As filmmaker Leena Manimekalai continues to create controversy over her documentary film ‘Kaali’, Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra said that the state govt will write a letter to the central government and get a lookout circular issued against her. He said that a case is already registered against her in Madhya Pradesh, but now the state will demand from central govt also.
The comments by Mishra came after another post by Leena Manimekalai went viral. Today she posted a photographs on Twitter showing two actors dressed as Shiva and Parvati smoking on a street. She just used the comment ‘Elsewhere…” with the post, and probably she tried to justified her depiction of Kaali as a smoker using the photograph.
— Leena Manimekalai (@LeenaManimekali) July 7, 2022
The poster of the documentary film Kali directed by Leena Manimekalai caused outrage among Hindus as the poster depicted the Goddess Kali smoking cigarettes and was seen with the LGBTQ rainbow flag. While the controversy over the poster continues, Leena Manimekalai tweeted another photo in which two artists dressed as Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati were seen smoking. Terming it as a perverted mindset, Madhya Pradesh’s home minister Dr. Narottam Mishra said that he will write to Twitter in this regard.
जानबूझकर हिंदू देवी-देवताओं का अपमान कर रही फिल्म निर्माता लीना मणिमेकलाई के खिलाफ लुक आउट सर्कुलर जारी करने के लिए मध्य प्रदेश सरकार केंद्र सरकार को पत्र लिखेगी। pic.twitter.com/zLYTn6TyQj
— Dr Narottam Mishra (@drnarottammisra) July 7, 2022
Dr. Narottam Mishra said, “We are going to write a letter to the union government on behalf of the Madhya Pradesh government. We will demand the union government issue a lookout circular against Leena Manimekalai. Because, whatever she is posting now, it seems that she is posting it deliberately. We had already registered a case in this regard so that immediate action could be taken against such elements. We are also writing the union government for the lookout circular.”
लीना मणिमेकलाई जैसे विकृत मानसिकता वाले लोग धार्मिक भावनाओं को आहत करने के लिए ट्वीटर को एक टूल के रूप में उपयोग कर रहे है। मध्य प्रदेश सरकार ट्वीटर को पत्र लिखकर अपने स्तर पर स्क्रीनिंग करके ऐसी पोस्ट को रोकने को कहेगी। pic.twitter.com/QcrOmCKBxS
— Dr Narottam Mishra (@drnarottammisra) July 7, 2022
Dr. Narottam Mishra further said, “Today, we are also writing a letter to Twitter. Some people have a perverted mentality. They continuously share tweets that may hurt religious sentiments; just like what Leena Manimekalai – the director of the documentary film Kali – has done. She first shared a tweet of Goddess Kali smoking cigarettes. Then she shared a similar tweet about Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. We will ask Twitter to prohibit such tweets on their own level because these tweets are made with a perverted mentality and intend to hurt the religious sentiments of the people. These people use Twitter as a tool to do that. We will ask Twitter to scan such tweets so that they will not appear on social media in the first place.”
In Madhya Pradesh, separate cases have been registered against Leena Manimekalai as well as Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra over the controversy over the film Kaali. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has also categorically stated that attempts to incite religious sentiments will not be tolerated.
On July 4, a man identified as Sirajul Sheikh was killed as the bomb he was making accidentally exploded. The incident took place in the Mandalpara area of Bagharpur Ramna in ward number 3 of Doklam, district Murshidabad in West Bengal. Three persons were also reportedly injured in the incident. As per the TV9 report, all four were associated with the ruling party TMC.
As per news reports, Sirajul Sheikh was known as the TMC leader in the area. The Police were informed about the incident after which they reached the spot and initiated the investigation. The Police took the dead body into its custody and sent it for post-mortem while the injured persons were sent to hospital for treatment. As per a report in Jagran, the blast was so powerful that both the hands of an injured person were blown off.
26-years-old Sirajul’s family claim that he was a farmer. However, he was allegedly lured into making bombs in exchange for money. His father Ashraf Mandal told TV9, “He was offered a huge amount of money for making bombs. We stopped him but he did not listen.” He further added, “My son was a farmer and there was an ongoing dispute about the land. He had left home in the evening that day. Someone from the neighbourhood informed us that our son has died while making the bomb.”
TV9 quoted an unknown official of TMC who said, “It is a personal family matter and the party has nothing to do with it.”
Police seized a large consignment of explosives in the area a week back
Murshidabad, which is located close to the Bangladesh border, is infamous for crude bombs. Recently, a large consignment of 81,000 detonators was seized by the Special Task Force of West Bengal Police from the Nalhati area of Birbhum district on Thursday. On Friday, STF seized 28,000 KG of ammonium nitrate from the same area. National Investigation Agency was roped in to look into the matter due to the large cache of explosives.
