In a highly communally-charged article, the Hindu reports on a supposed “housing apartheid” that seems to exist in Delhi. Although the piece is focussed on Delhi, one can’t help feeling that the content of the piece can be extrapolated to other Indian cities and reach the same conclusions.
First, the casual usage of the word “apartheid” merits closer examination. Apartheid was once an exclusively South African state policy of political, economic and legal discrimination against non-white South Africans. Since then, the usage of the term has expanded to mean a generic discrimination against specific peoples in a country. Which is why it’s curious why the Hindu used that term so casually—the last time we heard, the Indian Constitution or state doesn’t practice apartheid against any caste, creed, community, tribe or language in any form. If anything, even if the abuse of any person is perceived to be casteist or “communal,” it’s automatically treated as a non-bailable offence.
However, what has irked the Hindu enough to blindly use that loaded term is the fact that most (non-Muslim) property agents and owners in Delhi are loath to rent out their houses to Muslims.
an investigation by The Hindu has found, almost impossible for citizens who happen to be Muslim…a property agent representing a homeowner in New Friends Colony flatly told The Hindu‘s reporters, “The landlords want only Indians, not Muslims.”…Deepak Sharma of Balaji Properties in Rohini Sector-8,…“avoid renting their flats to Muslims here…Property dealers seemed to operate an informal network of religious segregation, often pointing The Hindu‘s reporters to supposedly Muslim-appropriate neighbourhoods.
And on and on, the piece continues in this vein, piling anecdote upon anecdote. Sowmiya Ashok and Mohammad Ali, the author-duo of this communal piece don’t seem to realize a commonsense fact that’s self-evident to most people: property owners are fully within their rights as Indian citizens to rent out their property to anybody or refuse to do so. If they don’t want to rent out their house to a Muslim, they’re well within their rights to do so. Nobody including the Prime Minister can force them against their will in the matter. We wonder how this constitutes a “housing apartheid (sic).” It’s not that Sowmiya & co isn’t aware of this commonsense fact. The fact that the piece contains the following nugget is very revealing:
Senior lawyer Ashok Agarwal said a solution to the problem does not lie in the legal sphere. “First of all, practically it is very difficult to prove the existence of this malaise,” he said, adding, “the government cannot regulate private housing.”
This statement is not only revealing but has sinister motives as we shall see.
The Hindu “investigative” piece is simply a series of anecdotes, which are collated to build a communal narrative that tries to pass off as some kind of objective truth of a contemporary social phenomenon in urban India. Since the piece seems to be fond of using anecdotes to prove a point, here’s one from my side. A personal anecdote. A real event that unfolded before my own eyes from childhood till early adulthood.
I was born in a huge ancestral house in a small town near Bangalore where I was raised for three years and visited it several times each year till 1993-94. My locality comprised some 6-7 blocks, a sizeable area inhabited almost completely by Hindus—only a few tiny Muslim houses existed on the fringes of this locality. Almost all houses on my road, which stretched for about half a kilometre, were spacious by any standard (if I recall correctly, the “smallest” house was built on a land measuring about 4000 Sq ft).
One of these Muslim houses was owned by a fellow who was running a lorry transport business with exactly one lorry at his disposal. Nobody knows when or how he made it big but what we knew was the fact that he purchased the huge house of a family friend in our locality—5-6 blocks from where we lived. Our family friend simply couldn’t resist the enormous sum he offered.
Things began to change slowly but steadily.
During my summer vacation after that land deal, I noticed how completely the house had changed. The compound wall, which was made of stone and was scalable even by kids, was now tall and imposing and painted green. An enormous dome visible even from a long distance jutted out from the middle of the compound inside, dwarfing the tall compound wall. Stuff was engraved in Urdu all over the green wall.
That change was stark and shocking and is still embedded in my memory because that was the house I used to walk into with childish impunity and have all my tantrums catered to by the erstwhile inmates. Other changes began to occur, although not with such utterness. Over the years, that man began to buy out smaller Hindu houses using the same tactic of monetary lure. He then rented them out to his friends, relatives, and employees.
