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Suspected Hizbul militant seeks bail

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By IANS,

New Delhi : Suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militant Sayyed Liyaqat Shah, arrested for allegedly conspiring to carry out terror attacks in the national capital, Monday moved a Delhi court seeking bail.

Shah, moving his bail application before Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Judge I.S. Mehta, claimed that no concrete evidence had been found against him during the probe, said informed sources.

The court, during an in-chamber hearing, posted the matter for May 15, the sources said.

Shah was produced before the court after expiry of his judicial custody which was further extended till May 18.

In his bail application, Shah said he should be granted bail as he is in custody since March 20 and no concrete evidence has been found against him by the probe agencies as yet.

On May 1, Shah was sent to judicial custody after NIA had said that he was not required for further custodial interrogation.

There are conflicting claims over Shah, 45, a resident of Dardpora village in Kashmir's Kupwara district.

Delhi Police booked Shah for waging war against the country claiming he was planning to carry out terror attacks in the national capital to avenge the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, while the Jammu and Kashmir Police said he was returning to take advantage of the state's militant rehabilitation policy.

The home ministry March 28 asked the NIA to probe the case


President Pranab Mukherjee gives away awards to distinguished ladies

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By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net,

Guwahati: President of India Pranab Mukherjee on Monday hailed the works of film personality Sharmila Tagore and renowned Assamese litterateur Mamoni Raisom Goswami for their contribution for the society and especially for the uplift of women, as he gave away the coveted Srimanta Sankardeva Award and Asom Ratna award to these distinguished ladies.

Sharmila Tagore was handed over the Srimanta Sakardeva Award for the year 2008 which was instituted by Assam government while Asom Ratna was given to Jnanpith awardee Mamoni Raisom Goswami posthumously.



“It felt great to be associated with this event in my first visit in Assam as president as it recognizes the contribution of two most distinguished ladies of the generation,” said the president after giving away the award at ITA Machkhowa in Guwahati in Monday.

He also highlighted how these two eminent figures of contemporary time towards the empowerment of women and other downtrodden section of society. “Woman is the symbol of power, peace, love and humanity. They have proved that,” he added.

He further thanked Assam government for their effort to keep alive the messages of great Vaishanivite saint Srimanta Sankardeva. Dedicating the award to her mother Sharmila Tagore said that she felt privileged to be honoured by Assam government.

“Besides the 100th year of Indian cinema, Assamese cinema has completed 78 years. I pay tribute to pioneer Jyoti Prasad Agarwala for his wonderful ‘Joymoti’ and also for Aideu Handique for her path-changing role,” Tagore, whose career spanned more than five decades in Bollywood, said after receiving the award. Sankardeva award carries Rs 3 lakh, hand-woven tradition wear and a citation.

While, Asom Ratna was conferred upon noted author Mamoni Raisom Goswami posthumously who passed away on November 29 in 201. Satyabrata Goswami, the author’s elder brother received the award on behalf of her from the president. On May 14, the president will leave for Silchar in south Assam to address the 13th Annual Convocation of Assam University.

On singing Vande Matram

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On singing Vande Matram

By J.S.Bandukwala for TwoCircles.net

I am writing this after reading Firoz Bhakt Ahmed 's views on Vande Mataram. I consider Feroz as a friend whose heart cries for the sorry state of the Muslims of India. Yet he is wrong on the issue of Vande Mataram. Most important is the fact that Muslims can never worship the land. We worship only Allah. We love our country. But militant nationalism is against Islam.

The song was part of the novel “Anandmath” which was strongly anti Muslim. The author Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was heavily influenced by the rural communal and economic divide in what is now Bangladesh. The land owners were mostly Hindus, while the tillers were mostly very poor Muslims. Among these landowners were prominent and most secular families like those of Rabindranath Tagore. Yet the communal polaristion was so deep that the Viceroy Curzon had to partition Bengal in 1905. This was welcomed by the Muslims, but equally strongly opposed by the Hindus. The divide was personified by this very song Vande Mataram.

The British finally cancelled this partition six years later. But the 1947 division in Bengal broadly followed this line.

How can we ignore the cry of saffron forces, particularly Bal Thackeray that if Muslims want to live in India, they must sing Vande Mataram.

I am troubled by Feroz invoking the name of Maulana Azad, his great uncle, in defence of Vande Mataram. That could hurt Muslims far more. Maulana Azad is one leading figure that binds Muslims of India to the national mainstream. By connecting him to Vande Mataram , we may damage the Maulana's standing within the community. That would weaken the process of emotional integration Muslims within the national landscape.

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Prof. Bandukwala is the president of PUCL, Gujarat.

Ambedkar International Center (AIC) acquires 13 acres of land in Washington DC area

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By TCN News,

Washington DC - The Dr. Ambedkar International Center announced today that it has acquired a 13 acres property in the Washington DC area with the aim of uniting all Ambedkarites and Bahujan (Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Castes and Minorities) Organizations in the USA and abroad and establishing a collective leadership that would work to build an enlightened society in South Asia based on Ambedkar's principles and vision.

"The AIC was formed to strengthen unity among the Bahujan and their movements; establish a think tank within an umbrella organization; enable campaign and advocacy efforts, peace and justice awareness camps, educational seminars, and social and economical activities; and create a support base. " said Mohan Nirala, President of AIC. The broad objective of the AIC is to provide well-equipped facilities for learning, so academicians and students can undertake and disseminate the ideas of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.

The AIC plans to establish a library containing speeches, books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, microfilms, motion pictures, sound recordings, and other materials about Dr. Ambedkar and his ideas. The library will also host seminars, symposia, conferences, workshops, lectures, exhibitions, and fairs concerning the life and mission of Dr. Ambedkar.

Link:

http://www.ambedkarinternationalcenter.org/

'We need to get out of the Bt trap'

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By GOI Monitor,

BORN TO the families of teachers, Nandan Saxena and Kavita Bahl always wanted to 'change the world'. Moving from English literature to mainstream journalism to independent film making, the husband-wife duo has developed a valued understanding of India's development model and how it fails us. Their film, 'Cotton For My Shroud', which focussed on suicides by cotton farmers in Vidarbha, got recognition at the 59th National Film Awards. Here they talk about their motivations, urban-rural divide, GM food and why we need to question the constructs foisted on us.

