Perplexingly, India has given the Hindi and Marathi transcripts of the 26/11 accused Ajmal Kasab‘s confession to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) without an authenticated English sumary.
Jawed Naqvi offers stiff competition to Navjot Singh Sidhu* through this minor gem in the Dawn:
“Marathi is a rich language, richer in many ways than Hindi. Pula Deshpande, Vijay Tendulkar, Kusumagraj, Prahlad Keshav Atre, Saney Guruji, Shanta Shelke are some of the towering icons of Marathi literature.
“If Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has read any of these writers, it must be in Urdu or English, the two languages we know he knows. It is highly unlikely that home minister P. Chidambaram, whose mother tongue is Tamil, would be able to read the Marathi or even the Hindi version of any of the fabled writers. His English is good though….
“India’s new foreign minister S.M. Krishna has raised hopes for a new informed initiative with India’s neighbours. If he is from the Marathi-speaking musically gifted Dharwar region of Karnataka, as I suspect he is, he could begin by helping translate for the Pakistanis the badly needed piece of evidence they need to nail the culprits of Mumbai.”
Read the full article: A Rosetta stone for peace
Link courtesy Nikhil Moro
It is like this ” If my aunt had a MEESE she would be my uncle”.
S.M. Krishna is from Maddur (between Bengaluru & Mysooru). Goodness knows if he has gained any Marati knowledge during his tenure as governor of Maharashtra.
The main crux of the article is that the Kasab case is in Marathi and pakis can’t understand it. The author has applied some poetic license to drag our Krishna to do some translation. I am atleast happy that Pakis know something about the rich marathi literary tradition. I hope they should come a bit more south and try to understand the rich Kannada literary tradition of Kuvempu, Masti, Karanth, Adiga, URA….
Sounds like something right out of “Majavani.”
Guess “The Dawn” writes all its content originally without the “help” of Wikipedia. :o)
I have been a regular reader of Dawn for years (online version). Jawed Naqwi is ….a joker.
ok, since when is Dharwad a marathi-speaking region? SMK is not from Dharwad. You are right, Jawed Naqvi offers stiff competition to Navjot Singh Sidhu and also to some “delighful” columnists on Churumuri.
Javed Naqwi’s argument is totally fallacious. What if the Manmohan Singh or Chidambaram cannot read Marathi? Nobody is asking for Pakistan’s president or PM or another particular person in Pakistan to read it either – just somebody has to be able to read it. And if Pakistani govt does not have people who can even read South Asian languages, then they are in deep trouble!
Mysore Peshva Saab drew my attention to this ‘gem’ by Jawed Naqvi earlier. Jawed (I am reading his name in English for effct) seems to have worked really hard in crafting this opinion column! What a retard and a stupid moron! Jawed has been jawing about how bad India is toward the ‘minorities’. But the problem is with a ‘minority’ brain you can only get to be a columnist for Dawn!
BTW I think India has been smart enough to send the transcript in a regional language. That way Pakis have been forced to acknowledge the transcript and ask for an English version. Also, India is showing the outside World we do legal business in regional languages.
I am sure there are quite a few Marathi speakers over in Pak. Why Dawood himself will translate this into English.
What do you want to say after all?! There is no head or tail. And, please. enough of Kasab. TOI is already running a daily news bulletin on Kasab. Now you also don’t start. It is disgusting and sickening.
I wrote an email to Naqvi pointing out his mistakes. I don’t know if it makes much of a difference.
I am surprised Jawed Naqvi has kept his position with DAWN which really publishes some outstanding pieces otherwise (with some exceptions, of course, like JN).
The reality is that Jawed Naqvi is not alone. He has company, lots of company, among the Muslims of India. The only difference is that he has made a name as a journalist and using that fame , writes anti-India and anti-Hindu articles for a Pakistani daily.
Why, some of my own Muslim friends(though I am not sure now whether it is wise to continue keeping them as friends) have told me that it is the RSS or VHP outfit that has actually carried out the Mumbai attacks. To top it all, they have also claimed that Zionist Jews also had a hand in the Mumbai attacks!!