Read this piece by Loujain where she narrates an account of her previous arrest and shares what drives her. Reports say she’s been tortured, threatened, gone on hunger strikes and been out of communication for long periods. But unlike Bharadwaj, who is still waiting for the government to back up its list of charges (which include sections of the UAPA) in court, Loujain’s trial, which began briefly in March before the pandemic, resumed recently in a Specialized Terrorism Court. Like Bharadwaj, Loujain has been in jail for two years, the first 10 months without any charges or a trial. In the state’s capital Lucknow, the police stopped an inter-faith wedding despite there being no conversion and despite the families having consented to the marriage.ĭecember 17th 2018 4,906 Retweets 4,573 Likes The only thing that puzzles me is how is this happening despite so many analysts declaring that we are in a post-caste India :( According to this report, 42 suicides, 12 murders and 2 double murders. Why? Because of the horrible un-democratic sin of having an inter-caste affair. Don’t believe me? You may have heard of Bareilly ki Barfi, but here is some Bareilly ki Democracy: 58 people have either been murdered or have committed suicide in the last two years in Bareilly. I think it the state of Uttar Pradesh specially is drowning in democracy and desperately needs to be rescued for it. Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant recently said that there is too much democracy in India.
No there is nothing to see here my friends, what shock and what outrage? The whole world knows that there is no limit that Indians won’t cross in their hatred for their fellow countrymen. Why should the reaction to this particular murder be any different? Because it this time the murder has happened in the background of a law which has criminalised inter faith marriage? Because the BJP has orchestrated so much hate against muslims that in that hatred babies in the wombs of Hindu women are being killed? No, I haven’t been living under that big a rock.