[Reader-list] 6 Questions for Vedavati

[shivam]

To add to what Khadeeja is saying, a major problem with us when we
talk about The Muslims is that we see them as a monolith. There is so
much fragmentation within India's "Muslims" - on regional, caste and
class basis. The kebabs, Khans and the tennis player belong to India,
to all of us, and are not an exclusive product of The Muslims.

On 7/25/05, Manosh Chowdhury <manoshchowdhury at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks Khadeeja,   "And friends, Muslims in India can be represented beyond
> 'Kababs', 'three Khans' and one Tennis player".   The statement is self
> evident about how liberalism could reduce its subjects. I almost started
> forgetting Ms. Jogi after reading six questions. However, by liberalism,
> roughly I indend to conceive a comprehensive package of what is propagated
> as secularism , democracy [that is, electoral authentication of opression in
> many regions including Northeastern ones, with significant rotation - when
> and where it was found to be necessary - including Punjab], womens' right
> [as it was discovered all over the world since Laura Bush had emancipated
> Afghan women] and the relish of Bollywood cult along with the hype of
> consumerism. I am not much kind of a good subscriber of "freedom of
> _expression" as such. And I feel this is being ridiculous. I hope that
> sometimes our privileged friends would really understand that the
> responsibility is far beyond that of just criticizing BJP and remain apart. 
>   Best  manosh                   
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