By asking Mrs. Taslima Nasrin to apologise the Muslims with folded hands for something she had written long back, it seems as if you are equating the entire Muslim Community with the fanatics. It is the fanatics who have attacked Ms. Nasrin and not the Muslim community as a whole . The disapproval of a large number of Muslims to the dastardly attack on Ms. Nasrin at Hyderabad and Kolkata bears testimony to this. Do you then want Ms. Nasrin to apologise to the fanatics with folded hands Mr. Dasmunshi ? In case she accepts your advice and does the same, can you assure on behalf of the fanatics that there will be no damage caused to her by them in the future ?
Mr Dasmunshi, while commenting about distinguished personalities like Mrs. Nasrin, please do not forget that it is your Government which had accorded her the status of a Guest. Did not you know what she had written in her Book at the time of accepting her as a distinguished guest, particularly when there was a lot of hue and cry over the Book including ban and subsequent lift of the ban ?
Mr Dasmunshi, The entire world saw how Ms. Nasrin was attacked at Hyderabad by the Law Makers of a State which is governed by your party. Have you got the guts to ask them why they took Law into their hands by attacking a distinguished lady, that to the guest of the country ? Do you want Ms. Nasrin to bow down before the people who plotted to endanger her life and liberty ?
Something which hurt the sentiments of the Muslims immeasurably was demolition of Babri Masjid which took place while your party was in power at the centre. Senior activists of your party are still being prosecuted for the worst ever carnage took place in Delhi, in which God only knows how many Sikhs lost their lives ,again while your party was in power. In spite of all these, do not you feel ashamed to take side with the Law breakers and hooligans instead of firmly asserting secularism and Rule of Law ? Can you also ask that great Artist to apologise who has hurt the feelings of a large number of Indians many a times through sad portrayal of their Goddesses in his paintings ?
Mr Dasmunshi, you are no ordinary man. You are an Hon’ble Minister of the Government of the Largest Secular Democratic Republic of the World. You are also the representative of the people of the land of Tagore whose “Where the mind is without fear, and the head is held high,…where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls… Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action – Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake” still resounds through the length and breadth of India. Have you to be reminded of the glorious tradition of India of honouring and protecting women and guests for which eminent women of the world like Sister Nivedita, Shri Maa & Mother Teresa preferred to settle down in India ?
Mr Dashmunshi, unity in diversity is the hallmark of Indian culture. We may differ in many issues, but we do not have any right to impose our thought violently on others as it happened in case of Ms. Taslima Nasrin. It is hightime when you should say sorry to Ms. Nasrin on behalf of the people of India for the inhuman and barbaraic treatment caused to her in the land of Buddha, Gandhi and Kotnis. Ms. Nasrin is a Citizen of the world. A lot of countries must be eager enough to have her in their Land. Should our great country lag behind others in providing a little nest to this tiny bird of humanity, who is tired of flying from country to country ?
Mr Dasmunshi, while commenting about distinguished personalities like Mrs. Nasrin, please do not forget that it is your Government which had accorded her the status of a Guest. Did not you know what she had written in her Book at the time of accepting her as a distinguished guest, particularly when there was a lot of hue and cry over the Book including ban and subsequent lift of the ban ?
Mr Dasmunshi, The entire world saw how Ms. Nasrin was attacked at Hyderabad by the Law Makers of a State which is governed by your party. Have you got the guts to ask them why they took Law into their hands by attacking a distinguished lady, that to the guest of the country ? Do you want Ms. Nasrin to bow down before the people who plotted to endanger her life and liberty ?
Something which hurt the sentiments of the Muslims immeasurably was demolition of Babri Masjid which took place while your party was in power at the centre. Senior activists of your party are still being prosecuted for the worst ever carnage took place in Delhi, in which God only knows how many Sikhs lost their lives ,again while your party was in power. In spite of all these, do not you feel ashamed to take side with the Law breakers and hooligans instead of firmly asserting secularism and Rule of Law ? Can you also ask that great Artist to apologise who has hurt the feelings of a large number of Indians many a times through sad portrayal of their Goddesses in his paintings ?
Mr Dasmunshi, you are no ordinary man. You are an Hon’ble Minister of the Government of the Largest Secular Democratic Republic of the World. You are also the representative of the people of the land of Tagore whose “Where the mind is without fear, and the head is held high,…where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls… Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action – Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake” still resounds through the length and breadth of India. Have you to be reminded of the glorious tradition of India of honouring and protecting women and guests for which eminent women of the world like Sister Nivedita, Shri Maa & Mother Teresa preferred to settle down in India ?
Mr Dashmunshi, unity in diversity is the hallmark of Indian culture. We may differ in many issues, but we do not have any right to impose our thought violently on others as it happened in case of Ms. Taslima Nasrin. It is hightime when you should say sorry to Ms. Nasrin on behalf of the people of India for the inhuman and barbaraic treatment caused to her in the land of Buddha, Gandhi and Kotnis. Ms. Nasrin is a Citizen of the world. A lot of countries must be eager enough to have her in their Land. Should our great country lag behind others in providing a little nest to this tiny bird of humanity, who is tired of flying from country to country ?
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