Ayesha Sultana, who is from Hyderabad, was returning home on Tuesday night after completing her shift at the Al Ahli Screening centre in Dubai when she was stopped by a policeman.
For representational purpose. (Photo | EPS)
Dubai :
An Indian doctor in the UAE was moved to tears after her car was stopped during curfew hours and a policeman, instead of checking her documents, gave a salute, acknowledging her service during the coronavirus pandemic, according to media reports.
Ayesha Sultana, who is from Hyderabad, was returning home on Tuesday night after completing her shift at the Al Ahli Screening centre in Dubai when she was stopped by a policeman at the Dubai-Sharjah highway, the Khaleej Times reported.
Sultana said that she did panic initially but was focused on showing her work permit and other documents to prove that she was a doctor.
According to a report in the Gulf News, Sultana said she was pulling her ID and papers to show to the policeman but “he saluted me, saying I don’t need to show him anything.”
“I was speechless and cried. Despite (the fact that) I was tired (after) work but this salute was my reward and waived my tiredness,” she said.
“I was full of emotions at that moment and didn’t know what to do. I wish I knew his name or face as he was wearing (a) mask. I just want to thank him,” she was quoted as saying in the Gulf News report.
The doctor later tweeted: “As a UAE resident, this is the biggest day of my life THANKYOU.”
“Had tears in my eyes. I’m blessed to be in the UAE and serve the people here,” she tweeted.
Sultana, who was born and brought up in the UAE, said she did not expect she would be dealing with a pandemic when she passed out of the Dubai Medical College in February, the Khaleej Times reported.
“This is my home and I want to do my best in helping UAE fight the pandemic. We see around 200 to 300 people every day – both with and without symptoms. It is very rewarding and I am all the more committed to continue doing my job,” she said.
According to the Johns Hopkins University data, the UAE has over 11,000 COVID-19 cases with 89 deaths.
UAE had been under an overnight curfew since March 26 to stem the spread of the deadly disease.
Dubai had on April 4 imposed a two-week lockdown to contain the virus.
source : http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> World / by PTI / April 30th, 2020
Hyderabad, TELANGANA / New Delhi / New York , UNITED NATIONS (UN) :
Putting in his best efforts along with his team, he conveyed India’s position which the world leaders and the UN took note of and Masood Azhar has now been declared as a global terrorist. Again, when China tried to raise the issue of Kashmir on behalf of Pakistan, it was countered by Syed Akbaruddin.
When China tried to raise the issue of Kashmir on behalf of Pakistan, it was countered by Syed Akbaruddin.
One of the country’s finest diplomat Syed Akbaruddin, India’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), took leave from the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres via video conferencing with a `Namaste’ on his last day at work. He has kept successfully country’s position on all issues on this global platform for many years and has on many occasions bowled over the Pakistan media during press conferences at the United Nations. Akbaruddin is his typical style, with a smile has always given a befitting response to the Pakistan side on a wide range of critical issues including Kashmir, the issue of Article 370, on terrorism or matters related to the minorities.
Despite China’s constant efforts to create obstacles in India’s efforts in getting Pakistan based Masood Azhar, the leader of terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed, as a global terrorist, Akbaruddin succeeded.
Putting in his best efforts along with his team, he conveyed India’s position which the world leaders and the UN took note of and Masood Azhar has now been declared as a global terrorist. Again, when China tried to raise the issue of Kashmir on behalf of Pakistan, it was countered by Syed Akbaruddin.
The new ambassador to PMI in New York
TS Tirumurti has been appointed as the next ambassador to the United Nations and will be taking over shortly. He is currently working as a Secretary, Economic Relation in the Ministry of External Affairs.
Expert View
Says Prof Ajay Dubey, Director, Institute of Advance Studies, JNU “In the world after Corona, global order and configuration of power is going to be realigned. Institutions of global governance like the UN is going to be an important instrument for countries like India which legitimately seeks new roles and positions in crafting this new world order.”
“People like Ambassador Tirumurti’s appointment to Indian representative at UN, is very apt because he had been an outstanding ambassador and high performing Secretary of an important division in MEA. And he is a people’s diplomat, proactively reaching to constituencies, converting acquaintances in a trustworthy relationship and a part of the solution whenever approached,” observes, Dubey, Chairperson, Special Centre for National Security Studies, JNU.
According to Dubey, “Amb Tirumurti is a diplomat of the future and so untypical of a still cocooned foreign policy bureaucracy. He is the best available person to lead Indian initiatives at the UN during two years of its temporary membership in the Security Council, a crucial period for transforming world order.”
“The new ambassador is succeeding an equally competent, cool and focused Ambassador Akbaruddin who has set new benchmarks for bureaucrats to perform and deliver. Amb Akbaruddin has raised the bar for a new Indian diplomat at his position,” he opines.
source: http://www.financialexpress.com / Financial Express / Home / by Huma Siddiqui / April 30th, 2020
On April 25, the Indian-born American artist passed away at age 83 in London after a prolonged illness.
