My dear city has yet again been rocked. Twin blasts ripped through two very important eating joints evicting lives, charring bodies and scaring the hearts of Hyderabadis.
Neither blasts nor riots are new to the nawabi city. Ruled by the Nizams, Hyderabad, for centuries, has been the centre for music, arts, trade, revolution and more notably communal disharmony. A land that rose in arms against the atrocious zamindari system, Hyderabad is one among the only few regions of India that were partially successful in implementing land rights. What started of and subsequently came to be known as the Telangana Arms Struggle has since then frettered out making way for a bloodier 'social movement' by the name naxalism. Yet, through these turbulant times the communal camaraderie was intact.
Spurred by the Razakars - a paramilitary force under the Nizam, in the 1930s just before independence, we see the communal fabric tearing apart slowly. The atrocities heaped by the razakars under the demonic leadership of Khasim Razvi on the non-Muslims, especially the women, left permanent scars on the population of the entire region that included parts of Karnataka.
The State of Hyderabad and subsequently Andhra Pradesh, under an independent India never got out of the communal hatered. The only difference was, our politicians had replaced the razakars.
And Hyderabad continues to suffer even in the IT-led 21st century.
The blame-game is a part of any blast package. Truth 'lies' on both sides of the finger raised.What is to be observed most in the recent blasts is the deviance in the terror plot.
My knowledge of terror in Hyderabad (produced a docu on communalism in Hyderabad) tells me that this is a very rare instance of an act of terror outside the ambit of religion. Contrast this with the blasts in the Mecca Masjid a few months back. This is also a rare incident of the new city being targeted.
Having targeted establishment outside the realm of religion, are the terrorists setting a new agenda?
The recent plot is indeed a telling statement on the changed communal dimensions of the city. It is for sure a victory of the mehnati hyderabadi - cutting across religions, that the terrorist has had to target venues outside religion. The twist in the script is even the more dangerous because, the market economy can't withstand it. Even amidst communal chaos if Hyderabad grew as a hot spot for IT and other knowledge industries the simple reason was that the new city was far off from trouble. But by targetting the beautiful Lumbini park at the junction where the twin cities meet, the terrorists have moved miles ahead in their designs of destabilising India.
Hyderabad is truly a jinxed city.
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...a very nice peace nicely written; anyone could feel that the city is very close to your heart...may be inside, that's why you are: @ hydrabhadri...so, the article stands for many things(issues) including your name!
I have often read in stories about brothers who have turned vowed enemies, but now i see how it happens. There may be millions of reasons to fight against each other under the mask of religion, but, it really pains me to see we did not find one single reason to stand united. It frustrates me to be a mute witness to this horrible scene enacted right before my eyes, turning the wonderful world before my eyes into a horror. Where ever i go, i find people fighting under this naquaab.Will my country and its children ever awake into a world lead by thee????? Thank you Sunil Sir for everything you have expressed, it is really a wake up call to think about a way out.
dear bhadri,
your piece on blasts is moving. it touches heart and explains how the Nawabi city has been shattered.
today (Aug 30) all newspapers have carried a pic of a suspected in blasts.
but i strongly feel all those who were involved in demolishing Babri masjid in Ayodhya in 1991 are equally responsible for blasts as the terrorists. I believe had those hard-core fundamentalists not demolished the masjid blasts thousands would not have died in blasts.
all those who claim themselves of saviours of Hindu, India, should introspect. It is highly disgusting to watch a man like Bal Thackrey continue to play a major role in a state's politics despite his involvement in barbaric riots, which took lives of more than 900.
After hyderabad blasts BJP is demanding bringing in POTA to curb terrorist acts. I laugh at their demand. The people who withdrew hundreds of cases filed against shiva sainiks in connection with Mumbai riots demand POTA.
Recently former CM of Maharashtra Manohar Joshi, in a TV debate, defended his action of withdrawing cases. He said that he had no guilt for his act!
See the parody, such people boast themselves as deshbhaktas!
HI Mamu
Nicely written piece yaar.... Couldnt go through thoroughly....
Ill do it in the meantime....
Proud 2 b the nephew of a gr8 writer....
Good for people to know.
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