The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday August 23rd, 2023
South Asia is endangered when the ‘unholy’ realities in today’s India is ignored by Dr. Habib Siddiqui
Jyoti Rahman’s (JR) article “An Unholy Omen Is Looming Over Bangladesh”, published in The Wire, was brought to my attention by a retired academic. This article, although well written, suffers from too many theatrics, flaws, and exaggeration.
Writing about the birth of Pakistan on August 14, 1947, JRstates, “That country became an Islamic Republic. Hindus were not equal citizens there. They were dhimmis under the ‘sacred protection’ of the majority.”
First of all, Pakistan became an Islamic Republic only after 1956 when the constitution of 1956 was adopted, and there, too, there was no mention of the so-called ‘Dhimmis’ (lit. protected ones). As we all know too well, the naming did not change the secular character of the new government outside the office of the head of the state, which was to be held only by a Muslim. (Let’s not forget that in the last 76 years, India did not produce a single Muslim Prime Minister despite its parliamentary form of government.)
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Introduction To Potentials #poem by Jan Sand
“Unegged we gyre to inquire where our spectrum of possibility
Might apply, engage opportunity into potentials,
Empower what might conform to survivability.”
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Sceptic feathers #71 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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