In thick of the night there was a knock on #KunalMerchant door. Masked men grabbed & pushed him into a dark tinted van & took him away to an undisclosed location!
His family & friends are desperately running from pillar to post trying to find out his whereabouts but to no avail
As we know in New India people just disappear when they voice their opinion against our fascist authoritarian govt & when you speak Truth to Power you are ded, ded, ded!
Here is Merchant’s very powerful letter on social media platforms that shook the very edifice of
PM Modi’s govt👇🏼
While 20% of my fellow citizens live below the poverty line & while 22% of my fellow citizens who are Muslims live in marginalised conditions created by your govt and its policies, I find it morally & unethically feasible to design & create a desk for the head
of our govt on which laws & policies will be signed to further this agenda of segregation & deprivation of minorities,”
“History treats the supporters, suppliers & propagators of Nazis as Nazis themselves. I do not want to have anything to do with, nor contribute to this regime
lest history associates me with your racism, fascism, reductive & binary thinking as well as your thuggery. As a designer, I seek to inspire and uplift the quality of life of the people around me.”
Other people openly & bravely also contributed their tidbits to the Truth to Power soliloquy.
All on social media platforms. Imagine the courage it took !
This ‘Vishwa guru’ taunt exposes such a pathetic inferiority complex.
A desperate desire of a certain segment of our educated elite to remain lackeys in perpetuity.
We didn’t dare. How dare you?
And what exactly does handling of riots & punishing those who destroy public property got to do with being a Vishwa Guru?
Do Americans mock their American Dream even though it suffers a horrific drug culture, shameful racism & gun violence?
Does Sweden not send in its police to deal with violent immigrants because God forbid! they might fall of the Top of the Pops in the Happiness genre?
Guessing a high rate of depression & suicides no longer matter …
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.
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
Some minor distractions on the political landscape-
Rahul Gandhi had seen the benefits of his mother’s clever strategy of ruling by proxy that he probably thought he’d be able to do the same when he resigned as Congress President.
But then Rahul not being his Mummy, couldn’t stop talking & putting his foot in his mouth. It is after all an art, to cultivate that Sphinx-like silence & deflect all criticism.
And Mummy, well Mummy isn’t quite AP…
But now the two of them, with sister thrown in for good measure have to deal with a bunch of old retainers, who they know only too well are quite unaccustomed to raising their eyes having spent their entire political careers kissing their hems & before that of Daddy, Dadi &
#Musings
For one Aqlaq, Junaid, Pehlu Khan, Asifa, a billion Hindus were branded violent, intolerant & expected to hang their heads in shame even before investigations were complete.
But for driving out an entire ethnic group from a State give or take a few hundred as is being guilt-negotiated lately, killing, raping, murdering, stealing or destroying their property, our Leftist-Islamists have not for a moment expressed regret for or even acknowledged
the crime but are instead looking for a ‘middle ground’ & screaming Islamophobia.
The irony of it would be laughable if it was not so tragic.
Kashmiri Muslim panelists across TV channels are jumping up to claim that many more Muslims than Kashmiri Pandits, have been killed.
UP.
Goes to show, people appreciate & amply reward vision, hard work, delivery.
The lexicon of politics in the heartland has changed forever. A tough act for other parties to follow-corrupt to the core, bereft of new ideas,left to embarrassing theatrics, desperate appeasement.
Goa.
BJP won despite the much missed presence of Manohar Parrikar, all the show & drama of AAP & TMC, a 41% Christian population!