Q What was the first trigger which got you thinking on 'Cotton For My Shroud' and how did it develop into that feeling that it has to be done and it has to be done by me?

In 2006, a farmer was killing himself every 37 minutes in India. P. Sainath was writing about the situation in Vidarbha like a lone warrior as no other national media house was giving much coverage to the tragedy except for single column news here and there with twisted facts. We were also reading and getting worried about the constant inflow of such news. After some time we got so fed up with our own inaction and decided to pack our bags to visit the villages. When we reached there this realisation dawned upon us that the situation was extremely terrible and the news was not reaching Delhi. We decided not to wait for funding and start making the film. It was the right decision because may be nobody would have funded this film. We ended up spending Rs 25 lakh on its making but this is not a project for us from which we need to recover the cost or make profit.



[Photo Courtesy: goimonitor.com]

Q What was the transition you went through during the making of this film from the very first field visit to the time you finished making it?

We went there twice. First, during the sowing season and then when the cotton is plucked. We followed up lives of certain families and completed the shooting in two years, 2006-07. But when the editing started, we fell into a depression going through those moments, especially the funeral scenes, again. It had moved us so much that we decided to take a break which extended to two years. In fact, when the farmers and people working on the ground used to call us enquiring about the progress made, we had no answers for them. They stopped calling after a while thinking we might have been bribed by the politicians not to pursue the subject. Then in second half of 2009, we decided to start editing again as there was a promise we had to keep and condition of farmers had only worsened.

Q How difficult it was to earn the trust of people as a filmmaker?

When we first called up Kishor Tiwari of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti, he scolded us saying you media people are just doing stories over the phone without coming over to see the ground reality. On meeting us, the first question he asked was when were we leaving. He was surprised to know that we had not got our return tickets as his experience with journalists was that they always arrive in a hurry, thrust mikes at a few people before flying off. We told him we were not TV journalists but documentary makers and would stay there. He took us around and helped meet people.

Q Isn't it ironic that your film got the national award but the government still propagates Bt Cotton?

The film is not targeted at policy makers since they already know what wrong they are doing. The film is directed at people who should know how politicians and corporates are profiteering at the expense of those who are feeding us. Now Sharad Pawar is saying that Bt Cotton has failed and we should work on developing indigineous Bt. Failure of Bt Cotton should not be taken lightly as it is India's first commercial genetically modified crop and if we don't take a stand today, genetically-modified food will be on plates pretty soon resulting in more health issues.

Q Has there been any change in the cropping pattern or return to traditional farming among these farmers?

They don't have traditional seeds since big corporates selling Bt Cotton have shrewedly taken over the small seed companies. There are seed banks saving traditional seeds but they can't replicate them at a large scale without institutional support. Vandana Shiva is a lone warrior in this field. Earlier, in every village, there used to be women who were traditional seed keepers. This practice needs to be revived across the country. After watching this film, many farmer groups have approached us seeking traditional seeds. They do want to get out of the Bt trap but have no means.

Q What kind of impact the film has made so far?

Lot of people ask do you think suicides are going to stop or your film will make a tangible change. These films are meant to create awareness. We say we are like farmers. Like them, we also sow seeds. The only difference is they do it in soil, we sow them in minds of people. Lot many youngsters have taken our films to their colleges. Many of them ask us what they can do for the farmers. We tell them next time you take a vacation, don't go to Goa or Manali, go to villages and you will find your own way. Also, we should not go with mentality of a giver. There are many things we can learn from them. They are much wiser than us.

Q Coming to the urban-rural divide, how can this be bridged?

The problem is that urban Indians think they are the lords of this country and rural people thinks they are the beggars. The equation is just the opposite. Only because you can throw money to buy food does not give you a right to rule over those who grow that food. Our farmers are toiling in the fields facing harsh weather and harsher government policies which are forcing them to commit suicides. On the other hand, there are several changemakers in this country working at different levels without waiting for support from the government or funds and we don't even know about them because the media gives us the news where either government or corporates are benefiting. But even this is old news. Today we have internet, who can stop us from seeking information, who can stop us from going to our villages and taking a stand for greater good?

Q Being successful journalists with big media houses, how did you decide to go your own way?

The two years we spent in north east changed our lives. Being city bred never been away from our families, we were exposed to several problems at one go. There were so many tribes, people literally living with nothing and nothing being done for them while insurgency was at its peak. We realised that these people have fallen off our radar and in fact, we are excluding them by choice. We used to constantly fight with our editors since they were not interested in the kind of stories we wanted to get published.

We got clear that the people who own the media are not the agents of change, they are the agents of satan. They are constantly hijacking agendas so that the ordinary as well as thinking people are always caught up in wrong dialogues and nobody questions the government or the corporates. Constructs like nationalism, religion, ethnicity, caste, reservations are brought into limelight to divert attention from poor governance. A little deviance is allowed so that the illusion remains.

We decided we don't want to be tools in hands of a few people. However, it was not easy. The first two years were tough since as a worldly person, you are always caught up in the struggle for survival. In 1996, we started independent work, also covered elections and made documentaries for others to make the ends meet and gradually moved to our kind of work. Our attitude has developed our time but this is not something new to our country. Before 20th century, career and success were not discussed here. These are constructs developed by the people who want to control resurgent minds.

CPI(M) asked to make public the report on the killing of former party leader

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By TCN News,

New Delhi: A group of individuals who describes themselves as “well wishers of the Left movement” has written a letter to Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) asking him to make public report of an internal inquiry to investigate the killing of T.P. Chandrashekharan.

Chandrashhekharan was a former Communist Party of India CPI(M) leader who was brutally hacked to death in Kozhikode in Kerala on May 4, 2012. He parted ways with CPI(M) to form Revolutionary Marxist Party. Needle of suspicion went to CPIM party workers, a charge denied by the communist party.

An internal investigation was ordered by the CPI(M) national leadership to investigate the role and participation of party members in the killing. The report has not been made public.

“This reluctance to make the report public naturally creates suspicion and anxiety that there is an attempt to shield those guilty of TPC’s murder.”

