October 2015 - India - Pseudo Seculars, Intellectuals and Prestitutes

What an Epic Open letter to Sharmila Tagore aka Ayesha Begum Sultana on her Hypocrisy

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Sharmila Tagore aka Ayesha Begum Sultana</div>
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Here is an open letter which is a befitting reply on the 
selective outrage of another pseudo secular bollywood actress Sharmila 
Tagore aka Ayesha Begum Sultana on Dadri Incident. The authors of this 
letter are Saswati Sarkar, Shanmukh and Dikgaj and the Source is DailyO.</div>
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Here is the letter:<br />
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Dear Mrs Ayesha Sultana,<br />
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 Having read a recent <a href="http://www.anandabazar.com/intolerance/%E0%A6%8F-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%A1-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%A6-%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%9F-%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%9F-1.225087#%29," target="_blank">article</a>
 of yours, which you have signed as “Sharmila Tagore”, may we humbly ask
 you some questions?  We hope we can address you by the name you assumed
 in adult life though that’s not the one you signed the article in 
question with. Your article is in Bengali and was uploaded on the eve of
 Durga Puja which is the greatest festival of Bengali Hindus. On such an
 auspicious occasion, how sensitive was it to name your article “This is
 Not a Very Happy Time”(<em>E boro anonder somoy noy</em>)? We are aware
 that your article is about “intolerance” just as you are aware that 
most readers of your chosen media, viz. Kolkata-based <em>Anandabaazar Patrika</em>,
 are Bengali Hindus. While trying to guilt-trip Bengali Hindus about 
“intolerance”, when they were about to start their annual festivities, 
didn’t you feel any sense of guilt yourself?</div>
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When you declare that “Dadri incident has crossed all limits” (<em>Dadrir ghotona somosto seemarekha otikrom kore giyechhe</em>),
 do you mean that it crossed all limits of media coverage or monetary 
compensation? If you mean any of these, we agree with you. After all, it
 was because of the relentless media coverage that the victim’s family 
has been given an <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/UP-to-give-Akhlaqs-family-four-flats-in-Noida/articleshow/49435244.cms" target="_blank">unprecedented compensation</a>
 of Rs 45 lakhs and promised four flats of two bedrooms each in the posh
 township of Noida. However, if you mean that the Dadri incident has 
crossed all limits of “intolerance”, may we ask if Kupgaon’s incident 
was somehow within those limits that you talk of? In Kupgaon, which 
happens to be in the same Uttar Pradesh as Dadri is, 15-year old Sanju 
Rathore was shot dead on the evening of July 29, 2015 by armed men 
belonging to a “minority community” who fired at a “religious site of 
the other community” just hours after a <a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/15-year-old-boy-dies-in-rampur-communal-clashes/1/455258.html" target="_blank">scuffle</a>
 “between the members of the two communities” over one’s cattle grazing 
in another’s field. Two others, Jitendra Singh and Raju Singh, had 
“sustained severe injuries” in the scuffle – but not only them, even the
 family of the deceased has not been given any compensation in the three
 months since the incident.</div>
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About the Dadri case, you shudder that “this incident is 
totally bone-chilling.” (Ei ghotona ekbarei har him kora.) If so, was 
the Kupgaon case so mind-numbing that you have wiped it off your memory 
altogether? Or did you not know about the Kupgaon case at all because 
the media did not raise any hue and cry about the <a href="http://linkis.com/LzSiz" target="_blank">killing</a>
 of the Hindu boy by Muslim men? Or the murder of Prashant Poojary, the 
man butchered because he opposed a slaughter house, and the suspicious 
death of Vaman Poojary, eyewitnesses concerned in the <a href="http://www.oneindia.com/india/prashanth-poojary-murder-many-twists-and-turns-1905645.html" target="_blank">Prashant Poojary murder case</a>?
 Of course, even when the victim of a gruesome crime was a Muslim, such a
 hue and cry was not raised by the media – when the perpetrators were 
not Hindus. Lynching of a prisoner in Dimapur hardly interested our 
secular media.  Was it because the incident was not a <a href="http://www.firstpost.com/india/dont-touch-our-women-the-dimapur-lynching-was-never-about-justice-2143305.html" target="_blank">cudgel to hammer the Hindus</a>?</div>
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Stepping back in time, let us remind you of a documented 
case of ethnic cleansing on a mass scale not too far off from Dadri 
either, which could not persuade you to use your eloquent pen:</div>
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<strong>Srinagar, January 4, 1990.</strong> <em>Aftab, a 
local Urdu newspaper, publishes a press release issued by Hizb-ul 
Mujahideen, set up by the Jamaat-e-Islami in 1989 to wage jihad for 
Jammu and Kashmir’s secession from India and accession to Pakistan, 
asking all Hindus to pack up and leave. Another local paper, Al Safa, 
repeats this expulsion order.</em></div>
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<em>In the following days, there is near chaos in the 
Kashmir valley with chief minister Farooq Abdullah and his National 
Conference government abdicating all responsibilities of the state. 
Masked men run amok, waving Kalashnikovs, shooting to kill and shouting 
anti-India slogans.</em></div>
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<em>Reports of killing of Hindus, invariably Kashmiri 
Pandits, begin to trickle in; there are explosions; inflammatory 
speeches are made from the pulpits of mosques, using public address 
systems meant for calling the faithful to prayers. A terrifying fear 
psychosis begins to take grip of Kashmiri Pandits.</em></div>
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<em>Walls are plastered with posters and handbills, 
summarily ordering all Kashmiris to strictly follow the Islamic dress 
code, prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks and 
imposing a ban on video parlours and cinemas. The masked men with 
Kalashnikovs force people to re-set their watches and clocks to Pakistan
 Standard Time.</em></div>
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<em>Shops, business establishments and homes of Kashmiri 
Pandits, the original inhabitants of the Kashmir valley with a recorded 
cultural and civilisational history dating back 5,000 years, are marked 
out. Notices are pasted on doors of Pandit houses, peremptorily asking 
the occupants to leave Kashmir within 24 hours or face death and worse. 
Some are more lucid: “Be one with us, run, or die!”</em></div>
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<strong>Srinagar, January 19, 1990.</strong> ….<em> Curfew is imposed as a first measure to restore some semblance of law and order. But it fails to have a deterrent effect.</em></div>
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<em>Throughout the day, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front 
and Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists use public address systems at mosques 
to exhort people to defy curfew and take to the streets. Masked men, 
firing from their Kalashnikovs, march up and down, terrorising cowering 
Pandits who, by then, have locked themselves in their homes.</em></div>
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<em>As evening falls, the exhortations become louder and 
shriller. Three taped slogans are repeatedly played the whole night from
 mosques: “Kashmir mei agar rehna hai, Allah-O-Akbar kehna hai” (If you 
want to stay in Kashmir, you have to say Allah-O-Akbar); “Yahan kya 
chalega, Nizam-e-Mustafa” (What do we want here? Rule of Shariah); “Asi 
gachchi Pakistan, Batao roas te Batanev san” (We want Pakistan along 
with Hindu women but without their men).</em></div>
