like VANJARA, known for his FAKE ENCOUNTERS ( Particularly ISHRAT JAHAN ) are not only coming out of prisons but honoured!
During the period of UPA Muslim Prisoner ( QATEEL SIIDDIQUI) was killed in custody in Jail premises, but in Modi Govt Muslim Prisoners ( SHAREEFUDDIN FAREED KHAN ) are taken out from Jail to be killed after hours.

Whose language is it anyway?

By Nandita Das

Jashn-e-Rekhta, a two-day celebration of Urdu in Delhi, is what got me thinking more deeply about Urdu. Along with an overwhelmingly large audience of young people, I found myself at the venue from morning to night, listening to a stellar lineup of poets, writers, orators and performers. Having grown up in Delhi, I speak and understand much of Urdu and the rest I figure out because of the context and when I don't, I simply enjoy the sound of it.

Recently a friend enlightened me that the analysis of the standard Urdu dictionary, the Farhang-e-Asfia, showed that 75 per cent of all the words in the dictionary were derived from Sanskrit and Prakrit. Additionally, all the base words of Urdu, its entire grammar and syntax came from Hindi. Similarly, modern standard Hindi emerged from Urdu through the replacement of its Persian and Arabic words with those derived from Sanskrit. All this basically means is that Urdu is of Hindi, just as Hindi is of Urdu.

Therefore, it would be fair to say that Hindi and Urdu are part of an overlapping continuum with Sanskritised Hindi at one end and Persianised-Arabicised Urdu at the other, with the middle occupied by a flexible and living language, which we have come to call Hindustani. But as it lacks a distinct script or a single literature, it never came to be seen as a real language.

We are conditioned to think in terms of Hindi vs Urdu, Nastaliq (Urdu script) vs Devanagri (Hindi script), and Hindu vs Muslim. It should hardly come as a surprise that a complex and shared linguistic and literary tradition gets simplified, polarised and eventually partitioned. The famous writer Saadat Hasan Manto ridicules the artificial Hindi-Urdu divide in a satirical piece in which two friends are arguing passionately about which is a better drink: soda lemon mix or lemon soda mix!

While researching for my upcoming directorial project on Manto, I noted that during his time, Urdu was hardly the exclusive preserve of the Muslims. Several Urdu writers of that time were Hindus and Sikhs, such as two great ones, Krishan Chander and Rajinder Singh Bedi. Nor did only Muslims write in the Nastaliq script, which was widely used in north India, especially in Punjab. Even today, many poets and writers like Gulzar, a Sikh by birth, write in Nastaliq, whether their works are in Urdu, Hindi or Punjabi.

Languages typically belong to a region, and not to a religion. Kerala Muslims speak Malayalam, Tamil Muslims speak Tamil and the ones in Assam speak Assamese. One of the many gifts of the British and the right-wingers is that they have made us believe that a language can be divided on religious lines. But we must not forget that Bangladesh, a Muslim nation, got its freedom from Pakistan in 1971 on the basis of its language, Bengali. The attempt to impose Urdu over Bengali was soundly rejected by its “Muslim” people.

In the opening credits of the film Jodhaa Akbar, the name of the film appears in a combination of Devanagri (when writing the word 'Jodhaa') and Nastaliq (when writing 'Akbar'), notwithstanding the fact that neither Hindi nor Urdu had even come into existence at that time. This exemplifies how Hindi is seen in the popular imagination as the language of the Hindus and Urdu that of the Muslims. If we continue to seek differences rather than common grounds, then the result will be a relentlessly self-fulfilling prophecy.

Urdu is a mongrel language with its roots in a cosmopolitan ethos. It is a language adopted by Sufi saints, bhakti singers and mostly by ordinary people. Despite decades of communalism that has made Urdu the language of the Muslims, and worse, the language of the 'enemy' nation of Pakistan, the love for Urdu continues. I was glad to be part of those thousands of people, from various and diverse backgrounds, who thronged to Jashn-e-Rekhta, to celebrate Urdu, subverting the notion that it belongs to any one community.

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Crying Shame

Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam*

How do we judge the justice delivery system in India? Is it good, shoddy, or great? In fact, it is all the three at different times and levels. To be fair to it, its shoddiness does not always come from within it, but mostly from outside: the political culture, the police, the state itself.

“If the PAC did not kill our men, then who did it?”

Before coming to the crying shame part, let us mull over a rather comical point. After coming out of jail where he had languished for years on charge of killing innocent people in false encounters, Gujarat Police officer DG Vanzara declared: “Achche din aa gaye” (Good days are here), which was a take on a BJP electoral promise “Achche din aaen gay” (Good days are coming).

One wonders whether with the achche din of criminally-oriented policemen, bure din (bad days) for law-abiding citizens have also come. The vicious criminality and partiality of elements in the Gujarat state, including the state judiciary, had forced the Supreme Court to shift several cases of anti-Muslim violence out of the state in the interest of justice. That was a reasonable move on the part of the apex court as it did lead to some victims getting justice, after all.

As Vanzara’s achche din have come we have reason to fear for the safety and security of common people in Gujarat, especially if they happen to be Muslims.

Now, for the crying shame part. After 28 years of the Hashimpura massacre of Muslims by UP Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) men, a Delhi court decided last week that nobody was guilty of the massacre. The survivors of the massacre and families of victims asked in unison, “If the PAC did not kill our men, then who did it?”

