The West Bengal government and Left parties showed a direct effect and explained it away as the work of anti-social elements, if not that of some Islamic militants from across the border. "There are some extremists here, but they belong to fringe groups and are not part of the mainstream," says a senior stern envoy in Dhaka, trying to downplay the threat. are compensating the price for revaluate the threat of minority communalism. It was conversely in Bangladesh; called itself secular however posed a threat to government that projected itself as the chief protector of minorities. "Secular" mobilization has lent strength to the notion that while all communalism is bad, majority communalism poses a much greater threat to the nation than minority communalism. are left with only majority communalism as a strong adversary. The secular bloc does not wish to answer the question, venture and confront minority communalism which in fact has created a space for it to grow, as its leaders realize the power vested in it as a political force or vote bank. But the truth remains intact as the Bangladeshi government on being forced by the Western , at least for the time being, has toned down its calls for rigorous implementation of Islamic law and put the focus on alleviating poverty. In India, one face this question with much of drama and gape, in some or the other way all parties have contributed to this growth: the Sangh Parivar by posing a threat to the physical existence of Muslims, the Congress by playing up this threat, the Left by underplaying minority communalism and the liberal Muslim intelligentsia by harping on the decline of Urdu and safeguarding of Muslim Personal Law and so forth. The argument made in India is that is Indian society an uneducated, deeply-religious, conservative society where faith is an anchor unlike in the west. In such conditions criticism of god or religion can - and often does – provoke violence. To prevent this governments have to censor and ban. In the lack of a better social dynamism, the orthodox honcho hold on the Muslim community has increased. The truth is that on almost every such occasion when violence has occurred, people have been incited and provoked. Not by the novelist or artist, not by the criticism or the cartoon, but by those who have exploited and manipulated the situation for their own ends. The authority to ban and the power to censor plays into their hands. The growth in political space for the affirmation of communal identity has only helped conservative elements. Secular faction, including the Communist, encourages such tendencies by their speechlessness. Some of the blocs came up with their explanation for this havoc, they gave the example of Jawaharlal Nehru's interest for parliamentary democracy based on common adult franchise was based on his perception that colonial exploitation had left India and its people backward in comparison with the significance of modernity – industrial economy, education and political awareness. Leading them to fall back upon pre-modern identities of caste, community and religion. The only savior which showed some progress in this barbaric tradition was industrialization, by bringing together workers of all religions and castes, one had the power to eradicate the pre modern mindset and form a new collective identity of class. Modern education was expected to raise them above pre-modern identities. The experience of parliamentary democracy, where each individual is left alone before the ballot box, with the symbolic withdrawal of all extraneous controls - those of the family, the community, and caste - was expected to act as a catalyst for creating modern political sensibilities. However one hardly finds it happening around us.
Let us catch a Hindu or two, eat them in the mornings and evenings too……ironically they were the same boys from the neighborhood ! Jabbar, Ramjan , Aalame , Kabir and Abedin! They were all friends who lived in the same area, met frequently, took joint decisions on the issues of significance. And it was the same people who wanted to make a snack of Suranjan.
This is what is happening around the world which in order to safeguard their own religious interests have defamed the other. The spar between secularism and communalism has come up with multi-community mobilization a complete opposite to single community mobilization. If the majority and minority communalisms are set out to brawl each other, one find India in an immense catastrophe. In turn affecting their conjunct challenge guiding their mutual fortifying. The most disturbing thing happened in India, BJP exploiting the story of Lajja for its own communal agenda and giving an incomplete and one- sided picture of the state of things in Bangladesh. This is the singular, hollow, nonetheless, emotion-evoking event through which Hindu extremist Part BJP came into power in India ending the country’s secular image and reigniting the pre-partition animosity between Hindus and Muslims. The fatwa is issued against every Muslim who by some means goes against or in the sight of the sharia goes against the Muslim ethics. Here one simply needs Modernity to counter attack them, but we hardly see it happening . The democratic system of the government by giving them the power to exercise their laws independently becomes faulty. The movie Parzania was one such great attempt by the director to warn the Indian population, about the gruesome Hindu-Muslim riot that happened in Gujarat .It was banned in Gujarat because the ruling government saw it as declension of their party’s image. The law and order of Bangladesh has to be well define. But the parties are not interested in solving the exposed threat of Fundamentalism. They instead link violence with each other and blame each other for it and so fail to address the root causes. Coalition government officials deny there is any such problem while the middle class tend to dismiss the fundamentalists as irrelevant. Indicating the real faces of the government which is power hungry. The birth of the anti-human thoughts and deeply extremists view points. It has appeared to be very bold in the sense of depicting more of blood shed and never ending execution of the subaltern. One’s lose is other’s gain a very true and life example is set by the author when she talks about a T.V report which very satirically states that
At the instigation of the BJP, the kar sevaks broke down the Babri Masjid only to strengthen the Muslim clerics of Bangladesh.
It gives a clear view of what government bodies do in the situation of terror . They are either in some hiding or promoting the situation to become the worst later giving soothing condolences to humble civilians who have lost their relative or dear ones it these state authorized terror.
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