“As well wishers of the Left movement, we urge you to make public the report of the enquiry conducted internally by the CPI (M) into the murder. This gesture would be appreciated not only by TPC’s widow, KK Rema, who is fighting the legal battle for justice, but also by a wide section of Left and democratic forces.”

Letter is signed by:

Abhijit Kundu, Academic, Delhi

Ahmed Sohaib, Academic, Delhi

Anivar Aravind, Activist, Bangalore

Antara Dev Sen, Writer and editor, Little Magazine, Delhi

Dhananjay Tripathi, Academic, Delhi

Dunu Roy, Hazard Centre, Delhi

Gautam Bhan, writer and activist, Delhi

Harish Wankhade, Academic, Delhi

Harjeet S. Gill (Professor Emeritus, JNU)

Harsh Kapoor, Writer and Activist, SACW.net, Delhi

Indranil Chowdhury, Academic, Delhi

Jay N. Jayaram, Journalist, Bangalore

Jairus Banaji, Academic, Mumbai/ London

Jyoti Punwani, Journalist, Mumbai

Kiran Bhatty, Activist and researcher, Delhi

Maidul Islam, Academic, Simla

Manisha Sethi, Academic, Delhi

Mathew Jacob, Human Rights Researcher, Delhi

Mohammad Imran, The Moderates Forum

Mona Das, Academic, Delhi

Nabanipa Bhattacharya, Academic, Delhi

Nandini Chandra, Academic, Delhi

Rohini Hensman, Academic, Mumbai

Sanghamitra Misra, Academic, Delhi

Satya Sivaraman, Writer and Filmmaker, Delhi

Shohini Ghosh, Academic, Delhi

Shamshul Islam, Academic, Delhi

S.R. Darapuri, Retd. IPS/ Civil Rights Activist, Lucknow

Srinivasan Ramani, Writer and academic, EPW

Tanweer Fazal, Academic, Delhi

Scholar and thinker Asghar Ali Engineer dead

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By IANS,

Mumbai : Renowned Islamic scholar, progressive thinker, author and Dawoodi Bohra reformist leader Asghar Ali Engineer passed away here Tuesday after a prolonged illness, family members said. He was 74.

Engineer, a widower, is survived his son Irfaan and daughter Seema Indorewala. He was ailing for several months and breathed his last at his Santacruz East home around 8 a.m. His Tadfeen ceremony (funeral) will be tomorrow (15/5/2013) between 9 am to 10 am at Juhu Garden Muslim Cemetery, Santacruz (W), Mumbai.




Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer

Born in Salumbar, Rajasthan, in a Dawoodi Bohra Amil (priest) family March 10, 1939, Engineer acquired his training in Quranic tafsir (commentary), tawil (hidden interpretations of Quran), fiqh (jurisprudence) and hadith (Prophet's teachings, sayings) during his early days.

His father, Sheikh Qurban Husain, was the Amil who also taught the young Engineer Arabic. Later, Engineer studied all the major religious works and scriptures by eminent scholars.

He graduated as a civil engineer from Indore, Madhya Pradesh, and went on to work for nearly two decades in the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

In the early 1970s, he sought voluntary retirement from his BMC service and plunged into the reformist movement in the miniscule Dawood Bohra community, estimated at around 1.20 million worldwide.

In 1972, he assumed a leading role in the movement from Udaipur and also mobilised national and international public opinion through media articles and speeches.

In 1977, he was elected general secretary of Central Board of Dawoodi Bohra Community at its maiden conference in Udaipur and guided the reformist movement.

Later, Engineer devoted his time and energies to work for communal harmony and combat communalist forces in the country.

The recipient of several awards and honours from around the world, Engineer travelled across the globe speaking at international conferences, seminars and universities on Islam, peace, human rights and other issues.

He founded the Institute of Islamic Studies (1980) and the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (1993), and also authored around 50 books on various topics and believed in treating all religions with equality.

According to reformists, Engineer never believed in blind acceptance of dogmas inherited from the past but strived to rethink issues and reinterpret Islam in keeping with modern times.

Widow of Nasiruddin hopeful for justice after Calcutta HC transfers case to CBI

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By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net,

Kolkata: Widow of Nasiruddin has expressed her hope for justice after the Calcutta High Court transferred the case regarding custodial death of Trinamul Congress worker Kazi Nasiruddin inside the Dhaniakhali Police Station in Hooghly District to the CBI.

Nasiruddin died in police custody on 18 January, 2013 at the Dhaniakhali Police Station in Hooghly District. His wife Manuja Begum has alleged that some powerful Trinamul Congress leaders, including local MLA Ashima Patra, have conspired with the police to kill her husband.



Manuja Begum, widow of Kazi Nasiruddin.

A Division bench of the Chief Justice Arun Kumar Mishra and Justice Joymalya Bagchi of Hon’ble Calcutta High Court directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the state police on 13 May, 2013, to hand over the case files to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) within seven days after they again failed to submit a satisfactory report behind the causes of custodial death of Nasiruddin.

The Calcutta HC had warned the State police officials and the CID that if they failed to submit a report giving satisfactory causes behind the custodial death of TMC worker, Kazi Nasiruddin, then the HC would be forced to hand over the case to the CBI. The Calcutta HC also criticized the inept attitude of the CID.

His wife Manuja Begum has alleged that some powerful Trinamul Congress leaders, including local MLA Ashima Patra, have conspired with the police to kill her husband.

This is not a normal death; she claimed and filed a case in Dhaliakhali police station. She has also demanded a CBI inquiry.

Congress party, CPIM and CPIM (liberation) are also demanding judicial enquiry and state Human Right Commission started an enquiry.



Police constable of Dhaniakhlai police station Somnath Chatterjee being taken to Court on charges of murder of Nasiruddin.

The Calcutta High Court has expressed their dissatisfaction about the inactiveness of CID.

On April 17 a division bench of the Chief Justice Arun Kumar Mishra and Justice Joymalya Bagchi rapped the CID on the report they submitted. The HC has warned the CID to file clear report soon else they would be forced to transfer the investigation case to CBI.

Kazi Nasiruddin (36) alias Nasu, a potato trader in local market, was a popular young TMC leader in the village Joyrambati under the Dhaniakhlai Police station of Hooghly district.