Almost echoing them, a leading English daily from the national capital asked in its first editorial of March 24: “Then who?” That is, if not the PAC, then who? On May 22, 1987, PAC men picked up 48 Muslim young men from the Hashimpura locality of Meerut, put them in a truck and brought some of them to the Hindon Canal near Delhi and others to the Gang canal, shot 42 of them and threw them into the canals. A few of them survived with bullet wounds and, at the dead of night, swam to safety and in the darkness of night hid themselves in nearby areas.

Some were rescued by a police team from Ghaziabad, led by the legendry IPS officer VN Roy, who was district SP at that time. He also recorded the crime.

Not that the PAC men who had done it were unknown, or untraceable. The truck they were driving was a PAC vehicle, with the number of the truck, the name of its driver and personnel travelling in it, the time of its leaving camp and its destination, every detail registered in the official logbook. All of them could be recognised immediately by victims, their families, survivors, and even press photographers who had photographed them while they were “loading” the condemned victims in the truck.

Despite all that, the court could not decide who killed them, though the failure was not the court’s alone.

Courts need the support of state machinery to be able to deliver justice. Everybody, right from the head of government, cabinet ministers, bureaucrats to police and intelligence officials have to contribute to the process.

Whether it was Moradabad (1980), Delhi (1984), Bhagalpur (1989), Mumbai (1992-93), Gujarat (2002), or Hashimpura (2013), perpetrators went largely unpunished. Between them these massacres claimed thousands of innocent lives. Bhagalpur (anti-Muslim), Delhi (anti-Sikh) and Mumbai (anti-Muslim) massacres account for the largest number of deaths. Even Moradabad (anti-Muslim) claimed more than a hundred lives.

More often than not, the state is complicit in such massacres. PAC is responsible for hundreds of deaths of Muslims in Moradabad, Hashimpura and Muzaffarnagar. Government complicity and judiciary’s failure to bring them to justice has conferred impunity on them. Since the Hashimpura killings, governments of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati have come in and gone out. Despite their tall claims of sympathy for Muslims they did everything to thwart justice.

The UP government took nine years to file a chargesheet in the case. As it allowed the case to drift, it was shifted to Delhi in the 15th year. It took 19 years to appoint a public prosecutor and allow the first prosecution witness to give his testimony.

It is no wonder if the court failed to make a head or tail of the case against 16 PAC men.

The question arises as to who is responsible for this sorry state of affairs. The first culprit is the political class which mobilises anti-minorities opinion for electoral gains. Then there is government and its machinery which refuses to come to the rescue of victims. Successive governments (from the “secular” Congress to SP, BSP and the “communal” BJP) are responsible for deploying PAC in Muslim areas knowing their communal character and their involvement in massacres of Muslims.

Then come the police and intelligence officials who derail justice. Finally, the common citizen too has his share of the responsibility as he never opposes such criminality. Practically, it is a conspiracy of silence on the part of the large masses of our citizenry.

Activist and film-maker Patwardhan has said that everyday one Dalit is killed and two Dalit women are raped in India. There is no protest against this from the well-to-do classes, for whom it is normal. It is “normalisation of violence”, as activists call it. Once it is “normal,” there is no need to react against it.

Rape by security forces in Kashmir and tribal areas of India is a common occurrence. It is “normal”. So, nobody says a word. It is also normal because the victims are Muslims and adivasis. This is against the idea of India itself. Hence, it must change, sooner than later

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Office bearers meeting of All India Milli council –Karnataka

1st April 2015.

Brief Report of Office bearers meeting of All India Milli council –Karnataka

The office bearers meeting of All India Milli council –Karnataka, was held today and discussed the following organizational issues: Reconstitution of district committees , state wide movement of “Message of Peace & Justice” by holding public meeting in districts of Karnataka on zonal basis.

1st zonal public meeting of mysore zone ,comprising of 6 districts ( Ramnagar,Mandya, Mysore, Chamrajnagar, Coorg & Hassan) will be held on 14th May 2015 at Mysore.

The members also discussed the “caste based survey” conducted by the state government, the meeting begin with the recitation OF HOLY QURAN by Moulana Mohammed Azhar Nadvi. Janab Sulaiman Khan (Vice president AIMCK) welcomed the members, In his inaugural address Moulana Sha Qadri Mustafa rifai nadvi congratulated the state committee on successfully organizing the public meeting in Bangalore on 14th march 2015, he also urged the members to forward the drive of message of “peace and justice” to districts and form the zones and visit as early.

A delegation of state members will be visiting Ramnagar on the first week of april and Hassan district will be visited on 12th of April.

In his presidential Address Moulana Qadeer Ahmed Sb Ada al Amiri press the need to work and introduce the Milli Council in grass root level.

Moulana Rifai Saheb, Moulana Qadeer ahmed sb, Moulana Abdul Gafoor Saheb ,Moulana Ejaz ahmed Nadvi Sb, Janab Sulaiman Khan, Janab Syed Shahid ahmed, Janab Jameel Aahmed, Janab Asim Afroze Sait,Janab Aga Sultan, Janab Syed Shafiulla, Janab Manzoor ahmed Shariff, Moulana Azhar Nadvi were present in the meeting.