“How to increase harmony amongst different religious groups in India”.

Our honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi participated in the foundation laying ceremony of Ram Temple at Ayodhya; I support this. But he ought to have also participated in the foundation laying ceremony of the new mosque being constructed on the outskirts of Ayodhya. The whole world is striffen with religious disturbances. Had our Prime Minister attended the foundation laying ceremony of the mosque, that would have sent the right signal to all the different religious communities in the world. I very much hope our Prime Minister will attend the inauguration ceremony of the mosque

. I apologise to our Prime Minister and his admirers for criticising him. Honourable Prime Minister - You are the Prime Minister of all Indians and not just a section of the community.

The word minority usually identifies the Muslims in India; this is totally wrong. There are more than 20 crore Muslims in India; They are the second largest community in India. Kashmir Valley is a Muslim majority valley. The Hindus and the Sikhs residing in in the Kashmir Valley for generations have been brutally murdered and driven out of the Valley. There have been only mild protests against this brutal act. Had the Muslims been totally driven out of a Hindu majority state, the whole of world, including the Hindu intelligentsia in India would have burst into protests.

I am against the appeasement of any religious community.

Hijab Issue:

This problem cropped up in Karnataka towards the end of 2021. The Muslim girls in Karnataka have been going to schools and colleges wearing the school and college uniforms for years without any problem. Some Muslim obscurantists instigated the girls to wear hijabs to schools and colleges, thereby creating this totally unnecessary problem. (Wearing of hijabs is not mandatory as per the Holy Koran).

The Hindu obsurantists retaliated by banning the Muslim traders from the premises of the Hindu temples and asking the Hindus not to buy “Halal” meat.

I condemn all the acts by the Hindu and the Muslim obscurantists. I also condemn all acts by all religious obscurantists all over the world. Power hungry politicians of all political parties create communal disturbances to garner votes.

There are no Hindu, Christian and Muslim dogs in the world; So, why should there be Hindu, Christian and Muslim human beings in the world? Has any religion been able to save mankind against the COVID-19 pandemic? All religions are full of myths. The religious obscurantists believe in these myths and have been creating bloodsheedings since the inception of these religions. All religions try to stymie the growth of free thinking. Let us all unite as proud members of mankind and march forward.

JAI SHRI RAM, GOD IS GREAT, ALLAH HU AKBAR, WAHE GURU.

“Non believers have every right to live dignified lives”.

P.S. Hindi-Hindu-Hindustani:
This is a very wrong slogan. All citizens of India are Indians and Hindustanis irrespective of their mother tongues and religions. India has many languages; So, why should Hindi-Hindu-Hindustani slogan be raised? Tamil is as old as Sanskrit; On the hindsight, it might be even older than Sanskrit! Tamil is a vibrant language; Whereas Sanskrit is hardly spoken in India. The government must try to unify India, cutting across all barriers - religions, languages and provincial.....

India was divided by power hungry politicians through a genocide; both Jinnah Ji and Netaji were mainly responsible for it. As a result of the division of India, the religious minorities in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are being held as hostages. The religious minorities in Pakistan and Bangladesh are gradually decreasing and in future they may get totally wiped out/driven out. The religious minorities in India except the Parsees are increasing in numbers.

Kashmir Problem:

It was created by a blunder committed by the first Prime Minister of India. Before, during and after partition, when communal infernos were raging all over India (India, Pakistan and East Pakistan), the Hindus and the Muslims lived peacefully side by side in Kashmir Valley.

This peaceful co-existence continued upto 1980’s. Towards the end of 1980’s, things started changing and all Hindus and Sikh Kashmiris were driven out of Kashmir Valley and since then the Kashmir Valley and some parts of Jammu & Kashmir have been burning.

Muslim terrorists, mostly of Pakistani antecedents and some locals have been killing Indian security forces, inclusive of Muslims and local police personnel, all Valley Muslims regularly. Kashmiri civilians are also getting killed.

This phenomenon will continue till Pakistan realises the futility of the proxy war. If Pakistan becomes a good neighbour of India, Pakistan stands to benefit more than India. May this “benefit” dawn in the minds of Pakistani politicians and generals by the grace of merciful Allah!

Mmany Kashmir Valley leaders tactically support terrorism to keep their vote banks intact. The people of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh must realise that they have the same blood in their veins.

National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizen Amendment Act (CAA):

These things trace their origins to the partition of India. Border fencings were erected between India and West Pakistan; butthere were no fencings between India and East Pakistan. These are the legacies of the Congress govt. at the centre as well as the Congress Govts. In the Eastern and North Eastern states. For decades, vote hunters, particularly in Assam and West Bengal encouraged infiltrations to increase their vote banks. And now, it has become a gigantic human problem.

This problem of infiltration, if not rectified in quick time, has the propensity to shake the very foundation of the already bifurcated India. The vote hunting politicians are playing “ducks & drakes”with the lives of the hapless people forced to leave Pakistan and Bangladesh. If these vote hunters do not take a holistic approach to solve these problems, then India may get totally disintegrated with disastrous consequences in terms of the sub-continental stability

Maqbool Fida Hossain:

The great painter was driven out of India by Hindu obscurantists, RSS and BJP. Taslima Nasreen, a Bengali litterateur (Banglades) was driven out of Kolkata and subsequently out of India by Muslim obscurantists, CPM, Congress and Trinamool Congress. Not a single political party in India is secular and all are against expressions of opinions which are not to their likings.

