Muslims have never gained
that real freedom in India that Congress, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru
along with Muslim leaders of the same part claimed. The genocide, mass rape and
kidnapping and stealing of assets of 1947 is part of documented history. The
statement doesn’t end here as there was always a class difference while dealing
with Muslims of higher ranks in India. The results of the subjugation is
visible in Arundhithi Roy’s novel under discussion named “The Ministry of
Utmost Happiness”.
It is not a writing by a Muslim otherwise the fundamental
Hindus must have labeled it as a biased opinion. She is Half Hind and half
Syrian Christian, and she is depicting a clear picture of suburbs of red Fort
and Jama Masjid of Dehli. It was an ancient walled city built be Mughal Emperor
Shahjahan. So, the name is still chanting there as Shajahanabad and Roy has
used it as the same.
Here we meet Mulaqat Ali, his wife Saeeda
begum, their transgender son Aftab/Anjum, the teacher, musician and the other
characters. They are the predecessors of Mughal Royal family but they live a
marginal life. They live in smelly, dirty and filthy old small alleys. They do
not enjoy the luxuries of modern life and they are offered with little of what
a capital of a multi-community country like India must have offered.
The recent CAB law by Modi
government has proved that Hindus either want to do a complete genocide andethnic cleansing of Muslims or want to convert them into Hindus like Queen Isabelle
and Emperor Ferdinand did in Muslim Spai (Andlusia). Whole India is on riots
and even the positive minded Hindus and Sikhs have stood with Muslims, and the attacks
of Jamia Delhi or Aligarh University are highly condemned by world community. There is light and sound show on regular
basis, and the state activities are performed in Red Fort as well but the
surrounding area and people are marginalized, not by white colonial rulers as Gayatri
Spivak keeps on pointing. But the colored ruling elites who either belong from
the same city or at least from the same country.
Muslims have never gained that real freedom in India that Congress, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru along with Muslim leaders of the same part claimed. The genocide, mass rape and kidnapping and stealing of assets of 1947 is part of documented history. The statement doesn’t end here as there was always a class difference while dealing with Muslims of higher ranks in India. The results of the subjugation is visible in Arundhithi Roy’s novel under discussion named “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”.
It is not a writing by a Muslim otherwise the fundamental Hindus must have labeled it as a biased opinion. She is Half Hind and half Syrian Christian, and she is depicting a clear picture of suburbs of red Fort and Jama Masjid of Dehli. It was an ancient walled city built be Mughal Emperor Shahjahan. So, the name is still chanting there as Shajahanabad and Roy has used it as the same.