And then in the course of about 7-8 years, two new mosques made their appearance in my locality. Then, a government doctor who lived opposite my house was transferred to Bangalore. He let out his house to a relative of that transport guy. Elsewhere in the locality, there was a sudden increase in the population of pigs. Eventually, these beasts multiplied phenomenally and spilled over to our street and claimed it. Waste and filth flooded the already-overflowing public garbage pits. Municipal lorries were prohibited from picking them up. Complaints to authorities fell on deaf ears.
When the government doctor returned to inspect his house after 2 years, he was appalled to note how comprehensively the tenants had altered it. He simply named a price, sold it to the tenants, and left town forever. A couple of years later, the palatial home at the end of my road—our ancestral home stood at the other end—was bought out by some rich Muslim grain merchant. Other developments had occurred in parallel. I was in college then. One October, I woke up to the fact that the community Ganesha festival had been discontinued that year for good. Apparently, the “troubles” had began to gradually escalate over the past 3-4 years. Muslim neighbours would complain to the cops about the loud devotional songs. The cops would rush in and shut the festivities down not after bitter altercations with the festival organizers. The pandals that housed the Ganesha idol would be mysteriously slashed overnight. Fruits and vegetables set as offering for the God would disappear.
And then finally, it hit home. During different festivals that we used to celebrate throughout the year, our family priests who came home to conduct puja would be “accidentally” touched by Muslim youth roaming on the street—which itself had by now, become a common occurrence. When this “accident” increased in frequency, the priests stopped coming home. Then, grandmother gradually got used to being greeted by generous amounts of pig excreta, which awaited her every morning when she woke up to clean the compound. The pig excreta seemed to materialize overnight, every night. The compound stayed clean throughout the day till bedtime. Equally, my uncles and aunts and all our tenant-families who lived in the compound got used to listening to loud and vulgar obscenities exchanged between Muslim youths who thronged outside our gate indulging in friendly banter. Nobody could ask them to leave.
By then, the entire locality had become completely Islamic.
And so, ultimately, we sold the house standing on a land of 10,000 Sq Ft in 1993-94 for a kingly ransom of 40,000 rupees.
I narrated this personal history in a series of tweets, which the good Barbarindian has preserved. What I didn’t expect was the deluge or the immediacy of responses on Twitter from people who had undergone worse, and in some cases, brutal experiences. These are people hailing from the proverbial length and breadth of India. My Twitter timeline was jammed with such real-life stories. Here are a few such real-life stories.
Therefore, I highly recommend the Hindu to send a similar—or same—team of investigative journalists to this all-Muslim locality—or similar localities anywhere in India—posing as prospective property-buyers who are Hindus. Their findings will be illuminative, illustrative studies in “housing apartheid.”
The Hindu’s biased reportage disguised as an investigation follows a familiar vein. In 2009, there was a similar story published by the Telegraph, which went largely unnoticed. On the other hand, the story in 2008 where Shabana Azmi sneered at the Indian state because she couldn’t buy a house in Mumbai because she was a Muslim was widely circulated for obviously secular reasons. Which is why the Hindu won’t ever do a story on the plight of Hindus who were forced to sell their property at dirt cheap prices in Muslim-majority localities. Few things can match the pull of the minority victimhood card.
The whole narrative is notable for the absence of a singular strand: the real reason Hindus refuse rented housing for Muslims in Hindu-majority areas/colonies. And this strand is absent precisely because of that reason. The Islamic demographic siege, which occurs over time and in small increments is just one factor. The other factor is the perception of Muslims everywhere in the world of late. No amount of editorial apologies and noble analyses can change the public perception of Muslims, which is—to put it mildly—anything but friendly. Definitely not when instances like this repeatedly occur across the nation.
The Mysore police claimed to have nabbed two terrorists of Pakistani origin from the Al Badr group…The police identified the arrested men as Fahad alias Mohammed Koya from Karachi and Mohammed Ali Hussain alias Jahangir…The landlady of the Rajeev Nagar house…where the two alleged militants stayed since August 16…Kanthamma Ravikumar said: “The person called Mohammed Koya rented our house and signed the rent agreement….Only on Friday morning when they were brought here that we realized they could have been terrorists.’’
