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Lighting lamps & activities on social media a way to boost morale

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Lighting lamps & activities on social media a way to boost morale

In an address to the nation PM Modi calls for demonstration of collective will to fight coronavirus. On the 10th day of the nationwide lockdown owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, PM Modi asked countrymen to demonstrate a collective will to fight coronavirus, a token demonstration of which, he said would be to light candles, lamps and hold mobile phone torches for nine minutes from 9 p.m on April 5.

Being in lockdown could be a lonely experience full of anxiety and assured people that “we are not alone” collective will of 1.3 billion is required during this crisis. Social media platforms and their users are finding ways to enlighten spirit among people to stay positive in 21 days lockdown.

From online Antakshari on social media to then-and-now challenge users are getting engaged in a series of activities to tide over tough time. Latest is a online Saree challenge under which a woman has to upload one of her best pic in a Saree image and tag a friend to do the same. All these activities are made to boost moral of people during lockdown.

Scientifically it is said burning candles help us to remove negativity in our surrounding area. Candles preferably black candles absorb the negative energies and transmit them into light loving energies. Burning candles and diyas produces magnetic changes in the atmosphere surroundings. The electromagnetic force lingers on the skin and activate the blood cells. The fire released by the candle or diya kills the germs in the air by its chemicals. All these are activities are just to remove anxiety and boost morale of the people during this crucial time. We have to spread the intensity of light in all direction to defeat the bleak of coronavirus.

On April 05 we have to awaken the humanity in each and everyone of us that we are fighting for the same purpose. Let us resolve in our mind that we are not alone. So Turn off the lights of the house and stand at door of the house or on the balcony. Burn candles, mobile phone flashlight. By ending the darkness and uncertainty created by Coronavirus we have to move towards light and certainty. Join together for a greater cause the defeat of Coronavirus lies in our hands.

Challenges posed by Tabligi Jamat to national unity and inter faith solidarity

Sanat Bhardwaj
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Challenges posed by Tabligi Jamat to national unity and inter faith solidarity

Not an ordinary situation for a civilized society to debate when group of organized financed and motivated people places religious commitment over national health and humane cause. The recent event at Nizammudin by Tabligi Zamat seeks serious introspection by the law enforcement bodies and civilized society as to what extent anti-social element be allowed to conceal their activity behind the veil of religious freedom. 

There are two aspects which needs to be exposed, one pertains to extent of religious fanaticism and another to the individual moral perversion. One must remember how the individual quarantined for Covid Virus flouted rules of isolation and displayed vulgarity to serving Nurses. What kind of Scholar or religious preacher becomes nude and vulgar before their serving sister and mother?

In a multicultural society as promised by Constitution, religious fanaticism and freedom to encroach any other religious belief should have been an unforgiveable crime. Both Tabligi Jamat and Christian Missionary are flouting this social rule with shameless impunity since independence. The right to preach once religion cannot cross the boundary of others religious faith. Mobilizing big event, creating Public nuisance promoting conversion by exchanging money/ gift and threatening individual using mob fear should have been listed as fraud to the spirit of constitution. But well-funded NGO, electronic media and individual pseudo-intellectual have been conspiring to see the illegal activity of both Tabligi Jamat and Missionary continue unabated.  It is well documented in Govt investigations that these elements have financial interest within and overseas nation to promote such anti national activity.

If you examine their working, the crooks attached with such mindset will conceal their travel plan in disguise as tourist but will act for religious conversion and malicious propaganda. The NGO would receive funds for natural calamity and social/health subjects but channelize them to promote sinister design. To cover them ring of international Journals/Universities/newspapers and vested groups are available on toe at both domestic and international level. The foot soldier comes from ring of Madarsa/ Missionary education system.

The way Christian missionary created an education system to corrupt the young mind away from cultural and historical ethos, another parallel education system is operating in the name of Madarsa today. The commitment to national and social integrity can be gauged from the fact that often they contest singing National song. Both the institution are the breeding ground of silent anti India feelings and individual hatred to anything that is associated with ancient Bharat and sanatan samaj.

This Govt was decisive and judicious enough to cut the financial and funding of illegal NGO and anti-India forces in last couple of years. But the job has just begun. We need to reform and replace the existing parallel educational system with a nationalistic outlook. Bigotry and hatred of society needs to be challenged at the formative stage. Individual groups and organization like missionary and Tabligi are to be exterminated straight way and anyone found opposing should be put under NSA. Zero tolerance and No nuisance should be the state policy if we wish to secure a Bharat for our next generation.

Let the legislature and Judiciary upheld the constitutional values and social ethos which they have taken as pledge to uphold.

Immune boosters from grandma’s healing recipe for COVID 19, option or opportunity

S Ranganathan
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Immune boosters from grandma’s healing recipe for COVID 19, option or opportunity

The term immune-suppression is quite familiar among medical fraternity all over the world. Large group of steroids come under the above category of drugs. 

But what is the real meaning of immune boosting? 

The term immune boosting has been used widely, excessively, rampantly and luxuriantly these days by the traditional healing system experts to combat COVID19. 

Several herbal recipes have been proposed to the central government and state health ministry in Tamil Nadu to adopt such immune boosting herbal recipes of traditional healing practice and further it is claimed that such recipes would also combat virus and would save people from multi-organ failures etc. 

Thanks to the scientific sense of our Honourable Prime Minister of India and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, they did not adopt or recommend such recipes to combat the pandemic created by COVID 19, due to paucity of scientific evidence for all such recipes. 

The question of how fair and honest are we, in asking the age old traditional healing practice and grandma’s kitchen healing recipes to prove their recipes through science or scientific credence? But can we accept blindly all such recipes to combat the global killer COVID 19 without any basis and scientific credence? Won’t the adoption of such methods to fight Corona make India look like a joker at the global stage?  

People’s Republic of China has adopted TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) as well to address Corona needs more evidence like the evidence for the efficacy of several grandma’s healing recipe for corona. Further China can adopt such measures because China is not a democratic country and it is ruled by an elected dictator where only one political party that exist for people to choose.   

The question that raises multiple questions is why the proponents of traditional healing system recommend their recipe to be given to patients along with allopathic drugs? Be it Siddha or Ayurveda which are claimed to have evolved 5000 years ago, how would have used its recipes in the past to treat patients as an adjuvant or paramedical support to allopathic drugs as allopathic system has emerged recently, in less than 100 years?

Along with, which are the allopathic drugs the Immune booting recipes of traditional healing should be given to both COVID 19 positive patients and to people (who are otherwise healthy) to protect from Corona?

Won’t good food, healthy life style and tranquil mind, proper hygiene measures, free from smoking, alcoholism etc., shall offer immunity better than the so called immune boosting recipes of traditional healing system? 

