31 August Building Secularism From the Ashes KMC In riot hit Muzaffarnagar, all is not lost. There sports heals wounds, unites (Hindustan Times, 31 August, pp. 1, 24). Muslims and Jats, men/boys and girls/women are playing kabaddi, cricket and are wrestling, and rekindling age old ties. Nothing has changed between us and Im happy I havent lost a friend, said Shabnam, a former junior India kabaddi probable. When Jat wrestling coach Nirdosh took in five Muslim trainees, eyebrows were raised in nearby Mansurpur village, but nothing more. Despite the riots, people want peace. It (the riots) happened because of politics. Everyone wants to live in peace, like we do here (in the akhara), said Ankit Chaudhury, a wrestler. Vikas Sharma, a cricket coach stresses, Communal tension has no place here. There is a good ratio of Muslims and Jats but nothing has happened in the (cricket) stadium. Their friendship extends beyond the boundaries (of the stadium). This is further proof, if such was required, that our people are essentially secular. It is the communal and opportunist political parties, (in UP there are both), and their spread of communal poison that are the real anti-national threat to peace and harmony.
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 07:48:17 +0000
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