I haven't commented since a long, its the baby and the job( no actually I am hooked on Twitter more than FB) but as the development in Delhi has actually made me do so. Plenty of times I have heard about intolerance and with passing of Citizenship Amendment Act and so much furore over it, I realize that the media ( social or mainstream) plays havoc on to the logical thinking of normal people. We develop bias and logical thinking clouds our basic understanding. For e.g a known writer by the name of Aatish Taseer cried victimhood when his OCI status was taken. The media went berserk and I too was appalled at the idea of revocation of his OCI status just because he criticized govt of the day. Too bad, I said to myself and juggling between my little bundle of Joy demands and my office work I managed to read a bit and think aloud. Mr. Taser never gave info about his dad and as per law any person whose any of the parent is a Pakistani will not get OCI status.Fair enough, that is the law of the land since the writer's father was a Pakistani politician( unfortunately killed by extremists of Pakistan) he should not be given OCI in first place. But then the media and so did Mr. Taseer told that his mother single handedly brought him up and that the govt is misogynist in having considered his Pakistani father for OCI and that is relation with his dad hardly existed even while he was alive. What crossed my mind was how very blatantly he has lived using his father surname despite the fact his mother brought him up single handedly. I just wish someday at least he considers adding a pen name which he takes from his mother, till then I consider him as hypocrite of highest order. If you liked India as you claim you could have applied for naturalization as Indian citizen. Alas Hypocrisy brings the worst in us. In a similar way I see the protests against citizenship amendment Act. Till a few days ago there were lectures how minorities are persecuted in India, now Indian Govt brought a bill to bring persecuted minorities of neighborhood in India , now they are protests again which have led to destruction of public property at large scale. I mean i dont disagree in someone's right to oppose an Act but to use force and violence make a point, it makes me less committed to stand up against police brutality. To fight something you believe is unconstitutional if you end up doing something which is unconstitutional I would call that Hypocrisy. There are other more important issues which students of these universities should cater to. Sadly the Govt believes in sending police rather than good educationists to the university. Crack them not with lathis but research work and students should give us life changing research work rather than acting stupid and demolishing own institutions and setting a bad precedence.
With this I reach my office, not on time. And my boss won't be tolerant enough to allow me to put attendance. 😥
