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I WONT SAY BHARAT MATA KI JAY A MUSLIM GIRL’S MESSAGE TO HINDU NATIONALISTS March 15, 2016 Amina Baig My name is Amina Baig a second year BBA student and I will not say Bharat mata ki jay or Vande mataram, it is totally my choice and I wish not to utter those words. No where in the constitution it is written that you have to say Bharat mata ki jay or sing vande mataram to be Indian. It is just the Hindutva version of India which they want to force down our throats and if anyone dares to defy it then you are a so called anti-nationalist. It has become a yardstick to prove your patriotism especially if you are a Muslim. Moreover India is no Hindu country, in fact there is no Hindu country in the universe to the grief of Hindu nationalists even Nepal is no longer a Hindu country. So if India is not a Hindu country then why a Hindu representation of Mother India i.e; Bharat Mata a fictional goddess who isn’t even there in any Hindu scripture. So if India is not a Hindu country then all the more reason not to say Bharat mata ki jay which is a hindutva representation of India. The hindu symbol of India that is bharat mata should be abolished in this country and songs like vande mataram are no longer needed in free India, in fact they are often used as a tool to target the Muslim minority. From one of the previous article that I came across on this site and all words below fit very well here and I quote “Why is India a mother, why is Bharat a Mata ? This imagery of the nation entrap women into pinjras where we are reduced to biological reproducers of its members (sons) limited to mothers, wives, sisters in need of protection and idolized into figures whose bravery is realized through self-sacrifice and judged trough the prism of their rules and morals. An autonomous woman is one who thinks, who questions, who resists. Such women defy the masculine and patriarchal script of nationalism produced by upper-caste hindu men that has been premised on silencing of women’s voices and entrapping them in a swirl of pinjras of domesticity and alienation.” I support JNU and Umar Khalid call me anti-national – Indian Feminist
Read more at:http://indianfeminists.com/i-wont-say-bharat-mata-ki-jay-a-muslim-girls-message-to-hindu-nationalists/
Read more at:http://indianfeminists.com/i-wont-say-bharat-mata-ki-jay-a-muslim-girls-message-to-hindu-nationalists/