In the case of Corona epidemic, what else can offer better protection and immune defence to people other than social distancing, quarantine, use of mask and hand wash?

When people rush from pillar to post due to fear and the Government is weighing several measures to achieve self-quarantine and social distancing to prevent the spread of the disease, can we also create a scenario where people fight and combat to bring their recipes also in the forefront to include them into the list of drugs/therapy to treat COVID 19? 

Are we looking at different scientific and proven options to prevent the spread COVID 19 or should we look at the epidemic of COVID 19 as an excellent opportunity to sell our unverified, unscientific methods and make fortune out of innocence and gullibility of people?

The above confusion is purely due to lack of clear definition and differentiation of traditional healing practice from the main stream scientifically proven allopathic system. The traditional healing stream must be positioned and promoted for health and general wellbeing or otherwise called paramedical purpose. Today what we need is paramedical support in large quantity. Once the traditional healing practice is promoted for paramedical benefit and so are the recipes of traditional healing as health supplements, certainly we can make India healthy. 

As long as the traditional healing practices are treated as medical science and its recipes as drugs, only competition to prove own supremacy and even COVID 19 epidemic as an opportunity to market the greatness than how collectively we can address the challenge and help people to follow self-quarantine and social distancing effectively and voluntarily alone shall happen. 

Grandma’s recipes from kitchen may be best for home care but for COVID 19, credible science and international approval is necessary. India should not and cannot adopt or approve all such recipes and the temperament and sensibility shown by Modi, our Honourable Prime Minister and Chief Minister of the state of Tamil Nadu deserve standing ovation for not nodding the grandma’s recipes the tag that it never deserve for treating or preventing COVID 19 pandemic.     

Sikhs and CAA: Why CAA is the need of the hour for the Sikh community in Pakistan and Afghanistan

Priya Ranjan Tewary
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Sikhs and CAA: Why CAA is the need of the hour for the Sikh community in Pakistan and Afghanistan

The whole world is fighting the Coronavirus Pandemic amid this a severe terror attack carried out in a Gurudwara of Kabul, where 25 Sikhs are killed including 11 children, according to sources ISIS took the responsibility of the attack but the news doesn’t got the deserving International Outrage, because of the overshadowing nature of Journalistm who choose to give Priorities to news regarding the Coronavirus Pandemic. Indians expressed their heartfelt condolences on the attack. In Neighbouring Pakistan, the condition of the Sikh community are not good either, Jagjit Kaur, a Pakistani girl forcibly married and converted to Islam by a Muslim Boy named Mohammed Hassan.

On January this year, Nankana Sahib, known to be the birth place of Gurunanak Dev is vandalised by a Muslim mob.

A Muslim mob murdered a Sikh youth named Ravinder Singh who came to shopping for his marriage in Peshawar.

The Citizenship Amendment Act passed by Indian Parliament which ensures fast track citizenship of persecuted minorities of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh faced criticism from many minority religious organization for not including Muslims in the list and including Akali Takht, a well known Sikh religious body.

On 28th March, Captain Amrinder Singh, CM of Punjab had requested Minister of External Affairs, Dr. S.Jaishankar  to evacuate and airlift the Sikhs from Afghanistan after the deadly attack Dear @DrSJaishankar, there are a large number of Sikh families who want to be flown out of Afghanistan. Request you to get them airlifted at the earliest. In this moment of crisis, it’s our bounden duty to help them.

In need of the hour like this, the Indian Sikh community must extend their support to the CAA to ensure safety of their Pakistani and Afghani counterparts, so they can able to live a better life in India.

विस्थापन: दर्द की कहानी

Santosh Pathak
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विस्थापन: दर्द की कहानी

भारत अनेकों कहानियों का संयोजन है. व्यक्ति और व्यक्तियों के समूहों की कहानियां हवाओं में तैरती रहती हैं. लेकिन भारत के ग्रामीण अंचलों के गद्य लेखन का जो रस अत्य्धीक प्रचलित रहा है वह विरह का है. बिहार, उत्तर प्रदेश जैसे राज्य के ग्रामीण अंचलों में बिरहा के गीत गाये जाते रहे हैं. बिरहा का मतलब ही विरह या विग्रह है, जिसके मूल में विस्थापन है. परदेशी, नौकरी-हा (नौकरी करने वाले) जैसे शब्द लगभग सभी सामजिक समूह की कहानी है. ग्रामीण भारत से जो भीड़ उखड़ी, वही शहरों में परदेशी या नौकरी-हा हो गयी है. इस समूह के परिचय में कोई ख़ास तबका या जाति समूह के लोग नहीं है, वस्तुतः समाज के वे संभ्रांत लोग जिन्हें जिंदगी से ज्यादा की अपेक्षा है, वो विस्थापित हो गए और वो भी जिनके पास विस्थापन के अलावा कोई अन्य विकल्प उबलब्ध नहीं था. गंगा जैसी नदी तथा खेती हेतु उपजाऊं जमीन उपलब्ध होने की वजह से उत्तर प्रदेश, बिहार मुख्यतः कृषि आधारित रहे और यहाँ की जनसँख्या भी तेजी से बढ़ी, परन्तु पूरी जनसँख्या जमीन की प्रचुरता के वावजूद उस पर आधारित नहीं रह सकती जो विस्थापन की मौलिक वजह है. कुछ जाति समूहों के पास ज़मीन का ना होना भी उनके समग्र विस्थापन की वजह है.

कोरोना वायरस के मद्देनज़र सम्पुर्ण बंदी के दौर में इस वर्ग के लोगों को सर्वाधिक नुकसान होने की संभावना व्यक्त की जा रही है. दिल्ली से वापस घर के तरफ लौटने की तस्वीरें व्याकुल कर देने वाली है. गंभीर मेडिकल आपातकाल में अपने जीवन को ताक पर रखकर लौट रहा यह वर्ग क्या कोरोना की चुनौतियों से अनभिज्ञ है, या विकल्पहीनता से निराश- अब जो होगा देखा जायेगा- सोंचकर 1000 किमी के पैदल रस्ते पर चल निकला है? क्या भारत जैसे कल्याणकारी राज्य की अवधारणा में ये समूह कहीं आते हैं? क्या राज्य इस स्थिति में हैं की इनके अच्छे जीवन की कल्पना में कुछ हस्तक्षेप कर सके? क्या भारत की वर्तमान आर्थिक संरचना इनके जीवन को सु-संगठित करके सुखमय बना सकती हैं जिसकी कल्पना में ये विस्थापन कर गए? इनके आकार, प्रकार, वर्तमान भारत के आर्थिक तंत्र में इनकी भूमिका और इनके चुनौतियों पर प्रकाश डालना आवश्यक है.

