Muslims have Become Marginalized and under Hindu Extremist BJP Party Rule

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.

Urdu – A Diminishing Language Only as it Represents Mughal and Muslim Presence in the Sub-Continent

Urdu is vulnerable to get diminished as people have stopped using it, considering it a language of Muslims of India. In Mughal era it was a public, educational and literary language of whole Sub-Continent that includes India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Now the language spoken by Anjum in the novel and the great heritage of Mir Taqi Mir, Mirza Ghalib and rest of Urdu poets will no longer be cherished by Indians, being a language of Muslims. Narrative of extremist Hindus whose representative is the present government in India. Roy has shown her own grief of the situation in her current novel. 

Real Earnings of Life – A Query !!

 

Motivation and Desire to Live wit Peace of Mind

When I was a teenager then I listened to a poem by a famous Urdu Poet “Ibn Insha”. He wrote in a very beautiful and in a river flow manner about LIFE and what Human Beings really earn out of this short span of time on Earth. Yes! We are no this planet for a short time, and even don’t know when our end will come. Death is waiting for each soul like a hawk is waiting for its prey to capture!

We are blindfolded with ‘Worldly Passions and Desires’ and forget about this greatest reality that is intact with us from the time of our births. So the poet who had developed cancer to a last stage was asking or in fact begging to God Almighty, to grant him some more days of ‘Life as a Loan’. As he had to perform many duties, and say his love things to those with whom he was always able to remain in a state of unsaid relationship!

Life is really an ILLUSION and only our Instinct of Survival gives us direction to work on plans. But do you really think that everybody in present days or in past has or had spent his or her life in a positive way? A Big NO! I am sure you will agree to my point as we all have read in History Tales that people ruined and crushed whole nations and civilizations for their lust of the world and material things, and to have a desire to remain in history forever!

It is not a matter of discussion here that Hitler, Picoche, Edie Amin, Pharaohs, Alexander the Great or other known names are still alive in our books. Though they were on negative side of life and dealings with others! We are still watching the Films and Television Serials on barbarous acts of Greek or Roman Elites. But have you ever given it a second though as what those people took with themselves. Even if you do not believe in “Afterlife” as I do then still my query stands right here!

Don’t you think that those people turned into dust particles, nitrogen or ashes mixed in soil or water? Whatever remains are the historical monuments or the great buildings but what they got out of all cruelty and barbarism? Nothing to be true! So why not we all start to think about Humanity and its Miseries and Pains as a Collective Issue! 

Who knows what is happening to them in life hereafter, and if you do not believe in it then won’t you agree that it was even more for a momentary pleasure what they did? They are in the history and minds of people as the negative of evil personalities, and we remember them as brutes and whatever not to say. So to love humanity and to try to make peace in this present world of ours must be a simple quest for everyone. 

If we are fair enough then we can start it from ourselves and this positive vibe to save human beings from further tortures, pains, killings and other kinds of evil activities will definitely vanish out of this world. It will be a Heaven like experience right here on earth, even before experiencing it in real. Won’t you agree with my point of view, and I will love to have your democratic port of views for sure. Thank you readers!!