The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday January 10th, 2022 – Tintin birthday
Hindutvadi chauvinism needs to be censured by Dr. Habib Siddiqui
Chauvinism remains the greatest threat to pluralism and often triggers genocide. When a chauvinist group is in power, it poses a mortal threat to others not just within its own confined spaces but also outside. In our time, Modi and the Sangh Parivar have become a threat to all the non-Hindus everywhere. It is no accident that Muslim and Christian minorities in India are the worst sufferers in the hands of Hindutvadi fascists, while the BJP government and its party leaders incite extermination campaigns.
Genocide is a process and not an end result. It goes through several stages. As I have noted elsewhere nearly a decade ago, “Genocide requires preparation and planning. It begins in the minds of men and needs mass mobilization to commit the horror against the targeted group. The perpetrators or the executioners must not only feel secure but also must be self-motivated and zealous to commit their horrendous crimes. Often times, the task of preparing the mind is left to ideologues and chauvinist intellectuals who sell the poison tablet of intolerance against the targeted group. Without political leadership the overwhelming majority of the perpetrators would not lift a finger in harm. However, once set in motion, typically with a few encouraging and enabling words, they, both – the eliminationist regimes’ shock troops and their societies’ ordinary members – give themselves, body and soul, to death. They do so easily, effortlessly.”
And this is what we are witnessing today in places like India and Myanmar.
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I no longer dream! #poem & Art – #ArtInstallation by Amir Khatib
“I no longer dream!
Dreams were my only commodity to live;
sell it to people
And if I can’t dream about it again
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AntySaurus Prick #026 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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