According to his wife, he had bought a new truck and had gone to Furfura Sharif shri for blessings. On his way back he had scuffle at the Dhaliakhlai Market on parking issue with the police.



State Congress leader Pradip Bhattacharya and Abdul Mannan with the widow of the Nasiruddin.

Eye witness vegetable vendor Saraswati Jadav and Nasiruddin’s aide Sabir Ali said, he had stopped to buy sweets around 9.0 pm on January 18, when the argument with police began, who then “dragged him to the police Station.”

Sabir Ali and brother of Nasiruddin Mohammad Harunuddin said, they found his completely naked outside the police station at around 11.30pm. They also found torture marks, they added. He was then taken to the hospital, where he was declared dead.

Nasiruddin has left two daughters behind.

Kazi Nasiruddin (36) alias Nasu, a potato trader in local market, was a popular young TMC leader in the village Joyrambati under the Dhaniakhlai Police station of Hooghly district.



Union Railway Minister Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury met with Manuja Bibi and her children.

Chronology of the Nasiruddin Case:

18th January, 2013: Kazi Nasiruddin (36) alias Nasu, a potato trader in local market and a TMC worker, was found dead in the police custody of Dhaniakhali Police Station under the Hooghly District of West Bengal.

19th January, 2013: To protest the alleged custodial death of Kazi Nasiruddin local TMC supporters blocked the road, and gheraoed the Dhaniakhali Police station. A clash between TMC supporters and police in Dhaniakhali ensued.

20th January, 2013: Widow of Kazi Nasiruddin Manuja Begum alleged that, with a conspiracy of local TMC MLA Ashima Patra, the police of Dhaniakhali Police station killed her husband and filed a case.

21st January, 2013: State Human Rights Commission started investigation on their own and demanded a report from Director General of Police of Government of West Bengal.

25th January, 2013: State Minister of Railway Ministry Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury demanded a complete enquiry.

28th January, 2013: Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Police of Government of West Bengal took over the nvestigation.

11th February, 2013: An Advocate of Chinsura Sub divisional Court of Hooghly Mr Partik Singha Roy filled a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) at the Calcutta High Court for CBI enquiry.

21st February, 2013: An ASI Sanat Karmakar and two Constables Amit Dey and Somnath Chatterjee of Dhalikhali were arrested in this case.

27th February, 2013: Calcutta High court asked the state police why was Nasiruddin arrested without warrant order. Directed the CID to submit the report within 7 days.

7th March, 2013: Calcutta High court expressed unhappiness on the CID activities.

17th April, 2013: Calcutta High court directed the CID to submit the report within 15 days on why no report presented regarding the allegation of conspiracy of killing.

8th May, 2013: Calcutta High court raised questions about the MLA Ashima Patra’s link with the Dhaniakhali police.

13th May, 2013: Calcutta High court ordered for CBI enquiry.

Related News:

Custodial death of TMC leader: Calcutta HC warns CID


Educating the Muslim girl child - in a Mughal-era structure

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By Meha Mathur, IANS,

New Delhi : Functioning in a Mughal-era structure near Jama Masjid in the capital's old quarters is the Balak Mata Centre of Jamia Millia Islamia, one of India's oldest universities. The centre, located in Matia Mahal, provides education and vocational training to deprived Muslim girls and women.

The centre runs from a two-storeyed structure, which, according to a DDA Urban Heritage Certificate Award given in 1993, was used by emperor Shah Jahan (1592-1666) as a "home" while the Red Fort was being built. At one point of time, a Mughal prince's begum used it as her residence. Later, the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, gave it to one of his grandsons.

The building, which has undergone many alterations, follows the traditional Indian architectural pattern of a courtyard surrounded by rooms on three sides.

The concept of Balak Mata Centre emerged in the late 1930s under the aegis of the torchbearers of Jamia - Zakir Husain, M. Mujeeb, Abid Hussain and Shafiqur Rehman Kidwai - who felt it was necessary to bring women and girls out of homes and provide them education. It originally started from Karol Bagh, from where Jamia was then functioning out of a few bungalows.

There are three branches of the centre - in Matia Mahal, Sadar Bazar and Pul Bangash - running today, providing schooling to girls till Class 5. The centre also provides skill-based programmes in computers, textile designing, cutting and tailoring and beauty therapy to women in the neighbourhood to make them employable.

A dark and narrow bylane leads to the nondescript entrance of the centre and but for a small signboard, it's easy to miss it. Inside, the classrooms are airy and have colourful furniture in accordance with modern tastes, a few small slides and a merry-go-round. There is a dedicated lab for the computer course and a sewing unit for the cutting-tailoring course.

Centre director Yasmeen Parveen says that her team has to make a great effort to convince people to let girls and women come out of their homes. "Even today, the situation is that they don't want to come out of their homes. We have had to do a door-to-door survey to identify the needy children and women," Parveen told IANS.

Parveen and her team also keep a tab of students' needs. In fact, she and her colleagues say that there are instances when a child does not get her first meal even when she returns home. In such situations, the teachers have often pooled in to help.

In addition to education and skill-development programmes, the Centre conducts health awareness drives, literacy melas, adolescent camps for young girls, and extension lectures on community needs, drawing experts from within Jamia Millia Islamia and outside.

(Meha Mathur can be contacted at mehamathur@gmail.com)

Dr. Engineer championed the cause of peace: VP

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By TCN News

New Delhi: The Vice President of India, Shri M. Hamid Ansari has condoled the passing away of Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer, the renowned scholar and social activist.

Dr. Engineer passed away in Mumbai today, after a prolonged illness.

In his condolence message, the Vice President said that in his lifetime, through outstanding scholarship and activism, Dr. Engineer championed the cause of peace, non-violence and communal harmony. “His valuable contribution towards promoting secularism and interfaith harmony are particularly noteworthy. His liberal, rational views, based on his deep understanding of Islam and Islamic jurisprudence, are most pertinent in our times.”

With government officials turning hostile, Varun Gandhi acquitted in hate speech

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By TwoCircles.net Special Correspondent,

Lucknow: Claiming to be saviour of Muslims, the Akhilesh Yadav led Samajwadi Party government at Uttar Pradesh showed leniency towards BJP's leader and MP Varun Gandhi. The result he was acquitted by the court from the charges of hate speech.