On Thursday, the Kerala Police arrested Malayalam actor Shreejit Ravi for allegedly exhibiting nudity in front of two minor girls aged 14 and 9 respectively. The incident happened near the SN Park in the Ayyanthole area of Thrissur after which a complaint was registered at the Thrissur Police station. The Police arrested him under section 11 of the POCSO Act. While the girls didn’;t recognise him, they were able to identity him in CCTV footages, based on which the actor was arrested.
According to the reports, the incident took place on July 4 when Shreejit Ravi, who is the son of popular TV actor TG Ravi, arrived at the SN Park in Thrissur. As the two minor girls walked towards him near the car, Shreejit got out and allegedly began to show his genitals to the minor girls.
The girls informed about the incident to their parents who lodged an official complaint at the Thrissur Police Station. The girls in the complaint mentioned that the man whom they couldn’t identify had arrived in the black car. The Police during the investigation checked the CCTV footage and traced the car number to know that the car belonged to actor Shreejit Ravi. The Police booked him under the POCSO act after the girls recognized him in the CCTV footage.
Reports mention that the actor who has been booked for the obscene act also confessed during the investigation that he has been undergoing treatment for his behavioral disorder. Notably, this is not the first time that the actor has been booked for an obscene act. A few years ago, he was detained in a similar case.
He was arrested in the year 2016 after a group of 14 school girls from Palakkad accused him of exposing himself to them in public. Later, he was granted bail. However, the case did not come into the limelight again. The parents of the minor girls had also accused the police had sabotaged the case without collecting the necessary evidence.
In the current case, it is being claimed that the actor has a behavioral disorder and is under treatment. He has been arrested by the Kerala Police for exhibiting his genitals in front of two minor girls in public. He has been booked under section 11 of the POCSO Act.
Not that it’s a film well made enough to allow a discerning audience to recapitulate every scene or sequence correctly, but one line from the Kartik Aaryan starring Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 is just too obvious. The angry thakursaab of an old haveli in a Rajasthani village hollers to a tensed Ruhaan (Aaryan) that if it is proved that he has lied to the family about the death of their daughter Reet (Kiara Advani) then he will decapitate him for the mistake committed. In a script fraught with random mockery of Hindu religious practices and a general depiction of how regressive is the family’s way of life, this aberration seems to stand out even though a jocular ambience is created around the harsh announcement. Why? Because, for any sane mind who is well versed with dharmic traditions, it’s not easy to digest that the film would show beheading someone is something that Sanatan dharma propagates.
The narrative though downplays the whole inaccuracy and thrusts the lie amidst an audience who probably wouldn’t realise that the director Anees Bazmee and his scriptwriter wife, Fatima, harboured an agenda here. A brutal punishment that Sharia law unleashes is shown to be a generic Hindu norm. Just like how the Aghori tradition is shown as a dark, occult practice in the film through problematic, ill-researched scenes. However, did any film critics discuss these in their reviews? Not that we read any. Because discrediting Hinduism has interestingly been a very Bollywood thing. Even if the faith is wrong depicted, not one voice is raised. So, when Anupamaa Chopra’s team reviewed the severely commercial film, the criticism concentrated on technicalities only. That the narrative botched up the showcase of the Aghori Sanyasi practices and passed crude nonsensical jokes on Hindus were kept aside.
That makes Chopra’s comments on R Madhavan’s Rocketry: The Nambi Effect seems weird and clearly driven by vicious propaganda to rob the buzz of the film. Wonder why. What could possibly be Chopra’s reason to call the biopic on one of India’s most talented rocket scientists too Hindu-centric! Why do the left liberals have a problem if S Nambi Narayanan is shown to be a practising Hindu doing his puja every morning before going to ISRO, his workplace; for visiting the temple to pray so that his years of efforts to take India’s space science research forward by leaps and bounds bear fruit; for exclaiming Amme Bhagavathi often and most importantly for being a staunch nationalist who always prioritized the successful development and growth of Bharat.
But, going by how the left ecosystem has always hyperventilated and rampantly shadow banned works that have not minced words on politics, history or nationalism, this was an expected reaction. Especially after Chopra and her husband, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who made the acutely distorted Shikara, tried to sabotage Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files, lest it revealed the bold truth about the Kashmiri Pandit genocide and exodus of 1990 perpetrated by radical Islam that was backed by terror outfits operating in Pakistan. While Shikara had monkey balanced the premise by skewing up what had actually happened, Agnihotri’s film became a movement of sorts because it didn’t hide the fact that Congress politicians, bureaucrats and media were also responsible for the diabolical betrayal of the Kashmiri Pandits then.