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<em>In the preceding months, 300 Hindu men and women, 
nearly all of them Kashmiri Pandits, had been slaughtered ever since the
 brutal murder of Pandit Tika Lal Taploo, noted lawyer and BJP national 
executive member, by the JKLF in Srinagar on September 14, 1989. Soon 
after that, Justice N K Ganju of the Srinagar high court was shot dead. 
Pandit Sarwanand Premi, 80-year-old poet, and his son were kidnapped, 
tortured, their eyes gouged out, and hanged to death. A Kashmiri Pandit 
nurse working at the Soura Medical College Hospital in Srinagar was 
gang-raped and then beaten to death. Another woman was abducted, raped 
and sliced into bits and pieces at a sawmill.</em></div>
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<em>In villages and towns across the Kashmir valley, 
terrorist hit lists have been floating about. All the names are of 
Kashmiri Pandits. With no government worth its name, the administration 
having collapsed and disappeared, the police nowhere to be seen, 
despondency sets in. As the night of January 19, 1990, wears itself out,
 despondency gives way to desperation.</em></div>
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<em>And tens of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits across the 
valley take a painful decision: to flee their homeland to save their 
lives from rabid jihadis. Thus, takes place a 20th century <a href="http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/19kanch.htm" target="_blank">exodus</a>.</em>
 …    You remained silent then, when thousands of micro-minorities of a 
Muslim majority state had to flee to save their life and dignity. They 
remain as refugees in their own country till date. You remained silent 
all this while, but emerged to vociferously protest when one individual,
 Sudheendra Kulkarni’s face was smeared with black ink: “The same can be
 said about the incident of smearing ink on Sudheendra Kulkarni’s face.”
 (<em>Sudheendra Kulkarnir mukhe kali lepe deoyar ghotonatir khetreo ei eki kotha bola chole.</em>)
 If ink is what you have a particular aversion to, say much more than 
the rape and murder of thousands of Hindus, why have you ignored what 
happened to Baba Ramdev earlier? During the <a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-01-14/news/30627648_1_yoga-guru-baba-ramdev-batla-house-encounter" target="_blank">Baba’s press conference</a>
 on black money in 2012 at New Delhi, his face was smeared with ink by 
one Kamran Siddiqui for ignoring the latter’s question on the Batla 
House encounter. Did Ramdev’s avoidance of the question, that too an 
irrelevant one, justify the smearing of his face with ink? Was his 
refusal to answer the question a more provocative act than Kulkarni’s 
launching of a book written by a former minister of a troublesome 
country which was created after partitioning ours and even now continues
 its policy of bleeding India through a thousand cuts? On the question 
of Pakistan, may we also know why you have never written against the <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/08/forced-conversions-torment-pakistan-hindus-201481795524630505.html" target="_blank">forcible conversions of Hindu girls</a>
 in that Islamic country? As someone with close connections with UK, you
 are probably familiar with the fact that similar protests are par for 
the course there. We share a video showing how leading UK politician Ed 
Milliband laughed off a protest where he was pelted with eggs during a 
public speech:</div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-FfVshrIcY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-FfVshrIcY</a></div>
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We wonder how a similar innocuous protest perturbs you to the extent you described.</div>
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You allege, “In the same planned manner, the voice of 
rationalist writers like Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare have been
 silenced.” (<em>Eki bhabe chhok koshe kontho stobdho kore deoa hoyechhe Narendra Dabholkar, Gobind Pansarer moto juktibadi lekhokder.</em>)
 Wouldn’t it be more accurate to describe Dabholkar and Pansare as 
anti-Hindu activists than as “rationalist writers” since almost all 
their work was specifically against Hindu beliefs and practices? 
However, if you insist that they were “rationalist” and not merely 
anti-Hindu, would you enlighten us about any substantial work of theirs 
against non-Hindu faiths like Christianity and Islam which are majority 
religions not only on the global scale but also in many Indian states 
and districts? Or do you believe that Christianity and Islam, both of 
which are financially much stronger than Hinduism, are so rational in 
themselves that “rationalist writers” do not need to criticise them at 
all? Are you sure that your listing of “rationalist writers” is rational
 in itself? Given your concern at the silencing of “rationalist 
writers”, how is it that you have been silent about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taslima_Nasrin#Life_in_exile" target="_blank">silencing of Taslima Nasreen</a>
 in the Indian state with which you have familial links? Is she not a 
rationalist or is she not a writer or is she not in hiding? Why are you 
also mum about Sanal Edamaruku who had to exile himself not after he 
offended Hindus but after he offended Christians in 2012? As a convert, 
what would you say about Edamaruku’s Hindu mother who <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26815298" target="_blank">had to run away from her Christian in-laws</a>
 in order to avoid being converted? Moreover, as not even a single 
person has been arrested till date for Dabholkar’s murder, how can you 
claim that the crime was a “planned” one or insinuate that he was killed
 for being a “rationalist”? Couldn’t personal enmity or even mistaken 
identity be possible reasons for that crime?</div>
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You insist, “If some cranks of a political party take the role of vanguard, it is inevitable that such things would happen.” (<em>Kono rajnoitik doler utko kichhu byakti jodi vanguarder bhumika niye nay, tobe ja hoar tai ghotchhe.</em>)
 How can you target any one party when the Dabholkar murder happened in 
an INC-governed state, the Pansare murder happened in a BJP-governed one
 and the Dadri murder happened in an SP-governed one? Aren’t murders a 
matter of public order and isn’t public order in the <a href="http://www.constitution.org/cons/india/shed07.htm" target="_blank">State List</a>
 of the Constitution of India? Moreover, what makes you think that 
supporters of a political party cannot “take the role of vanguard”? Our 
country, being a democracy, doesn’t every democracy need political 
parties and don’t political parties need supporters? Isn’t it 
feudalistic to think lowly of political workers as if the supposedly 
apolitical lot are paragons of virtue? Isn’t it elitist to suggest that 
“the role of vanguard” be reserved for so-called apolitical people?</div>
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You claim, “It is sadder that leaders are not condemning these incidents but trying to hide them.” (<em>Aaro dukhhojonok bishoy holo netara ghotonar ninda na kore borong take aral korar cheshta korchhen.</em>) However, are you sure that “leaders are not condemning these incidents”? Didn’t the then CM of Maharashtra <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/cm-chavan-likens-dabholkar-s-murder-to-gandhi-s/story-aW4Tvn1OCE7ajyYkUvIn1I.html" target="_blank">equate Dabholkar’s murder with Gandhi’s assassination</a>? Hasn’t the present CM of Maharashtra <a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/govind-pansare-murder-first-arrest-made-police-say-case-solved/1/474916.html" target="_blank">ensured the arrest of a suspect in Pansare’s murder</a>? Hasn’t the CM of Uttar Pradesh awarded the Dadri victim’s family a <a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/govind-pansare-murder-first-arrest-made-police-say-case-solved/1/474916.html" target="_blank">compensation</a>
 of Rs 45 lakhs and promised four flats of two bedrooms each in upmarket
 Noida? More than any leader trying to hide these incidents, aren’t you 
the one who is hiding the incident of Kupgaon along with the silencing 