The silence of the Muslim community over such incidents also doesn’t help matters. And despite all this, the fact that the Hindu’s “investigation” blames the Hindu community for practising “housing apartheid” shows the ugly nature of its bias. If anything, Hindus are scared to rent out their property to Muslims. No amount of editorializing or squeamishness or political correctness can alter this current reality. Equally, trying to pretend that this reality doesn’t exist will only escalate the issue.
Not that one should be surprised at the Hindu’s motivated reportage. For a paper that justified the mass-murder of Hindus in the Sabarmati Express by claiming that the Hindus had invited their own death, finding “housing apartheid” against Muslims is a cakewalk. In other words, the Hindu story is simply the latest bout of playing up minority victimhood for the umpteenth time. Now recall the authors’ note quoting the lawyer. That points to a sinister design in the long-term: pushing for government intervention in the issue of private housing. And why not? The pliable UPA dispensation, which has already pushed through several legislations—brainchildren of the fiendish NAC—aimed at choking our freedoms step by step, has regularly demonstrated that it’s willing to push similar freedom-limiting legislations provided they’re adorned with noble-sounding ornaments.
So informative… I had absolutely no idea that Muslims were conspiring to slowly take India, one colony at a time. You are a true blue whistle-blower for us, poor, disenfranchised Hindu’s are suffering quietly and patiently, while the evil Muslims set their pigs on us (like they did in your ancestral home). Keep fighting the good fight!
There is a relevant article by Swapan Dasgupta here: http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/sep/13swadas.htm To quote from that [q] In the border-belt districts of Uttar and Dakshin Dinajpur, Malda, Birbhum and Murshidabad in West Bengal [ Images ], the Muslim population grew from 39.89 percent in 1951 to 52.50 percent in 2001. In 1951, only Murshidabad was a Muslim-majority district. Today, Malda has joined the list and by 2011, Uttar Dinajpur too may become Muslim majority. Indeed, the percentage of Muslims in West Bengal has grown steadily from 19.46 percent in 1951 to 25.20 percent in 2001. Between 1991 and 2001, the Hindu population of West Bengal grew by 14.18 percent; the Muslim growth was 25.91 percent.
It is the same story in Assam. In the 11 districts that comprise the former composite border districts of Goalpara, Kamrup, Darrang and Nagaon, the Muslim population has grown from 32.42 percent in 1951 to 40.37 percent in 2001. In Assam as a whole, the Muslim population rose from 24.68 percent in 1951 to 30.90 percent in 2001. There are now six districts in Assam that are Muslim majority. In 1951, there were none!
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Brigitte Gabriel a Lebanese American recounts the horror of how Lebanon a once prosperous Christian majority country was reduced to a poor Muslim one due to higher Muslim population growth, cleansing and purging local populace and immigration. Muslim growth rate in many cases have been seven times that of other communities.
There is a fine article by Swapan Dasgupta here: http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/sep/13swadas.htm
A census report on religion shows that the Muslim population in the country grew at the rate of 36% between 1991 and 2001.
The Hindu rate of growth was 20.3% in the same period. During 1981-91 the figure was 25.1%.
The Muslim growth rate in the previous decade was 34.5%, according to ‘The First Report on Religion’.
Census Commissioner J K Banthia released the report, prepared by the office of the registrar general and census commissioner, in New Delhi [ Images ] on Monday.
He presented a copy to Tarlochan Singh, chairman, Minorities Commission.
At 82.7 crore, Hindus constitute 80.5% of India’s [ Images ] population of 102.8 crore.
There are 13.8 crore Muslims, comprising 13.4% of the population, the report said.
“Low literacy rate and low participation in work among the Muslim females were some of the reasons for the high growth,” Banthia said after releasing the report.
He said among Buddhists also there had been a “sizeable decline” in the growth rate from 35.3% during 1981-91 to only 24.5% during 1991-2001.
Though there was a slight increase in the growth rate of Christians — 21.5% to 22.6%, there was “noticeable decline” of Sikh growth rate — 24.3% to 18.2%.