So as is their character, the left cabal has come down heavily on Madhavan’s directorial debut simply because there are too many skeletons that might tumble out of the closet. And without finding a rational reason to critique the technicalities of the well-made film, they shun it for showing Nambi Sir as a proud Hindu and a staunch Bharatiya. The same ecosystem that swears by freedom of speech and creative choices is yet again exposing their deep hypocrisy as they unnecessarily harp on a brilliant scientist’s religious leanings and not how he was wronged by the then powers-that-be. The people who lauded Shahrukh Khan for establishing that ‘terror has no religion’ through My Name is Khan is getting insecure with Madhavan sporting vibhuti on his forehead and doing Surya Namaskar! Or are they ruffled that the audience just might start asking uncomfortable questions like, “Why wasn’t the death of Vikram Sarabhai and Homi Bhabha probed into?” that will open a can of worms regarding the death and alienation of some of India’s most meritorious space scientists during the rule of the Congress.
While the movie thrashes out this through a series of well-researched incidents and experiences, it also reminds us of Tapan Sinha’s Ek Doctor ki Maut based on the life of Dr Subhash Mukhopadhyay, who despite being the pioneer in inventing IVF, was treated with abject disdain by the Congress and the CPIM, forcing him to eventually end his life. While the world credits Dr Robert Edwards for the achievement, erudite circles know that Dr Mukhopadhyay was purposely victimized to ‘allow the west to take the credits’. The chronicles of S Nambi Narayanan also reveal a similar conspiracy to keep India grovelling.
It’s only towards the end of the film that one realizes how important it is for Indians who love their country to know S Nambi Narayanan’s story. The reflection, “What could have been!” looms so large above the consciousness that it is difficult to shake away the feeling of disgust and anger at those who sabotaged his shining career and contribution to his motherland. His fault? Well, the detractors of this nation didn’t need a reason to pin nationalist entities down. Insurmountable greed for the wrong kind of income, slavery towards those who would rather have India grovel before them than rising with its own might and intelligence, a stinging hatred for unapologetic Hindus and outright connivance have always impeded the growth of such stalwarts. While realizing that the Nambi effect could have strengthened India’s position in the field of space sciences, you cannot shy away from the fact that the backstabbers were far too many who snuck away easily. The scene where news arrives of his vindication is beautifully done. The questions asked by the scientist towards the end and the points raised about ‘I was exonerated, but we all need to figure out who was behind the conspiracy!” are way too pertinent. Fun thing is, we all know now. Some say it out loudly, some are still pussy footing because their ideologies are shaped by political and firangi hyenas.
To do her job well, Chopra could have concentrated on how Madhavan is in top form because he believes in the cause his directorial debut is directed at. Shahrukh Khan’s casting was clever while the tone and tenor of the biopic is crisp and restrained. Humiliation, psychological assault, insults and so much more the brilliant man faced just because he loved his country and wanted it to speed ahead. The least Indians can do is not forget his sacrifices and never forgive the perpetrators who did this to a patriot of Bharat. Actually, still doing.
In the month of March this year, a 6-year-old Hindu boy was reportedly forcefully circumcised by his Muslim neighbour in the Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh. According to a report by Swarajya, the victim’s parents had filed a complaint with the local police against his neighbour Mansoor Khan, who had forcibly circumcised the little boy with the intent of converting him into Islam.
Ground Report: Hindu Kid Forcibly ‘Circumcised’, Police Book Eight-Year-Old For ‘Causing Hurt’ But Spare His Father Mansoor Despite Kid’s Testimony#MadhyaPradesh@subhi_karmahttps://t.co/DNpy14FiST
As per the media report, the police had, however, filed an FIR against Mansoor Khan’s 8-year-old son under IPC section 324 (voluntarily causing hurt), instead of booking the accused Mansoor Khan. Paapun Bain, the 6-year-old victim’s father, had on March 30, submitted a letter to the Superintendent of Police of Jabalpur, accusing the police of inaction in the case.
Victim’s father Paapun Bain files a complaint with the Jabalpur police
According to Swarajya, the FIR filed by the victim’s father stated that the incident happened on the morning of March 22. According to the victim boy’s father Paapun Bain, he left for work close to his home at around 10 in the morning on March 22. Paras was still asleep then. His wife was getting ready to go to the bungalow to work. When he returned home, he discovered that his son was missing. He started looking for him. The child was found hiding behind the house. The child appeared terrified. He was reluctant to share anything despite his father’s repeated requests. He requested permission from his father to use the washroom. There, he showed Paapun his private part, which had cuts and was bleeding.
Image via Swarajya
On being insisted again to share with his father what had caused the injury, the child told his father that Faizu had made the cuts with a blade. Paapun immediately took him to the police station where they were asked to go to the government hospital. He went to the hospital for treatment and, on his return, he learnt that the police had filed a case against the 8-year-old son of Mansoor Khan under IPC section 324 (voluntarily causing hurt but not his father and the prime accused Mansoor Khan.
After this, Paapun Bain on March 30, wrote to the Superintendent of Police of Jabalpur, complaining of inaction and hiding facts of the case.