of Nasreen and Edamaruku?</div>
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When you claim that leaders “have become busy in giving 
reasons for these incidents. Sometimes it is being said that all these 
are accidents!” (<em>Ei ghotonagulir karon dorshanor jonyo uthepore legechhen. Kokhono ei juktio deoa hochhe, e sob naki durghotona</em>),
 we wonder why we did not hear you when gang rapes were shrugged off by 
multiple CMs of West Bengal – the state where your chosen media 
platform, <em>AnandaBaazar Patrika</em> is based. After all, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Bantala_rape_case" target="_blank">Jyoti Basu had dismissed the gangrape</a> of three women and lynching of two at Bantala on the evening of May 30, 1990 as an “unimportant” incident (<em>Emon toh kotoi hoy</em>).
 After college student Shipra Ghosh was raped and torn legs apart 
allegedly by one Rafiqul Islam and his gang on the afternoon of June 7, 
2013, Mamata Banerjee <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mamata-Banerjee-slams-Kamduni-rape-protesters-gets-angry-send-off/articleshow/20638913.cms" target="_blank">ridiculed</a> those who demanded action against the perpetrators as the proverbial “thief’s mom who shouts the loudest” (<em>Chorer mayer boro gola</em>).</div>
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About the Dadri lynching, you complain, “The victim of the crime is being put in the docks and the criminal is resting fine.” <em>(Jini oporadher shikar, takei jeno kathgorai danr korano hochhe, aar oporadhi royechhe bohal tobiyote.</em>) The truth, however, is that all the accused have been <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/police-arrest-all-10-accused-in-dadri-lynching-case/story-ei1x4osJakOCfrglxZHSuK.html" target="_blank">arrested</a>,
 quite apart from the fact that the victim’s family has been given 
unrivalled compensation. Your statement appears therefore to be a 
classic instance of suppressio veri, suggestio falsi (first suppress the
 truth, then suggest the false).</div>
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You highlight, “Haryana’s chief minister has said, Muslims can stay in this country but they must not eat beef!” (<em>Haryanar mukhyomontri bole bosechhen, Musalmanra deshe thakte chan thakun, kintu tnader gomangsho khaoa cholbe na!</em>)
 Here, not only have you suppressed the apology which the CM tendered 
later on, you have also suppressed his original explanation for it. He 
had said, “They can be Muslim even after they stop eating beef, can’t 
they? It is <a href="http://www.dailyo.in/sitemanager/%28http:/www.hindustantimes.com/india/muslims-have-to-give-up-beef-to-live-in-country-haryana-cm-khattar/story-8T0fngqCyGt81pdkNLzvsL.html" target="_blank">written nowhere</a>
 that Muslims have to eat beef, not is it written anywhere in 
Christianity that they have to eat beef.” What he was trying to explain 
is the fact that beef is not an essential part of any faith, though he 
later apologized for the entire statement. However, wasn’t the crux of 
his statement in consonance with the spirit of the Constitution, whose 
Directive Principles include “<a href="http://www.constitution.org/cons/india/p04048.html" target="_blank">prohibiting the slaughter of cows and calves and other milch and draught cattle</a>“? It appears that you have close connections with Indian National Congress (your late husband had <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/slideshows/people/10-sportsmen-who-turned-politicians/mansoor-ali-khan-pataudi/slideshow/20128419.cms" target="_blank">contested Lok Sabha elections</a> on a Congress ticket, Congress was apparently <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/ls-cong-may-field-sharmila-tagore-from-gurgaon" target="_blank">considering you for the same honour</a> in 2014; you had also been appointed as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Board_of_Film_Certification#Chairpersons_of_the_CBFC" target="_blank">head of the censor board </a>during the regime of UPA government (2004-2011).</div>
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Thus, since Congress swears by the sayings of Mohandas 
Karamchand Gandhi, it would be pertinent to quote him from his 
autobiography here: “<em>But it would be another matter and quite 
graceful, and reflect great credit on them, if the Musalmans of their 
own free will stopped cow slaughter out of regard for the religious 
sentiments of the Hindus, and from a sense of duty towards them as 
neighbours and children of the same soil. To take up such an independent
 attitude was, I contended, their duty, and would enhance the dignity of
 their conduct.</em>” (Chapter 160, The Khilafat Against The Cow-Protection, <em>My Experiments with Truth</em>). Mohandas Gandhi had also quoted Maulana Abdul Bari as follows: “<em>As a Maulvi, I say that, in refraining from cow-slaughter of our own free will, we in no way go against our faith</em>.”
 Punjab Letter, [Around December 1, 1919], Maulana Abdul Bari, 
Navajivan, 7-12-1919. Mohandas Gandhi had also written in his 
autobiography: “<em>But in spite of my warning Maulana Abdul Bari Saheb 
said: ‘No matter whether the Hindus help us or not, the Musalmans ought,
 as the countrymen of the Hindus, out of regard for the latter’s 
susceptibilities, to give up cow slaughter.’ And at one time it almost 
looked as if they would really put an end to it.</em>” (The Khilafat 
Against The Cow-Protection, My Experiments with Truth). Do you think the
 Haryana CM differed in essence from the icon, whom the Congress party 
swears by or the Maulavi he quoted?</div>
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You argue, “There are a thousand important issues in the 
country like poverty, unemployment, development – nobody is saying 
anything about them.” (<em>Deshe daridro, bekiritwo, unnoyoner moto hajaro gurutwopurno bishoy royechhe, ta niye keu ra karchhen na.</em>)
 While you appear to be very concerned about “poverty”, will you tell us
 who is responsible for keeping that scourge alive even 68 years after 
India’s independence? When you claim that “nobody is saying anything” 
about issues of unemployment and development, are you sure that you have
 heard even a single speech of the prime minister? If you have never 
heard of his schemes like Jan Dhan, Make in India, Digital India, Swachh
 Bharat, Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao, etc, aren’t you making your ignorance
 very obvious?</div>
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You cry, “NGOs, educational institutions are coming under attack one after another.” (<em>Eker por ek NGO, shikshakendro, protishthaner upor aghat aschhe.</em>) Do you mean that NGOs should be above the law of the land, that too after 90 per cent of them not even submitting their <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/govt-no-balance-sheet-no-funding-for-ngos/" target="_blank">financial details</a>
 to the government? And, if some educational institutions are “coming 
under attack”, are you sure that they are not in West Bengal? Just one 
of the innumerable examples of such attacks in this state was the <a href="http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/mukhtar-held-from-howrah-station-iqbal-still-at-large/1080367" target="_blank">killing of unarmed policeman Tapas Choudhury</a>
 at Harimohan Ghose College in Kolkata on February 12, 2013 allegedly by
 a gang comprising Mokhtar, Mohammad Subhaan, Mohammad Iqbal, Mohammad 
Aslam, Mohammad Mustafa, Abdul Rukman and others.</div>
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You go on to say, “Sudhakar Sharma, accused of financial 
and administrative irregularities and misappropriation, has been 
reinstated as Secretary in Lalit Kala Akademi.” (<em>Ei to Lalit Kala 
Akademi-te arthik ebong proshashonik oniyom ebong tochhruper daye 
obhijukto Sudhakar Sharmake pher sochiber pode ene bosiye deoa holo.</em>)
 Isn’t it interesting that you are so worried about the reinstatement of
 a mere Secretary in Lalit Kala Akademi while you were never worried 
about the appointment of the last chairperson of the Central Board of 
Film Certification (CBFC) who had taken over from you in 2011? Why did 