The cases of hate speech were registered four years ago ( 2009) against Varun Gandhi. Surprisingly, the then District Magistrate (DM) who himself had lodged case against Varun Gandhi turned hostile in the case. Not only this, all the 14 witness turned hostile in the case. Surprisingly all the 14 witness were employees of the UP government.

On 7 March 2009, Varun Gandhi reportedly had delivered hate speech against Muslims in Dalchand locality of Pilibhit. The then DM of Pilibhit, Mahendra Aggrawal had himself lodged a case against Varun Gandhi. It was clearly mentioned in his report that Varun Gandhi is using language against Muslims. A case was registered under section 153A, 295A, 505(2) and 125 People representation Act. It was the government of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Mayawati was its Chief Minister. She acted promptly and Varun was not only arrested but even National Security Act slapped on him.
But during these four years, the government at Lucknow changed and Akhilesh Yadav is now CM.

In this case, Mahendra Aggrawal was himself DM and complainant and the witnesses were Zameer Alam, the then ADM of Pilibhit and 13 other police personnales. All of them including DM, ADM and policemen turned hostile in the court. Zameer Alam who had prepared the report of Varun Gandhi's speech stated in the court that he did not see or hear any of Varun Gandhi's meetings. Two other important witnesses Inspector Maniram Rao and Rajveer Singh too turned hostile.

Still there was hope and state government could appeal in higher court within 60 days of the judgement. But it kept quiet there was no development in this regard. It also did not ask the officials who had turned hostile about their behaviour. No questions were asked at any level in the government as if there was mute consent to all the development.

As the news reached Muslim clerics, there were statements decrying such act by the Akhilesh Yadav government. Coming on backfoot, IG Crime Ashish Gupta clarified on Wednesday that CJM court had acquitted Varun Gandhi in two different cases on 27 February and 5 March.

State government still has time for filing an appeal. In the case which was decided on February 27, there is time till 25 May and in the 5 March case, there is time till 3 June. Legal opinion is being sought and appeal will be filed.

Assam expresses grief at the demise of scholar-activist Engineer

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By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net,

Guwahati: Along with the entire country, Assam too has expressed its grief at the demise of renowned scholar and progressive thinker Asghar Ali Engineer on Tuesday at the age of 74 in Mumbai. The reformist leader who has visited the state number of times during the hour of crisis has left a mark among the people of the state who appreciated his way of life.

“We express deep sorrow at his demise. As one of the National advisors of the parishad, Dr. Engineer always guided us. His secular, democratic views and writings have contributed a lot to shape the ideals of our lives. We offer our sincere condolence to his family and vow that we shall take forward his ideals of secularism and democracy in the coming days,” Hafiz Ahmed, president of Char-Chapori Sahitya Parishad (CCSP), a literary body of Assam told TwoCircles.net.

Engineer who founded the Institute of Islamic Studies (1980) and the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (1993) to carry on his progressive movement also authored around 50 books on various topics and believed in treating all religions with equality. He has visited Assam number of times and tried his best to convey his message of progressive thinking. He came to Assam in January in 2012 to attend a seminar in Guwahati. He was also associated with CCSP.

Hafiz Ahmed, who has translated more than 50 essays into Assamese written by Engineer, further said that they are also hoping to compile all this so that his message can reach to a wider section of reader in Assam.

“His demise is a loss to every Indian who believes in secularism. He was the pioneer to bring the secularism among the mass. What I have seen during my long association with him was that he never said anything in emotion. He had gone thoroughly before making a statement on anything. For Assam, he has a good deal of contribution as he tried to make people understand at the national level about D-Voter issue, Nellie massacre and others. We all need to work more actively to promote his legacy,” said Dilip Bora, Gauhati University professor and the state head of All India Secular Forum which was founded by Engineer himself.

Human rights activist Anjuman Ara Begum who also came across Engineer’s ideals said that his legacy will be the strength of the people who believe in secularism.

Besides, his works also spoke for the empowerment of women in the society. “Asghar Ali Engineer Sahaab was the foremost fighter to uplift the Muslim women in the country. His books like Status of Women in Islam, Women and Gender Justice, The Quran, Women and Modern Society, The Rights of Women in India etc will definitely guide us while working for women empowerment and gender justice,” said research scholar and microfinance professional Abdul Kalam Azad.

WB Panchayet election to be held in 3 phases by 15 July: Calcutta HC

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By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net,

Kolkata: A division bench of Calcutta High Court, led by Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Joymalya Bagchi today directed the state election commission to hold the Panchayet elections in three phases.

The Division bench said that West Bengal Government should notify within 3 days regarding the Panchayet Election in and it should be held within the month July in three phases. All the processes of Panchayet election should be completed within 15 July, 2013.

Division bench also dismissed the probability to use the para-military force to maintain law and order and security, a demand state election commission has been pressing for. Division bench said, at least two armed Police and two constables should be posted in every sensitive polling booth. Similarly in the low sensitive polling booth, at least one armed police and a constable maybe posted.

Division bench, however, added that if there is not enough state police force, then they maybe deputed from other branches.

According to sources in the State Election commission office, they may suggest to the state government to hold elections in three phases in the month of July. Commission wants first phase ion 2 July in the North Bengal district along with another two districts. These are Coochbihar, Jalpaiguri, North Dinajpur, South Dinajpur, Maldah, Murshidabad and Birbhum.

Proposed election date for the second phase is 6 July, 2013 in North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas,Nadia, Hooghly and East Medinipur. And on 10 July, final phase would be conducted in the districts of Howrah, West Medinipur, Bankura, Purulia and Burdwan.

After the verdict on the panchayet election in West Bengal, State Panchayet and Rural development Minister Subrata Mukherjee expressed his happiness and said that it is a historical verdict on Panchayet election in West Bengal. He added that the state government never wanted the para-military forces, and hence it is a victory for us.

In a statement, State Election Commission also expressed its satisfaction on the Calcutta HC verdict.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said that the panchayet election would be held as soon as possible.

400 Indians in Saudi Arabia to help illegal expatriates

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By IANS,

Dubai : Responding to an appeal by Indian Ambassador Hamid Ali Rao, 400 expatriate Indians have registered as volunteers to help Indian workers in that country affected by a new labour policy.