सरकार या किसी संस्था के पास पलायित जनसंख्या का कोई वास्तविक आंकडा नहीं है, परन्तु साधारण तौर कुछ आंकड़े उपलब्ध हैं. भारत की कुल कार्यरत जनसख्या लगभग 45 करोड़ है, जिनमे पलायित सहित असंगठित क्षेत्र के लोगों की संख्या 41.6 करोड़ है, जो कुल कार्यरत संख्या का 93 प्रतिशत हिस्सा है. अपने गाँवों को छोड़कर अपने ही राज्यों के बड़े शहरों में बस जाने वाले लोगों की संख्या भी इस आंकड़े में जोड़ दी गयी है. आई. आई. एम्. की अर्थशास्त्री रितिका खेडा का अध्ययन है की 41.6 करोड़ में से लगभग एक तिहाई हिस्सा दिहाड़ी मजदुर है और इनकी परोक्ष आय 3000-4000 हज़ार रूपए मासिक है. इसी प्रकार पेरीओडीक लेबर फ़ोर्स सर्वे की रिपोर्ट है की असंगठित क्षेत्र (गैर कृषि) के 71 प्रतिशत कर्मियों के पास जॉब कॉन्ट्रैक्ट भी नहीं है और इसमें से 49.6 प्रतिशत लोगों के पास किसी भी प्रकार का सामजिक सुरक्षा कवच नहीं है. आखिर ये कौन लोग हैं? हकीकत है की यह वर्ग सर्विस सेक्टर से जुडा ऐसा वर्ग है जिसके सानिध्य में हम सभी जीवन जीते हैं और रोज किसी ना किसी बहाने हम इनसे मिलते हैं. इनके कार्य मुख्य रूप से स्वरोजगार वाले हैं. कई छोटे दुकानदार हैं, मल्टीप्लेक्स के कामगार, निर्माण कार्यों में लगे मजदुर, होटल-रेस्तरा के बैरे, माइनिंग के मजदुर सब्जी वाले, रेहड़ी वाले, ठेले वाले, क़र्ज़ लेकर ऑटो रिक्शा-ऑटो चालक, सैलून, साइकिल रिपेयरिंग, बाइक रिपेयरिंग, ड्राईवर, खलासी, मालवाहक, या मोची हैं. आज जो हम सड़कों पर भीड़ देख रहे हैं, इसी समूह से आते है. इनके पास किसी तरह का सुरक्षा कवच नहीं है.

यह असंगठित वर्ग इतना व्यापक है की किसी सरकार में हिम्मत नहीं पड़ती थी कि इनकी पड़ताल करे. नरेन्द्र मोदी के सरकार में आने के बाद अनेकों तरह की नीतियाँ आयी हैं जो उम्मीद जगाती हैं.

बैंक अर्थव्यवस्था के आधार होते हैं. 1969 में इंदिरा गाँधी ने बांको का राष्ट्रीयकरण किया था वावजूद उसके इस देश में बड़ी आबादी आजतक बैंको के दरवाजे तक भी नहीं पहुचीं थी. इस कमी को दूर करने में जनधन योजना काफी हद तक सफल हुई है. 38.29 करोड़ जनधन खाते खुले हैं और इन खाताधारको को पहली बार औपचारिक अर्थव्यवस्था (फोर्मल इकॉनमी) के दायरे में लाया गया है. वस्तुतः आज़ादी के बाद ही जब हमने समाजवादी नीतियों का अनुसरण किया उसी में एक निहित त्रुटी थी. वह त्रुटी बिचौलिया खड़ा करने कि है. बिचौलियों से भरपूर हमारी व्यवस्था लाभकारी भ्रस्टाचार के समायोजन से चलती रही है. बैंक के खाते खुलने के बाद इस वर्ग को डायरेक्ट बेनिफिट ट्रान्सफर स्कीम से जोड़ दिया गया है और इनके हिस्से कि सब्सिडी इनके बैंक खातों में सीधे मिलने लगी है.

बीमा सुरक्षा उच्च वर्गों तक सीमित रहा था क्यूंकि इनकी आय में वह ताकत नहीं है कि ये नियत समय पर बीमा के इन्स्ताल्मेंट्स को चुका सके. कईयों ने बीमा जरुर कराया, परन्तु बाद में सामर्थ्य से बाहर हो जाने कि वजह से उसे बंद करा दिया या वह स्वयं डोर्मेंट हो गया. आज बीमा 12 रूपये में खरीदी जा सकती है और इस देश के बड़े संख्या में लोगों के सुकन्या, प्रधानमंत्री बीमा योजना के अंतर्गत को बीमित भी कराया है.

इन सारे प्रयासों की बाद भी असंगठित क्षेत्र का आदमी सुरक्षित महसूस नहीं करता क्यूंकि वह पूँजी से कमजोर है. आज बाज़ार का दौर है, बाज़ार वस्तुओं से भरा पडा है और यही खर्चे की अधिकता का मौलिक वाहक भी है. आज बचत की दर कम होती जा रही है और आदमी को अपना भविष्य अंधकारमय या संकट में दिख रहा है.

कोरोना के खिलाफ संघर्ष के बीच जब यह वर्ग अपने घरों से बाहर निकल आया है क्यूंकि आर्थिक तंत्र उसका सहयोग नहीं करता है. काम बंद होते ही नियोक्ता नौकरियों से बाहर कर देता है और मकान मालिक दुगनी तेजी किराया मांगने लगता है. रोटी और मकान के बीच इनकी जिन्दगी झूलती रहती है. जब कभी प्राकृतिक, राजनितिक संकट आता है तब यह वर्ग निसहाय अन्धकार में अपना भविष्य सोचता है और मायूस होता है. हम यह कह सकते हैं की ये लोग कई वजहों से स्वयं को असुरक्षित महसूस कर रहे हैं, और इसके पास कोरोना से लड़ाई लड़ने में कोई दिलचस्पी भी नहीं है. वर्ना ये लोग नरेन्द्र मोदी के आह्वान की बाद घरों से बाहर नहीं निकलते.

लेकिन इनके संकटों का समाधान सिर्फ घर की देहरी तक पहुच जाने से नहीं होगा. इनके साथ भी लगभग वैसा ही संकट आएगा जो एक लघु, मध्यम आकार के औद्यगिक इकाइयों को आने वाला है. सम्पूर्ण बंदी के दौरान पैसे की आवक बंद हो जायेगी और नियोक्ता किसी भी सुरत में इनको वेतन नहीं देंगे. छोटे आकार के औद्योगिक इकाइयों में काम कराने वाले और करने वाले एक दुसरे पर आधारित हैं परन्तु वो वेतन का भार क्यूँ सहना चाहेगा? अंत में इस वर्ग के पास जो जमा पूँजी है वो जल्द ही टूट जायेगी और उनका संकट अभी और बढेगा. बिहार जैसे आर्थिक रूप से निष्क्रिय राज्य में स्थिति और विस्फोटक होने की सम्भावना है. पारिवारिक विवाद बढ़ सकते हैं, क्राइम में वृद्धि संभव है और निरसता के भी बढ़ने की संभावना है.

