Bhaiya, Malhar Sunao

Revisiting the pains of riots

Manto`s Khol Do said all in two words what the author was trying to achieve in his graphic description of the rape:
``The Hindus disregarded this and kept practicing KamaSutra, on a poor helpless, innocent Muslim girl......
What does this graphic description of the horrors of riots and pain on the riot victims achieve? The victims could very well be caught in some Shia Sunni anti Ahmediya riots in some other country. This brings us back to the question- Does the rioting goons have any religion? No, they are just criminals who loot and riot and rape and justify in the name of religion.
So who wants to emphasise that they have a religion? Only two type of persons emphasize that these acts were done in the name of religion
- Firstly, the rioters themselves and
-Those who control or incite the rioters!

The second type of persons would like to create memorials for a muslim riot victim or a hindu riot victims so that the coulderin of hate keeps on burning. Riot stories like above are frequently cited by the rioters in order to justify their acts of `revenge` - I am sure those who have experienced these communal riots can testify how such stories which EMPHASIZE the religion of the rioter keep the riots and counter riots occuring. Revisiting the pains of riots and then inciting the people is what the perpetrators of riot (and their collaborators) would like to achieve. And this piece does exactly the same - It unwittingly becomes a piece of the rioter`s propoganda. And this is exactly the ``moral`` support that the Pakistani muslims try to provide - citing riot stories to incite and make IM spite their fate at being a hindustani!!!
This riot story does not make us hate the riots - it tries to make us hate the religion and the national identity of the rioters. It also attempts to spite the IM`s identity precisely in the manner Rais Khan, the sitarist, does nowadays after having migrated to Pakistan :

``That day he had sat on a Jai-Namaz and cried. Cried to his Allah, and implored that He should call him instead of Piyari. That was the first time he had looked up with tearful eyes and asked Him why He had created him as a Muslim in Hindustan? He was very proud of being a Hindustani, and even introduced his music at concerts as Hindustani classical. But that day he felt helpless, frustrated and angry at his Allah for making him a Hindustani.``

P.S- Rais Khan had been trying hard to get his Indian nationality back desperately- but to no avail. Nowadays he sings Qawali and Gazals for the Paki audiences.

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A trip from Lucknow to Gujarat for a concert !! hmmm

``He was very proud of being a Hindustani, and even introduced his music at
concerts as Hindustani classical``

What would he rather introduce the music as ?