Indian Opinion

Screen shot from the website of The Hindu.  Mukesh Devrari In the morning I came across a column written against uniform civil code in the editorial page of ‘The Hindu’. The essay was written by Nivedita Menon. She is a professor at JNU, New Delhi and describes herself as a feminist scholar. In her column titled ‘It isn’t about the woman’, she gave reasons to support the continuation of Sharia based Muslim personal law in India and argued against prohibiting polygamy and triple talaq. She described the Uniform Civil Code as a Hindu agenda to impose Hindu laws on Muslims. I could resist myself and scribbled a few lines to critique her arguments. It is important to critically examine her grotesque narrative on the issue. She is denying democratic space available to Muslim women in secular democracies like India. According to her even in secular democracies if Muslims women need any right, they should find it within the Islamic faith.  Recently a Muslim w...

Photo courtesy - Mukhtar Khan Source - NAM News Network Mukesh Devrari The large mob can never be a certificate of righteousness. US government decided to throw the body of Osama Bin Laden in the sea at an unknown location, simply because they were aware millions of Muslims from around the world might gather to pay respect to him at this burial site  if his body was handed over to his family members . The large crowd which attends the funeral of slain terrorists cannot justify their acts. India has faced a worse crisis than the current one in Kashmir. When the separatist movement was at its peak in Punjab, many believed that the days of this country are only numbered. There are many who are still writing the obituary of India, but the resilience of this nation will once again prove them wrong. There was a time when it was urgent for India to fight the farce of political correction tooth and nail created by left liberals. Such a powerful discourse has been created...

Source - Wikipedia Mukesh Devrari There are allegations that Indian armed forces rape women in Kashmir. Indian armed forces kill young men and women in Kashmir. The Indian state is a monster full of rage and hatred and hell-bent on destroying the lives of ordinary Kashmiris. People in Kashmir face humiliation on a daily basis.  There are hundreds of Kashmiri parents searching their lost kids who are picked and killed by Indian army in fake encounters over the years. This is a popular perspective on Kashmir nowadays. Newspapers sympathetic to separatist tendencies in Kashmir are full of these stories. In light of these facts all of us need to ask one question?  Why India deployed thousands of armed forces in civilian areas in Kashmir. No matter how over simplistic this may sound, but India deployed armed forces in civilian areas to counter terrorists.  Now it has become a chain. No one is willing to go at the root cause of the situation. For some, the root c...

Photo courtesy -  Mukhtar Khan, Nam News Network   Mukesh Devrari Burhan Wani was killed by armed forces. He was the Kashmiri militant, who used to pose in fancy military uniforms on social networking sites to attract youth to join dreaded terrorist group Hizbul Mujahideen. Kashmir Muslims started protesting after the pictures of his dead body were circulated by the media. What else could have been the fate of an armed militant? What else his sympathizers were expecting? He was destined to face the consequences for his choice. All separatist elements are responsible for his death who encourage youth to pick arms. For the loss of this life and many others like him, those are responsible who glorify and glamorize the Islamic terrorism in Kashmir.    Indians strategists must learn a few lessons from this incident. Killings of these high profile terrorists should be handled delicately. Whether like it or not, in Kashmir valley terrorists enjoy widespre...

Photo Courtesy - Nirmal Poddar  Mukesh Devrari Zakir Naik is an intelligent man. His popularity is not only a result of trickery and propaganda. He is a serious opponent of religious scholars who talk about the equality of religions. The objective of his discourse is to prove that Islam is the supreme religion. It is best among all options. All other religions are inferior to it. He can be described as an Islamic supremacist, who has devoted his life for converting more and more people to Islam and establish the Wahabi version of Islam in South Asia.    Wahabi Islami preaches and propagates 7 th century tribal lifestyle in the name of Islam. Saudi Arabia funds the expansion of Wahabi Islam which poses a grave challenge to the modern world in 21 st century. It wants all Muslims to follow puritanical Islam exactly as practised and propagated by Prophet of Islam Mohammad himself. Zakir Naik runs an Islamic research foundation and peace TV which has more than...

HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar  Mukesh Chandra Devrari The recent reshuffle in the cabinet by the union government shows that BJP has no vision and strategy to deal with challenges faced by nation. When BJP government came to the power in 2014, the most shocking appointment came in the form of Smriti Irani as Human Resource Minister. Since then there was unrest in the academic community. It was an amazing fall as a nation to have television actress Irani as HRD Minister after having eminent lawyer like Kapil Sibbal for many years on the same position. Even during the previous NDA regime Murli Manohar Joshi was appointed as HRD minister. Finally Smriti Irani lost her position after poorly handling the Rohit Vemula case and other issues. In her short stint she proved to be arrogant, overconfident and someone who has only contempt for intellectuals. She was rewarded with the berth in union cabinet for strongly supporting Narendra Modi over the years. Her case must ...