विरह के गीत कोरोना संकट के बाद फिर से गाये जायंगे फिर भी गाये जायेंगे क्यूंकि ये ऐसा रस है जो बिहार के कणों में सदियों से विराजित है, शायद तब से जब हम पहली बार गिरमिटिया कहे गए थे. लेकिन बिहार की धरती अनेकों थपेड़ों के बाद भी खड़ी हो सकती है. विपत्तियों से बिहार का नाता पुराना है और जीवन के गीत को तो फिर भी गाना है. जीवंतता बिहार की पहचान है और जैसा की रामधारी सिंह दिनकर लिखते हैं –

‘सच है, विपत्ति जब आती है
कायर को ही दहलाती है
सुरमा नहीं विचलित होते
क्षण एक नहीं धीरज खोते
विघ्नों को गले लगाते हैं
काँटों में राह बनाते हैं |’

COVID 19 may bow its head and supremacy to Indians- A scientific insight

S Ranganathan
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COVID 19 may bow its head and supremacy to Indians- A scientific insight

The article published recently in Lancet www.thelancet.com/respiratory Vol 8 April 2020 has brought out a new finding which suggests the possibility that COVID 19 may go calm and meek to Indians than to people of EU or USA. 

The research publication has brought out the most preferred target sight of COVID 19 in the lung cells.  Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors are the one COVID 19 attaches and then it finds its way to lung cells. Therefore those two who have high number of ACE2 receptors in trachea, bronchi and bronchioles are highly susceptible to viral infection, leading to severe respiratory infection and possible death. 

The question is who are likely to have higher number of ACE2 receptors in trachea, bronchi and bronchioles? The Lancet research article clearly suggests that those elderly people who suffer from various medical conditions like cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney diseases often receives ACE2 inhibitors which bound to increase ACE2 receptors as a consequent event. 

Therefore all those elderly people who are suffering from either of the above diseases and or treated with ACE2 inhibitors are the most susceptible groups as they are likely to have increased ACE2 receptors in their lower respiratory tract. The above Lancet research paper also points out clearly why COVID 19 is less virulent in young age group is because of lower level of ACE2 receptors in them, giving least to no chance for the virus to bind, colonize and then establish. 

The research findings if we have to correlate with Indian context, Indians are relatively safe and even the elderly population. This interpretation does not recommend people to defy the lock down and social distancing but it is meant only to assure Indians through the prism of science. 

Several indicators from Indian scenario suggest that COVID 19 cannot go arrogant and uncontrollable Hitler to Indians. The above research work published in Lancet also points towards why COVID 19 is more of rich man’s disease, disease of new world and disease of higher echelon than of poor man in the street.

Although the published data of COVID 19 positive cases may be much lower than the actual because of the possibility of positive cases away or remain outside the radar of government testing in our society, we cannot discount or deny.

How many days the Nizamudin cluster remained with COVID 19 and has escaped the radar of Government explain the above possibility.

Even if a cluster of COVID 19 positive group exist in our society which has escaped the radar of the government but no report of hospitalization or any such medical rush has reported to have happened from any parts of India.

If we analyse the number of registered death of people from various states per month or week statistics, a dramatic increase in the death of people is not being reported and no such medical alarm, the government has received until now. 

Then we also need to question about how significant is COVID 19 positive means? 

No doubt a person positive for COVID 19 in all possibility can infect several people he encounters inadvertently. The several others also can transmit or gift the virus to others giving an excellent opportunity for COVID 19 to meet and be with them and if possible, COVID 19 can also take their life. 

The larger question is should we over-cry or make war cry over COVID 19? We need to alert our people, must give them all do’s and don’ts clearly, continuous sensitization is necessary for social distancing but, is lockdown a solution? 

A lockdown without any planning, thinking and taking even the state governments or local administrations into confidence and without caring the life and livelihood of millions and millions of people, can it scare COVID 19 or people?

Scientists all over the world are looking at India very curiously and are wondering why COVID 19 is behaving so differently in India. So far Europeans and Americans were claiming they are superior to Asians and Indians, is that the reason why even COVID 19 prefers Europeans and American more than Indians?

BCG vaccination in childhood, viral mutation, ACE2 receptor, inherent immunity… what not the scientists are going to explore to tell the world why COVID 19 behave so differently to Indians?

As a matter of fact, government is also running from pillar to post after lock down and have consulted even grandma’s village healing practice/recipe and its science to deal COVID 19. Are we not chasing a joke in the hour of tragedy, instead of looking for scientific answer?

So much owed by so many to so few

C K Bhatt
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So much owed by so many to so few

The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo, saw the rescue of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other Allied soldiers from the French seaport of Dunkirk. It is a fact that by 4th June 1940, nearly 350,000 troops were saved by the Royal British Navy. Brilliantly spinning the retreat/ defeat at Dunkirk into an expression of the “Dunkirk spirit”, Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged British people to display the grit of the British troops and the can-do attitude of civilians who volunteered their ships for the rescue operation. The British soldiers received a Heroes welcome in their country after they were safely evacuated from Dunkirk.

It is believed that Friedrich Paulus, the German General, who was tactfully promoted by Adolf Hitler to the rank of Field Marshal, just a day before he surrendered along with his remaining troops to the Red Army, wanted to put his weapons down much before the actual date of surrender, because he already realised that the battle of Stalingrad, sooner or later, is lost. But he could not do so because he was afraid of the humiliation he and his troops would face, if they would make it back to Germany. They could not even imagine a situation like that of the British soldiers after Dunkirk.

Never in the history of human conflict, was so much owed by so many to so few. Winston Churchill said so during an address to the British empire in honour of the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain in World War II.

During the fight for Berlin we’ve already lost 15-20,000 of the younger officers. Adolf Hitler: But that’s what young men are for. [From the movie, Downfall (2004)].

Many such examples in history depict the importance of motivating Soldiers during the war. In the present times, when we are facing a situation that is, if not equal, cannot be said to be less than a war, our actual soldiers/ heroes are the people who are working on the ground. Doctors, hospital support staff, officials from various Government Ministries/ Departments, Police Officers, Sanitation workers et alia.

Amidst our battle with the current situation, an extremely disturbing and terrifying news flashed on our TV and Mobile screens regarding the attack on Madhya Pradesh healthcare workers and civic officials by a mob in an Indore neighborhood, as the team visited the area to screen residents for signs of the virus. It is reported that two women doctors are injured in the attack and were rescued by police officials. The shocking attack came two days after people from the Ranipura area of Indore allegedly spat at officials and abused them during screening procedures. It is further reported that Indore has almost 76% of the total number of Coronavirus cases in the state of Madhya Pradesh. It is also speculated that many of them are suspected to have contracted the virus during and/or after attending the Tablighi Jamat even held in New Delhi in the mid of March 2020.

