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        अहमदपूर येथील मराठा कुणबी स्मशानभूमी प्रकरणात माननीय उच्च न्यायालयाचा समाजाचे बाजूने न्यायनिर्णय.

अहमदपूर येथील मराठा कुणबी स्मशान भूमीबाबत सन २००३ पासून जमिनीच्या मूळ मालकाच्या सुनेने वाद निर्माण केला होता. माननीय उच्च न्यायालयाने (माननीय न्यायमूर्ती किशोर संत) सदरचा न्यायनिर्णय देताना सदर वादीने तिच्या सासऱ्याकडून करून घेतलेले खरेदीखतच बेकायदेशीर असल्याचा निष्कर्ष नोंदवत सदर जमिनीचा वापर स्मशानभूमी म्हणून सन १९६० पूर्वीपासूनच निरंतर वापर होता व आहे असा निष्कर्ष नोंदवत मराठा कुणबी समाजाचा स्मशानभूमीवरील अधिकार अधोरेखित व कायम केला आहे. सदरची स्मशानभूमी अहमदपूर येथील सर्वे क्रमांक १९८ पोट हिस्सा क्रमांक २ मध्ये १ हेक्टर २० आर क्षेत्रावर स्थित आहे. सदर प्रकरण प्रलंबित असताना वादीने अंतिम संस्कारासाठी गेलेल्या अनेक लोकांवर फौजदारी केसेस दाखल करून दहशतीचे वातावरण निर्माण केले होते. आज तब्बल वीस वर्षानंतर अहमदपूर येथील मराठा कुणबी समाज सदर कुचंबणेतून मुक्त झाला आहे.

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रक्षाबंधन 

काश, शांता बचपन में बालक राम के साथ कुछ दिन रह पाती,

प्रभू राम में सीतादेवी से अग्निपरीक्षा  करवाने की सोच कभी ना आतीI

काश, कुंतीदेवी को अपनी एक बेटी होती,

पांडवोकी मती भ्रष्ट होकर द्रौपदी दावं पर कभी न लगतीI

काश, अल्लाह कॆ बंदे को एक भी बहन होती,

दुनिया की आधी बहने हिजाब मे न तडपतीI

काश, किसी मेवाखाऊ या सत्तानाथ को प्यारी बहन होती,

रक्षाबंधन या बहन का प्यार चुनावी निलाम की चीज न बनतीI

 

भगवान की देन है कि मेरे पास प्यारी बहन है,

पुरी दुनिया का भाई बनकर जीने का वचन,

हर साल, बिना भुले, लेकर हि रहती है I

 

The fainted wall of an old house,

Courting with a naked tree with lost leaves.

But wait, see, there is a friend,

Providing foundation to the house,

Being feeder of the naked tree,

and spreading all the colours from 

it's womb, through the naked one 

to add to the glory of the fainted  one.

It is mother earth, loves us, 

unconditionally,

Though we have built our home 

by exploiting her.

Is it not for us to reciprocate?

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Importance of Observing Refugee Day

Today is the World Refugee Day. It is expected that the world should take positive steps to ensure civil rights@ human rights of the refugees who have taken shelter in different countries in view of the fact that their life has become miserable in their own country.

Incidentally, most of the refuges worldwide, are from the Islamic countries. They have fled from their motherlands, to take shelter in other countries. The main reason behind their abandoning their motherlands is thrust of the radical Muslims striving for Sharia law. Ironically, once these refugees manage to take shelter in other democratic countries, they group together to identify themselves as radical Muslims and seek for Sharia law. They are responsible to disturb the social fabric of the country where they have taken shelter.

If we consider the history of refugees, the first notable instance where there was mass migration is of Jews. All the Jews residing in Arabian countries were harassed to the extent that their lives were threatened and many of the Jew families were eliminated by radical Muslims. This compulsory mass migration imposed on Jews has led to Israel Palestine dispute, which is the longest refugee-native confrontation ever existed.

It is pertinent to note that the first attempt to protect refugees and confer them the right to establish their colony finds place in the Holy Quran which recognizes the state of Israel of migrant Jews and confirms their right to live and establish their colony with unbridled right to profess their faith and religion. The Holy Quran acknowledges and mandates the exclusive right of Jews over the State of Israel.

Indian continent has suffered the issue of migration and refugees, more particularly at the time of partition of India thereby bifurcating India and Pakistan and further giving birth to Bangladesh. Though initially Pakistan was also promised as a secular country, by virtue of its majority population being Muslims, the country could not remain secular and is converted into an Islamic country wherein the population from other religion and faith is treated as secondary citizens.   Basic fundamental rights are also denied to them.

Considering the plight of Hindus and other minority religions like Sikh, Jain, Buddha, etc. migrating from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, i.e. the countries adjacent to India, in 2019, the widely criticized Citizenship Amendment Act is enacted and is now operationalized by virtue of the new rules notified by the Ministry of Home Affairs on 11^th March 2024.