PTI Report 2012
Why don’t pseudoseculars go and live with Muslims?Nobody stop them.Also they will find out what look like living among Muslims and can narret their experience in THE HINDU.
Why in real life we so are scarce of human material like Vijay (aka big B), who can fight evil by any and all means? Is it a result of some collective Karma of ours that we continue to suffer in our own homeland at the hands of treacherous and evil?
No, it is not about any fantasy yearning for Vijays. It is simply ruing the scarcity of such dharma-adhering Bharatvasis who cannot imagine living without fighting adharma then and there, whenever or wherever it shows up. That was the Hindu ideal, the way of life once. Or so our sages and poets wrote.
In any case, it is not asking too much from us. Living with dignity is the first principle to live by and die for. And that cannot be left in any society to the law custodians entirely. Active and meaningful protest should instantaneously arise as and when a wrong/ treachery/ attack comes up against an individual or collective. Period.
If a community shirks from it on any excuse, it is doomed. No law or constitution or Parliament or UN can save it. Kashmiri Hindus are a living testimony to this hard fact.
So, where are Viajays… or when they will start taking birth in this country?
Good example of demographic assault is what is happening in Assam now. The ‘blind secularists’ who have no moral compass will ignore the situation. But all is not lost if the Hindus, bodos, other tribal’s realize that these feckless elite are corrupt, evil and that they are on their own and become vigilant and vote these Congress scum out before it is too late.
Ok.. So what was the whole point? That its not only the Muslims who are victimized and that Hindus also face similar problems. Is that what you are trying to prove? Really?
The so-called “apartheid” does exist whoever the victim may be. The sad part is rather than trying to uproot this “practice” are we debating to find who the actual victim is!
If the “Hindu” piece was a communal narrative, your article too can be categorized in a similar fashion.
so called secularists should rent their houses then write the articles
Instead of whining about apartheid, why don’t followers of the Koran (or the Bible, for that matter) ask themselves why kaffirs do not want them as tenants.
@Anonymous: You are probably young or new to Indian politics, but the main theme of Koenraad Elst’s book has been part of mainstream Indian politics for several decades. In fact, in the period stretching 3-4 years right before this book’s publication, Bal Thackeray was making a lot of noise on the issue of religious demographics. VHP too had been highlighting the issue for many years. Personally, I think Indians should have more self-respect and not embrace an issue only when some Westerner articulates the same thing Hindus have been saying for several decades.
Before this thread goes stale, let us start a campaign to boycott The Hindu all across India. It is the middle class elite who buy this English rag.
According to Wiki:
The Hindu is the third most widely read English newspaper in India (after the Times of India and Hindustan Times) with a readership of 2.0 million people. It has its largest base of circulation in Southern India, especially in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. It is the most widely read English daily in Kerala. Headquartered at Chennai (formerly called Madras)….
It is up to the English literate middle class in Kerala and Tamilnadu to boycott it.
This has been recently taken over by Joshua Society based in BERNE,Switzerland.
N.RAM -A card-holding member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) who had been to China and occupied-Tibet at least fifteen times in junkets mostly arranged by the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi, N Ram is also the mastermind behind ‘India-China Association of Journalists’, an embassy-sponsored organisation specialising in arranging pleasure trips for Indian journalists. This new strategy of Beijing has already won the hearts of some of our best journalists.
Ironically it is only when the Tamil Nadu Police entered The Hindu office premises in Chennai, N Ram who calls the killing of a million Tibetans by China’s occupying forces ‘a myth’, got enlightened about freedom.
Can there be any bigger deception?They are doing anti-Hindu activities under the name “THE HINDU” READ MORE-http://hinduawaken.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/the-ugly-face-of-anti-hinduanti-national-indian-media-by-satyamitra/
And how about The HIndu doing a report on the distress sales in Kashmir of Hindu properties to Muslims, and of the State Govt proposal to construct ghettoes for Kashmiri Hindus for the “safety” of the latter?
