RUSHDIE in the Black Farce

Salman Rushdie, novel 'The Satanic Verses'

The Audience at Jaipur Literature Festival, 2012

More than 10,000 people gathered to celebrate the exquisite ideas and the words at one place - THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL. Everyone was eagerly waiting for Salman Rushdie to Video Conference an interview by the gutsy Barkha Dutt to the studio in London around 3.45pm (IST). A planned videolink conference with Rushdie at the Jaipur Literary Fest #JLF (Twitter) presented the directors with an impossible decision: cause a riot or uphold an imperative principle. The incident got the directors, coordinators and co-operators in a state of momentary shock, when they received a notice by Police to stop the video conference and the Muslim activists who appeared before 1pm in the vicinity to forbade the Rushdie's interview, were the biggest daunt to the crowd present there.

Protesters at Jaipur Literary Fest, 2012

Muslim activists made it clear of boycotting Rushdie's book and banning it therefore in islamic communities as one of the books wrote by Salman Rushdie- "THE SATANIC VERSES" contained offensive statements which besieged the Muslim's sentiments and apparently the Muslim activists at the Jaipur Literary Fest had palpable callousness over Salman Rushdie. The infuriated crowd hauled over the Directors, of the interview that is to be taken by Barkha Dutt. Nor Police, neither government put their foot forward to the protesters and the crowd that might get exacerbated as the consequence, as evidently more than Hindus, government is concerned about their Muslim voters. If the videolink is shown to public, there would be violence and the crowd might aggravate entailing the scuffle. 


Novel, "The Satanic Verses" which was first published in 1988 and therein banned in Iran, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan and later in India due to blasphemous reference to the Muslim community. After 24 years later in 2012 at the Jaipur literary fest, the author was banned entering his own birth place, India. The clauses in the book which are the gratuitous provocation to Muslim Community had enough of punishment to Salman Rushdie as fatwa was also issued by a leader of Iran and a Muslim Scholar, Shi'a. After the issue of fatwa, Rushdie was police protected by the British Government and later Rushdie avowed that he would not remain under quilts and will stop living in hiding. The Iranian News Agency proclaimed that fatwa would remain permanent, until and unless it is rescinded by the person who first issued it. The leader had since died. 


Rushdie has never been physically assaulted or incurred. Since then, the conciliated verse sometimes grows to gruesome fiascoes and other while it remains buried deep to explode someday to some event. 

People should forget and forgive. Maybe the verses weren't that harmful to become a cause to a dispute, and even if it were... THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, has it all not be taken as offensive. If in India people have their right of speech why could not a person speak to his mind? Perhaps, Rushdie never meant to hurt anybody's sentiments and even if he has, why shall we make him suffer his whole life? SALMAN RUSHDIE shall be liable for the charges for his offensive verses, but we should not punish him his whole life.

Acknowledgement- 

THE BIG STORY (Soumya Bhattacharya), 

Editorial, Sunday hindustan times, New Delhi (dated 29 January, 2012).

The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)

Barkha Dutt and Salman Rushdie (via Twitter)

Title credits, "BLACK FARCE" (as Salman Rushdie calls the JLF's entire fiasco in an interview to Barkha Dutt)

Photo Credits-

indiatimes (The Times Of India)

Public; Nobody's Business

Parliament House, New Delhi 

"Do you know what it takes to get into the Parliament? Whatever, but you will come out pocket full of money when exiting."

A bungalow at Lutyens', New Delhi 

As we embrace the activists like Anna Hazare and few realistic politicians for their welfare indulgence into the ombudsman's (lokpal's) swamp we take no considerations to the MPs who hold the dark intent as a principle of them. They make the ignorance of public to the level where they get the modest amount of salary shown and what that is unaccountable goes oblivion in the showcase. Our Parliamentarians extracts the most out of what we call Money accountable to Public. Most of the MPs live in or on the vicinity at Lutyens' Delhi which has the gross estimated value of real estate of Rs 300-400 crore depending on the size of the bungalow. In Delhi as a state we have 77 Ministers including those of state are so capable that they can even hire a servant for spoon feeding and cleaning their toilets (-literally, where it comes from). India as a country still counts 37.7% of population below poverty line (BPL) and we have more than 540 Lok Sabha Ministers and 250 Rajya Sabha Ministers playing all in multimillion currency and can be said perfectly capable of feeding those below poverty line till their death and still holds a tidy sum of a million.

