[Reader-list] From Azamgarh

[Rahul Asthana]

Dear Ambarein,
Whats your point?

Regards
Rahul


--- On Mon, 9/22/08, ambarien qadar <ambarien at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> From: ambarien qadar <ambarien at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: [Reader-list] From Azamgarh
> To: "reader list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 9:46 PM
> Dear all,
>  
> While we debate the modalities of what exactly happened at
> L-18 Batla House on Sept 19th 11am; Atif's ( one of the
> twenty four year old boy killed in the police encounter)
> father died of a massive cardiac arrest in Azamgarh this
> evening. 
> The grief and humiliation was just too much for him to deal
> with.
> Zeeshan's, (one of the other two 'terrorists' 
> who, the police claims, managed to escape) father who is
> associated with The Shibli College, Azamgarh is too scared
> to speak. He knows not what might follow. 
> The sentiment is shared by his colleague who are convinced
> that whatever has happened, is more complicated than what is
> apparant. 
> Azamgarh is a sleepy little town on the border of UP and
> Bihar and many of its inhabitants have never seen an OB van
> or a TV crew in real life. The Shibli college, that was
> started with a vision of spreading secular education within
> Muslims, battles with a massive resource crunch. The
> presence of police and media battery is just too much for
> the inhabitants to come to terms with. The question some of
> them are asking now is that where was all this interest and
> attention when we were finding it dificullt to get jobs and
> get our children educated?
> Parents of young men like Zeeshan and Atif ( Sajid, one
> of the two killed in the 'encounter' was just
> seventeen) have no other option than sending their children
> to places like Delhi where they can learn computers and
> speak fluent English. 
> What happens to them in places like Delhi is another story
> altogether.
>  
> Ambarien
>  
> 
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