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?281642
essay: Muslims in india
The Sense Of A Community
A team of French and Indian scholars go past the stereotype of the ‘ghettoised’ Muslim and visit 10 Indian cities to document the various patterns in which Muslims gather together in a particular locality
Christophe Jaffrelot,,,, This writer misses the point about comparing the treatment of Muslims in France with that in India, The writer is a Frenchman. Just google Muslims in France , you will get true write up about the treatment. NRam is the true Brown Sahib
http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/books/demogislam/index.html
here is the book by KElst
During my recent trip to the temple belt of Trichy and surrounding areas, could see this in the most sacred of places. Veiled woman (head to toe), farm lands marked by gated communities by Muslim and Christian builders, mosques and Churches close to temples. This is happening because the Hindu society has abdicated its responsibility to this country when it abandoned its original way of life (customs, professions) and took up Western education and moved into cities and beyond. Now its stuck between protecting its way of life and earning a living in a market based competitive economy. Unless Hindu society abandons this Western way of life and return to its roots ( customs, occupations) and a village based Dharmic lifestyle this is only going to get worse.
Superb!
in the book demographic seixe by keonard elst it is showed how hindus will become minority within 400 years… i am from raichur and there is place called hanumagiri but now its name is ‘paanch biwiyo ka paahaad’ … samsudhhin – congress man has openly called for natalism .. in hubli there is pandit from madhva sect whose daughter was eloped by some muslim guy… later once she told how she was made to eat beef infront of mullas to proove her conversion…
i strongly recomend the book keonard elsts’ ‘DEMOGRAPHIC SEIZE’ , i had written review about that book ..i am reproducing same here
KEONRAAD ELST amazingly puts forth the demographic seize by muslims… with complete statistics as how they are increasing by 1-2 % every decade (true mus bukhari says it is increased by 3%) and some satates like west bengal due to infiltration has muslim population to 36%..
ethinic cleansing in kashmir , how pakistan is not accepting refugeess of bangla and how they are pushed into india, so the census is just a tip of ice berg…how 35 lakhs of muslims refugees have disappeared into indian territory …
How in bangladesh hindu population has decreased from 33% pre partition to less than 11% in 1991..now it might have become less ..
He also gives account of increasing muslim population in sri lanka and nepal…
He even tells why are they breeding like this ?
why are they breeding like this ? because it is said by prophet ;when his men had captured some women in a war and asked him whether they have to use contraceptives as earlier said by prophet when they had captured madina women so that when women are returned in same condition they get extra ransom ( at that time prohet advised them to have children from them for he wants them to multipy and out number others …so oked rape and marrying of infidel women as souls are born till the day of resurrection…for all these he gives proof …
some samsuddhin in his book “muslims in alien country ” published noor publishers advises natalism openly …
he even slams mani shankar iyer for twisting facts and false allegations which are disproved when closly analyzed …
one chapter is missing in the book which is published in voi.org. which talks about how muslims youth are marrying infidel women and converting and not allowing their woman to marry other caste men..which is published in many london news papers
Juxtapose the story in The Telegraph with Taslima Nasreen. Hero of TT got a lesson about ‘practical’ secularism from educated, cultured and rich Bengalees of Salt Lake. Taslima got lesson about ‘political’ secularism, getting kicked out of West Bengal by left-front government.
Thanks for your web page. I am now looking forward to read your blogs from now on.
I always went to Hindu to see what the truth was. But recently found censorship and twisting of news items. Have stopped reading Hindu, IE, HT, ToI, and watching IBN, Times Now and of course NDTV. We can hurt them only by boycotting, but these sickularist will go and beg some Sheik or Sultan. Probably, we have to start looking at many ways to appreciate the good of Hindu society.
In http://www.mediacrooks.com Ravi has quoted Karl Popper regarding limit of tolerance in most recent blog. I ask the readers to read that. Vande Matram.
Dear Sandeep
Was just checking the Times of India website regarding passing away of Shri Dara Singh ji. Was a bit emotional of a hero passing away. The only reason I bought Milkfood Desi Ghee instead of Vita was that Milkfood was by backed by our beloved “Hanuman ji”
I was about to close the window and saw a secular advertisement by Google Ads “Do you know Islam” Join us in private live chat.
