United we stand ?
United we stand ...how ?
United as a nation or Hindu united forgetting their cast and regional differences and muslims united forgetting their differences as well.
I grew up in Ghaziabad, one of the biggest industrial town of U.P. in an upper class sarrounding. There were areas where muslims they used to live. My coming to my own senses also co-insided with the nation wide Ratha Yatra of Advani. And hence rise of BJP in UP. We were told not to go to certain areas and we were told you could be even killed in these areas for showing support for BJP. As kids we enjoyed the flamatory speaches made by Uma Bharati, the concept of kar sevak, the ugly scence of voilence that we saw on TV with all of our elders and apreciation of Bal Thakeray on how he controlled Bombay and kept muslims quite and out of the city's progress. And we noded with our elders for the fact that Indian Muslims they do no support India for matches and stuff like that without ever observing such thing or without even knowing a single muslims. I find it difficult to accept today that I dont remeber a single person who dint enjoy above stuff in this residential area of Ghaziabad. I do not remember nither a single person stopping the kids from getting biased. And today I find it even more difficult to accept that same person who can be held responsible for one the biggest events of modern India for taking it 10 steps back is in a prospect of becoming the next PM. I find it even more difficult to accept the person who is stronger net to him in this party is another person who took us 20 years back and left us divided like never before. United We Stand, can we stop these two now, what we failed to do in past?
I believe ever since independence muslims have been ghettoized. And the process fueled up after demolition of Babri Masjid and 2002 communal violence of Gujrath. Today we are more divided then ever before. At certain places I tried looking for a flat to rent, the first and the foremost question being asked is my full name. Then I was reminded why my full name was asked, first to check if I am muslims as landowners doesnt allow their houses to rent to mulims. Also to check my cast, it makes a difference. Also, security is becoming a big concern for muslims. Events of 92 and 2002 have seen big spatial changes and observe movements of communities.
Another dissappointing aspects for muslims is that they do not have a political leader some one like Mayawati, Late Kanshi Ram, in UP, some tamilian leaders, Lalu Yadav in Bihar, who are/were representative of lower class or classes which are being neglected in our democracy. And have played an important role to bring about social changes.
What we need to do today to really make a statement "Stand we united". There is a need to bring about a huge social change and there is a need to reverse the process of seperation that began back in 1947. Something we tried to achieve by reservation to bring up lower cast.
The first and foremost is the change in reservation policy which should not be caste based but should depend on financial condition of an individual. Or if that is not possible reservation for financially week muslims.
There should be laws that would encourange coming together of families of different religion and caste. Like marriages can do miracles in India. There should be a law which would provide heavy incentives like life time social security and educational subsidies, housing, etc for every marriage between hindu and muslim. With all the benefits it will have power to bring together two families of different culture together. And millions financially back ward would find it lucrative to reject the idea, which at the moment is a big taboo and kind of difficult.
There should be a law to protect the rights of renter/buyer. If a person or family has police verification done, it should be made mandatory for a lanlord to engage in talks with the person who wants to rent or buy an house.
I remembre my friend telling me about a Muslims journalist who asked a question "how many pple who critisize mulims knows even a single muslims good enough to call him a friend and stay in his house?"
Yeah for all the people who talks of "United We Stand" and who talks of solidarity, time has come to think in what way we would want to stand united ?
United as a nation or Hindu united forgetting their cast and regional differences and muslims united forgetting their differences as well.
I grew up in Ghaziabad, one of the biggest industrial town of U.P. in an upper class sarrounding. There were areas where muslims they used to live. My coming to my own senses also co-insided with the nation wide Ratha Yatra of Advani. And hence rise of BJP in UP. We were told not to go to certain areas and we were told you could be even killed in these areas for showing support for BJP. As kids we enjoyed the flamatory speaches made by Uma Bharati, the concept of kar sevak, the ugly scence of voilence that we saw on TV with all of our elders and apreciation of Bal Thakeray on how he controlled Bombay and kept muslims quite and out of the city's progress. And we noded with our elders for the fact that Indian Muslims they do no support India for matches and stuff like that without ever observing such thing or without even knowing a single muslims. I find it difficult to accept today that I dont remeber a single person who dint enjoy above stuff in this residential area of Ghaziabad. I do not remember nither a single person stopping the kids from getting biased. And today I find it even more difficult to accept that same person who can be held responsible for one the biggest events of modern India for taking it 10 steps back is in a prospect of becoming the next PM. I find it even more difficult to accept the person who is stronger net to him in this party is another person who took us 20 years back and left us divided like never before. United We Stand, can we stop these two now, what we failed to do in past?
I believe ever since independence muslims have been ghettoized. And the process fueled up after demolition of Babri Masjid and 2002 communal violence of Gujrath. Today we are more divided then ever before. At certain places I tried looking for a flat to rent, the first and the foremost question being asked is my full name. Then I was reminded why my full name was asked, first to check if I am muslims as landowners doesnt allow their houses to rent to mulims. Also to check my cast, it makes a difference. Also, security is becoming a big concern for muslims. Events of 92 and 2002 have seen big spatial changes and observe movements of communities.
Another dissappointing aspects for muslims is that they do not have a political leader some one like Mayawati, Late Kanshi Ram, in UP, some tamilian leaders, Lalu Yadav in Bihar, who are/were representative of lower class or classes which are being neglected in our democracy. And have played an important role to bring about social changes.
What we need to do today to really make a statement "Stand we united". There is a need to bring about a huge social change and there is a need to reverse the process of seperation that began back in 1947. Something we tried to achieve by reservation to bring up lower cast.
The first and foremost is the change in reservation policy which should not be caste based but should depend on financial condition of an individual. Or if that is not possible reservation for financially week muslims.
There should be laws that would encourange coming together of families of different religion and caste. Like marriages can do miracles in India. There should be a law which would provide heavy incentives like life time social security and educational subsidies, housing, etc for every marriage between hindu and muslim. With all the benefits it will have power to bring together two families of different culture together. And millions financially back ward would find it lucrative to reject the idea, which at the moment is a big taboo and kind of difficult.
There should be a law to protect the rights of renter/buyer. If a person or family has police verification done, it should be made mandatory for a lanlord to engage in talks with the person who wants to rent or buy an house.
I remembre my friend telling me about a Muslims journalist who asked a question "how many pple who critisize mulims knows even a single muslims good enough to call him a friend and stay in his house?"
Yeah for all the people who talks of "United We Stand" and who talks of solidarity, time has come to think in what way we would want to stand united ?
posted by Tanuj at 2:54 AM
2 Comments:
united we stand
is a very good article
keep writing
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extremely good article dude...it depicts the actual situation in our society, extermely good one...
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