So today I learnt Shias make the call for Azan a couple of minutes later than Sunni mosques & that is why we have recently begun to hear the call for prayer 10 times a day in our locality.
Now of course with Ramzan, we have a special hooter that goes off at 4.42 am & 6.40 pm - 2mins before the actual call…
With 3 Sunni mosques & 1 recent Shia mosque in the vicinity we are subjected to 365x10 Azans… each one competing to be louder.
With 3 Sunni mosques & 1 recent Shia mosque in the vicinity we are subjected to 365x10 Azans… each one competing to be louder.
Our little street dog, Lalli through her 12yrs would wail along side at least 5 times a day setting off the dogs in our homes into a right royal cacophony.
We then realised there was a particular base sound they reacted to & we neighbours joked that to get undisturbed sleep we
We then realised there was a particular base sound they reacted to & we neighbours joked that to get undisturbed sleep we
we should contribute towards a better sound system for them.
Till one winter 9yrs ago, 2 Pakistani-Americans came with a neighbour’s daughter from Penn State University on their 1st visit to India.
I’m told they woke up disoriented at 4.45 am, wondering where they were,
Till one winter 9yrs ago, 2 Pakistani-Americans came with a neighbour’s daughter from Penn State University on their 1st visit to India.
I’m told they woke up disoriented at 4.45 am, wondering where they were,
watched their hosts through the day hold phone calls, mute TVs, disrupt conversations, have babies & the old infirm wake up with a start & commented …This is not the India we are told about. To think you accept this so casually…!
Their host, our neighbour told us later that the irony of it hit him when he realised that it had taken 2 Pakistanis to tell him that.
Once residents of our street had gone to the local Police Stn to file a complaint against the high decibels we were subjected to day in & out.
Once residents of our street had gone to the local Police Stn to file a complaint against the high decibels we were subjected to day in & out.
The SHO had indicated his helplessness & said he could not endanger the lives of his constables who returned home through these very localities.
Go to the MLA he said …from where it had all floundered.
Go to the MLA he said …from where it had all floundered.
Everyone had backed off & since then we are exactly where we started off - with an additional Shia mosque to boot.
Secularism #101
365 x 10.
#NotIslamophobia #Fact
#LivedExperience
Secularism #101
365 x 10.
#NotIslamophobia #Fact
#LivedExperience
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