How secular of TOI to publish such banner. I have taken a print screen of the shot- dont know how to send it to you. The link of that page is times.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Dara-Singh-passes-away/articleshow/14838702.cms
The mid-east one book / one god religions wouldnt have flourished in India if Hindus were not here. Our biggest strength is also our biggest weakness. We tolerate too much. Did the newspaper go and ask from those landowners who suffered after renting it out to Muslims. Why Hindus have no problem in lending out to Sikhs – muslims will never answer.
Muslims have acquired such a reputation as a result of their actions only. Secularism should be practiced on even footing. Why cant the progressive (pun intended) enlighten us on why the prices of a Muslim locality are low in a city. Market forces do not run on religious beliefs they run on reputation, business sentiment, past performance among other criteria.
Sandeep – I am relatively new to your blog. Keep on doing the good work. Admire your style of writing and detailing that goes into it.
No wonder Congressis and ilk wants to control internet so that people dont get to know of their uncomfortable truths.
@nilufer
Why don’t you give us a solution then, enlighten us. Miss Al-taqqiya, this is not a place for you, step aside and throw your PS somewhere else.
This article leaves a permanent scar on soul.
Something like the Babri mosque on the Ramjanmbhumi in Ayodhya did on generations of Hindus. So would that “enormous dome visible even from a long distance jutted out from the middle of the compound inside…”
‘The Hindu’ is the most anti-Hindu paper. There should have been a clear and persistent campaign among Hindus to boycott such newspapers and NDTV kind of channels. But that is second.
First is to stop such forced buying and selling as narrated in this piece. It is the real shame that Hindus could be bullied with such ease all over the country. And no organisation so far, apart from Shiv Sena to some extent at a local level, is there even to speak, let alone do something. This collective cowardice, lamented by Tagore, SriAurobindo and many others including Gandhi, though occasionaly, is the chief bane of our country for the last hundred years.
This piece produces more shame than anger. How long will we continue to complian? Complain, complain, complain … to whom? Who is going to come and stop that lone Muslim to buy a house that surreptitously converted it into a Mosque, and making it a centre starts trouble to scare all Hindus away in a matter of few years?
Why dont Hindus dont do anything about it? Actually, there is a simple solution. Hindus should resolve not to buy any product advertised on anti-hindu media like NDTV / The Hindu / IE, etc. If Hindus start practicising this and passing the word around, you will see the results in 6 months. Otherwise, no amount of ranting on blogs like this will help.
‘The Hindu’ is a supremely ideological paper, they even manufacture Letters to the editor. I blame the morons who pay for it to read.
What lesson did you learn from your personal experience? Is the solution to this menace segregated housing or such practice is harmful for society? In your rant you forgot to give a solution to the issue. I am not going explain further because in your gut feeling you know what is the right and progressive answer.
We all know that many of these newspapers are bought out by anti hindus but why havent the Hindus themselves not done the same apart from complaining about ? The biggest problem that Hindus face is not the anti hindus but the hindu themselves who are not ready to solve the problem by action even when being the majority.We can blame everyone else but lets face it the real power really lies with the Hindus who dont seem to be ready to a make change.Who is stopping a mob a 20 thousand Hindus to storm these anti hindu media establishments to put the fear in them ?no one apart from Hindus themelves..
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@Abhinav…the problem with Muslims, as someone rightly said long back, is wherever they are in a minority they TALK about democracy and wherever they are in a majority, they FIGHT for theocracy!
Very enlightning & depressing post Sandeep Bandhu! Thanx for posting it. After going thru your tweets I was about to ask you to kindly write a blogpost wrt those tweets…you did so…kotee-kotee dhanyavaad!
Nice article.
Why not spread the word and boycott the Hindu newspaper? Let the Hindu wither away. According to Wikipedia, the Hindu, now 130+ years old, is printed in 17 different cities across the South.
The Times and other left wing newspapers should also be boycotted to hurt them in the pocket.
So, why didn’t these guys narrating their horrific tales actually check the names of the people to whom they were selling their property? That’s all it takes to find out who they are. Or were they too shy to even ask?
