*Newsletter of All India Secular Forum*
*Volume. 12 No.5 May 2017*
*C O N T E N T S*
* Editorial*
*1. CSSS** News*
*-**Observation of Utkal Divas*
* - Street Play *
* - Observationof Dr.Ambedkar Jayanti *
*2. Article*
- *‘Not my Hinduism’ should be our slogan*
* By Jyoti Punwani*
* - **Mystic Mantra: Sufism cannotes syncretism*
* By Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi*
*3. Poem*
- भँवर मेघवंशी की कविता
*4. Personal Investigation*
* - **Behror (Alwar) Killing – A Grave Challenge*
*By V.K. Tripathi*
* - Gau Wapsi – A Muslim cattle trader and the *
* Cows he loved*
* - by Farah Naqvi*
*5. Intimidating Churches*
* - **In UP, cops halt church prayer after Hindu group *
* alleges conversion *
* 6. Unity in History*
*7.Harmony Event*
*8. Investigation*
*Desecration of the Cross in Santacruz; A fact *
* finding report by CSSS team*
*9. Interviews*
*-**Interview with Akeel Bilgrami*
* - Maxime Rodinson’s interview on Islam, *
* fundamentalism and the West*
*10. Resources*
*-**Book on Partition, Indo-Pak relations and Kashmir*
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*E-mail: [email protected] <[email protected]>*
*Editor*: Ram Puniyani, [email protected], www.pluralindia.com
*Advisory Board*: L.S. Hardenia, Irfan Engineer, Dhirendra Panda, Mohammad
Arif.
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*From the Editor’s Desk*
The intensity of emotive violence orchestrated in the name of Cow
protections has been spreading dangerously. After the lynching of Akhlaq in
Dadri, now it was the turn of Pehloo khan, a dairy farmer. On the back of
that two Muslims were lynched in Assam on similar grounds. The rise is such
incidents after Modi government coming to power and then Adityanath Yogi
becoming the Chief Minister in UP is significant. The so called Go
Rakshaks, have been there earlier also but now they feel emboldened with a
feeling that now it is a Government which belongs to their ideology. The
attitude of the state has been to treat these vigilantes with kid gloves
and to blame the victims for doing cow smuggling etc. This is in total
violation of the laws of the land. The hysteria has been whipped up by
communal forces leading to the tragic situation where cow vigilantes are
ruling the streets with full blessings of the BJP or BJP led Governments in
power. As such Cow protection is the pretext for intensifying communal
politics, to polarize the society along religious lines for electoral gains
by the ruling party. Cow is not the issue as the major threat to cows is
from the plastic consumed by them and their abandonment after their utility
for agricultural-dairy purpose is over. Hindu right wing has mastered the
art of picking up issues related to identity of religion and to make these
as the foundation of their electoral power. Along with Ram Temple, this is
yet another issue which is yielding rich electoral dividends for
communalists. The major victims of this strategy on one hand are Muslims
and on the other Dalits (as seen in Una). One needs to recall Gandhi at
this juncture who refused to support the demand for ban on cow slaughter
keeping in mind the diversity of the country.
Ram Puniyani
*(Editor)*
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