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Muslim are indeed taking over most of the casual professions

It's reality that not just the puncharwallas but majority of the plumbers, electricians, barbers, carpenters, masons, vegetable vendors, mobile repairers, riggers, mechanics, runners, couriers, tailors and hospital staff are now muslim youth. We also see now comparatively far many muslim doctors and lawyers. This is the story of every town or city today. Meanwhile almost all essential skilled jobs are being given away or proudly sacrificed on the altar of faith by those youth who prefer to remain engaged months in yatras, kanwars, organising bhandaaras amnd jagrans, chasing cattle vendors, brandishing sticks and swords on roads , dancing in front of places of worships of other faiths, making and watching communal reels and whatsapp messages and also monetising self respect by becoming use and through cheap gadgets and rubbers of political parties during elections. It's like getting high on some drug unbothered to the crippling of the society. They are right that their faith is definitely in danger, but from within.


यह हकीकत है कि सिर्फ पंचरवाला ही नहीं बल्कि प्लंबर, इलेक्ट्रीशियन, नाई, बढ़ई, राजमिस्त्री, सब्जी विक्रेता, मोबाइल रिपेयर करने वाले, रिगर, मैकेनिक, धावक, कूरियर, दर्जी और अस्पताल के कर्मचारी भी अब मुस्लिम युवा हैं। हम देखते हैं कि आज कल मुस्लिम डॉक्टर और वकील भी बहुत हैं। आज हर कस्बे और शहर की यही कहानी है। इस बीच लगभग सभी आवश्यक कौशल वाली नौकरियाँ उन युवाओं द्वारा आस्था की वेदी पर गर्व से बलिदान की जा रही हैं जो महीनों तक यात्राओं, कांवड़ों, भंडारों, मवेशी विक्रेताओं का पीछा करने, सड़कों पर लाठी और तलवारें भांजने , अन्य धर्मों के पूजा स्थलों के सामने नाचने, सांप्रदायिक रील और व्हाट्सएप संदेश बनाने और देखने और चुनावों के दौरान राजनीतिक दलों के सस्ते गैजेट और रबर बनके अपने आत्मसम्मान को भुनाने में लगे रहते हैं। यह समाज को अपंग बनाने की चिंता किए बगैर किसी नशे में धुत्त होने जैसा ही है। और वैसे ये सही हैं कि उनकी आस्था निश्चित रूप से खतरे में है, लेकिन भीतर से।

Dehradun- The decay

There would always be some connoisseur of relaxed living, who can understand the guillotining of slow leisurely life and the drive, best. To reach Dehradun, there are two expressways build in past few years and two more under construction from Delhi and Yamunanagar. What for? Is it some heavy trading port city? Why people need to speed up to Dehradun from Delhi in two hours as being proudly claimed, when they are already just good four and half hours drive away only now. Have we completed all rural infrastructure? Dehradun once used to be holiday or retirees' retreat with lots of lichee and chakotra gardens and several streams or rivulets. In name of offices it had few cool elitist ones like Survey of India, Indian Military Acedamy, Headquarters of ONGC or its institutes, Geological survey offices or iconic Forest Research Institute. The authentic doon bakeries used to flavour the streets. Now it is turning into noisy and ugly road side highway town.

Namaz on roads and streets

It is illogical argument that muslims spill over to roads as show of power or because they are indisciplined. Even if others dislike or fail to appreciate, the way muslims indulge in worship is as per a defined set of rules which are obligatory on them. How namaz is offered also has set of commands requiring muslims to pray in particular way, standing, bending, sitting and prostrating to complete the namaz with such units of prayer. This all needs far more space per person than usually others occupy when they pray as per their faith. Mostly those in masjids which are smaller and get crowds beyond capacity, people occasionally spill over outside onto streets as community namaz can't be performed in cramped up space. People of other faiths holding ceremonies and marches too spill over to streets and roads if their place of worship fails to offer enough space. It's normal. Harmony is in tolerance. For nuisance there are of course law enforcers.

Roads in Mumbai

In early nineties, they started concretising the roads in suburbs with same great fanfare and with promise that within couple of years when that finishes Mumbai (then Bombay) would be transformed. They gave example of durability of Marine Drive concretisation done in thirties to raise hopes about this round. It is surprising that roads are still dug up after 30 years. It is never ending loop. You finish the last and restart the first. Civil works particularly roads are biggest money making machines for making black and white wealth.