Reports of attacks on Doctors and misbehaviour with Police & Health Officials have come to light in various parts of the Country and is a matter of utter shock and surprise that even reports of Doctors and other officials not being provided with PPEs have surfaced. In June 2019, about 800,000 doctors across India went on strike to demand better working conditions, following years of complaints about violent attacks from patients’ families. This was triggered by an incident of the brutal assault on a junior Doctor in Kolkata, West Bengal. Indian Medical Association conducted a survey revealing that 75% of doctors have complained of verbal abuse and 12% of physical violence at some point of time in their careers.

Why is it that even during such testing times, we have to see such a situation where our Doctors are not feeling safe? The average years of student life of a Doctor is much more than others who are pursuing professional courses. The pressure upon them is enormous and there is no scope of being callous with their duty. Also, they have to face a lot of jokes about their handwriting. Nonetheless, this is the time to remind ourselves of what “an apple a day” cannot do, only a Doctor can.

The “Thaali Bajao” request by the Prime Minister may have its stock of critics. However, even if we can have one able person to come out and help in whatever way possible to one family of Doctors/ hospital support staff/ Government Servants/ Police Officers/ Sanitation workers etc., living in their neighborhood, it will be of great help to our Soldiers fighting for us on the front. We have examples of battles where even a small contingent of motivated soldiers can defeat an opposition which outnumbers them by a huge margin. Our soldiers here are fighting a battle with an enemy they cannot easily see but the situation is not vice-versa for the enemy.

The Government of India should immediately promulgate an ordinance/ order regarding the safety of Doctors and other Officials who are working day and night for our lives and future of the Country at this time and the same should be given wide publicity. Further stringent provisions of Law should be made for the same purpose when the present situation of a health emergency becomes normal. The Media should also play a more constructive role in it and rather than their usual petty debates on who is to be blamed for the spread of the Virus and which Politician has said what about the other in a Tweet.

It is a matter of fact that many historians say that the reason Hitler lost the war was because, after a point of time, he thought that it was not the soldier who is winning him the war but rather he is the sole reason for the victory of the Soldier(s). Let us not willfully choose to be Hitlers of our lives and devalue the contribution of our Soldiers in this battle. We should not bring this to a point where we make them feel that they are heroes Gotham City needs right now, but not the ones we deserve.

After all, in this war, the “Dunkirk spirit” must outshine the fear of Friedrich Paulus.

Congress is dead: Long live the Congress!

Ajay Sudame
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Congress is dead: Long live the Congress!

Whenever my Mother in Law meets her Grandchildren, she prefers to discuss topics of their liking. Say movies or rap songs. Is she trying to appropriate their parent’s authority? Or she is just trying to stay relevant?

Indira Gandhi issued stamp in the name of Swayntraveer Savarkar in 1970. Was she trying to appropriate RSS/Jan Sangh’s legacy? Or trying to make peace with Hindu nationalists?

In Oct 2019 Manmohan Singh issued a statement saying Congress is not against Veer Savarkar, but it does not favour the Hindutva ideology he stood for. Was he trying to appropriate the legacy? Or was trying to stop the Nationalist vote from slipping further away from Congress? You decide!

But then from the 2019 General Elections results it’s clear that Manmohan Singh and many pragmatic Congress politicians like him were not successful in stopping the inevitable. Congress was routed.

What you are witnessing months later are the domino effects of that monumental defeat. In July 2019, in Karnataka 14 Congress and 3 JDS MLA resigned to bring the Congress-JDS Government in minority. Which paved the way for BS Yeddyurappa to be CM again. Later, 12 of those were back in assembly by winning by-elections held in Dec 2019. Within 9 months of Yeddyurappa come back, in a repeat of Karnataka operation, 22 Congress MLAs in Madhya Pradesh decided to say bye to Congress. This brought Congress Government in minority and Kamalnath had to resign. But this time the casualty was not just one state Government. One of the biggest Congress leaders from MP, Jyotiraditya Scindia decided to switch sides.

Scindia joining BJP was quite an event. It tore the heart out MP Congress. And it portends the grim future Congress faces in more than one ways. One, it reflects the immediate political exigencies. Second, it also means Congress, for a long time will not be in a position to acquire any significant position of power. Lastly it means the ideological ground in Indian politics has shifted for ever.

Politicians are smartest people around us. They can sense early which way wind is blowing. Scindia obviously was very uncomfortable with current arrangement in Madhya Pradesh. With Kamalnath in control of Government and party monitored by Digvijay Singh, it was natural that he was feeling cornered. To add to that, reportedly his Rajya Sabha nomination from Madhya Pradesh was in jeopardy. Now after the switch his RS seat is guaranteed.  But Scinida won’t take such a big decision for such a trifle. It means he has sensed Congress in current state cannot withstand Modi led BJP’s juggernaut. He knew there was a rebellion brewing in MP amongst Congress MLAs. And he was not the reason behind the unrest. He was merely helping the brewing mutiny to take shape and use it to the hilt for his own selfish motive.

There was a reason for this unease amongst MLA. After 15 years of BJP rule, notwithstanding the anti-incumbency, Congress just scrapped through. And then,ran a shockingly callous administration; which seemed only interested in pleasing contractors and transfer mafia. Such was the scale of Congress misrule that, in 15 months it made people nostalgic about the earlier Shivraj Singh regime. So when these 22 MLAs resigned they had little doubt, that most of them, in repeat of Karnataka, would be re-elected.

So what’s wrong with Congress? How can a politician with such strong relations with Rahul Gandhi himself leave party in such disrespectful manner? Remember what Rahul said when Jyotiraditya held the Press conference to announce his decision? He said, he is the only leader who can walk-in into my home. Obviously he had much more on his mind than personal access to Gandhis and friendship with his childhood pal, Rahul. But then how come Congress high-command failed to read his mind? Or were they not interested in knowing? You see, Scindia’s frustration was very widely known. One, he had openly supported BJP on Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). And most importantly in Nov, one fine day he decided to remove ‘Congress’ from his Twitter bio. On the same day I had put this FB post.

So, if a casual observer like me can predict this event 3 months in advance, how come Sonia, the supreme leader, didn’t know this? Of course she and her coterie knew what’s brewing in Madhya Pradesh. Point is, Congress high command is not interested in handing over the lever of powers to anyone outside the small clique knows as ‘Family Loyalists’. Hence at the behest of another loyalist, Digvijay Singh, Jyotiraditya Scindia was ignored. Which he found too much to digest, and eventually called it quits.

