With two hostile neighbours in the immediate vicinity and one in the greater region, it is imperative that New Delhi forge alliances that can offer some stability.
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
Zafar Sareshwala’s “focus on education” is praiseworthy, but I do not think he has the license to speak on behalf of the entire Muslim community when he says,
“…There is a silent churning within the community…We are like Arjuna in the Mahabharata… You bring in uniform civil code, you build the Ram mandir, we won’t get bogged down or react…”
The problem for Zafar S. is that he has so closely identified himself with Mr Modi in the past that an average Muslim would look on him as a mole of the BJP. The above quoted text might be the thinking among his business community, but I doubt if an average Muslim would endorse it. In fact he might boo him angrily.
On one point I would personally disagree with Zafar S. when he claims that the top BJP leadership is not communal. If they weren’t, then what was the need for “silently” endorsing the lynchings? Have they furthered their goal of establishing Hindutva by doing so, or shot themselves in the foot? If there is ONE factor that has brought together the entire opposition and nonviolence loving Hindus who constitute the majority, it is this — lynching of the poor, helpless humans, Muslims and Dalits. If the leaders weren’t communal, would the footsoldiers have the courage to do these?
Beware the fury of the patient man. No one will keep turning the cheek forever.
Zafar Sareshwala’s “focus on education” is praiseworthy, but I do not think he has the license to speak on behalf of the entire Muslim community when he says,
“…There is a silent churning within the community…We are like Arjuna in the Mahabharata… You bring in uniform civil code, you build the Ram mandir, we won’t get bogged down or react…”
The problem for Zafar S. is that he has so closely identified himself with Mr Modi in the past that an average Muslim would look on him as a mole of the BJP. The above quoted text might be the thinking among his business community, but I doubt if an average Muslim would endorse it. In fact he might boo him angrily.
On one point I would personally disagree with Zafar S. when he claims that the top BJP leadership is not communal. If they weren’t, then what was the need for “silently” endorsing the lynchings? Have they furthered their goal of establishing Hindutva by doing so, or shot themselves in the foot? If there is ONE factor that has brought together the entire opposition and nonviolence loving Hindus who constitute the majority, it is this — lynching of the poor, helpless humans, Muslims and Dalits. If the leaders weren’t communal, would the footsoldiers have the courage to do these?