Where silence prevails, justice will not, Current affairs, NewAgeIslam.com

Current affairs

Where silence prevails, justice will not

By Siddharth Varadarajan

When young Aman Kachroo was murdered by fellow students in a distant medical college in Himachal Pradesh last month, some politicians tried to appropriate his death to the narrative of forcible displacement that Kashmiri Pandits were subjected to by terrorist violence in the 1990s. Had the valley’s Hindus not felt compelled to flee, they argued, young Aman might well have studied in Srinagar, where the academic and social culture would not have allowed such wanton vi olence to be visited on a student in the name of “ragging.” Despite his death reflecting this invisible dimension of the larger tragedy of exile, however, the Kachroo family asked the politicians to back off. Aman died not because he was a Kashmiri Pandit or because the community was in exile but because of the insensitivity of the educational and law enforcement systems of the country. And his family is determined to make sure the lessons are learned and such tragedies never repeated.

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Sectarian politicians are destroying the Indian nation, Islam and Politics, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam and Politics

Sectarian politicians are destroying the Indian nation

By Manoj Joshi

In these years, it has sand- papered regional and linguistic variations by a national culture, built on a bedrock of a new network of road and railways, extending into the outermost reaches of the vast country. Its great metropolises like Shanghai and Beijing vie to become world centres of industry, finance and culture.

To see how a nation destroys itself, however, you do not have to go far. You only have to look at India. In 1980, we were ahead of China in almost every department, except nuclear weapons. But over the years, we have fallen behind everywhere— in science, agriculture, manufacturing.

Our political system increasingly based on parties that seek to exclude or divide people on the basis of caste, creed, region or language seems determined to destroy the unified fabric of the country.

Hindutva

Our vaunted right of democratic protest has degenerated to a point where tearing up national communications networks like roads and railway tracks has now become the norm.

Our great metropolis Mumbai has been blessed with leaders whose perspective does not extend beyond the state of Maharashtra.

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