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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Kaleem Kawaja" <[email protected]> To:<[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 17:42:46 -0400 Subject: India of Sahibs and Memsahibs Deal friends: >From my own visit to India in April I noted a few things about where the nation is going in addition to the concern about keeping India secular. 1. I noticed that all political parties including those that swear by secularism (Congress, SP, BSP, RJD, DMK, AIDMK, CPI etc), have placed the cross of secularism (the responsibility to fight for a secular India) squarely on the shoulders of the minority Muslims and Christians. At the same time these other communities are fighting for economic development for themselves. That is resulting in all communities (including OBCs, Dalits) making significant economic gains, and the religious minorities getting substantially depressed. This is causing much disenchantment among Muslims and Christians. 2. About one-third of all Indians are the servant class categories, eg drivers of the many cars of the sahib class; workers and security guards in the new shopping malls, office buildings, taxi/scooter rickshaw drivers, construction workers, street vendors, restaurant workers etc. This class of third class Indians is being made subservient by the middleclass sahibs/mem sahibs to almost a serf-like condition. With the economic boom in India the sahib class is expanded a lot and is behaving much like the English sahibs/memsahibs used to behave. I saw this glaring division of society in New Delhi and Bombay. These Third class Indians are like the passengers in the Third class compartment in Indian trains. 3. Even my daughter commented that the sahib class people are so rude and inconsiderate of these Third Class Indians. This attitude of rudeness and indifference of the sahib class Indians towards the Third class Indians really bothered me. I was wondering when and how will this awful disparity ever change. 4. The amount of public attention that was being paid to Rahul Gandhi and his promotion as the fourth generation “Owner” of the badly dynastic Nehru family really bothered me. I saw Manmohan Singh on TV admire Rahul not only as a leader but also as suitable for PM of India. Rahul has no significant education and no service to the nation. Why is the 700 million voter bank promoting his as a crown prince from right now? What kind of democracy is this? 5. As we rightly condemn BJP for promoting religion in the political sphere, we should also criticize the dynastic and sycophancy culture and the hypocritical politics of expediency promoted by Congress. Surely the impoverished religious minorities, Dalits etc can not eat and drink secularism in the 105 F heat of India’s summer; secularism does not take care of dry water taps and all day power outages of 33% of Indians who can not afford “invereters” and “spring water”. 6. Is not the façade of secularism being exploited by the secular parties to prevent Indians from all strata from having a share in the India of today and tomorrow. Kaleem Kawaja --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
