Following the transaction which is expected to be completed by November, Dassault Reliance Aerospace Ltd will become an associate company, with Reliance retaining a 49% stake.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
Hilal Ahmed (above) has put it very correctly. The politicisation of ‘Iftar’ was begun by Indira Gandhi and continued by Congress PMs ( Vajpayee also) and It is now rightly discontinued by Modi. What is “Iftar”, exactly? It is the breaking of the voluntarily imposed fast observed scrupulously during the whole day, every day in the month of Ramzan by devout Muslims, and is NOT a social activity that these politicians have made it by giving a gala dinner with groaning tables and chattering guests, in an atmosphere resembling a social gathering (invited media in attendance) rather than the intended SIMPLE and symbolic ‘breaking of the fast’. It is used more often as a meeting to garner political leverage and patronage. Worse, it is clearly seen by the Hindus as a ‘political’ tool used by politicians. Its political slant ought to be discontinued, at least what passes for it now, as ‘Iftar’ in the political class. .
Hilal Ahmed (above) has put it very correctly. The politicisation of ‘Iftar’ was begun by Indira Gandhi and continued by Congress PMs ( Vajpayee also) and It is now rightly discontinued by Modi. What is “Iftar”, exactly? It is the breaking of the voluntarily imposed fast observed scrupulously during the whole day, every day in the month of Ramzan by devout Muslims, and is NOT a social activity that these politicians have made it by giving a gala dinner with groaning tables and chattering guests, in an atmosphere resembling a social gathering (invited media in attendance) rather than the intended SIMPLE and symbolic ‘breaking of the fast’. It is used more often as a meeting to garner political leverage and patronage. Worse, it is clearly seen by the Hindus as a ‘political’ tool used by politicians. Its political slant ought to be discontinued, at least what passes for it now, as ‘Iftar’ in the political class. .
Well said, Mr Rajesh!
A very gracious gesture of solidarity and belonging. If one does not like Muslims, all such acts can be derided as pseudo or appeasement.