This article has been drafted inorder to incite hatred. the writer claims to be fair and open.he suggests he has friends from other communities and that they face similar problems with hindus. But the reality is that he is a bigot.
I have lived in many countries:east and west and one cannot hide from the truth.
The truth is that muslims have a problem living with all communities. This is truely sad. They should look at the speck in their eye before looking at the speck in their brothers eye.
By the way i have read the Holy Koran and have taken an interest in mid-east history so please dont say i have a closed mind: just look at the facts.
Mr. Syed Ashraf, its really a shame on this otherwise cosmo city, if you had such a horrifying experience.
But sorry to say, the last line is far from reality, albiet your exprience, Mr. Syed Ashraf.
I am into software and half of my freinds are non-Mumbaikar, with almost all of them having stayed in other major cities of India.
All of them claim that an outsider once in Mumbai becomes a Mumbaikar. This only confirms the fact that all said and done, Mumbai is probably the most democratic city in India.
So, Mr. Syed Ashraf, lets not generalise on the mindsets of Mumbai and Mumbaikar.
I dont agree with the author's point as there is no such type of discrimination against minorities in Delhi. It it happens at Maharashtra, it would be vanished soon because nobody bothers about these things in such a high faced life.
A very valid point made but i have stayed in muslim locality at dongri in town and i havealso gone through hell during the riots. B we need to get on in life. why do we think ourselves as muslims and hindus or sikh why dont we treat ourselves indians and stop making comments on a regional basis because thats the place where politicians thrive and use us.if we divide country on maharashtrians and gujju and sikhs we will never be a successful nation
As a unwritten word, Muslims have always prefered to stay in a locality where they are in a majority. Bombay riots or no riots. Mohammad Ali road and the whole of Nagpada area, Kurla, Bhiwandi, Mumbra all existed before the riots and so do they remain. As much as Mr. Syed Firdaus would want to make himself believe or want others to belive, it is not the question of the religon but as he himself amply said by qouting his Maharashtrian non vegetarian eating friend, the neighbours could not stand the smell of cooking fish. THIS IS EXACTLY THE POINT. Muslims want to stay the way want to stay let it be any where. So the ghetto mentality & the 'mohalla' formations and the formation of a nation itself. There are enough colonies where people from different communities live and I happen to stay in one of theme. Though my wife won't touch an egg even on med. grounds, I eat the egg it's mother and any thing that Indians eat as non-veg.But in the house,I keep the utensiles seperate. I donot cook unless the exhaust is put on and I clean everything and dispose the remanents in a way so that my wife nor any body else feels offended. Can Syed assure of this to even himself wherever he lives?GOTIT
It is time you shifted to Hyderabad. We dont have such problems anywhere in Hyderabad. Whether it be in low class localities, middle class localities or upper class localities. We Hyderabadis are more tolerant towards someone who is not from the same community, so please come and settle here. You are most welcome to Hyderabad.
I am an indian student studing in England and after reading your article, I am highly dissapointed but in a way pleased to know in a sad manner that I am not wrong in what I used to think about our indian society.
We pride ourselves about multicultural diversity but when it matters the most, we are a biggest bunch of hypocrites in the world. It is highly sad to see this attitude even in the young generation of indian students living abroad who want to forget their own culture and bathe in the glory of artificial western culture. I not only feel sad but also a bit ashamed of our mentality.
read the whole article, the author's point can easily be bought and I almost did. But, he himself mentioned that whole mumbai has this discrimination problem and it's not targetted towards muslims then how can he make a generalized statement (the title itself) like: "Why I won't live among Hindus"...Moreover a multicultural society doesn't mean it forces one to mix with different people; it allows/gives opportunity to do so and that totallly depends on individuals to follow it or not. If some locality have laid down some rules, what's the harm...someday one may as well say that the
xyz locality doesn't allow people to 'spit' on the roads!
Maybe he didn't look hard enough, and was too much in a hurry to generalize all his statements. It's always best to forgive and forget than trying to add fuel to a non-existent fire! Why this article? Only, b'cos we have the "right to free expression"?...enjoy the luxury then!!
RE:over-reaction?
by Aamod Gokhale on Apr 11, 2006 04:00 PM Permalink
You only have to read the messages posted to feel the extent of the divide and the disgusting intolerance among supposedly educated people who visit Rediff.com. I don't think he has exaggerated at all and i think more and more people should talk out loud to make everyone look inwards and think. I thought it would be a minority who oppose the Mr. Syed's views... Alas, the theme running through majority of messages posted in response is even more shocking. The minds of the middle class that is supposed to provide "thought leadership" are corrupted and deteriorated, perhaps beyond repair.