you not write against <a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/leela-samson-quits-kalakshetra-after-pil-questions-continuance/1/187348.html" target="_blank">Leela Samson</a>
 who was facing allegations of financial and administrative 
irregularities while being appointed to the post of CBFC Chairperson on 
April 1, 2011?</div>
<div id="p_28">
<br /></div>
<div id="p_29">
You complain, “Those who want to think freely have to restrict themselves.” (<em>Jara muktomone chinta korte chan tara gutiye jachchen.</em>)
 On the contrary, we are glad to note quite the reverse in contemporary 
India: writers and artists are voicing their dissent in press and 
television all the time without any visible repercussion. As a Muslim 
and one with close links to the Congress party, the principal political 
opponent of the current ruling dispensation, the section of our populace
 whose opinion you insinuate is being stifled, isn’t the publication of 
your critical article  an evidence that the reality is quite to the 
contrary?</div>
<div id="p_29">
<br /></div>
<div id="p_30">
You also claim, “Everywhere a kind of uncertainty and fear 
is being built up. As if all the time someone is keeping a constant eye 
over you, over your movements, over your thought.” (<em>Sorbotro toiri 
hochhe ek dhoroner onischoyota ebong bhoy. Sob somoyei jeno pichhon 
theke keu kora nojordari rakhchhe apnar upor, apnar gotibidhir upor, 
apnar chintar upor.</em>) As it seems that you are scare-mongering about
 a possible return of the Emergency, why is it that you did not object 
to your late husband becoming an election candidate of the party which 
did actually impose the only real Emergency that our country has ever 
suffered?</div>
<div id="p_30">
<br /></div>
<div id="p_31">
You say, “Uprooting the Constitution, projecting violence 
as democracy, changing the meaning of peace – such incidents cannot 
continue for a long time.” (<em>Songbidhanke upre phele deoa, hingsake 
gonotontro bole chalano, shantir orthotakei bodle deoar moto ghotona 
deergho din cholte pare na.</em>) If you are so concerned about 
something called “uprooting the Constitution”, may we once again ask why
 you were not concerned about your husband’s candidature of that party 
which has <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_of_the_Constitution_of_India" target="_blank">amended the Constitution</a>
 the most number of times? As you appear to be so concerned about the 
Constitution, should you not support a nation-wide beef ban which would 
be in keeping with Article 48 of the same Constitution?  May we remind 
you that the only party that even changed the preamble of the 
Constitution after locking up all opposition in prison was your late 
husband’s party?</div>
<div id="p_31">
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<div id="p_32">
You end with “All people should get united to demand the trial and punishment of Pansare, Kalburgi, Dabholkar.” (<em>Pansare, Kalburgi, Dabholkarer hotyakarider bichar o shastir dabite oikyobodhho hon sob manush.</em>)
 We join you in your demand and note with some relief that the 
BJP-governed state of Maharashtra has already made one arrest for 
Pansare’s murder. We remain concerned that the INC-led governments 
failed to make even a single arrest in the case of Kalburgi and 
Dabholkar till date.</div>
<div id="p_32">
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<div id="p_33">
At the end of it, technicalities aside, it becomes 
abundantly clear that your stated grounds do not pass the test of basic 
consistency. It is perhaps the case that your reservations are rooted 
elsewhere. It is a fact that you have rejected Hinduism, the religion 
you were born into, to embrace Islam. This does not alter your locus as a
 citizen in the secular, liberal society that Hindu-majority India is. 
And, penalty for apostasy -indeed, there is no apostasy per se in 
Hinduism  – is an alien concept in Hinduism unlike that in Islam, the 
religion you have chosen as an adult. But when you write on Hindu-Muslim
 issues, it is essential that you reveal your conscious, 
well-deliberated religious choice as an adult. Your readers do deserve 
to know that you write as a Muslim, not as a Hindu despite your usage of
 the pre-conversion Hindu name, especially when you criticise Hindus, or
 a section thereof, of intolerance. It is also pertinent that your 
rejection of Hinduism was not merely nominal, but influenced critical 
decisions you undertook, which were devoid of respect for the diversity 
inherent to Indian culture that you so proudly proclaim: “Indian culture
 has been traditionally diverse. A nursery of all religions, complexions
 and communities.” (<em>Bharotiyo sonskriti oitijhhogoto bhabe chirokali boichitromoy. Sorbodhormo, borno o somprodayer manusher anturghor.</em>)</div>
<div id="p_33">
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<div id="p_34">
For, if you had ever practiced the diversity which you are 
preaching now, you would have told your mother-in-law at the time of 
your marriage in 1969 that you would retain your parental religion 
instead of converting to hers and would marry under the Special Marriage
 Act of 1954 which was already in force for fifteen years then. Was it 
not an adherence to the religion you adopted that you chose Arabic names
 for all your children, also in keeping with the traditions of your 
husband’s feudal family, and not Indic ones though you come from India’s
 best-known cultural family? Is it a proof of diversity that all your 
children know Urdu, their father’s mother tongue, but none of them know 
Bengali which is your mother tongue? If you truly adhered to the 
tolerance and diversity you espouse, shouldn’t you have ensured that 
your children were exposed equally to the teachings of the 
birth-religion of both their parents and they would be encouraged to 
make an informed choice between the two once they reach majority? 
Instead, we observe that your son proclaims that his paternal 
grandmother was “the centre for all our religious education” and “With 
my maternal grandparents I never discussed religion”. He does not 
mention receiving religious education from anyone familiar with Hinduism
 (including yourself).</div>
<div id="p_34">
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<div id="p_35">
Is this perhaps indicative of your rejection of the 
religion you were born into?  What diversity is revealed in your 
household by your son’s statement that “the servants were all devout 
Muslims”? What tolerance did you show for the customs of the religion 
you rejected when you did not interfere with your “devout Muslim” 
servants frightening your children against Holi by saying that the kids 
would later be <a href="http://www.sabrang.com/cc/comold/august98/saif.htm" target="_blank">“flayed in hell with cat-o-nine-tails”</a>
 for celebrating such Hindu festivals? Was it again diversity or 
indoctrination into intolerance against your original faith that your 
son got his first wife <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita_Singh" target="_blank">converted to Islam</a>
 and gave Abrahamic names to both their kids? Your son is hardly an 
exception in your family in that your elder daughter reflects similar 
sentiments when she says, “I follow Islam” <a href="http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111025/jsp/frontpage/story_14665248.jsp" target="_blank">without the slightest hint of your Hindu ancestry</a>?
 Your rejection of Hinduism does not alter you: how you raise your 
children is entirely your concern, but concealing your religious bias 
and indoctrination into intolerance while you assume public positions 
isn’t. If only you revealed the same while you wrote the above piece, 
your readers could have had a more honest conversation as to why you 
remained largely indifferent while an entire Hindu ethnicity was being 
cleansed off their ancestral homeland yet you were shaken to the core 
when one Muslim was murdered at Dadri.</div>
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<div id="p_36">
Yours faithfully,</div>
<div id="p_37">
Saswati Sarkar, Shanmukh and Dikgaj.</div>
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Sharmila Tagore aka Ayesha Begum Sultana Here is an open letter which is a befitting reply on the selective outrage of another ps...

