People have been telling us since morning that gangs of Hindu youths could attack your house at any time. My father, in a state of extreme distress, moved my mother and siblings to the best "Mughal Hotel" in Agra. After spending a few hours there, my mother decided how long we would be hiding here and your father is alone here, so we should go back. We returned in the afternoon. Demonstrations were taking place all over the city in favor of building a Ram temple in place of the Babri Masjid. It was a morning in November 1990, when the whole of Agra was in a frenzy of LK Advani's "Rath Yatra". We lived in a Muslim-majority area before the current house. But seven years ago, my father decided that by living in such a population we would be cut off from the mainstream of the Indian people, so he took up residence in this Hindu-majority area. When we returned home from the hotel, my father gave me his telephone diary which contained the numbers of all the senior officials of the Agra administration, the Commissioner, the Deputy Commissioner, the DIG and the SP. These were all people we had family friendships with. They used to come to our house for parties and we used to go to their house. At dusk, an angry mob gathered in front of our house, led by one of our neighbors. When I told my father, he breathed a sigh of relief and said that if he had "Sanjay Bhai", he would take care of them, because Sanjay's younger brother was a very good friend of my brother and they both used to play together. Were But we were not surprised when the man who provoked the whole mob to attack our house was Sanjay. They started raining stones on our house.
All our windows were shattered, the front glass door was smashed and our car was wrecked. I called almost every senior police officer or administrative head of Agra but no one picked up my phone. ۔ These were the people I used to call Uncle because I was only 19 at the time. It was only twenty minutes, but these twenty minutes spanned many centuries. This is the event that motivated me to write this book. A book that makes your eyes water every few seconds and you have to clean your eyes to look at the writing. It's been a few days since this book hit the market, but the facts in it have taken the world by surprise. When Karan Thapar interviewed the author of the book, Ghazala Wahab, she said, "I am never easily influenced by any person or book, but this book forced me to Interview the author of The title of the book is "Born A Muslim: Some Truths about Islam in India" (Born in a Muslim Family: Facts about Islam in India). Introducing, Karan Thapar said that the answer to the question in the title of this book is not just a truth but a painful fact. For Karan Thapar, the book is an autobiography, an anecdotal, an analytical research and it contains a wide range of historical material. Ghazala Wahab and her family are one of the few Muslim families in India who can be called a pioneer of modern secular, liberal morality today.
Ghazala Wahab herself, a well-known journalist and writer, was inspired by the "Me Too" movement and in 2019 accused MJ Akbar, a well-known editor and politician, of sexual harassment many years later. The book is a gruesome tale of 24 crore Muslims living in India, in which the city of Nagarabad has combined the stories of Muslims living as a minority to form a huge picture. A picture of India in which Muslims The settlements look like a roadside wound, a pile of rubbish and mountains of dirt. These are Muslims who, over time, have been forced to move to areas where only Muslims live so that they can support each other in the event of a disaster, disaster or attack. To be able to These areas and these settlements are a telling picture of dirt, filth and poverty all over India. Ghazala Wahab mentions innumerable settlements like Johapara in Ahmedabad that are the worst ghetto. According to him, the tragedy of Muslims is that over time they have become one of the poorest minorities in India. In the status of the poorest of the poor, the millions of Shudras and Dalits living in India. This is because continuous efforts are being made at the government level and at the level of NGOs and civil society to give Shudras and Dalits a high position in the society and provide them with decent employment and they are on a journey from their present status to social heights. Are also doing.
But Muslims are now falling into a deeper abyss of poverty than they once were, and there is no program at the governmental level or in civil society to lift them out of this backwardness and move them forward. Someone dares to raise their voice. The majority of Muslims are engaged in small occupations including blacksmithing, carpentry, weaving, etc. These Muslims especially raise buffaloes and trade in meat and leather. That is why when they have to be intimidated, killed or assassinated, people like Chief Minister Aditya Nath Yogi start speaking out against the same business. This tragedy of Muslims in the book
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