The CAA removes barriers for acquiring Indian citizenship for Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from the neighboring countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who arrived in India on or before 31^st December 2014. While the 1955 Citizenship Act prohibited all undocumented migrants from acquiring Indian citizenship. The 2019 amendment expedites acquisition of citizenship for those minorities from the Islamic neighboring countries. It provides them legislative protection from deportation and imprisonment with the exception of those living in the tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura and the areas under the ‘Inner line’ special permit zones.

Though the CAA is enacted with a positive approach towards the minorities who have suffered in the neighboring Islamic countries, the opposition parties in India have criticized the CAA under the apprehension that if such migrants are conferred valid citizenship, it would change the demography of voters and would affect the minority vote base, which is traditionally considered as the vote bank of Indian National Congress and leftist/ communist parties. The protest is for selfish political reasons rather than humanitarian approach.

The problem of migration and refugees is not restricted to the Indian continent but has now emerged as the major problem all over the world, more particularly, European countries. In the last two to three decades, under their alleged humanitarian approach, these countries had welcomed migrant refugees from various parts of the globe, more particularly, from Islamic countries.

In fact, the generosity shown by the European countries was out of compulsion as these countries have competed amongst themselves to capture the natural resources like mines, minerals and oil available in the Islamic countries. They arranged for internal conflicts by virtually sponsoring those conflicts and providing arms and ammunitions to various groups in those countries. They are basically responsible for the unrest in those countries. They tried to give religious colour to the said conflicts and while giving such religious colour to those conflicts, the best available canvas for them was the Islamic culture. They managed the Imams, Mullahs, Maulavis and leaders of the Islamic countries to encourage the conflict and then under the pretext of saving those countries, managed their entry in those countries and then attempted to and practically captured the natural resources available in those countries. After they looted those natural resources available in those Islamic countries and when the conflict became unmanageable, they withdrew from those countries, leaving those countries to be managed by Islamic radicals, rendering virtually jungle raj in those countries.

 

Part of the population which helped these European countries to extract the natural resources available in those Islamic countries was accommodated by these countries under the so-called humanitarian approach to avoid blame as to exploiting those countries. However, the population so accommodated has stepped in those sheltering countries with their radical approach and extreme fait
h. They are striving to maintain their religious identity in the country where they have taken shelter.

When a group lands in a new country and thinks it necessary to protect its identity, the first thing which comes is that they are united and assertive. The assertiveness of their identity encroaches over the native culture of the country where they have taken shelter. This naturally leads to a conflict out of aggressive assertion of identity and attempt to capture authority and power in the country where these migrants have taken shelter. Now the consequential unrest generated by the aggressive, assertive approach of identity is visible when we see the refugee capturing roads or public places for their prayers without being sensitive to the discipline and culture in the said country.

Observing a Refugee Day would make sense only if the migrants in a country act sensitively and with accommodative approach with the culture and society of the country which has attempted to accommodate them with humanitarian approach. Only such accommodative approach would ensure proper future for those refugees as well as their next generations. They need to consider and acknowledge the fact that they are required to abandon their native country only because the radical approach of the rulers therein had made their lives miserable. If these migrant refugees, are insisting for the said radical approach at the cost of law and order and peace in the country which has given them shelter, then they are creating circumstances similar to the circumstances which made them abandon their own country.

 

It is required to be considered that the Refugee Day is not only for the refugees, but also is for the country sheltering those refugees. Unilateral expectations and unreasonable assertiveness would make it difficult for both the refugees as well as the country accommodating them. 

                                         Photo - Creator: bymuratdeniz | Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto

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Missed priorities of the Indian government.

Missed priorities of the Indian government.

Number of students from India are compelled to go abroad to acquire higher qualifications as the Indian government is not addressing their problem by providing them opportunities to acquire higher qualification in India.

The opportunities in India for securing higher qualifications are curtailed by the policy of the government, encouraging reservations and providing limited seats for every faculty including medical, engineering, commerce and every other professional qualification. These limitations are imposed mainly because the established educational institutions are supervised by the politicians and they want to maintain their monopoly over the same.   

It is a matter of common knowledge that considering the huge population of India, India doesn't fulfil the norm of necessary doctors to population ratio.

Considering the demand of doctors, engineers and other professionals in India, the students from India are lured to go abroad to acquire necessary qualifications so that they can earn their livelihood back in India.

However, the Indian government is not addressing the needs of the population and is busy enhancing infrastructure by spending a major portion of its budget on infrastructure. It is said that the infrastructure expenditure enables the political party in power to ponder money from the contractors and thus the priority of the government in power is always on infrastructural expenses rather than the expenses required to enhance the educational facilities to the students, which are more needed.