Befitting Reply to India’s No. 1 pseudo Secular journalist Rajdeep Sardesai’s open letter

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Here is one more befitting Reply to India’s No. 1 pseudo secular journalist Rajdeep Sardesai’s open letter on ” <strong><em>Why Bajrang Dal activist Prashant Poojary’s murder can’t be compared to the Dadri beef lynching “</em></strong><br />
<br />

Dear Rajdeep,<br />

Who is comparing the two? All people want is similar anger, zeal and 
promptness in media lament in Bajrang Dal Activist’s murder by Jihadi 
groups as was seen in Dadri incident. You fail to explain why you act 
like a black-cat in Dadri but a pussycat in Moodbidri.<br />
<br />

You wrote-<br />

<strong><em>The pseudo-patriots are at it again.</em></strong><br />

You are nobody to issue certificate of patriotism to anybody. You are
 a journalist with BA. Not a judge. Don’t make us believe that even that
 BA degree is fake.<br />
<br />

You wrote-<br />

<strong><em>Having behaved disgracefully after the Dadri murder </em></strong><strong><em>‒</em></strong><strong><em> witness the statements made by leaders that either played down the incident or deliberately stoked hatred </em></strong><strong><em>‒</em></strong><strong><em> they have now found their voice again.</em></strong><br />

Talking about grace? Weren’t you the one who tried to exhibit Sunny 
Deol type machismo on streets of New York when you started 
pushing/slapping people during Modi’s visit? It is a different matter 
though that you ended up beaten black and blue, left, right and centre 
like a petty thief.<br />

And playing down? You raked up the Dadri tragedy to ignite communal 
fanaticism. You cooked up the story of Muslim persecution out of a stray
 incident in a remote village and started blaming all 100 crore plus 
Indians who worship cow as mother. And now when that has led to brutal 
murder of another innocent by goons emboldened by your coverage, you are
 writing this letter to explain why you played down this tragedy.<br />
<br />

You wrote-<br />

<strong><em>The killing of a Bajrang Dal activist in Moodbidri in 
Karnataka on Tuesday has sparked off the charge of selective outrage 
once again: why hasn’t the media covered Moodbidri with the same 
intensity as Dadri, we are asked.</em></strong><strong><em>Well, I’ll tell you why</em></strong><em>.</em><br />

