Taliban' writ in Haryana village 8 Oct 2007, 0001 hrs IST,C Shamsher,TNN Print Save EMail Write to Editor CHANDIGARH: Barely 25 km from the bustling township of Karnal is village Mundogari, where people don't buy television sets, don't get themselves photographed, or even listen to Hindi film music.
It's not because they don't have the financial wherewithal to do so; it's because the 5,000-strong Muslim population of the village is under the near-total sway of retrograde maulvis whose edicts have barred the folk from any form of recreation.
With just one Hindu Dalit family in Mundogari, the village has more or less been reduced to a Talibanised relic. It's not the rule of law that enshrines personal freedoms that prevails here; it's the fatwas from maulvis, who interpret the Koran according to their blinkered vision, that calls the shots, preventing people from exerting their right to freedom in a country that celebrated its 60th year of independence in August this year.
The only connection of villagers %u2014 who don't travel out %u2014 with the outside world is the radio on which the only programme they are allowed to listen to is the news.
Says Raj Singh Chaudhary, a Karnal-based social worker: "When one family bought a TV set, it was severely ostracised." What adds to the problem, he says, is the literacy rate at an abysmal 3%, with just one person reaching college. And since no one is even 10th pass, there's not a single person in the village employed with the governme
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by zinawar on Oct 13, 2007 12:19 AM Permalink
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by zinawar on Oct 13, 2007 12:23 AM Permalink
chk this also: http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1672 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mHh0NdR5Jh0 http://www.thereligiono fpeace.com/