And if they willingly allowed the Religion of Peace folks into their apparently peaceful and prosperous Hindu neighborhoods, then who is to blame really? It’s common wisdom that Muslims – when having the numbers’ advantage – generally exhibit habits and practices which, as per Hindu society’s traditions, are considered unacceptable at best and abominable at worst. While no one is saying that our customs are superior to theirs or vice versa, the fact is they’re VERY DIFFERENT.
We might ‘secularize’ and sugarcoat but the ground reality is that Islamic traditions simply don’t co exist with any other, there’s always a desire to dominate, humiliate and molest the ‘other’. To this day, there is not even ONE example to the contrary.
So, why blame Hindus and Jains in Mumbai or Gujarat or Delhi if they refuse to let in the kind who’ll eventually force them to flee after selling off their real estate at throw away prices? It’s a question of pragmatism + economics. Not one of Hindutva/’communalism’/majority bigotry or whatever it’s being called this week by media whores.
I would like to quote Swami Vivekananda here “The Indian nation cannot be killed. Deathless it stands, and it will stand so long as that spirit shall remain as the background, so long as her people do not give up their spirituality.”
@Informed
You have talent for writing. Send your fake story to some publishers.
Well, i studied in a school where 80% sudents were muslims. Not to say all are paki supporters(i believe they understood to whom they should be loyal either from their adults or from their madarssa teachers). They use to poke fun of Hindu gods, scriputers. Never ashamed of what the likes of osamas are doing in the name of Islam. Hailed Aurangzeb for his efforts to spread islam and defended him by saying that Quran sanctions that.
After seeing so much things in childhood itself, you will find hard to believe in Indian secularism anymore.
Indian society (and the world at large) has been sick for millennia and is getting sicker, courtesy of Kaliyug. All of these degeneracies; Muslims, missionaries, communists, “secularists”, caste abuses etc. constitute a multifacted manifestation of that. Any other civilisation would have long died, but truth, the light of humanity, can never be vanquished, no matter how much mud you pour on it. It seems likely to me that things will unfortunately get (much) worse before they get better, but eventually they *will* get better. And they will get better very forcefully, resulting in the complete removal of the aforementioned degeneracies from our land. It would be nice for that to happen in our lifetime so we can witness and celebrate it.
Our village town is at the banks of holy tamraparni river. When we were kids it was so green, neat and full of spiritual ambiance as everyone was living in the shadow of the temple. Streets immediately surrounding the temple were full of preistly families and always had an aroma of spirituality, bhajans etc. Most houses were based on ancient architecture with free space veranda in the front. Anyone can sit and sleep at any veranda and the house lady gives snacks to us kids. Though caste had always been a big factor, everyone is united under the lord vishnu and lord siva of the two ancient temples. All meat stalls were outside the town, as kids we hardly saw them. fast forward by 20yrs……….Go around the temple and you will see flith everywhere, plastics, cigarette pockets, spit marks and so on. Few mosques and churches have come up around the temple and you can hear shouts of kuran and songs of yesu as soon as you get down the bus. There are meat stall everywhere even near the temple entrances, and dogs usually do 24/7 conference in front of each of the meat stalls to eat the wastes. The streets which were once agraharas around the temple now has hardly 1 or 2 houses in total that atleast looks like what I remember as a kid. Rest of the houses have been changed to green color compounds and the verandas are overtaken by grill gates. Most of them have been bought by muslims and xtians have occupied from outside-in. Front portion of many houses have become petty shops frequented by smokers, wine shops or mutton stalls. All original families from all castes including brahmins and kshatriyas left the town long back after selling their properties. Now there are no brahmins except the preists of the centuries old srivaikuntanatha temple. These centuries old temples which were busy with local activity get only tourists visitors and local rogues coming inside with islamic lungi (When I questioned a guy for coming in with lungi even after a prominent board prohibiting it, he starting fighting in the name of caste).
Excellent piece of writing….. Should I not live like how I wish to, in my own house?!
People often talk about love-jihad, but there is land jihad too. If you happen to visit Kerala, or the coastal areas of Karnataka, you can see the rapid change of demographics there. The trend is too alarming.
