Author: Premendra Agrawal
Publication: Sulekha.com
Date: May 25, 2006
URL: http://premendra.sulekha.com/blogs/blogdisplay.aspx?contributor=premendra%20agrawal&archdtmmyr=2006-5-01&archfreq=Monthly
Is country first for Pseudo-seculars?
"I am a proud Indian. India is a secular
country. Muslims there are making lot of progress. Our President is a Muslim,
Prime Minister a Sikh,'' Feroze told the anchor when sought for a TV byte.
Feroze Khan's entry into Pak banned. Is Amir said any word on this issue?
What did Mahesh Bhatt, Rajiv Shukla and Ambika Soni say on this issue?
Why do we blame to above small guns? Listen!
Bofors guns: Former Foreign Minister Natwar Singh showed sorrow ness in China
for Pokhran. Sonia Gandhi labeled NDA Govt. as Hindu fundamentalist at London
in the function organized by an Anti-India Muslim Organization.
Politics of Intolerance
'Fanaa' ban shows BJP's intolerance: CPI-M.
During an interview to Star TV last August, Kashyap agreed with Trinamool
Congress leader Mamata Bannerji that Speaker Somnath Chaterjee had been partisan
in disallowing her notice of adjournment motion. "If the House has decided
to censure me, I think this is the small price I have to pay for speaking
the truth. I will continue speaking the truth. Whatever I have heard is from
the media, there has been no communication to me from Parliament about the
action against me," Kahyap said. Shri Kashyap is one of the tallest constitutional
experts today. The way he was treated by UPA Govt. under pressure from CPM
is a new low in Indian democracy.
"Fanaa', destroyed in Gujarat's politics
of intolerance" this type of heading is also not good in journalism.
When in my young age in the absence of mine my sub editor gave heading in
my weekly:"Rajatalab ( a ward) banam daloli (Redline area)" then
we had faced protest of all citizens of the said ward. Secondly they knowingly
overlooked the intolerance of Somnath Chatterjee, CPM and UPA.
Freedom of expression for Amir and MF Hussain
The Prime Minister in a virtual defense of
the actor Amir said every citizen has the freedom of expression in the country.
"Every citizen has the freedom of expression as long as he does not indulge
in unconstitutional activities," Is rotest of Medha Patkar, Arundhati
roy and Amir against the verdict of supreme Court constitutional? If yes then
why Congress minister of Maharstra went to one month prison? Arundhati roy
had also toured the prison for this.
Is Amir against Hussian's nude exhibition?
Padmashri in 1955, the Padma Bhushan in 1973,
Padma Vibhushan in 1989, and nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1986, 91-year-old
artist MF Hussain has tendered an apology for the nude painting of Bharatmata.
He made nude paintings of Hindu Goddesses. Now Hussian's nude exhibition will
be showed in London. Is this artist's freedom of expression? Is Bharatmata
is not mother of all Indians? Has Amir any word to say against Hussain? PM
and Home Minister have so many words to say against the cartoons of Prophet
Mohammad.
The Da Vinci Code and Fanna
Why was there a protest on The Da Vinci Code?
Congress spokesman Rajeev Shukla expressed
himself against banning or preventing screening of any movie. Multiplex owners
in the Gujarat state said they have decided "on their own" not to
release Fanaa - also being sold as Kajol's comeback film, in which she plays
a blind girl and he a tour guide-terrorist.
Film Star blamed BJP for the Vadodara voilance:
Fact remains that Aamir by criticizing the
Gujarat government for the Vadodara violence earlier this month, has not only
offended the ruling party but he showed himself as a fundamentalist against
the development and secular tradition of Bollywood. After the Vadodara violence
on the demolition process of an Idgah, Cinemas in Gujarat plan to boycott
a new film starring Aamir Khan after he criticized the regional government
over recent communal violence. After that there is a demolition of more than
100 shrines in Mumbai without hurdle. If this is for development than why
was stone throwing in Vadodara? Should this be the job of secularist?
Masiah of Poor farmers!
Aamir Khan said on Thursday that he will not
apologise for "speaking for poor farmers" What he did up till now
for the benefit of poor farmers?
Amir not said against the Congress a single
word
Youth Congress activists were part of the
mob that had stalled the screening of "Rang De Basanti" a month
ago. Yuva Morcha of BJP came after that. Now Fanna is being protested by Congress
not slow voice than BJP. Congress and BJP in Gujrat are in the same boat on
this matter.
Whole Gujrat is against Amir
Most are silent over the fact that the film
star only spoke about rehabilitating people displaced by the project and did
not comment on the height of the dam - an issue that lies at the heart of
the controversy.
Multiplex owners in the state said they have
decided "on their own" not to release Fanaa - also being sold as
Kajol's comeback film, in which she plays a blind girl and he a tour guide-terrorist.
"How can we exhibit Aamir Khan's film when he spoke against the state
without knowing anything? His statement was a hindrance in the progress of
our state. It was like denying the benefit of the Narmada waters to the state,"
argued Manubhai Patel, president of the Multiplexes' Association in Gujarat.
"We have taken the decision due to Aamir
Khan's stand on the Narmada issue, which is not in the interest of the state.
We demand that he should apologies to the people of Gujarat for his anti-state
stand," Cinematrograph Exhibitory Association (CEA), President Harish
Patel said.
Apparently, Yash Chopra had a one-on-one meeting
with CM Narendra Modi for some 10 minutes at his office. Sources told TOI
that Modi gave assurances about the film's release in the state and also offered
to provide security.