Which brings us to the biggest overarching factor, Ideology. Such has been the magnitude and depth of Modi led BJP’s twin victories (2014 and 2019) that it has shaken the Indian polity at its base. Today BJP occupies the Nationalism, Religion and Economic Well-being, all three planes of electoral politics. Congress style Secularism or Neuhrivian Consensus, no more is a vote catcher it used to be. Which basically means for aspiring politicians like Scindia there was nothing to lose even if he leaves Congress. I mentioned above, Scindia changed his Twitter bio, but there was not much outcry then. Seems many Congress leaders were ready for him leaving the party. What they were not ready was, he joining BJP.

Consider another aspect. Scindia is a subscriber of BJP’s Nationalist creativities. But RSS/BJP continuously pushing Cultural narratives may make him uncomfortable. He did not utter a word (Positive) for any of the strident Hindutva agendas (say Ram Mandir) or a word (Negative) for Rahul Gandhi. He has no problem with Rahul and he won’t be converted into a Hindutva votary for a foreseeable future.

Lastly don’t forget, both together, were at the forefront of pushing Congress towards soft Hindutva. And Soft Hindutva may have been one of the reason; but it highlighted the sharp differences between two camps in the Gandhi household. To which Late Arun Jaitley famously referred as Palace coup. This switch by Scindia looks like a change in tactics rather than alteration in strategy. There is no change of heart here. By doing this, he is trying to protect his captive vote, which can be used in future.

He is merely waiting for right opportunity so that he, along with his childhood chummy, Rahul (minus the coterie), create a new Congress, which can be more relevant. He is biding his time and will come back to build a Congress which can fight BJP.

कोरोना की भयावहता और भारतीय कानून

BINIT LAL
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कोरोना की भयावहता और भारतीय कानून

कोरोना वायरस का प्रकोप जैसे ही भारत में बढ़ा उसके बाद से ही महामारी रोग अधिनियम, 1897 चर्चा में है.

देश में कोरोना का पहला मामला 30 जनवरी को केरल में आया जबकि 3 छात्र वुहान (चीन) शहर से लौटे थे, जहाँ पर सबसे अधिक व्यापक असर था. मार्च महीने में पुरे देश में यह महामारी तेजी से फैलने लगा जिसमे पहली मौत एक 76 वर्षीय वृद्ध की हो गई जो सऊदी अरब से आया था. यह लेख लिखे जाने तक भारत में संक्रमित लोगों की संख्या 1800 से ऊपर पहुँच गई थी जबकि इससे मरने वाले लोगो की संख्या 45 हो गई.

चीन से फैला यह कोरोना वायरस अभी तक 175 देशों तक अपना पांव पसार चुकी है जिसमे 6.5 लाख से अधिक लोग संक्रमित हो चुके हैं, 40,000 से ज्यादा लोगो की जान जा चुकी है पर अच्छी बात यह है की इस संक्रामक बीमारी से 1.5 लाख से अधिक लोग ठीक भी हो चुके हैं. डब्लूएचओ के अनुसार कुल संक्रमित लोगो में से 95 प्रतिशत लोग आसानी से ठीक हो जाते हैं. अभी महामारी के संक्रमण से लोगो को बचाने के लिए पूरी दुनिया में 3 अरब लोग लोकडाउन की स्थिति में हैं. इस महामारी की तुलना 1918 की स्पेनिश फ्लू से की जा रही है जिसमे 50 मिलियन (5 करोड़) से भी अधिक लोगो की मौत हो गई थी. यह आंकड़ा प्रथम विश्व युद्ध में मारे गए लोगो से भी अधिक थी.

भारत विश्व का दूसरा सबसे अधिक जनसंख्या वाला देश है, यहां की जनसंख्या घनत्व भी काफी अधिक है और चूँकि यह बीमारी व्यक्ति से व्यक्ति को संक्रमित करती है तो भारत जैसे सामाजिक रूप से मजबूत देश में यह महामारी फैलने पर अधिक खतरनाक रूप ले सकती है. विषय की गंभीरता को समझते हुए केंद्र सरकार ने शुरुआत से ही एहतियात बरतना शुरू कर दिया था, जिसमे हवाई अड्डों पर जाँच करना एवं लोगो को जागरूक करना शामिल था. लेकिन संक्रमण मार्च महीने में जब तेज़ी से फैलना शुरू हुआ तो केंद्र सरकार ने राज्यों को महामारी घोषित करने की अपील की जिससे राज्य इस बीमारी से निपटने में सक्षम हो सके.

11 मार्च को भारत के कैबिनेट सचिव ने सभी राज्यों एवं संघ शासीत प्रदेशों में महामारी अधिनियम, 1897 के धारा 2 लगाने की अपील की. कर्नाटक ऐसा पहला राज्य था जिसने 11 मार्च को कोरोना से निपटने के लिए इसे महामारी घोषित किया. अगले ही दिन 12 मार्च को हरियाणा ने भी इसे महामारी घोषित कर दिया और उसके बाद महाराष्ट्र, दिल्ली तथा गोवा के साथ ही अन्य राज्य भी कोरोना से लड़ने के लिए इसे महामारी घोषित कर दिया. 14 मार्च को केंद्र सरकार ने इस महामारी को आपदा प्रबंधन अधिनियम, 2005 के तहत ‘अधिसूचित आपदा’ घोषित कर दिया जिससे राज्य इस बीमारी से लड़ने के लिए ‘राज्य आपदा प्रतिक्रिया कोष’ का उपयोग कर सके. 24 मार्च को प्रधानमंत्री राष्ट्र के नाम संबोधन में यह घोषणा कि की 24 मार्च रात 12 बजे से सम्पूर्ण देश में ‘लाउकडाउन’ प्रभावी होगा जिससे पुरे देश में महामारी अधिनियम 1897 लागु हो गई. इसका मूल मकसद यह था की लोग ‘सामाजिक दुरी’ को बनाये रखे जिससे ज्यादा से ज्यादा लोगो को संक्रमण से बचाया जा सके. यह लाउकडाउन ‘राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन अधिनियम’ के तहत लगाया है.

क्या है महामारी अधिनियम, 1897:

दो पेज का यह महामारी अधिनियम 123 साल पहले ब्रिटिश शासन के दौरान बनाया गया था. 1890 के दशक में बॉम्बे (अब मुंबई) में भयंकर रूप से ‘प्लेग’ नामक रोग फैला था, यह चूहे से होने वाली बीमारी थी एवं मनुष्यों में बड़ी तेजी से फ़ैल रही थी. हजारों लोग बॉम्बे में इस बीमारी से मर गए थे एवं ब्रिटिश शासन के पास इससे व्यक्तियों को संक्रमण से बचाने का कोई तंत्र नही था. 4 फरवरी, 1897 को बिटिश शासन के द्वारा एक महामारी अधिनियम को पारित किया गया जिसका मूल उद्देशय महामारी वाली बीमारी को फैलने के खतरे से बचाव करना था. यह ब्रिटिश सरकार को लोगो को जमा होने तथा इधर उधर जाने पर प्रतिबन्ध लगाने की शक्ति देता था. यह अधिनियम भारत में तब से लागु है एवं समय समय पर देश के अलग अलग भागों में महामारी जैसी बीमारी फैलने पर इसका उपयोग किया जाता रहा है.

