Oct 2: Day 1 of my fast, day 949 of our chain.
Lot of well meaning people become activists like I did when we see a cause that hurts us to our core.
However, to jump in to raise your voice for a cause is just not enough. Activism like any other field needs to be learnt and get training in but even more important is, it can never be achieved with ego controlling oneself.
We learn that what is wrong is wrong no matter who did/said it and what is right is right no matter who did/said it.
We have seen lot of Indian muslims have started considering themselves as flag bearer of secularity and democracy in… India. A whole lot of non muslim activists also, consider the poor, brave Indian Muslims as the ones fighting for secularity in India and criticise Hinduism and Hindi – two aspects of the Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan call by RSS.
This is a big fallacy.
Why is Hindi a terrible language? Why are you taking away respect from Hindi that it deserves? What is the basis? It is a language, and deserves respect. Period.
Urdu came in to existence as a mixed bag of different languages so why is it more respectable than Hindi? This is stupid comparison and we don’t need to shun Hindi in order to respect Urdu.
Hindu… how is Hinduism any lesser than Islam? Religions are full of contradicting information and opinions. All religions are created to… well… let’s not even go there and so, calling Islam and Muslims better than Hinduism and Hindus is wrong.
I have been reading different activist ‘organisations’ talk about extremeties by Modi govt on Muslims, Dalits, Christians and this and those people and examples of Siddique Kappan and all other muslims in jails are given at drop of a hat. If non muslims examples are at all given they are of slain or detained high profile activists like Gautam Navlakha and Sudha Bhardwaj etc.
What about upper caste Hindus who have suffered the same amount but were as ordinary as Siddique Kappan etc? RADIO SILENCE about them. Why?
OVERCORRECTION.
Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita… (care to add more names that I am not writing here?) Want to test yourself if you are actually someone who is fighting for the right cause? It’s not about Indian Muslims alone you see… it is about fascism. Anyone who is a victim of fascism should be remembered… not just of the ‘oppressed community’ but also those who are fighting for them!
I do ask Indian Muslim ‘activists’ and they cannot name the Pinjra Tod activist girls.
Sad Siddique Kappan couldn’t visit his dying mother? Ever take name of Natasha Narwal in the same breath who did not have a mother and when her father fell ill and was dying, she was denied bail and was only allowed to go and cremate her father after he died. I have never heard anyone talk about ordinary hindu activists who faced brutal suppression just like our Muslim brethren. Care to think why?
Activism and drama are two very different things. True contribution to any act is when you can actually contribute to it the way it NEEDS contribution.
When you say sab yaad rakha jayega… actually try to broaden your vision and do remember EVERYTHING. Don’t go into overcorrection.
Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan does not individually become ugly just because it is the call of the RSS. RSS actually have nothing to do with Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan.
Our Hindi, our Urdu, Our Hindu, Our Muslims, our Hindustan, Our Bharat is all one… what we want. And we will not get it by axing one to save another.
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