Paapun Bain write to the SP of Jabalpur accusing the police of inaction
The letter written by Paapun Bain, accessed by Swarajya, stated that Mansoor Khan’s family resides in Paapun’s neighbourhood. On March 22, while he was at work close to his home, his wife hurriedly alerted him about the disappearance of their son. They discovered him behind the house after searching outside.
The boy was standing frozen and his pants were soaked in blood. When they took off his pants, they discovered that his underwear was where the blood was dripping from and not his legs. Paapun observed that a portion of the upper layer of the boy’s penis had been removed and there were cut marks all around it.
Image via Swarajya
When asked, the boy said that the 8-year-old neighbour boy and his father Mansoor Khan had done that to him in the bathroom.
Paapun immediately rushed to confront Mansoor. He lambasted him for forcibly circumcising his son with the intent of converting him into Islam. Mansoor started abusing him with casteist slurs. He went on to threaten Paapun saying that he had done the ‘khatna’ (circumcision) and Paapun could do whatever he wished to.
Paapun hurried to the police station where the officers asked him to first take the 6-year-old to the nearby hospital. When he returned, the cops had already registered a case but had named only Mansoor’s 8-year-old boy as the accused. Despite Paapun’s repeated request, they did not name Mansoor Khan in the FIR. The statement in the FIR did not match the complaint narrated by Paapun and was manipulated.
The report reads that Paapun repeatedly told the police that Mansoor and his son had circumcised his child but the police turned a deaf ear.
Mansoor threatened Paapun saying he must take back his complaint or he would be driven out of Khamariya. He also threatened him with a similar repercussion.
What the victim’s mother told Swarajya
On June 23, a Swarajya reporter reached the Jabalpur home of the victim child and spoke to his mother who narrated the entire ordeal. Deepa confirmed that they belonged to the Basor caste, which is a scheduled caste.
She recalled that the incident had happened around Holi. On the day of the incident, her 6-year-old son was fast asleep while she was getting ready for work. Their neighbour Mansoor Khan’s 8-year-old son came to their house and said he wanted to play with the boy.
She confirmed that the 8-year-old is the only child of Mansoor who lived adjacent to their house. Mansoor’s wife worked at the same bungalow as a house help where Deepa worked.
Deepa further added that the 8-year-old took the victim to his house saying that they would play with each other. She recalled her son telling her that Mansoor’s son took him inside a room and locked it. Mansoor was present in the room. “The boy held him while Mansoor made the cut. That’s what our son told us,” Deepa told the Swarajya journalist.
Notably, the Swarajya journalist had on June 25, also shared the victim’s testimony on her official Twitter account.
I met 6-year-old Paras & his mother Deepa in Jabalpur, they told me one of their neighbours Mansoor Khan with his 9-year-old son Faizan alias Faizu forcefully circumcised Paras while they were playing. They made a circular cut, as done in circumcision. @KanoongoPriyank pls help? pic.twitter.com/t5N41S25U6
Deepa then reportedly asked the victim to open his pant in front of the Swarajya journalist who confirmed that the cut was circular at the tip of his private part. Deepa was quoted as saying that “the circumcision was Mansoor’s idea and execution, but the police were protecting him.”
“How can an eight-year-old do khatna by himself? It was Mansoor who did it,” she told the media outlet.
Deepa then went on to narrate the hardships the family is having to face after the incident.
“After my husband gave a complaint against Mansoor at the police station, the company fired us from work and asked us to vacate the servant quarters,” she said, adding, “the wife of the manager told me she did not want the police to come to her house.” They were given the notice to vacate the servant quarters.
Deepa showed the Swarajya journalist the notice they received on March 24, from the head of Yard and Estate Office.
Victim family had received notice to vacate the servant quarters
The notice reportedly read that Deepa and her family ‘breached peace’ at the premises and hence were ordered to leave the quarter within a stipulated period of 15 days or else they would be forcefully removed.
Five days after the notice, the family were forced to shift to a rented place in the Bada Patthar area for a monthly rental of Rs 2000.
According to the report, the victim boy’s father Paapun Bain is a labourer who takes up jobs as per requirement. Sometimes he works as a painter, at other times as a construction labourer. At times, he also works as a house help. Deepa said that currently, Paapun is jobless.
Besides, because of the incident, the victim boy had to also change his school, lamented Deepa, adding that though they are poor they would not silently bear the insult and injustice to their child.
“We did not know anything about ‘Hindu-Muslim’. We never treated them differently. I considered Mansoor’s boy as my own child. But look what they have done to our son. We are Hindus and will remain so till our death. No one has the right to force their religion upon us,” rued Deepa.
When questioned if Mansoor or his family ever tried forcing her to accept Islam or told them about Islam before this incident, she said, “If he had tried doing so, why would we continue to live there?”
