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41 Writers Return Indian Award, Cite Climate of Intolerance

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n fact, one of the protesting writers in 2015 while returning her Padma Shri has cited the Sikh killings of 1984 as one of her reasons. It took thirty one years for this writer’s conscience to be aroused by the genocide of 1984. There is no atmosphere of intolerance in the country. The manufactured revolt is a case of an ideological intolerance towards the BJP.
A few questions to the protestors; How many of them courted arrest, protested or raised their voice against the dictatorship of Mrs. Indira Gandhi during the emergency? Did the writers speak against the Sikh killings of 1984 or the Bhagalpur riots of 1989? Was their conscience not shaken by the corruption involving lakhs of crores between 2004 and 2014?
With the Congress showing no signs of revival and an insignificant Left lacking legislative relevance, the recipients of past patronage are now resorting to “politics by other means”. The manufactured protest of the writers is one such case.


Simply awesome writting by Arun jaitley.
 
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I agree: there should have been a far more vigorous resistance to some of the worst instances of blackmail of the state that took place in recent decades:
  1. Banning the Satanic Verses;
  2. Not allowing Taslima Nasreen to live wherever in India she pleased, a fault aided and abetted by the CPI(M), although the MIM were prime movers;
  3. Allowing Penguin to be blackmailed into withdrawing Wendy Donniger's book.
Having said that, as far as the present movement is concerned, better late than never.

Should it be that we wait for the cycle to turn and start protesting only then?

People by nature are centrists and Independent while both right and left extremists have agendas and thrive on the acts of each other to raise passions in people and divide them.

If there was no satanic verses, there would have never been any question of ban or fatwa

If there was no Dadri murder there was never a reason for this resignation drama

People need neither of these acts to make a living while politicians need these acts for their living.
 
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Great that all the PSEUDO-CONGIS who were hidden behind a MASK of intellectualism all these years have finally shown there true faces one by one!!

They were hidden because they are undistinguished writers. Who are these jokers and how many people have really heard of them ?

No body noticed when they got awards because nobody knew them.

There are scores of journalists better know than them.
 
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This trend of returning govt's awards by writers from different states of different languages is not good for the overall image of govt. these actions do not seems to be guided by any party ideology


What image bhai.
Nayanthara Sehgal the so called writer that started this stupidity received this award just after the two years the Sikh riot ,from the govt that supported the killing of 8000 innocent Sikhs life .Her relative Indira Gandhi sabotaged democracy and jailed entire writers and activists and opposition during emergency.
From 1990s Kashmiri Pandit started their exodus from Kashmir to other parts of India.Where was this so called liberals at that time ?

For the stupid Kerala writers Satchidanandan and Sara Joseph ,a poor professor was attacked by some Islamist fanatics and they chopped his hand .He lost his wife and life .Where was this morons (sorry I dont respect them ,not anymore) at that time .

We Indians can understand hypocrisy and politics both from politicians and so xalled liberal writers.
We wont respect you.
 
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Meanwhile :tdown:

Dance bars to reopen in Maharashtra as SC puts ban on hold, CM Fadnavis says will abide

indianexpress:com/article/india/india-news-india/dance-bars-to-reopen-in-maharashtra-as-supreme-court-puts-ban-on-hold/

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a state law banning dance bars in Maharashtra, observing the new law is very similar to the one the court had struck down in 2013. A bench led by Justice Dipak Misra, however, added that the Maharashtra police will ensure that dignity of women was not affected by the dance performances and that the licensing authority will also regulate indecent dance performances. (height of stupdity :cheesy:)

The order has been passed by the court as it heard a contempt plea against a 2014-amenndment to the Bombay Police Act and the refusal of the licensing authority to let dance bars re-open even after the previous law was held bad by the court. The bench will hear the case in detail on November 6. Last year, ostensibly to nullify the SC ruling that had paved the way for dance bar owners lift their shutters once again, the Congress-led Maharashtra government had cleared an amendment to plug the legal loophole, which had led the court quash the ban in 2013. The state cabinet decided to extend the ban to high-end hotels and private clubs too and the new law will hence affect a total ban on dance bars and dance performances. -

In the process, however, the state government has clearly ignored the larger point made by the apex court in its 133-page July 2013 judgement. While the state government has apparently chosen to drop a provision from the Bombay Police Act, 1951, that allowed dance performances in “exempted” establishments like three-star and five-star hotels but banned it elsewhere, it has failed to address the real issue flagged by the SC. “A large number of imaginative alternative steps could be taken instead of completely prohibiting dancing if the real concern of the State is the safety of women,” the court had said in its order, while emphasising that the state had failed in establishing that such restrictions would be reasonable or be in the interest of general public.

The SC had added: “It would be more appropriate to bring about measures which should ensure the safety and improve the working conditions of the persons working as bar girls.” The court had then unequivocally told the Maharashtra government: “In our opinion, in the present case, the restrictions in the nature of prohibition cannot be said to be reasonable, inasmuch as there could be several lesser alternatives available which would have been adequate to ensure safety of women than to completely prohibit dance.”

Wondering why there was a need to have the contentious provisions in the Police Act, the SC had asserted that there were “already sufficient rules and regulations and legislation in place which, if efficiently applied, would control if not eradicate all the dangers to the society,” and “protect the dignity of women.” “The Rules under the Bombay Police Act have been framed in the interest of public safety and social welfare and to safeguard the dignity of women as well as prevent exploitation of women.
 
