Author: Mukul Dube
Publisher: Three Essays
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 134
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8188789100
Description
The articles in this book have their roots in recent events. Their theme is the carnage in Gujarat in 2002 and the physical and intellectual savagery of the Sangh Parivar.
They look at how the Sangh Parivar systematically distorts history, works against the Constitution of the Republic of India and throws into the waste bin all those ideas of civilization that have arisen after mediaeval times and on which all modern societies are based.
The author has drawn on published reports to show how the leaders of the Sangh Parivar routinely use hedging, deception and outright lies to pursue their vicious ends.
COMMENT
After going through Mukul Dube's thoughtful work, one wonders why it does not sink into the minds of the aggressive separatists and destroyers of the unity of this great country that there is not the faintest possibility of the conversion of Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and Buddhists into second-grade citizens, that the general run of the Hindu community will not tolerate it, that the extremist groups in the so-called Parivar will never realise their horrid objectives and that a united, liberated, democratic and secular India will remain the hope the reality of the future.
- A M Khusro, in the Foreword
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
The Vedic Taliban
A Word for Every Occasion
Also a Muslim
Maun Mustanda
Daft Dream
Farmers of Hatred
Scheming to Save Tax
Lies and Silence
Responsibility and Revenge
My Survival
Black, White, No Grey
Compassion and Justice
Sarva Dharma-If Only
A Well Knit Parivar?
Never a Straight Answer
Gujarat nu Gaurav
Replicating the Experiment
A Janus with Three Faces
Rights and Duties
Tolerant and Secular?
Burning question
Justice and Democracy
Pissed Off with Cows
Pandit Miyan and Miyan Pandit
Because Words Can Kill
Friendship and Arithmetic
The Good Life
A Fine, Upstanding Symbol
On the Assembly Elections of 2003
Appendix
Letters to Editors