अधिनियम के धारा 1 में कानून से सम्बंधित शीर्षक और अन्य पहलुओं व शब्दावली को समझाया गया है. जबकि इसका सबसे महत्वपूर्ण धारा 2 है, जिसमे कहा गया है की “किसी भी समय राज्य सरकार को लगे की राज्य में या राज्य के किसी भाग में महामारी जैसी बीमारी फ़ैल गयी हो या फैलने की पूरी सम्भावना हो और राज्य सरकार के पास मौजूदा सामान्य कानून स्थिति से निपटने में सक्षम नहीं लग रहा हो तो उस समय एक अस्थायी प्रबंध के तहत राज्य ऐसे कानून को लागु कर सकती है.” इसमें स्पष्ट है की यह एक अस्थायी प्रबंध के लिए ही किया जायेगा धारा 2 के ही उपधारा B के तहत राज्य सरकार को यह अधिकार देती है की रेलवे या अन्य माध्यमों से यात्रा करने वाले लोगो की जाँच की जा सकती है एवं अस्पतालों या अन्य जगहों पर रह रहे रोगी व्यक्तियों की निगरानी का भी अधिकार देता है. वहीँ अधिनियम के धारा 2A के तहत केंद्र सरकार को यह शक्ति दी गई है की अगर सामान्य कानून किसी महामारी को रोकथाम करने में सक्षम नहीं हो रही हो तो ऐसे में सरकार महामारी कानून का उपयोग करते हुए विदेशों से आने वाले पानी के जहाज़ या कार्गो की जाँच कर सकती है, हिरासत में ले सकती है तथा इसे नियंत्रित भी कर सकती है.

धारा 3 में इससे जुड़े सजा का प्रावधान को बताया गया है, जिसमे कहा गया है की अगर कोई व्यक्ति कानून के लागु होने पर उल्लंघन करता है तो उसपर भारतीय दंड संहिता के धारा 188 के तहत कार्यवाई की जाएगी. इस धारा के तहत तब कार्यवाई की जाती है जब प्रशासन कोई जरुरी आदेश जारी करता है और उसका पालन कोई व्यक्ति नही करता है. इसके उल्लंघन करने पर एक माह का साधारण कारावास या 200रु जुर्माना या दोनों ही हो सकता है. यही नहीं, अगर ये अवज्ञा मानव जीवन, स्वास्थ्य या सुरक्षा के लिए खतरे का कारण बनती है या दंगे का कारण बनती है तब ये सजा छह महीने के कारावास या 1000रु जुर्माना हो सकती है या दोनों चीजें एक साथ हो सकती हैं. यह धारा जमानत योग्य है. अंतिम धारा, धारा 4 कानून के प्रावधानों का क्रियान्वयन करने वाले अधिकारियों को क़ानूनी संरक्षण देता है.

यह कानून भारत के सबसे छोटे कानूनों में से एक है. इसकी आलोचना भी की जाती रही है. इंडियन जर्नल ऑफ़ मेडिकल एथिक्स ने 2009 के एक पेपर में इस कानून को ‘उपनिवेशी भारत में स्वच्छता के लिए अपनाया गया सबसे निर्दयी कानून बताया था.’ यह भी कहा जाता है की ब्रिटिश शासन के दौरान इसी कानून का उपयोग करके महान स्वतंत्रा सेनानी बाल गंगाधर तिलक को केसरी अख़बार में शासन के खिलाफ लेख लिखने के लिए गिरफ्तार किया गया था. कानून में स्पष्ट रूप से महामारी क्या होती है यह भी परिभाषित नहीं किया गया है.

महामारी कानून, 1897 लागु होने के बाद देश के कई हिस्सों में अनेक लोगो को इसके उल्लंघन करने के आरोप में गिरफ्तार किया गया. गायिका कनिका कपूर पर तथा हाल ही में मरकज के आयोजकों पर इसी धारा के तहत मुकदमा दायर किया गया था. इससे पहले 2018 में गुजरात में कॉलरा की रोकथाम के लिए, 2015 में चंडीगढ़ में डेंगू व मलेरिया फैलने पर, 2009 में पुणे में एच1एन1 इन्फ्लुएंजा फैलने पर इस कानून को लगाया गया था. 

इस कानून के अलावे दंड संहिता में दो और धाराएं हैं जिसका उपयोग किसी रोग की रोकथाम के लिए किया जाता रहा है. धारा 269 तथा धारा 270. धारा 269 रोग के संक्रमण को लापरवाही तरीके से बढ़ाने के लिए लगाया जाता है तो वही धारा 270 घातक तरीके से जानबूझकर रोग संक्रमण बढ़ाने की कोशिश करने पर लगाया जाता है.

कोरोना जैसे पेंडेमिक से निपटने के लिए एक और कानून, राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन अधिनियम, 2005 है जो केंद्र सरकार को पूरी शक्ति देता है. 24 मार्च को देश में पहली बार कोरोना वायरस के खिलाफ जंग लड़ने के लिए इसका उपयोग किया गया, जिसके तहत 21 दिन तक पुरे देश को लोकडाउन करने का फैसला प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी ने लिया. अब इस महामारी के खिलाफ जंग को केंद्र ने राज्यों से अपने हाथो में ले लिया. इस कानून के तहत ‘राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण’ (NDMA) का गठन किया है जो भारत में आपदा प्रबंधन के लिये शीर्ष वैधानिक निकाय है। प्राधिकरण में प्रधानमंत्री अध्यक्ष और नौ अन्य सदस्य होते हैं.  इसका प्राथमिक उद्देश्य प्राकृतिक या मानव निर्मित आपदाओं के दौरान प्रतिक्रियाओं में समन्वय कायम करना और आपदा-प्रत्यास्थ (आपदाओं में लचीली रणनीति) व संकटकालीन प्रतिक्रिया हेतु क्षमता निर्माण करना है। आपदाओं के प्रति समय पर और प्रभावी प्रतिक्रिया के लिये आपदा प्रबंधन हेतु नीतियाँ, योजनाएँ और दिशा-निर्देश तैयार करने हेतु यह एक शीर्ष निकाय है। लेकिन इसकी कमी यह रही है की आपदा प्रबंधन के दिशा-निर्देशों के कार्यान्वयन की निगरानी करने वाली राष्ट्रीय कार्यकारी समिति की आपदाओं के समय भी प्रायः कम ही बैठके होती हैं. NDMA नियमित रूप से अपनी वार्षिक रिपोर्टों को प्रकाशित करने और अपनी योजनाओं को अद्यतन बनाने में असफल रहा है। NDMA द्वारा ली गई कोई भी प्रमुख परियोजना अब तक पूरी नहीं हुई है। संबंधित एजेंसियों के मध्य कार्यात्मक समेकन का अभाव है।