Similar experience – my Father rented our tiny one BHK flat in the Eastern suburb of Mumbai to a Muslim businessman, whose business was to supply labour in the Middle East. This was in 1991, just before the major events of 92-93 which totally changed Mumbai. This transaction was done through a broker who did not check the background of the businessman and we were under an assumption that his family was living there. The routine check-up of this flat led to discovering a lot of damage done to the property as well as numerous complaints from the neighbours. The contract termination led to threats as well a firm refusal of not leaving the property, possibly forever. This was a major rude shock for my Father, a grade IV corporation employee who had pumped his life’s savings and got the possession of the flat barely a couple of months before letting the same.
We were advised by the same broker that there was only one way of evicting this businessman and that was through the local Shakha of ShivSena. This was the time when SS was trying to become to a more Hindu party rather than being a Marathi only party. Fortunately, the timing clicked well and the next day the goons of SS evicted all the folks from that flat along with their stuff. The fear of SS during that period was such that the peace-loving folks never even bothered to collect their remaining belongings from the flat.
I am not a fan of SS but that was the only practical use of having that party on our side.
Just because of their filthy lifestyle and obsession of eating the four legged animals atleast 4 days a week, they ensure that the property prices remain depressed wherever they go. This is not only limited to India but includes every place within the UK, where I have been living for the past five years. Wherever and whenver the first family moves there, it is an indication of the coming flood on uneducated beardies and the exponential nuisance value.
Although it may sound discriminatory, but the fact is that no house-owner wants to lose economically due to the depressed housing and numerous complaints from the neighbours.
Where the heck did the all the pigs come from? Isn’t pig meat haram for the muslims? Why did the pig population increase after the muslims took over the neighborhood? What else can you breed the pigs for but meat? Did those muslims secretly eat the pigs?
When I was in middle school there was this lone muslim student in our class who used to smear chicken sauce on some of the girls’ sweaters during the lunch hour. Of course these girls were all hindus and vegetarian. Being the class monitor, I took it upon myself to complain to our class teacher (stupid goody two shoes syndrome??) and guess what. The good deed did not go unpunished. The class teacher called my parents over and told them to teach me “tolerance” and team work and that I better learn to get along with my class mates and not carry tales!!!
On a high school class excusion to Belur and Halebidu, this very same muslim student tried to hack away at the already chipped off stone sculptures with a steel fork he had smuggled in his pocket. Shocking as it was, we had learnt to ignore whatever this boy did.
His sister was removed from our school at age 12 to be married off and by 15 she already had a baby.
What a great pleasure it was growing up in “secular” India.
Great article…
I was brought up near an area where there is Muslim majority and a Mosque…
I know what it feels like being anywhere near a Muslim…
If I narrate my stories it will look like a repetition.of this article…
We should keep them away…
The Hindu has a different ownership pattern now. It has long been rumored that the Sultan of Brunei had bought a large stake in it. The number of Muslim employees has also increased to a great extent. Do you wonder now about the slant of news and the green coloring of reportage.
The ‘Hindoo’ newspaper is going on about housing apartheid but what about state apartheid like in kashmir where all Hindus have been kicked out of their houses.Just like the rest of the indian media the ‘Hindoo’ knows it can get away blaming Hindus in a country of 800 million Hindus.It wouldnt happen in any country..
It is high time someone took the fight to them, be it the TOIlet Slimes, the (anti) Hindu, or the English New channels. This story has been repeated too many times without rebuttal and now its’in the open. In 1991, our housing society was held to ransom by a Rajasthani muslim, who insisted on slaughtering goats for id within the society. Our talk with him did not work, ultimately he bought a portion of the terrace, enclosed it and slaughtered the goat there.
I flatly told him that he was not fit to live within our society.
About 10 apartments were owned by muslims in our society: they never observed society rules, were unspeakably filthy, were very quick to pick a fight and debauched with local servants with their wives fully aware of what was going on. None of them were educated. They were all businessmen, with large disposable incomes.At one time, the residents actually complained to the builder about selling so many apartments to them. Ultimately, our entire group moved out, but we sold only to Hindus. Ask any society within the state of Maharastra, especially the bigger cities, and you will get telling stories of entire neighbourhoods taken over by them.
Really well written Sandeep. Good job holding ‘The Hindu’ accountable for tripe like this.