Save the Country from Turning into a Communal Cauldron
As the time for Lok Sabha elections 2024 is coming nigh, peace is being vitiated and social ambiance in the country is being communalised. At least the kind of communal violence on the occasion of Ram Navami at different places like Bihar Sharif, Howrah, Baroda,Aurangabad, Jalgaon, Malvani, etc. in different States bears witness to this not-so-new phenomenon. This is not unprecedented. This is the well-acknowledged ‘strategy’ of the communal forces to polarise the atmosphere in the country and reap electoral dividends. Peace-loving people of the country should play their role in convincing the large segments of masses to keep calm, remain alert and save the country from turning into a communal cauldron. Their concerted effort in this regard is the need of the hour.
- Chakraborty
Howrah, West Bengal
Get United to Stop Imposition of Hindi in Tamil Nadu
In a tweet put out recently with the hashtag,‘Stop Hindi Imposition’ the DMK chief and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin urged Food Safety andStandard Authority of India to listen to what the protectors of Tamil Nadu had to say and questioned its wisdom behind the bid to make the people keep theirmother tongue away.
An instruction by the FSSAI to print the Hindi word dahi replacing the Tamil word kettitayirnow printed on the curd sachets of Aavin, Stalin demanded to respect people’s sentiments and warned those asking the people to abandon their mother tongue of dire consequences.
Also, S.M. Nasar, State Minister for Milk andDairy came upwith a clarification that the stategovernment had not accepted theUnion Government’s decision touse the Hindi word for curd on sachets and that tayir would beprinted on the Aavin sachets. This is the high time the Tamilians irrespective of their party affiliations got united to protest the bid to impose Hindi in the State.
Chowdhry Nisar Ahmed
Noorullah pet, Ambur (T.N.)
First Muslim leader to Lead a Major UK Political Party
Humza Yousaf beat his competitors on March 27 to become the head of the governing Scottish National Party (SNP), first Muslim leader of a major UK political party and also the first Muslim to lead a country in Western Europe.
The Glasgow-born Yousaf took his oath in English and Urdu when he was first elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2011, before progressing to become the first Muslim to serve in the devolved government’s cabinet.In his victory speech, Yousaf said, “We should all take pride in the fact that today we have sent a clear message: that your colour of skin or, indeed, your faith, is not a barrier to leading the country that we all call home.”Yousaf’s case is the proof that there is still consideration of merit in Europe.
Ishtiyaque Ahmed
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
Taraweeh at the Times Square
This is for the second time this year that Muslims offered Taraweeh prayers at the iconic Times Square, Manhattan, New York, in the United States.Hundreds of Muslims observing the holy month of Ramadhan broke their fast and offered Taraweeh prayers atthe Times Square with due permission of the local administration.Bosnian-American imam FatihSeferagic, who had led the Taraweeh prayers at Kuwait mosques in recent years led the Taraweeh prayer at Times Square this Ramadan.
The Muslims praying at the Times Square presents a scene of bonhomie and communal amity. More cities in the US and European countries are likely to follow suit.
Abdullah Khalil
New Delhi