The ambassador again appealed to illegal Indian workers to rectify their residency status or leave the country following the implementation of the Nitaqat or Saudisation policy in that Gulf nation, Arab News reported Tuesday.

The new policy makes it mandatory for all Saudi companies to reserve 10 percent of jobs for Saudi nationals.

"Saudi authorities have clearly told us that after the grace period that ends on July 3, the ministry of interior will start search operations to arrest all those who violate Saudi residency rules and laws," the report quoted Rao as saying.

He said that the services of the volunteers will be "absolutely free" and also released a document 'Advisory to Indian Volunteers'.

There are around two million expatriate Indians in Saudi Arabia, many of them blue collar workers.

Mulayam, Advani conspired on Babri masjid: Beni Prasad Verma

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By IANS,

Lucknow : Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma Tuesday accused Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav of conniving with BJP leader L.K. Advani to bring down the Babri mosque in Ayodhya.

Congress leader Verma said here that after detaining BJP leaders like Advani and Vinay Katiyar at a guest house in Faizabad, Mulayam Singh Yadav, the then chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, had met them discreetly and it was decided that the kar sevaks would be allowed to offer prayers near the disputed structure.

Verma also alleged that the firing on kar sewaks in November 1990 was not required and was part of a larger conspiracy hatched by Mulayam Singh Yadav.

The Congress leader also alleged that the SP had nothing to do with socialism. He also slammed the SP for holding Brahmin conventions and said such moves were aimed at dividing society for narrow political gains.

Reacting to the accusations against Advani, BJP leader Kalraj Mishra sought to know from Verma if he was also part of the conspiracy to bring down the disputed mosque. "Beni Prasad Verma was in the SP at the time of the incident. He should shed more light on the matter and come clear on his personal role in the incident," Mishra said.

This is the third time that Verma has slammed Mulayam Singh Yadav.

His earlier barbs against the former chief minister had created a stir and had almost broken down relations between the Congress and the SP. Verma had alleged that Mulayam Singh Yadav had links with terrorists and that he took a "commission" for the support he was extending to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA).

An enraged Mulayam Singh Yadav had vented his anger at the Congress leadership, after which Congress president Sonia Gandhi publicly apologised to him in the Lok Sabha.

However, the SP's demand to sack Verma from the cabinet was not heeded.


Sohrabuddin case: BJP accuses Congress of framing its leader

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By IANS,

Jaipur : The Bharatiya Janta Party Tuesday accused the Congress of using the CBI for framing its leader of opposition in Rajasthan and former state home minister Gulab Chand Kataria in Soharabuddin Sheikh killing case.

Reacting to the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) supplementary charge sheet filed in Mumbai court in which agency named Kataria as an accused in the case, senior BJP leaders said that the Congress wants to gain political mileage by framing him just a few months before the state is to witness assembly polls. Assembly polls are due in November/December this year.

BJP state chief and former chief minister Vashundhara Raje said that the entire case against Kataria is based on fake and staged facts.

"Congress has political malice behind framing the senior BJP leader. The entire party is with him. We will fight against the injustice together," said Raje in a statement.

Senior BJP leader and former minister Pratap Singh Singhavi said that Congress is now only using the CBI with political motivations.

"The Congress had used the agency to frame another senior BJP leader in Rajasthan Rajendra Singh Rathore in a fake 'encounter' case. However, the court discharged him which proves that BJP leaders are being framed without any evidence," said Singhvi.

He said that Congress fears that it will loose heavily in the assembly elections in the state scheduled to take place later this year.

However, a Congress spokesperson said that the CBI has named Kataria after a long and independent investigation.

"Let the law take its own course," said the spokesperson.

Sohrabuddin case: Mumbai court summons Rajasthan BJP leader

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By IANS,

Mumbai : A Mumbai court Tuesday issued summons to Rajasthan's Leader of Opposition Gulabchand Kataria and three others to appear before it June 4 in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shooting case, a CBI official said here.

"The court has taken cognizance and issued the summons directing the four people to appear before it June 4," Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Public Prosecutor Ejaz Khan told IANS.

Besides Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kataria, the others summoned include Andhra Pradesh Indian Police Service officer N. Balasubramaniam, police inspector Shrinivas Rao, and R.K. Marbles director Vimal Patni.

The developments follow a supplementary charge sheet filed by CBI running into 500 pages with statements of 40 new witnesses added to the case, according to Khan.

Kataria becomes the second prominent politician involved in the case so far, the first being former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah.

The charge sheet has accused Sohrabuddin Sheikh of allegedly demanding Rs.24 crore from Patni as "protection money" which is said to be motive behind his killing.

Kataria was the conduit between Shah and Patni, and later Shah - then a minister in Chief Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet - planned the elimination operation with the help of Gujarat Police, according to CBI.

The Supreme Court had Sep 27 last year ordered the sensitive case ot be transferred to Maharashtra after the CBI said that witnesses were being threatened and the trial could not be conducted in a free and fair manner in Gujarat.

Shah had quit the cabinet after his involvement in the fake gunfight was revealed. He recently was elected legislator in the last Gujarat elections.

According to the CBI, Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauser Bi were allegedly kidnapped by Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad from Hyderabad and killed in a "gunfight" near Gandhinagar in November 2005.

A year later, Tulsiram Prajapati, a prime witness to the incident, was allegedly killed in another staged gunfight in Chapri village of Gujarat's Banskantha district.

Khurshid visiting Saudi Arabia, Nitaqat to be discussed

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By IANS,

New Delhi : External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid goes to Saudi Arabia on May 24-27, the first visit by an Indian foreign minister in the last five years, during which the kingdom's Nitaqat work policy, regional and international issues would be discussed.

Then external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee had visited Saudi Arabia in 2008.

Khurshid's visit comes days after the trip of a high level Indian delegation, led by Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi, to the kingdom to discuss the Nitaqat law, under which is it mandatory for local companies to hire one Saudi national for every 10 migrant workers.

Minister of State for External Affairs E. Ahamed and Advisor to Prime Minister T.K.A. Nair were also part of the delegation that met Saudi Arabian Labour Minister Adel Fakieh last month to convey India's concern over the Nitaqat programme introduced eariler this year.