So you concede Moodbidri was ignored and charges of selective outrage
 against people like you are true! The only thing you will do now is to 
justify your selective outrage.<br />

You wrote-<br />

<strong><em>To begin with, any killing is condemnable. But…</em></strong><br />

How is this different from ‘saffron’ brigade’s take on Dadri that ‘any killing is wrong <em><strong>‘but’</strong></em> cow is our mother and its butcher was sinner’?<br />
<br />

You wrote-<br />

<strong><em> when we seek to compare two instances without even 
bothering to examine the political context, we are entering dangerous 
territory.</em></strong><br />

<ol>
<li>Why must one bother to examine political context when neither 
Bajrang Dal nor Dadri mob nor Moodbidri mob was political? And if it was
 ‘political’, does it not make it even more dangerous – now not just 
lives, but democracy is at stake as well.</li>
<li>Even if I examine political context, does this make one incident 
less severe than the other? Or you mean to say that political context 
dilutes the gravity of any crime?</li>
<li>Did you ever say that since Godhra train burning by Muslim mob 
triggered 2002 riots, the reactionary riots must not be called genocide 
but be examined within religious context? You get a high whining about 
post-Godhra riots every single day but you get comatose when someone 
mentions Godhra train burning.</li>
</ol>
You wrote-<br />

<strong><em>Prashant Poojary was a Bajrang Dal activist in Moodbidri.
 The Bajrang Dal has self-admittedly used violence as a weapon against 
minorities (don’t believe me, meet Babu Bajrangi in Gujarat or listen to
 him in a Tehelka expose).</em></strong><br />

<ol>
<li>If Prashant Poojary was a Bajrang Dal activist, how does this make him worthy of getting killed?</li>
<li>Why are you acting like Khaap Panchayats or Kangaroo Courts on 
Bajrang Dal? Or are you funded by Jihadi groups who stone victims after 
issuing Sharia judgment on roadside. If Bajrang Dal is a terrorist 
group, go to the court, give evidence and get it banned. But you choose 
to do worst possible thing- moral policing. Interestingly, it is people 
like you who accuse groups like Bajrang Dal of moral policing!</li>
<li>And how does an act of one person become justification of killing of
 another man from the same organization? If Rajdeep Sardesai misbehaved 
with Americans in New York, abused them, called them a$$hole, pushed 
them and got slapped in return, would it be justified if someone harms 
Sagarika Ghose- the wife of Sardesai and member of his media family 
citing media context (just like you used political context)?</li>
<li>Interestingly, you never told people that since Akhlaq of Dadri 
belonged to the same community that produces ISIS, Al Qaeda, Laden, 
Hafiz Saeed, Lashkar, Jaish etc that self-admittedly behead and rape 
people in name of God, his killing must be seen from another context and
 it is not as severe as killing of a normal human. Why?</li>
<li>Minorities? Or pseudo-minorities? Dude, we are in 2015 and not 1947 
when Muslims were 7% in fragmented India. The community is now 20% of 
total population of India, majority (above 50%) in 19 districts, fairly 
dominant (above 20%) in 86 districts. Have you ever heard a news like 
this- ‘10 people from minority Hindu/Sikh/Christian/Jew groups 
raped/killed a man of majority community in Pakistan or Bangladesh or 
Saudi Arabia’ or any other Islamic country in this world? No. Minority 
that constitutes majority of criminals in jails is certainly not at all a
 suppressed minority as foolishly claimed by people like you. It only 
implies that media persons like you are strengthening the criminal and 
terrorist elements in a dominant community of India. And in process, 
bringing bad name to the peaceful elements in the community.</li>
<li>Babu Bajrangi was an individual who is in life imprisonment. How can
 his statement be considered official voice of Bajrang Dal. Manu Sharma 
was a Congress leader. Does it mean Congress “self-admittedly” killed 
Jessica Lal? Tarun Tejpal was a media person with views similar to 
Rajdeep Sardesai on Bajrang Dal, Gujarat riots, and saffron groups. So 
by your logic (and in your own words), Hindu-hating media persons like 
Rajdeep Sardesai use sexual-assault as a weapon against women. (don’t 
believe me, meet Tarun Tejpal in Goa or listen to complaint lodged 
against him.)</li>
</ol>
You wrote-<br />

<strong><em>Poojary has been allegedly involved in cases of 
intimidation and violence in the region. He was fighting the “beef 
Mafia” as part of the anti-cow slaughter agitation.</em></strong><br />

<ol>
<li>Allegedly? Look at your third class mindset. Mudslinging against 
someone who is no more alive to defend himself. Any evidence? You do not
 even have sentiments for a dead person and continue to spit your 
“allegations”. This is no different from Islamic fundamentalists who 
have issued fatwa that Muslims must not say “May Allah show his mercy” 
for a dead non-Muslim. They use the word “Kafir” for dead non-Muslims 
which means criminal. You are speaking the same hatred in English.</li>
<li>You might be the judge and the prosecutor in the Kangaroo court of your imagination but this world doesn’t take you seriously.</li>
<li>You were ‘allegedly’ found in objectionably compromising position 
with someone (other than wife) in an ATM booth some years ago. You have 
‘allegedly’ bought bungalow worth Rs 50 Crore which is difficult for any
 other Journalist with BA degree. You have “allegedly” obtained funds 
from sources that all fund terrorist groups. You have “allegedly” 
supported terrorists during 26/11 by providing detailed live coverage to
 terrorists inside Taj. You have ‘allegedly’ grown a donkey-tail on your
 back. So you must be punished for that, no? Your recipe of making any 
unproven charges by using the word “allegedly” can have more 
side-effects for you than those on whom you direct these.</li>
<li>Cow-slaughter is a criminal offence in Karnataka. So if Prashant was
 running an anti-cow slaughter campaign, what’s wrong in that? In fact 
he was a braveheart who was working against criminals and helping the 
state. Why is this the justification of his murder? Just because you are
 an ‘alleged’ criminal-mind who is ‘allegedly’ handiwork of Jihadi 
criminals, whose wife ‘allegedly’ openly states- ‘I ate beef, it was 
tasty’ just to ‘allegedly’ incite violence and encourage people to break
 laws doesn’t mean you can start killing people who follow law. You and 
your family must keep your ‘alleged’ fetish for killing innocents in 
check.</li>
</ol>
You said-<br />