Deepa further said that Mansoor Khan’s wife told her that she was also Hindu before marriage and was converted to Islam after she married him. “Mansoor is a very religious person and never allowed his wife to follow her old religion. His wife told me that once, her mother gave her some pictures of Hindu deities but Mansoor threw them outside the house,” she said.
Deepa added that Mansoor’s wife told her that the couple was on the verge of separating from each other.
A week ago I met this distressed family, whose kid was forcefully circumcised by one of their neighbourer. Mansoor Khan trained his 8-year-old son to do so. See what the mother of victim 6-year-old Paras had to say: pic.twitter.com/MgSQ4S39sb
“When the policemen at the Khamariya police station manipulated our complaint, we reached the SP office. After that, the behaviour of the [Town Inspector] has changed towards us,” she said. “He scolded my husband for going to the SP.”
The SP, as per Deepa, told her, “Kya hum bacche ko fansi laga de? [should we hang the child?]” The SP was referring to Mansoor’s son and dismissed her case.
Deepa, as per the Swarajya journalist added that no police officer is considering the role of Mansoor Khan, despite the child’s repeated testimony. She said that when they found no help, they called up the CM’s helpline. After making the call, the Town Inspector called them to the police station and said, “Now that you have tried reaching the CM, get justice from there only,” rued the helpless mother of the 6-year-old Hindu victim.
While speaking to the Swarajya journalist, the distressed mother urged help. “Please take our case to higher authorities,” Deepa bemoaned.
Deepa added that her family is extremely dissatisfied with the way the Khamariya police have handled their case. After a few volunteers from the Hindu Jagran Manch, especially one Yogesh Aggarwal, backed them, the issue received local attention, said Deepa.
The media outlet said it placed a number of calls to the Khamariya police station between June 25 to July 3, but no one picked up. The FIR also does not include the contact information of the case’s investigating officer, Shiv Kumar Dhurve. The other number, which this reporter found was of the control room. They too received the call once before ceasing to do so once they realised that the call was being made by a journalist, read the report by Swarajya.
Dr Nisar Khan and his son forcibly circumcise their Hindu servant in Madhya Pradesh
This is not the first such case of forced religious conversion that has come to the fore in Madhya Pradesh. Last year, a 31-year-old man had filed a complaint against 2 people for forcibly circumcising him with the intent of converting him into Islam.
In his complaint, the victim identified as Dashrath told the police that he worked under one Dr Nisar Khan, a resident of Malikheda, who along with his son circumcised him against his will. He was threatened and intimidated to embrace Islam and even forced to offer namaz, Dashrath had alleged in his complaint.
Four Hindus were stabbed and many others were injured in the violence that erupted in the Kerur Taluka of the Bagalkot district in Karnataka on 6th July 2022 after Hindus tried to lodge a complaint against a woman doctor over her Facebook post against former Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nupur Sharma and her remarks on Prophet Muhammad. However, Karnataka’s chief minister Basavraj Bommai has said that the incident happened due to personal issues.
According to a report by Free Press Journal, Lakshman Kattimani, Arun Kattimani, and Yamanur Chungin, all residents of Kerur town were stabbed in this incident. Another one named Bande Gokak survived a head injury. All of them are admitted to the hospital. All the injured are members of a local Hindu organization.
As the two groups battled, some of them set fire to many stores, two-wheelers, and fruit and vegetable stalls. The incident took place when one of the victims reportedly attempted to file a complaint against a female doctor for her Facebook post criticizing former BJP spokeswoman Nupur Sharma’s comments.
Deputy Commissioner Sunil Kumar said, “The CrPC Section 144 will be clamped for two days beginning from midnight of July 6. Schools and colleges have been ordered to be closed in Kerur town on Thursday. The situation is under control and police are probing the incident.”
Karnataka | Three people injured in Kerur after an alleged argument between 2 groups belonging to 2 different communities led to violence in Bagalkot last evening
The incident involved Hindu Jagarana Vedike. Sec 144 imposed in Kerur till 8am on July* 8: P Sunilkumar, Bagalkot DC pic.twitter.com/Wv02bz58Bk
The police have arrested 10 people in this case so far. Karnataka chief minister Basavraj Bommai said, “Kerur incident happened due to personal issues. Police have already controlled the situation & some arrests are done; injured are admitted to hospitals. We’ve given instructions to both communities to maintain peace. Our senior officials, DC are present on the spot.” The police are doing further investigations.
Kerur incident happened due to personal issues. Police have already controlled the situation & some arrests are done; injured admitted to hospitals. We’ve given instructions to both communities to maintain peace. Our senior officials, DC present on the spot: Karnataka CM Bommai pic.twitter.com/p3R2wapC5u
Over the last few weeks, there have been repeated incidents of violence in the country in connection with former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s allegedly insulting remarks against the Prophet Muhammad. In Udaipur, a Hindu tailor Kanhaiya Lal was beheaded by Islamists on June 28 for a social media post supporting Nupur Sharma. In a similar incident that took place in Amravati, a Hindu chemist Umesh Kolhe was beheaded by Islamists for supporting Nupur Sharma in one of her social media posts.
