For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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?