कोरोना जैसी महामारी से निपटने के लिए देश के पास अभी कोई ठोस कानून नहीं है. भारत सरकार की जैविक प्रबंधन आपदा के 2008 रिपोर्ट में कहा गया की 1897 की महामारी कानून सक्षम नहीं है एवं इसे बदलने की जरुरत है. यह कानून केंद्र को जैविक आपातकाल के दौरान ज्यादा शक्ति प्रदान नही करता. इसके बदले कोई ऐसा कानून लाना चाहिए जो ‘जैविक आपातकाल’ एवं सीमापार से आये रोगों से निपटने में सक्षम हो. 2017 में मोदी सरकार ने लोक स्वास्थ्य (बचाव, नियंत्रण एवं महामारी प्रबंधन, जैविक आतंकवाद एवं आपदा) बिल लेकर आई थी.बिल में स्पष्ट रूप से संक्रमण के लक्षण पाए जाने वाले व्यक्ति को अलग करने के निर्देश तथा राज्य के साथ साथ जिला एवं स्थानीय निकाय को सीधा निर्देशित करने की शक्ति देता है. यह बिल कानून को नहीं मानने वाले के खिलाफ 1 लाख रु का जुर्माना तथा 2 साल तक के कैद का भी प्रावधान करता है. अब समय आ गया है जबकि 21वीं सदी में भारत को इस तरह के गैर पारंपरिक सुरक्षा खतरों से सामना करने के लिए एक मजबूत एवं समग्र कानून की नितांत आवश्यकता है.

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Islamic fanaticism – Beyond the ignorance of COVID 19 & a desperate need for rejecting the ideology by Muslims

Vishal Trivedi
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Islamic fanaticism – Beyond the ignorance of COVID 19 & a desperate need for rejecting the ideology by Muslims

The obsessive enthusiasm for the sacred religion of Islam has led few ‘guardians’ of the Islamic faith now oppose the pandemic threat of COVID-19 and the denial of maintaining the social distancing.

These fanatics often through the theological and social control of the community are trying to hard oppose the social distancing and medical help being provided to them.

The doctors across many parts of India are scared and agitated against such criminal souls. One doctor said- “I’m sitting outside a COVID-19 unit for dinner. Judge sahab bol denge if doctors are scared, then just sit at home. And then people wonder why most of us immigrate out”.

The so called Maulanas who consider themselves of custodians of Islam, generally portray themselves as educators helping people maintain correct beliefs by pointing out errors in knowledge and judgment of non Muslims. Making the innocent followers believe that punishment and death came only to those who refused to admit their errors. Beyond the Qayamat day – there is a possibility of suffering & death due to COVID-19, the fanatics must admit.

The extreme doctrines of radical Islam has increasingly become an internationally recognized term now. The Quran preaches for struggle against oppression & not spitting, throwing stones & hurting doctors, security personnels and administration. This is surely a hatred against the thoughtful request made by PM Modi for Social Distancing.

The fanatics’ struggle has gone beyond the military – its now making its inroad in disturbing the social fabric & opposing the governance.

Two teams comprising doctors of which one was a Muslim doctor and Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) and Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) workers were visiting the Tatpatti Bakhal neighborhood in Indore, when local muslims started pelting them with stones.

One of the two doctors said, “I am really scared, not even in the condition to speak. We went there for screening as directed by the Health Department. We have been going there for three days as we got contact history of a positive case there.” The locals said – ‘Inhe andar mat aane do, baahar maar do, jaanch nahi karne denge..’

Tatpatti Bakhal neighbourhood is a sensitive spot with at least two positive cases reported from the area after which nearly 54 families were put under quarantine, much to the anger and chagrin of residents.

There has been a complaint by Chief Medical Officer, Ghaziabad about the pervert behavior of Fanatics from #TabligiJamaat being kept at Isolation Ward of Ghaziabad District Hospital. The people from Jamaat are roaming without trousers, listening to pervert songs, asking for Beedi Cigarettes and making obscene remarks on female nurses. Other such incidents happened in Bangalore, Munger (Bihar), Hyderabad.

It is an alarming situation wherein health workers who are fighting the corona battle are being put to such a situation. These people must be identified as criminals of top order, even attacking the medics who are like angels savings lives in this grim situation.

The prejudice of radical islam demands fierce opposition of non believers. This is just a plain stupidity in the name of Allah! Their language itself shows how poisonous the non believers are in their hearts.

Amidst this global pandemic crisis, some people are trying to veil the Tablighi Jamaat’s irresponsibility by bringing up a 13th March report by PTI about government officials having still not declared corona virus a public health emergency and hence the Sunni Muslim group didn’t violate any norms.

Fact Check: The government of Delhi led by Arvind Kejriwal had on on 13/03/2020 prohibited any gathering of more than 200 people under the Epidemic Diseases Act. Also the order prohibited religious gatherings of over 50 people from 16 March.

To add, the government also directed people coming from any COVID-19 affected country to self-isolate. The members of the Tablighi Jamaat at Nizamuddin willfully violated both these directions by Delhi government.

The idiotic comparison between Markaz & exodus of migrant worker is not foolish but an attempt to create a confusion & further divide. The workers chose to travel because they felt there was no option, no food & shelter. There was indeed a lack of communication between the workers & the Delhi government.

The Tablighi Jamaat has been the ‘Super Spreader’ of Corona virus in India with more than 400 infected people belonging to it.

No one knows the whereabouts of those thousands of people who attended trhe Tablighi Jamaat and who they have contacted in the last fortnight. Maulana Saad, the chief of Tablighi Markaz who appealed all his followers to rather die in mosques is himself on a hideout. What an Irony! Unfortunately, all of this was done in the name of Islam.

For the past 70 years, the appeasement politics has had been deep rooted that a section of minorities consider themselves above Constitution of India. They have a belief of protection which is ensured by dangerous barter system of vote bank politics all this while.


With the command center shifting from educated liberals to religious heads, the scientific fervor of inclusive community has loosen. This somewhat poses a hindrance to collateral development and threat to coexistence with community in harmony.

It’s time for right thinking Muslims of the country to speak up against this gross violation of human safety. The uneducated people are not just Muslims but more or less in every religion and it’s time for sane minds to not allow the radical minds to grab this opportunity.

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