Here I am with another one of those “Dear liberals” articles. This time, I am addressing ‘real’ liberals, not the fake ones. I know this group is almost non-existent and is possibly extinct. But like Elvis and Yeti, we do sight them now and then.
Coming to the issue of Mahua Moitra and her supposedly offending remarks on Ma Kali, you guys have been defending her.
First, let me give you the bad news – don’t try to bring in “facts”, “context” and “intentions” into the debate. That train has left the station. In fact, YOU stood on the platform waving goodbye, you should know.
What do I mean? Let me put in more clear, direct language. By handing over the liberal platform to Stalinist rapists and mass murderers, Islamo fascists, jihadists, evangelist bigots and other rabid Hindu haters, and by becoming willing and often paid foot soldiers in their ongoing Pol Potist pogrom on Hindu faith, you folks have lost your moral and logical footing.
Now let us turn to your arguments.
In the US, there is a habit of naming laws after politicians and others that sponsored and spearheaded them. We have the Sarbanes-Oxley, Sherman’s antitrust law, and even one named after Muhammad Ali the boxer. Sometimes it is named after victims or others that suffered.
In India, by unanimous liberal consensus and official sanction from at least two respected Judges of our honourable Supreme Court, who have enormous powers to write new laws under Article 142 without involving the Parliament, we have just passed a new law – the Nupur Sharma Act. I know it is not a gazette formally or is available in writing. But is a law nevertheless because you people have so much power more to enforce it than elected governments.
What does this Act say, in simple words? It says it doesn’t matter what the facts are or what the intention of the person was or even the context. What matters is, are people offended by it? If the answer is yes, it is a hate remark, it is offensive. And the person making it is responsible for every act of violence that follows.
And as India is a secular state, as you have reminded us many times, it is a law that applies to ALL Indians, not just observant Hindus.
If you think it is an unfair summary, just pick any random ‘liberal’ you like and see what they said about Nupur Sharma. And of course, our Hon Lordships’ remarks are available for all. This point is not even worth arguing about. Let us get to the real point.
And your own law, your own jurisprudence and precedent, Mahua is guilty as charged.
Please don’t try to tell us Mahua Moitra was simply responding to a question – because the context doesn’t matter.
Please don’t tell us people worship Ma Kali in many different ways – yes, we do know, and we respect that. We even respect those that worship Ravan or Mahisasura. After all, Hindu scriptures target these demons’ actions, not them. It praises their good deeds effusively and offers redemption once they repent. But the key word here, in case you missed that, is “worship”. Not abuse. Go figure.
Please don’t argue that she was stating ‘facts’ – that hardly matters when the remark was anyway taken as offensive. Even quoting a well-respected and centuries-old scripture can be offensive depending on who is doing it. We learnt this from you.
Please don’t argue about “intentions”. Because they don’t matter too. In any case, who can reliably figure out what the intention was? It is inside your mind, and no one believes what you say about it. We go by your track record and that doesn’t look good.
Please don’t tell us Hinduism is tolerant, great etc.
Firstly, we know it is the usual boilerplate insincere compliment from brown-nosed serfs of fascist dynasties and rabid Hindu haters to justify and preface their subsequent anti-Hindu remarks. We all know, that when you say “I am Hindu” it is usually to abuse the faith or to say “ashamed”. Not for nothin’ else! You can’t even bring yourself to wish us for Diwali without lecturing us on pollution!
Secondly, you have yourself offered proof after proof that the tolerant approach doesn’t work and what works is what happened after Nupur. Because you have justified it, directly and on the sly. By abusing and victimizing the victims, all over again.
Finally, most of you are non-believers so you have no right to talk about Hinduism. That is offensive, in itself, by your own lofty standards by which you tell Hindus not to talk about other faiths.
Kapisch?
Now, let me give you a simple suggestion to reclaim the lost ground – and get back up the moral pedestals from which you love to lecture us. I am giving this free or charge because I know you won’t do it! Your cushy lifestyles are funded by hate and Hinduphobia which today is a growth industry. It is so lucrative, and competition is tough. To paraphrase one of you, Barnum, a licker is born every minute.
Nevertheless, here it is, take it and sleep over it: Just start being real liberals and stop being foot soldiers of the Polpotist left’s pogrom on Hinduism. Ruthlessly expel the pseudo-intellectual serfs of these mass murderers from your ranks. Do an award waapsi.
When you do that, maybe you will have a bit of sympathy for Nupur Sharma, who, thanks to your non-stop hate propaganda, is marked for life. Maybe, perhaps you have a better chance of convincing us Mahua was not really offending.