There were about 180 crore Muslims in the world in 2020; out of this only one person has so far been awarded the Nobel Prize in a Science subject. There were about 110 crore Hindus in the world in 2020; out of these only four persons have so far awarded the Nobel Prize in Science subjects.

Do these dismal figures not cross the mindset of the power hungry politicians of the subcontinent?

There are no Hindu, Muslim or Christian dogs; but there are Hindu, Muslim and Christian human beings and they are fighting and killing in the name of the same creator. Does this absurdity not strike our minds? Have different religions been able to save mankind from COVID -19 pandemic?

If the whole world becomes populated only by the Hindus, Muslims or Christians, will peace prevail in the world?

I was born in a Hindu family; but it was not my choice. I could have been born in a Muslim, a Christian or any other religious family. Similarl, a Muslim or a Christian could have been born in any other religious family.

I am a Hindu, but I consider myself to be a Muslim, a Christian etc... at the same time. All persons must have this mentality.

Let us not brag about being a Hindu, a Muslim or a Christian etc....Let us all brag about being human beings, once and for all.

Mankind has progressed from cave age to internet age and progressing further at a tremendous pace; but the religious belief systems are mired in the myths dating back to the early age of mankind. These primitive religious ideas have created permanent destructive divisions in mankind. How silly and absurd these divisions are!

Human beings appeared on the earth thousands of years ago. Were those human beings Hindus, Muslims or Christians?

JAI SRI RAM, GOD IS GREAT, ALLAH HU AKBAR, WAHE GURU.

1. The slogan Hindi-Hindu-Hindustani is absolutely wrong. Tamil is as old as Sanskrit. It is a very vibrant language. Whereas Sanskrit is hardly spoken in India these days. So why should Tamilians and other language speaking Indians subscribe to the above slogan?

We must try to unite all Indians cutting across religious, linguistic, provincial and all other barriers.

2. All must remember that divisions of mankind along religious lines are totally artificial; these silly and artificial divisions have caused shedding of human blood in the past, continues to cause blood sheds in the present times and will continue to cause blood sheds in the future as well, if these divisions exist.

3. In Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal Madrassa, every morning the Gayatri Mantra is recited first, which is followed by the Kalma. This very good practice shall have to be the new benchmark for a “Resurgent Bharat” of our dreams.

JAI HIND.
Author: Sib Kumar Adhikari, B-14/174, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal-741235. Mob - +91-9477472629.

How to reduce the level of corruption in India

1. All political parties give tickets to candidates having criminal backgrounds, despite all of them highlighting good and corruption-free governance in their election manifestos. The irony is that the top leadership of almost all political parties may intend to deliver at least some semblance of good governance, if only to not alienate their target electorate and so be able to win the next elections. However, the criminal candidates do not care about alienating the electorate, as after every election, they freely switch to the winning party. Due to the vagaries of the India political system where elections are being continually held in some part of the country or the other, the top leaders of the political parties need enormous amounts of unaccounted money and muscle power to contest elections. So, even if they want, they are unable to shake off the wantonly criminal elements in their respective parties. So, in a way, the criminal candidates among the political parties exploit their top leadership. Unfortunately, this is how the Indian political system has been criminalized.
2.United States of America attained independence in July, 1776; but American women were given voting rights bin 1920. The power od the monarch in Britain started getting controlled since Magna Carta in 1215; this was the beginning of democratic movements in Britain; but the British women were given conditional voting rights in 1918; the conditions included minimum value of property holding and minimum educational qualification. The British women achieved unconditional voting rights in 1928.
3.India attained independence in August 1947; but the Indian women were given unconditional voting rights from the beginning.
4.State funding of elections may not be there in any country; but that does not mean India can’t set precedence in this respect. State funding of elections will reduce the level of corruption in India and help her to develop at a faster rate.

Decriminalization of Politics:
5.In India we follow the British parliamentary system of governance. No political party in Britain gives tickets to candidates having criminal backgrounds. But in India, all political parties give tickets to candidates having criminal antecedents; this practice must stop immediately.

Expenses in 2019 Lok Sabha Elections:
6.The maximum election expense to be incurred by a candidate as set by the Election Commission of India was Rs.75 Lakhs. I understand that the winning candidate in a rural constituency spent around Rs. 4 Crores; the expenses incurred by the winning candidates in urban and semi urban constituencies must have been much higher. This fact must be known to all the concerned authorities. But, on the hindsight, our honourable MPs are forced to submit unreal expenditure expenses to confirm to the maximum expenditure limits. Why is this hypocrisy? Our honourable MPs will be forced to recoup these huge staggering expenses by other means. This silly system forces our honourable MPs to start their innings by adopting un-straightforward means. I do not have any intention to malign our honourable MPs. If our honourable MPs and others feel hurt, I apologise to them. State funding of elections will stop this bad practice and cleanse our political system and lead to the further development of Bharat.

Author: Sib Kumar Adhikari, B-14/174, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal-741235. Mob - +91-9477472629.