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CITIZENSHIP

Gareeb Nawaz Urs on (April 14), Chan-
drashekhar birth anniversary (April 17),
Parashu Ram Jayanti (April 28), Maha-
rana Pratap Jayanti (May 9), Jamat Ul
Vida on June 23 (last Friday of Ramzan),
Chhat Puja (October 26), Eid Milad Un
Nabi (December 2), Chaudhary Charan
Singh Jayanti (December 23).
♦ ♦ ♦
Let me add that there’s no ‘happy new
year’ for me! In fact, for the last few
years I had stopped celebrating new
year or taking part in any other festivi-
ties for I could more than sense and see
the eerie build ups.
Divisive tactics together with
marked targeted-killings have been
on the rise for the last few years yet all

Seizure of properties
is the ultimate
threat that the Uttar
Pradesh government is
unleashing on a hapless
population. As though
making sure that they
are overnight ripped off
their ancestral homes
and their very identity

quiet we been sitting! Signs of another
round of Partitioning out there yet we
don’t seem unduly perturbed. Why! It’s
time to get out all the possible litera-
ture and works on the Partition, to try
focus on the havoc it had heaped in this
subcontinent.
This time I am sitting in mourning.
Deeply worried and more than
apprehensive for my country, my
countrymen and my community. I
cannot overlook the fact that these
rulers are fascists who can go to any
extent in their killing and imprisoning
spree to unsettle the ‘other’- the Indian
Muslim.
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