Until then, please focus on your real jobs – keeping dacoit dynastic boots clean.
After the resignations of dozens of ministers from his cabinet, it is understood that the under-fire UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has finally agreed to step down from his post. Johnson is expected to announce his resignation later today and the Conservative Party will elect a new leader before the party conference in October.
Indian-Origin politician Rishi Sunak, former Chancellor in Boris Johnson’s government, is currently the favourite to replace Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street.
Earlier, Boris Johnson was stung by a series of resignations from his cabinet colleagues. Rishi Sunak resigned as the chancellor and Sajid Javid quit as Health Secretary on Tuesday night. This was followed by a flood of resignations from other ministers as Boris Johnson lost the support of his party.
Nadhim Zahawi, who was appointed to replace Rishi Sunak also asked the Prime Minister to quit, and new Education Secretary Michelle Donelan resigned after just 36 hours in the post.
Boris Johnson, who was already under pressure over his Covid parties, faced a full-blown rebellion over his appointment as Chris Pincher as the deputy chief whip of the party. The deputy chief whip had to step down after allegations that he groped two male colleagues at a London club in an inebriated state. Following this development, multiple sexual assault allegations surfaced against Pincher.
Boris Johnson appointed him as the deputy chief whip despite knowing about these allegations back in February. The party MPs said that they could no longer support a leader who lied blatantly while appointing Pincher. This initiated the flood of resignations from his government which is going to end up with Johnson leaving 10 Downing Street.
On July 6, the Uttar Pradesh government initiated action against schools operated by Dawat-e-Islami in Pilibhit after it was found to be allegedly linked to the murder of Hindu tailor Kanhaiya Lal from Udaipur by Islamists for alleged post supporting Nupur Sharma. The administration has shut down all schools run by Dawat-e-Islami in Pilibhit. Reports suggest that the Pilibhit administration was keeping a close eye on the organization Dawat-e-Islami in connection to the case.
Dawat-e-Islami is based in Karachi in Pakistan, and it has been found that the killers of Kanhaiya Lal has links with the group. It was found that the organisation was collecting funds using donation boxes places all over the city. Hundreds of donation boxes were placed at various shops in the city, which have been removed now. It is suspected that the money collected through this boxes were used for terror funding purposes.
➡️स्कूल के कागजात और कम्प्यूटर डाटा को पुलिस ने कब्जे में लिया
➡️शहर काजी जरताब रज़ा ने दावत-ए-इस्लामी पर उठाया था सवाल
— TV9 Uttar Pradesh (@TV9UttarPradesh) July 6, 2022
Islamic leader and Pilibhit’s Kazi Maulana Jartaab Raza Khan has also opposed operations being run by Dawat-e-Islami in the district. In a statement, Khan said the organization collects donations using over 1,000 piggy banks that it has placed across districts. He added no one knows where the collected donations are being used and alleged it could be used against the country.
Superintendent of Police Dinesh P constituted a team and initiated search operations at the schools run by Dawat-e-Islami. During the investigation, the computers at the schools were checked by the police. The Police also found that the schools were being run without required permissions and documentation upon which the Block Education Officer issued orders to close down the school within three days.
— TV9 Uttar Pradesh (@TV9UttarPradesh) July 6, 2022
Speaking to the media, SP Dinesh P said that the LIU team is investigating the case with a team of intelligence. So far nothing incriminating was found during the investigation but the administration and Police are on high alert in the matter.
The link between Kanhaiya Lal’s murder and Dawat-e-Islami
On June 28, a Hindu tailor named Kanhaiya Lal was brutally murdered by two Islamists who posed as his customers and went to his shop where he was killed. The killers alleged they murdered him over a social media post Kanhaiya had put up supporting BJP’s former spokesperson Nupur Sharma. Following their arrest, it was found that they were possibly linked to the Pakistan-based organization Dawat-e-Islami. The organization also has its presence in different locations in India including Pilibhit, and Uttar Pradesh.
Reportedly, one of the killers Ghous Mohammed had visited Dawat-e-Islami in Pakistan in 2014 on the invitation senior functionaries of the organisation. He had stayed in Karachi for over a month, during which period he received training there.
The other killer Riyaz Attari had also travelled abroad, and reportedly he was trying to infiltrate the BJP, including the minority cell of the party. He was trying to get close to BJP leaders and workers of the Muslim Rashtriya Manch. He had attempted to get close to BJP Minority Morcha members in attempts to target them.
How Dawat-e-Islami started in India
As per reports, a delegation of Ulema from Pakistan visited India in 1989. They initiated talks to open a branch of Dawat-e-Islami in India. The Organization has its headquarters in Delhi and Mumbai. Using Tablighi Jamaat as an example, it was decided by then-members of Dawat-e-Islami to start a similar organization in India. Every year, Dawat-e-Islami organizes an annual Ijtima (event) to join more people. A large number of people attend these events every year.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received blessings of hundreds of villagers from Kutch’s Rayan village today. The holy waters of River Narmada have reached from 734 kms afar. For 75 years after independence, there have been parts of India where drinking water is a luxury. Something, many of us take for granted.