Thus, even teenage students are compelled to go abroad, even in the countries wherein the social atmosphere and the law-and-order position is not so satisfactory. We may remember that after Russia attacked Ukraine, the Indian government was busy in ensuring that its students are brought back in the country safely. It was for the first time the country realized that how the students are taking risks, even risk to their life, for securing proper educational qualifications, more particularly higher educational qualifications. Students are taking the risk only because the Indian government has failed to address the need of the students by providing sufficient educational institutions or universities catering opportunities of higher education.

As on the date, India needs more institutions and universities enabling the students to secure education, more particularly higher education in their own country, rather than the bullet train projects or highly expensive infrastructural projects, but who cares?  

Considering the European standard ratio of doctors to population, India is far away from achieving that ratio only because there is lack of sufficient educational institutions catering that education. Considering the population of India, every district needs a separate medical college providing graduate and post graduate level education with facility of attached Hospital with minimum 100 beds.

However, the present-day government is more interested in exhibiting the so-called progress rather than achieving the progress addressing the needs of the population.

 

Indian students attacked in Kyrgyzstan .

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राम सत्तेतला,  राम सत्तेबाहेरचा.

 

मी पाटील, श्रीराम माझं दैवत.

पाटीलगढी कोसळलीय,  नग्न भग्न झालिय.

पण आजही कोसळलेल्या देवघरातील देव्हाऱ्यावर,

सत्तेचे प्रतीक असणारा कळस जपून ठेवलाय,

पुन्हा कधीतरी सत्ता येईल या आशेवर.

 

माझा राम, एक वचनी, एकपत्नी, एक बाणी.

माझा राम, पित्याला दिलेलं वचन पाळण्यासाठी

वनवास पत्करणारा.

राजसेना हाताशी नसली म्हणून निराश न होता,

समाजाबाहेरच्या वनवासी मर्कटसेना, जटायू, जांबवंतसेनेला

हाताशी धरून अवघा समुद्र पार करत

आपल्या सीतेला, प्राणप्रियेला, परत मिळविणारा.

 

वनवासातला राम हा असा होता,

सर्वांना हवाहवासा होता.

 

वनवास संपला, राम राजा झाला.

आनंदी आनंद झाला!

वनवासी राम स्थिरस्थावर झाला.

जनतेला सोबत घेऊन चालला.

 

कुटुंब वत्सल राम जनतेचा झाला,

जनतेच्या नजरेत स्वतःला बसवायला लागला.

 

मग कोणी उपटसुंभ बोलला म्हणून,

सीतेचा त्याग करायलाही नाही कचरला.

दरबारी  भाटांचे महत्त्व कमी होईल म्हणून

शंबुकाचा वध करायलाही सरसावला.

धरती माय, पोटात घे,

म्हणून सीतेला विवश असाहाय्य करून गेला.

 

उच्चभ्रू समाज स्वार्थापुरता रामाचा होता,

वनवासी समाज रामानेच दूर लोटला होता.

रामाचा दरबार, राजवाडा, जन्मस्थळ लुटलं, उध्वस्त केलं,

तरीही रामाला देव बनवणारा दरबारी शांत, शांत होता.

 

परत एकदा वनवासी जागा झाला,

रामाला तो विसरला नव्हता.

गाव गाव जागा झाला, वीट वीट जमा झाली,

दलिताघरचा चौपाल समोर करून,

राम जन्मभूमीचा शिलाण्यास झाला.

अवघा हिंदू एक झाला,

 जात पात विसरून गेला.

 

पुढे रामभक्त सत्तेत आला

दलिताघरच्या चौपालाचा शिलाण्यास

सत्तेचा पाया ठरला.

राम जिंकला, सत्तेत आला.

चौपालाचा  शिलाण्यास तोकडा झाला!

 

राजा सरसावला, त्याने पुन्हा एकदा शिलाण्यास केला.

इथे वनवासी नव्हता सोबत,

होता तो संघाचा मुखिया!

आता रामाचा परत एकदा प्रतिष्ठापना सोहळा होतोय,

दलिता घरचा चौपाल पूर्ण विस्मरणात जातोय,

संघाचा मुखिया दिमाखात मिरवतोय!

 

प्रस्थापितांसाठी आरक्षणाचा बाजार मांडून

माणूस- माणूस लढवला जातोय.

मणिपूर जळले काय,

महाराष्ट्र पेटला काय,

आम्हाला कुठला फरक पडतोय?

 

अरे नाचा, अरे नाचा, दिवे लावा, दिवे!

आपला राजा प्रतिष्ठापना करतोय!

संघाचा मुखिया घोषणा देतोय, 

गर्व से कहो हम हिंदू है!

 

दलिताघरचा चौपाल असो

की धर्मप्रतिक शंकराचार्य,

त्यांच काय घेऊन बसले राव?

लक्षात ठेवा, आता राम सत्तेतला आहे,

 

जी हुजूर, जी सलाम,

आपला मात्र, मोठ्ठा राम-राम!!

 

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