<strong><em>He didn’t deserve to die under any circumstance but..</em></strong><br />

This but is coming again and again. It is like saying Sardesai didn’t
 deserve to get slapped in US in any circumstance but whatever happened 
was not that bad.<br />

You said-<br />

<strong><em>… there is a political context to his death as there 
would be in Bengal when Trinamool workers clash with cadres of the 
Communist Party of India (Marxist).</em></strong><br />

<ol>
<li>A man is killed. Now you go to his relatives and tell them that his 
death happened because of some political context. Imagine someone comes 
to you and says- Rajdeep, you were beaten by Lakhani Chappal and not by 
Bata Chappal. So there is Lakhani context to your thrashing in US. Does 
this make you feel better? Doesn’t the bottom-line remain that you were 
beaten?</li>
<li>So when Trinamool and CPI fight, do the courts give reward to one 
and punishment to other? Or do courts give lesser punishments to one 
group and harsher to other? What is the point exactly?</li>
<li>Is it that since you are a proud comrade (perhaps that’s why 
Trinamool workers clash with CPI and not vice versa!), you want courts 
to consider political context in favour of CPI?</li>
</ol>
You Wrote-<br />

<strong><em>Poojary was part of a political war between the Bajrang 
Dal and minority group outfits, some of them with criminal links. Can 
his killing be compared to Mohammed Akhlaq, an innocent householder 
whose only crime was that he was the victim of a rumour that he had 
stored beef and belonged to a particular religion. Naturally, the 
outrage over a hate crime will be and must be greater in his case.</em></strong><br />

<ol>
<li>Is Bajrang Dal a political party? Are those Muslim outfits that 
killed Prashant political parties? NO. Then why repeatedly calling their
 war political?</li>
<li>Readers will now understand why! Because Mr Sardesai wants to 
establish that Prashant was killed in a political war which had nothing 
to do with religion or religious hate. Thus it was not a Hindu killed by
 a group of fanatic Muslims but a political worker killed by workers of 
other political party just like Trinamool vs CPI which is normal and 
acceptable. But on the other hand, Dadri was a hate crime committed 
against a Muslim by majority Hindu mob. It serves two purposes. Showing 
Hindus as oppressor majority and Muslims as oppressed minority with no 
rights in India. Accusing Hindus of hating Muslims (because mob in Dadri
 was a Hindu mob and Hindu mob represents mentality of majority of 
Hindus) and creating terror in Muslims’ hearts so that relevance of the 
likes of Sardesais remains in the society. But you are exposed now.</li>
</ol>
You wrote –<br />

<strong><em>I will concede that Dadri is closer to most so-called 
national TV studios, and if it had happened at a distant spot, it might 
have attracted lesser attention</em></strong><br />

So what about the case of forceful sex-slavery of 2 poor Nepali Hindu
 women by a Saudi diplomat and his friends last month? The Saudi Embassy
 and Gurgaon residence of the diplomat are both quicker to reach from 
your TV studio than Dadri.<br />

Do you want to blame it on traffic jams in Delhi? Is it that it would
 have risks and undocumented losses that you cannot afford to bear? Or 
is it just a general hobby of enjoying bashing of Hindus?<br />

You wrote-<br />

<strong><em>It’s a classic case of “my Moodbidri versus your Dadri” as it has been of 1984 versus 2002 riots.</em></strong><br />

How many times have you cornered Congress leaders and Bhindranwale 
gang responsible for 1984 riots? How many times have you cornered 
conspirators of Godhra train burning? Your classic case of “my 
Post-Godhra versus your Godhra” too seems never-ending.<br />

You wrote-<br />

<strong><em>When no other excuse remains, the so-called liberal media is accused of being anti Hindu.</em></strong><br />

There is a reason why liberal media (so-called as per you) is accused of being anti Hindu.<br />

<ol>
<li>You questioned existence of Ram. You never had guts to question existence of Muhammad.</li>
<li>You opposed beef-ban. You happily covered beef parties of JNU as 
protest against beef-ban. Your wife happily tweeted- “I ate beef, it was
 tasty”. You freely discussed rights of a beef-eating Hindu. But you 
could never discuss rights of a cartoonist Muslim to draw Muhammad’s 
cartoons. You could never cover ‘Draw Prophet’s Cartoons’ events. Your 
wife never tweeted- “I just drew Muhammad, it was so handsome”. All your
 free speech is for Hindu gods and beliefs. But when it comes to Islamic
 heroes and beliefs, your free speech gets stuck in your constipated 
stomach. Are you ‘allegedly’ funded by Jihadis or simply scared to death
 to take any <em>panga</em> with them?</li>
</ol>
You wrote-<br />

<strong><em>This ludicrous persecution complex of those pseudo patriot Hindus who call themselves nationalists must end.</em></strong><br />

<ol>
<li>I am a proud Hindu. I am nationalist. I love India. I respect all 
religions and hate cults. Anybody whose God considers me His/Her child 
irrespective of my faith is good. Anybody whose God will burn me in hell
 for my beliefs is demon. Shivaji is my hero. APJ Abdul Kalam is my 
hero. Abdul Hamid is my hero. This is what I believe. Am I real patriot 
Hindu or Pseudo? If I am real then fine. If I am not and your statement 
was for me, read 2.</li>
<li>You have no business calling me names neither should you be 
lecturing what I should end. I told you why people like you are 
anti-Hindu. Hate me. I am not going to change. Live with it.</li>
<li>This ridiculous fear-cum-greed complex of those pseudo liberal media persons who call themselves intellectuals must end.</li>
</ol>
You wrote-<br />

<strong><em>Their spurious nationalism is based on hatred of the 
Mussalman and little else: it is an excuse to build a majoritarian India
 just as Islamic groups seek to use jihadi terror as a weapon of 
religious domination.</em></strong><br />

Your spurious journalism is based on ignorance, low IQ, fear of 
Jihadis, ‘alleged’ funding from terror-groups, and hatred of Hindus. You
 just want to equate the most dangerous Jihadi network that is banned 
worldwide to Hindu groups that operate with no charges of terrorism 
whatsoever.<br />