PM Modi has been receiving criticism from his all quarters. His haters do it because they don’t like the things he is doing, his supporters are upset with him because they feel he is not doing enough, that there could be so much more he could have done. Some of this is unfair and some is fair. After all, that is how healthy democracy is, holding the elected representative accountable. But, despite all this, one thing is for sure, the man has his heart in the right place.
Locals in Kutch celebrating the arrival of Narmada water in Modkuba canal at Rayan village near coastal Mandvi town pic.twitter.com/ZgtY13CcNp
— Hindustani भावना દેઢિયા ?? (@hindustanishern) July 6, 2022
Young, old – all have come to welcome the waters of Narmada. See how everyone is cheering, their eyes welling up? For them, the river is the Goddess, the mother one prays to.
Local farmers in Kutch making video of arrival of Narmada water for irrigation for the first time at Bhujpur village of Mundra taluka earlier today. One of farmers can be heard saying – Modi hai to mumkin hai. pic.twitter.com/4q5AvXDrbR
“We are welcoming the goddess”, a man can be heard saying in Gujarati in the video above. “We are farmers, we will of course be happy to see the Narmada waters reach us,” another person says. “Wah, sarkar, wah Modi,” he says.
The Narmada waters have travelled almost 750 kms from the Sardar Sarovar Dam to reach this far off village in Kutch.
This was dream of Narendra Modi when he was the chief minister of Gujarat. Imagine seeing a project of this magnitude being realised in your lifetime. Something you had to fight so hard for because you faced opposition from neighbouring state governments ruled by Congress, central government ruled by Congress-led UPA and then Congress-friendly ‘activists’ who seem to have sole purpose of stalling any infrastructure development project for years, just because.
As the then chief minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi launched the Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation (SAUNI) Yojana in September 2012. SAUNI word in Gujarati means “everyone’s”. Through SAUNI Yojana, 115 dams in the arid Saurashtra region will be filled by diverting flood waters which overflow from the Sardar Sarovar dam in South Gujarat, a couple of kilometres away.
A spider pipeline network of 1,125 km long was involved. SAUNI Yojana will provide benefit of Narmada water to 737 villages of 11 districts and 31 cities in the Kutch-Saurashra region.
Imagine keeping all these people, animals in drought-prone area deprived of water, just because you don’t like one man, Narendra Modi.
In September 2019, PM Modi celebrated his birthday at Kevadia in Narmada district in Gujarat. On September 15 that year, the reservoir dam reached full reservoir level (FRL) of 138.68 metres for the first time ever. This was significant and a proud day for Gujaratis. In June 2014, a month after Prime Minister Modi swore in, the final approval came which breathed a new life in the project that UPA sat on for years. In May 2017, Narmada waters reached the parched Kutch.
At last in June 2017, the project whose foundation was laid in 1961 by then Prime Minister Nehru, was inaugurated by now Prime Minister Narendra Modi. When people of Rajkot received Narmada water they were overjoyed.
I have extended family in Bharuch, Gujarat. My grandmother was born and brought up there. I have grown up hearing stories how she saw the Dandi March led by MK Gandhi pass by. “My brother used to swim across the river,” she would say about the Narmada. She taught me Narmadashtakam, a composition by Adi Shankaracharya offering salutations to Goddess Narmada. Whenever we would visit Bharuch, my father and grandmother will bow down to the Narmada while crossing the Golden Bridge and recite ‘Namami Devi Narmade’ which connects Ankleshwar to Bharuch.
The foundation stone of the project was laid back in back in 1961 by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Ever since then it has been marred by protests by activists like Narmada Bachao Aandolan founder Medha Patkar, who have claimed that the dam’s water might displace about 40,000 families as their homes would be submerged. They have claimed that the rehabilitation process of these families is still not complete and that the water supply in the dam be stopped until its done.
In 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the much publicised 138-metre Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river at Dabhoi, Gujarat. It was a landmark of sorts considering the amount of delays the project had experienced owing to protests by various activists. This increase in height from 121.92 metre to 138.68 metre has quadrupled the dam’s storage capacity led to 4.73 million acre feet.
PM Modi, while inaugurating the project had said that when the World Bank (which had earlier agreed to fund the project), refused to give loan citing environmental concerns, the temples of Gujarat organised funds for the dam. He also added that no other project in the world had so many hurdles.
As the Narmada waters reach further in Kutch and farmers of Gujarat welcome Maa Narmada, my heart is full. I have tears in my eyes even as I sit far away in Delhi-NCR, away from home.