The naturalization law has led to concerns among Indian workers that it will lead to denial of job opportunities for them. Over 300,000 firms in Saudi Arabia reportedly do not employ any locals and the Nitaqat policy seeks to deal firmly with this.

Under the new law, foreigners are allowed to only work for their legal sponsors and their spouses won't be allowed to take up jobs. Also, the expatriates cannot perform any job other than the one mentioned in their job cards.

Saudi Arabia had last month given a three-month grace period to foreigner workers to regularise their status.

Saudi Arabia on May 10 offered "some options for expatriate workers", said the external affairs ministry spokesperson.

He said the number of Indian workers in Saudi Arabia are 2.8 million.

He said both sides would try and ensure that Saudi policies "which are largely domestic in nature are implemented in a manner that takes into account the humanitarian needs of Indian nationals who are residents there".

Energy cooperation would also be discussed. India imports 17 percent of its oil from Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia exports to India is worth $33 billion, while Indian exports to the kingdom are worth $9 billion.

Both sides would discuss regional and international issues, including Syria.

People's patience is running thin over corruption

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Indians’ patience is running thin over the question of corruption and bad governance

By Aijaz Zaka Syed,

Gujarat is paying American PR firm, APCO Worldwide, millions of dollars to build and promote Brand Narendra Modi for nothing. It should be actually writing those cheques in the name of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

If Modi eventually moves to Delhi on his blood-soaked chariot, it wouldn’t be because of the dazzling development that he is supposed to have ushered in but because of the good offices of the man the Gujarat chief minister mocks as ‘Maun-Maun’ (‘Maun’ is silence in Hindi) Singh.

Would you blame the Indian voter if he goes ahead and elects Modi’s party given the fine mess that the Congress has made of governance and mandate of the world’s largest voting population? It’s as if the grand old party is driven by a death wish.

Just when you think this government cannot get any more inventive, it comes up with more to surprise you. Skeletons constantly continue to tumble out of the cupboard.

Scam after multibillion rupee scam; it’s like open season for swindling public money while good Dr Singh remains asleep at the wheel. The opposition claims this is the most corrupt government in history. It could very well be right.

Isn’t this a cruel irony that all this has happened under someone who was chosen for the top job on the basis of his reputation for integrity and incorruptibility? Indians looked up to Dr Singh just as they looked up to Dr Abdul Kalam--they still do—and identified with their amazing, inspirational success stories. Both epitomised traditional middle class values and belief that hard work, honesty and pursuit of knowledge in the end pay and help transcend one’s humble roots.

Dr Kalam, a fisherman’s son, built India’s successful missile programme and was associated with the country’s ascent as a nuclear power before entering the imposing palace in Lutyens’ Delhi from where the British ruled the empire.

Dr Singh, the architect of India’s economic transformation in the 1990s, too has had modest origins and burnt midnight oil studying under candlelight in Gah, now in Pakistan, before progressing to the Oxbridge glory and leadership of the great republic.

He may not have won a single election but it was Dr Singh’s clean image and what he seemed to stand for that appealed to both corporate India and middle classes and helped the UPA return to power in 2009.

That legacy now lies in tatters. After an array of scams claiming his ministers in the past couple of years--the latest being Pawan Bansal and Ashwani Kumar--the Prime Minister finds himself sweltering in the spotlight over the Coalgate which has sullied his pristine image.

When the meltdown started with Telecom Minister Raja’s 2G escapades, everyone blamed it on ‘coalition compulsions’ and the company that the good Dr Singh was forced to keep. It was argued, and even opposition conceded, that the Prime Minister himself remained above board. Not anymore.

Since the coal ministry was under his direct charge when the sale of 1.7 billion tonnes of coal at throwaway prices took place between 2006 and 2009, Dr Singh finds himself in the dock.

The CBI’s admission in Supreme Court that Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and officials in the PM’s Secretariat vetted and ‘edited’ its status report on the Coalgate provoked the court’s ire and scathing observations against the government’s interference in the probe and handling of the investigating agency. It has put the PM in the direct line of fire, raising question about his integrity.

Indeed, the Coalgate has started a forest fire that threatens to consume the UPA and Congress as the 2014 Election looms. Elsewhere this would have led to swift resignation of ministers and the PM himself.

But this government remains determined to hang on in there until 2014 come what may. So did Bansal and Kumar despite serious allegations and CBI probe against the former and the SC remarks against the latter. Both have gone now but not before inflicting more damage on the government’s battered image.

Meanwhile Dr Singh maintains his enigmatic silence. This silence of the soft spoken, accidental prime minister was once seen as golden in the cacophony of Indian politics. In Rajdeep Sardesai’s words, in this age of noise and high decibel politics, his quiet dignity was a reassuring bridge to an earlier era. That very quality has now come to haunt the Congress. Silence has become a curse.

To be fair to Congress leadership, it has stood by the PM steadfastly supporting him even as the government has been hit by one scandal after another. And it’s not just sleaze; the government’s response to numerous challenges facing the nation, not to mention the worsening law and order situation and crimes against women, has been one of pathetic indifference and ineptitude.

Yet Sonia Gandhi has resolutely backed the PM, just as he himself has stood by his tainted ministers, apparently in the belief that doing otherwise would undermine the government. In the end though, this inaction and perceived helplessness of the PM could prove the undoing of the Congress in polls next year.

But when it comes to corruption, the Congress doesn’t live in splendid isolation. The opposition BJP isn’t in any position to pontificate to the governing party. Two of its presidents were caught with their hands in the till and have had to leave in far from dignified circumstances. And we all know what happened in the BJP-ruled Jharkhand, Karnataka and elsewhere.

The humiliating drubbing it has just received in Karnataka is nothing but a stinging rebuke and people’s retribution for the open loot and total breakdown of governance in the state under the ‘party with a difference.’ But corruption of the saffron party should be least of the people’s concerns given the far more serious threats its worldview and agenda pose to the well-being of the country.

Indeed, no party, perhaps with the exception of the Left, has remained unaffected by the disease. From dynastic and regional parties to caste-based outfits to those claiming to be led by higher ideals, no one can claim a spotless image today. Sleaze seems to run like blood in the body-politic.

