On January 19 this year, an organisation styling itself the Peoples’ Front organised a rally in Bangalore to protest execution of Saddam Hussein, 20 days after the Iraqi President had been hanged. Around the same time, the Shobha Yatra was being taken out by the Viraata Hindu Samajotsava. The processions clashed; clashes followed.
N.A.M. ISMAIL and ABHAYA SIMHA try to capture the horrifying irony of an orphan who passed through and perished from this planet without a single photograph of his being shot for the sake of posterity. And when he was shot, it was with a bullet, and it was a picture they couldn’t run.
Innocent die while the wily play the game. How many seats did BJP have in the parliament before Babri demolition?
Some parties are always talking about Ramrajya and trying to prove Ramayana and Mahabharata are not myths but real history. If you take a mystical view, which is not difficult for people from India, both Ramayana and Mahabaratha make sense as allegorical stories about the victory of good over bad,bright side over dark side within oneself without being real history. It is silly to see archeologists and historians digging up places like dwaraka to prove the epics as history.
Do the hindus and muslims have much animosity towards eachother, I think not, the political parties play one against other for their own benefit.
Abhay: watched the whole movie. Found to be produced in a hurry and and without research. The film doesn’t talk about the root cause for the disease called “Communal clash” nor the exact reason for the unfortunate death of Fazil. The clipping you have used to manifest the shoot from a gun (which any human being including me and you, really hate to see) is not of the gun. It is a policeman targetting the unruly crowd (might be anybody, Hindu or a Muslim) by a “Tear gas shell” being shot.
I understand by the film (the words of Fazil’s brother in law) that the boy was a part of the Hindu crowd. Do you mean that the police have shot the Hindu crowd?