You wrote-<br />

<strong><em>The Bajrang Dal believes in violence as a response to the threat posed by minorities.</em></strong><br />

<ol>
<li>How? Who told you this? Or are you dreaming? Any proofs? If Babu 
Bajrangi is the proof of Bajrang Dal’s violence then your street-fight 
with NRIs in USA would be the proof of entire media being hooligan and 
rabid. Tarun Tejpal’s sexual assault would be proof of entire media 
industry indulging in sexual-harassment of junior women.</li>
<li>Remember the live telecast of police and SPG actions during Mumbai 
attacks in 2008? You were the anchor for entire program in CNN-IBN which
 was most crucial help provided to terrorists. Your live telecast 
enabled terrorists to track all movement against them and inflict 
maximum casualty on innocents. By your logic, you (and media persons 
like you) believe (and act) to support terrorists in their terror 
attacks in all possible means.</li>
<li>The ruckus raised by you and your wife over beef caused communal 
disharmony by instigating religious sentiments. So it means, you, your 
wife and other media persons like you believe in flaring communal hatred
 to cause killings and riots.</li>
<li>Any words for those pseudo-minorities? How many open letters have 
you written for those pseudo-minorities that pose threat to the nation?</li>
</ol>
You wrote-<br />

<strong><em>How different is it then from Islamic groups that espouse
 terror as an act of revenge? And are we now going to make cow slaughter
 the latest weapon in a campaign of terror against minorities as a 
Pakistan does with blasphemy laws against their minorities?</em></strong><br />

<ol>
<li>Now again very cleverly you played your tricks! You want to 
establish that Islamic groups spread terror as reaction to something 
wrong done previously to them! How long will you keep misleading the 
world? Why did Qasim, Ghori, Ghazni, Babur, Abdali etc attack India? Why
 did they behead in millions and raped every woman they came across? Why
 did Jinnah and his goons murder India in 1947? Why did Qasab attack 
Mumbai? Why did Bin Laden want to destroy India? Why do all Islamists 
want to do Ghazwa e Hind (conquest of India)? Out of some reaction? Did 
Indians harm them ever?</li>
<li>And if Jihadis are preparing for an all out war- Ghazwa against India, Shivaji and Rana Pratap are bound to come. Don’t cry.</li>
<li>If beef is banned by law, its eaters would be punished by law. India
 is not Pakistan. BTW, I am yet to see a vocal opposition of idea, 
ideology and philosophy behind Pakistan from you. Do it if you have 
guts.</li>
</ol>
You wrote-<br />

<strong><em>The only real answer then is to keep the law above the Hindu-Muslim identity question and focus on citizenship.</em></strong><br />

So when are you writing an open letter to Muslims of India to shun 
their Personal (Sharia) Law that suppresses women under barbaric 
polygamy, triple Talaq and Halala laws? When are you demanding 
Government of India to bring Uniform Civil Code?<br />

You wrote-<br />

<strong><em>The killers of Akhlaq and Poojary must receive the severest possible punishment under the law. Nothing else matters.</em></strong><br />

Nothing else matters? Isn’t it like analysing both Lakhani chappals 
and Bata shoes thrashing of yours in US for hours and then at the end 
saying- both are footwear, nothing else matters! Why does it not matter 
that you refuse to give coverage to one murder but make another the 
prime lament for days on your channel? When final judgment is same for 
both, why not your anguish? Why does it not matter that your 
irresponsible media coverage emboldened the terrorist elements to kill 
Poojary. They ‘allegedly’ knew that even if they kill, you will support 
them by keeping silent and writing silly open letters. And blame the 
victim instead of killers.<br />

You Wrote-<br />

<strong><em>This isn’t about Dadri versus Moodbidri. It’s about 
creating a society that is tolerant, plural, but most importantly, 
respects the rule of law and treats all equally before it.</em></strong><br />

I have an idea! If you state the following points of truly liberal 
and equal merits in your next open letter, I will be siding with you and
 withdraw this closure!<br />

<ol>
<li>I encourage beef-parties. I will encourage cartoon parties too.</li>
<li>I will spearhead the movement for removing ban on Satanic Verses, 
Lajja, The True Furqan, and Rangila Rasool, just as I bark so much 
against ban on beef.</li>
<li>If I am sensible enough to not organize/cover cartoon parties as it 
hurts minority sentiments, I will stay away from encouraging/covering 
beef/pro-beef discussions.</li>
<li>Hindus and Muslims are equal. Women and men are equal. No Hindu or 
Muslim man should be given right to marry 2/3/4 women at a time or 
divorce them unilaterally by simply saying Talaq Talaq Talaq.</li>
<li>If I can debate on Ram’s existence and Ram Janma bhoomi, I can also 
debate on Muhammad’s existence and Muhammad’s Janma Bhoomi. And I will.</li>
<li>As I am more concerned about religious hate than anything else, I 
will cover stories of Kashmiri Hindu/Sikhs, Pakistani 
Hindu/Sikh/Christian/Ahmadi and Saudi Non Muslims also.</li>
<li>I will ask world community that while Muslims in India (officially) 
increased from 9% to 15% from 1961 to 2011, Hindus in Pakistan decreased
 from 19% to 1%. I will start taking up real minority rights issues 
involving ethnic cleansing etc.</li>
<li>Just like I hate Babu Bajrangi, his Bajrang Dal, their literature 
and role models, I will hate ISIS, Al Qaeda, Lashkar e Taiba, Jaish e 
Muhammad, their literature and role models and expose them in public.</li>
<li>I love equality. I will organize book burning events for those books
 that contain hatred for non believers. At least I will criticize the 
books that have hell and separate laws for people of other faiths.</li>
<li>All religions need reforms. And I will expose them in proportion of 
their impact on world. More violence/rapes/bomb blasts/beheadings in 
name of a religion, more will be my criticism.</li>
<li>I will not do moral-policing in future. Either I will go to court 
against someone with evidence or will keep mum. I will never abuse 
someone who gave his life fighting criminals.</li>
</ol>
Have guts?<br />

With this, we close the discussion.<br />

<strong>Vashi and Sanjeev</strong><br />

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