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Meanwhile :tdown:

Dance bars to reopen in Maharashtra as SC puts ban on hold, CM Fadnavis says will abide

indianexpress:com/article/india/india-news-india/dance-bars-to-reopen-in-maharashtra-as-supreme-court-puts-ban-on-hold/

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a state law banning dance bars in Maharashtra, observing the new law is very similar to the one the court had struck down in 2013. A bench led by Justice Dipak Misra, however, added that the Maharashtra police will ensure that dignity of women was not affected by the dance performances and that the licensing authority will also regulate indecent dance performances. (height of stupdity :cheesy:)

The order has been passed by the court as it heard a contempt plea against a 2014-amenndment to the Bombay Police Act and the refusal of the licensing authority to let dance bars re-open even after the previous law was held bad by the court. The bench will hear the case in detail on November 6. Last year, ostensibly to nullify the SC ruling that had paved the way for dance bar owners lift their shutters once again, the Congress-led Maharashtra government had cleared an amendment to plug the legal loophole, which had led the court quash the ban in 2013. The state cabinet decided to extend the ban to high-end hotels and private clubs too and the new law will hence affect a total ban on dance bars and dance performances. -

In the process, however, the state government has clearly ignored the larger point made by the apex court in its 133-page July 2013 judgement. While the state government has apparently chosen to drop a provision from the Bombay Police Act, 1951, that allowed dance performances in “exempted” establishments like three-star and five-star hotels but banned it elsewhere, it has failed to address the real issue flagged by the SC. “A large number of imaginative alternative steps could be taken instead of completely prohibiting dancing if the real concern of the State is the safety of women,” the court had said in its order, while emphasising that the state had failed in establishing that such restrictions would be reasonable or be in the interest of general public.

The SC had added: “It would be more appropriate to bring about measures which should ensure the safety and improve the working conditions of the persons working as bar girls.” The court had then unequivocally told the Maharashtra government: “In our opinion, in the present case, the restrictions in the nature of prohibition cannot be said to be reasonable, inasmuch as there could be several lesser alternatives available which would have been adequate to ensure safety of women than to completely prohibit dance.”

Wondering why there was a need to have the contentious provisions in the Police Act, the SC had asserted that there were “already sufficient rules and regulations and legislation in place which, if efficiently applied, would control if not eradicate all the dangers to the society,” and “protect the dignity of women.” “The Rules under the Bombay Police Act have been framed in the interest of public safety and social welfare and to safeguard the dignity of women as well as prevent exploitation of women.
Employment for many. I don't see what's bad about this
 
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Employment for many. I don't see what's bad about this

It eventually turns into a den of vices.

Its opening of pandoras box. Thailand started out the same way. Today its name is mud. The first thing one associates with Thailand is prostitution.


There is no easy way to explain how it happens. But its the start of a vicious cycle, starts out innocently by showing "classical dances". Ends up with drugs, prostitution, black money, goonda's politician nexus, corruption, Cops on the take etc etc.

Did you know that once upon a time more than 80% of the "dance bars" in mumbai were owed by Cops ?

If this starts up again we are looking down a dark dark road.

qz dot com/524859/after-a-decade-mumbais-infamous-dance-bars-are-about-to-reopen/

read this article and look at the pictures.

Ever wonder why the women protesting are covering their faces ? :disagree:
 
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@Akheilos @jamahir .... lets not fall into usual saghi vs non sanghi debate... lets talk about freedom of speech... what do you people think about "extent" of this "freedom"??? i mean same salman rushdie wrote "satanic verses" which was banned in india and abroad....should it be revoked and made legal in india? and charlie Hebdo cartoons are also "freedom" of expression??? you support them?

"freedom of speech" should of course be part of society as everyone must have the right to give their opinion, but with one qualification - the opiner must not provoke without research and deep thought... this goes for his or her supporters too.

i will start with one narrow case.

it has become fashionable to bash islam without thought or consideration... this is in the same mould as bashing socialism/communism... the bashers and provokers are the same, the liberals and the right-wing of the west and their followers elsewhere.

the bashers see islam in the wrong light projected by western governments... for example, when i used to watch bbc on tv, whenever they showed palestine they showed post-2007 gaza with the burqa and mosque culture brought by hamas, the palestine branch of the mullah group, "muslim" brotherhood... one must see two things here, (a). hamas was put into power in gaza in 2007 by the western-led "quartet", (b). bbc wasn't showing progressive muslim societies like syria, libya, even the "west bank" part of palestine.

why did charlie hebdo cartoons publish those cartoons ( which i don't remember correctly ) without also presenting the original side of islam - for example, the socialistic economic and social procedures in islam, like in wedding/marriage procedure??

"freedom of speech" is absolutely needed but it should necessarily involve intellectual debate and rational thinking and giving credit where it is due.

if charlie hebdo made their cartoons about islam, i am sure they stand also against socialism/communism.

but i must say one thing about the ordinary muslims who protested ( especially in south asia ) against charlie hebdo... they didn't protest against the nato invasions of two muslim-majority countries, libya and syria... this disqualifies these protestors from taking any action against charlie hebdo.
 
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One thing is coming to my mind. Suppose after some time lets say in 2019 or in 2024 whenever the Govt. changes hands, will these writers take back their awards? And if yes, then again will they return it if the Govt. changes hands again? (if some of them are alive!!)

@ranjeet
 
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