India’s vibrant democracy seems to have done little to check its politicians’ unquenchable appetite for lucre. In the past year or two alone so many cases of plundering of national resources have come to light that their combined worth would exceed the annual budget of many a small African nation. And these are the cases that accidentally came to light.

Billions in public money have been stolen even as hundreds of millions in this vast land go hungry every day, craving the basics of life and dignified living.

More than 300,000 babies die within 24 hours of being born in India each year, a report by the charity Save the Children revealed this week. India accounts for around 30 per cent of all newborn deaths worldwide, higher than that of many impoverished African nations. And we are supposed to be an emerging superpower and fifth largest economy in the world.

Blame it on crony capitalism or the glory of free market that everyone wants to get rich quick today no matter how. If you are already rich, you want to become richer. Nothing is enough. More is less. And our leaders and politicians seem to be leading the way in this endless quest.

They say you get the leaders you deserve. So do we really deserve the current lot? I don’t know about that. But politicians have let down India and its incredibly patient people. Time and again. People’s patience isn’t infinite though. It’s running thin, especially on the question of corruption and bad governance. That is the takeaway message of Karnataka. Political parties, the Congress in particular, would ignore it at their own peril. Dryden cautioned against a patient man’s fury. India’s leaders should fear a patient people’s fury.

*Aijaz Zaka Syed is a Gulf based writer. Email:aijaz.syed@hotmail.com

Lecture on religious tolerance, communal harmony and secularism in Indore

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Mansoor Ilahi and Abdullah, TwoCircles.net,

Indore: “Secularism is the backbone of Indian society and there can’t be any other political philosophy better than secularism for our country. The Constitution of India has guaranteed full religious freedom to all the citizens living in the country,” said Dr. Shakeel Samdani, renowned scholar, orator and senior faculty member, Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

Dr Samdani was speaking at the 54th summer lecture series organised by Abhyas Mandal, renowned social organisation of Indore. He said that our Constitution says that one can not only practice but also can propagate his religious philosophy. He also added that it is enshrined in our Constitution that the state will remain neutral towards religion.

The significance of this lecture is that since 54 years, continuously every year this lecture series is organised. It is also famous for its punctuality and quality and has the honour to have three former Prime Ministers namely Morarji Desai, Chandra Shekhar and I K Gujral as its speaker and for the first time any faculty member from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was invited to deliver this prestigious lecture.



Dr Shakeel Samdani addressing the gathering at Indore

Each and every religion would be given due respect and honour. He added that the, ‘divide and rule policy’ of British spoiled the social fabric of our country. British historians and their followers with communal intent distorted and manipulated the historical facts to suit their interests. He said that there are innumerable instances in history which bears testimony to the secular credentials of our ancestors.

Dr Shakeel Samdani said Mughal Emperor Babar asked his son Humayun that he must try to stop the slaughter of cows as they are considered sacred among Hindu brothers and their religious sentiments are attached to it. He also quoted that Queen Karnawati sent ‘Rakhi’ to Mughal Emperor Humayun and asked for help and Humayun upheld the dignity of ‘Rakhi’ and offered full help to Rani Karnawati and did his best to protect her.

He added that Tipu Sultan was a great freedom fighter who tried his best to protect the country from British. He sacrificed his life and thrown for the sake of the country. He was a just and secular ruler which is evident from the fact that there were many Hindus in his administration and army. He also used to offer grant to a large number of temples from the state funds.

Referring about Shivaji, he said that some people have tagged him to a particular community, which is not true, the fact is that there were 35% Muslims in his army and administration and the two persons who helped him in escaping from prison were also Muslims. Shivaji was a great secular leader and it is wrong to paint him as anti-Muslim. The war between Shivaji and Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb was not a religious war, but in fact was a war between two rulers. Dr. Samdani also discussed the war between Rana Pratap and Akbar and the war between Jhansi ki Rani and British.

Dr. Shakeel Samdani asked the audience; don’t these incidents of history resemble the unity and harmony between our ancestors? He appealed that these historical facts should be propagated on a large scale as it will go a long way in ensuring peace and harmony between the communities. It is a matter of great sorrow as that part of history which is containing hatred, mistrust and is ultimately dividing the society on communal grounds is put forward by communal elements so as to enlarge the gulf between the communities and now the time has came to teach the correct history to the new generation and to desist the history created by British, which was based on the policy of ‘divide and rule’.

Finally, Dr. Shakeel Samdani requested the audience to preach the gospel of brotherhood, tolerance and justice in the society. He also thanked the organisers for organising the lecture series and also thanked the audience for patiently listening to the lecture and appreciating the lecture by huge applause. He concluded the lecture by the following couplet.

“Jo bhai ko bhai se ladane ka sabaq den, un sari kitabon ko samundar me baha do,
Mit jayega shahar se nafrat ka andhera, har mod par ek deep muhabbat ka jala do”.



Haji Muneer Khan, renowned social worker welcomed the guests while Hari Ram Vajpai conducted the program. Vote of thanks was proposed by Ashok Jaiswal.

The lecture was attended by a large number of dignitaries, social workers, political leaders, women activists, religious leaders and media personalities. Notable among them were Anand Mohan Mathur, Former Advocate General, MP, Krishna Murari Moghe, Mayor of Indore, Shobha Ojha, Ex Mahilla Congress President, MP, S A Abbasi, Former VC Indore University, D P Singh, VC Indore University, Rameshwar Patel, Ex Minister, MP, Sardar A I Pal, Former Post Master General, Prof Saroj Kumar, Gautam Khotari, President, Pitampur Industrial Organisation, Babu Bhai, Mahipurwala, Parvez Khan, Dr. Nizamuddin, Ashok Barjatya, Mohit Kulkarni, Shivaji Mohitey, President Abhyas Mandal, Shyam Sundar Yadav, Vice President, Shabbir Hussain, Noor Mohd Quraishi, Abdul Raziq Khan, Dr. Pallavi Adhav, Secratry, Abhyas Mandal.

Later, Dr. Shakeel Samdani, along with D P Singh, VC Indore University, S A Abbasi, Former VC, Krishna Murari, Moghe, Mayor inaugurated the ‘Indore Mahotsav’.

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