My Muslim Brethren!
Posted : January 24, 2009 at 10:37 pm [IST]
Please stop calling yourselves minority and also make others to stop doing that. Let us see how the rest of world is facing the new world and making a place for themselves. Let us take lesson from US and Japan where the identification with the faith is very personal. In Japan, one hardly gets any indication about the religion by their name. I myself got embarrassed while trying to tell something based on my assumptions of the faiths of some of my hosts in automobile or machine tools companies.
Can we not move ahead with modern education? Why can’t all the madarassas and gurukuls if any switch over to the curricula of CBSE? Why can’t the minorities go for getting their kids excel in English? I have all praise for a Dalit leader who insists on English learning as means for doing away with the deprivation. Look out at the North-east, how fast they are going ahead because of the English education that comes through Christian missionary schools. Who will oppose these madrassas that arrange some extra class every day for education of religion, if the students willingly join it? Let the madrassas be open for all the faiths and so the other educational institutes. Let every family of the country participate sarva sikhsha aviyan. Same education for all will break all barriers of faith and make India integrated and strong.
I had requested a number of state governments to drop its boards of secondary and higher secondary education and switch over to CBSE, as I think a separate board in each state as a waste and source of corruption and red tape. On the same line I appeal to all the madrassa boards of the country to switch over to CBSE curricula. English, science, computer, and mathematics are the needs for becoming employable and getting into mainstream of global competition.
And I appeal to the Pakistan to consider one thing before going to involve China in our affairs. China will never be a good friend. Why are they so suspicious and indifferent with India? We are brothers since last 5000 years or more. China can help Pakistan only for harming India, the only country that can compete with China. Working together Pakistan and India can go far ahead at much better speed. All the resources getting wasted in readying for impending suspicion and possibility of wars will get used for alleviating the deprivation of the people at the bottom of the pyramid.
I appeal to Pakistan to shun this new policy of giving blank cheque to China to tackle India. There is nothing to lose in developing better understanding and relation with India.
- Indra
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