The new statistics shows the increment of Government bureaucrats. Six lakhs per annum is the salary of an Indian MP which is in accounts and the bungalow which grows behind is what the money needs to be in accounts. There is no Parliamentary drawback or system limitations, all in all the corrupt Ministers grew up to behold this nature when an American bureaucrats draws an ample annual salary of $1,74,000 (Rs 93 lakhs) and yet lives at homes which cost almost third of the fractions Indian MPs' bungalows worthy of. Where actually the money is growing and how far will it reach to the corrupt standards? Questions never become an answer in parliament. An MP brings multi-ideological standards of his own to become so-and-so. He spends around 7-10 crores on elections to win it before whining and bragging of the same and a successful MLA spends around 2-3 crores all on a state assembly elections. By all procedure successfully passed giving these MPs right of expenditure in some other sense. Now when all the revenue is collected from Public funds, National Highway Authority of India, Airports, Railways, Transports and Municipal departments. The audited revenue on utilization lies in vain before the public and eaten by the corrupt society of MPs and Bureaucracies. 

Lokpal brought the debate of empowering of Election Commission to audit electoral expenses on a continuous basis and make all the funds of public accountable on the expense sheet. Should it provide the power to de-register and de-recognize the blunderer political parties which play seminal roles in digging the black money out. There must be a tough regulatory bodies which instigates the policies to investigate the profession of each and look into the matter deeply and not commiserate the deal with money.

"What we pay unwritten, goes unaccountable." 

Acknowledgement- 

How much does your Lutyens MP cost you? (Minhaz Merchant), 

Sunday Times Of India, New Delhi (dated 18 December, 2011).

Wikipedia (for accurate statistics on BPL and current census report)

Photo Credits-

The Times of India Travel (www.timesofindiatravel.com).

Ajit

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13 Days For Nation

It had not been too long since India got it's Independence, not even a century has been passed. It's India's 65th Independent year, 2011. India got Independence from British rulers in 14 August, 1947. All in all Indians tried hard to heal up the country's contusions and is now been counted in the top lists of fastest developing countries. India is the second populous country in the world after China and has rose up it's literacy rate, development statistics, economic growth and also in entertainment industry. All couldn't have been possible without India's Government Bureaucrats and high aspired Indian people. We have had all the assimilated information for being counted in the lists of TOP Nations in the world. 

Unless we've gone spleen in corruption.

But here comes the dearth of possibilities when Indians tend to become selfish on their parts to earn money. India could have world's wealthiest persons' if money which rotates around the country gets reimbursed into a statistic and solemnly be put to development of the country, bustling. Not to forget, Vijay Mallya, Ratan Tata, Ambani Brothers and Azim premji (CEO of Wipro)

Commonwealth Games held at New Delhi in October, 2010 was the most ostentatious situation for the Government authorities to show up the world what it takes to build up a character. But our country has prodigiously blessed with the brilliance of the bureaucrats (sometimes egotistic) to hold up the winning cup on their hands, like A. Raja and Suresh Kalmadi. Corruption is a virus which regardless of emotions hollows the nation. It just need a corrupt mindset to grow and lives heaven. 

Amitabh Bachchan in support for Anna Hazare at a Mall in Mumbai

From Gandhian era to Anna's it went all in the pockets of corrupt governance and if the statistics are to be believed the major cause grows from it's very own citizens. India, and crusades are very commonly similar. We are soulfully responsible for the growth of country and are liable for charge if question demands what have you done for your country. Anna Hazare fasts 13 days just to raise India from corrupt and bribery quagmire. His demands were to be listened and pondered upon in the Parliament and people of India will give reverent homage to their mother land as the JAN LOKPAL BILL Passes at India Gate, New Delhi.

Corruption Escapism

India Against Corruption

An image of The Jan Lokpal Bill

Anna Hazare, an apostle of anti-corruption crusade. Corruption can never be called a disease to Indian law system or bureaucracies. We all are the initiator of corruption and then we talk how liable is to have a conversation about shunning the Government policies. It took broad minds to construct the complicated yet enhanced law, procedure and order in Government authorities. We are in no right situation to call it a culprit. "Our system needs a change, an advancement; Agreed!" For sure there had been flaws in our law and order sequential blueprint but then who doesn't have an inaccuracy? Corruption is deception or fraud-ship to a person who is either known or unknown to what causes illegal norms to be forsaken for a profit of either one person or in some cases, both. We, citizens of Modern India are well aware of what it takes to forbid unruly tentative laws. We know system needs a humongous change but then, we are the people who are misusing our legal rights for the welfare of our own kingdom of dreams. 

Anna Hazare at a Protest in New Delhi

An example follows, we tend to bribe half the amount to Government official for signing our file though we are known that this is against our laws and not to mention we are committing crime through the authorities' spectacle and to save half the original amount we already had unknowingly paid thrice of half the principal amount. Absurd! (Here we lack in our educational systems, or maybe mathematical approach). When is that people need to understand their policies and what they are actually in dearth of is their own conscience, who relentlessly makes them do unauthorized things first. 

These protests of Anna Hazare has gone miles to dissuade the anti-corruption conversations to the people. And yet again to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill (जन लोकपाल बिल) we need all the support from citizens of India. We now want Olympics to have a nice view of India and corruption lays bed-rest to the graveyard. 


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