Artist Zarina Hashmi
In her complete oeuvre that stemmed from her lived experiences in Aligarh, Bangkok, Paris, New York and London, artist Zarina Hashmi constantly questioned the idea of home and belonging.
Her abstract geometric collages, floorplans and maps in printmaking techniques (largely in intaglio, lithography, silkscreen and woodblock), handmade paper and sculpture, and often accompanied with Urdu calligraphy, reflect her Islamic roots, formal degree in mathematics, an interest in architecture, ponderings over rigid geo-political boundaries and tragic memories of the 1947 Partition. The Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Hammer Museum Guggenheim Museum in New York…have featured her works in their public collections.
On April 25, the Indian-born American artist passed away at age 83 in London after a prolonged illness.
Poet and culture theorist Ranjit Hoskote, who curated ‘Everyone Agrees: It’s About to Explode’ – India’s first national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011) – in which he displayed Hashmi’s prints, was among the first ones to tweet of her demise. “Heartbroken to hear that Zarina Hashmi has passed away in London. She was magnificent: full of wit and shrewd wisdom, her work imbued with a tragic vision…” he wrote, and proceeded to tweet snapshots of her prints being installed and the final display at the 2011 edition.
Zarina Hashmi’s prints (top) Letters I Called Home/Bangkok series; and Bangkok 1958-1961
In fact, a major retrospective ‘Zarina: A Life in Nine Lines’ at The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi that opened on January 30 during the annual India Art Fair was ongoing till the nationwide lockdown commenced. But Kiran Nadar, Founder-Chairperson of KNMA, is determined the show must go on. “We will be showcasing this show on our virtual platforms for everyone to enjoy. It is quite a coincidence that we are having her show at this time, and we lost her at this moment. It’s a huge loss to the art world.” Nadar remembers meeting Zarina a few times, when she first acquired her work some years ago. “Zarina was much more active and younger at that time. Over the years whenever she came to India, I would get an opportunity to interact with her. Zarina’s art is very subliminal, very basic at one level. She deals with lines and distance that she has abstracted in many ways. When you see her work, it looks emotional.”
For Renu Modi, Founder-Director of Gallery Espace, Hashmi was a dear friend of the gallery. “The passing of Zarina is a deep personal loss. She was a friend as well as an artist Gallery Espace represented. She was a very special person, exceedingly compassionate and lived her life gracefully, on her own terms.”
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Delhi / by Ornello D’Souza / Express News Service / April 27th, 2020
The Spanish Flu’s name comes from the fact that even as wartime censorship in the United States and most of Europe suppressed news of the influenza, the media in neutral Spain reported on it extensively. Photo: Wiki Commons
June 1918. A debilitating disease suddenly swept through Mumbai. Thousands fell ill, complaining of debilitating fever and cough, sometimes with intestinal problems.
For hundreds of unfortunates, their lungs filled with fluids and they died as their body was starved of oxygen. This was the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19, which killed an astounding 50 million worldwide. Recent estimates put the death toll in India at a staggering 12 million.
Scientists refer to Spanish influenza as the ‘mother of all influenza pandemics’, since it is the common ancestor of human and swine flu viruses. The disease is inextricably associated with World War I.
The name comes from the fact that even as wartime censorship in the United States and most of Europe suppressed news of the influenza, the media in neutral Spain reported on it extensively, including when their king Alfonso XIII fell ill with it.
Spanish influenza’s first wave reached Mumbai when soldiers returned from Europe, carrying the virus with them. An even more lethal second wave hit in September.
When the pandemic reached Mysore State, it hit it hard. The State had still not shaken off the plague. Wartime shortages had pushed up the prices of food and other essentials. To make matters worse, the monsoon failed that year.
The disease first passed through Bengaluru in late June without causing much harm. The second wave in mid-September was deadlier. Suddenly, entire families fell ill.
Higher fatality
Dispensaries, clinics and hospitals were overcrowded. Doctors, nurses and compounders were completely overwhelmed. Corpses piled up. Unlike COVID-19, Spanish influenza had a far higher fatality among the young and able-bodied than the old.
Offices emptied as people across all professions and classes fell ill, among others, the health officer in Bengaluru and the then Chief Secretary of Mysore State.
In early October, Bengaluru’s City Municipal Council, under the leadership of the President KP Puttanna Chetty, took several quick, creative and effective steps to deal with the health crisis. Temporary dispensaries were opened, some housed in municipal schools that were closed at the time.
Mobile dispensaries were set up to ensure medicines reached everyone. All dispensaries were directed to stay open for longer hours and to stock enough of the medicines required, including thymol, which was prescribed a preventative.
Since hospitals were filled beyond their capacity, temporary tents and sheds were set up to accommodate the sick. Retired medical staff and medical students were brought in to help with the workload. Health officers went around neighbourhoods to see if there were any infected people and to persuade them to move to the hospitals or the camps to prevent the disease from spreading.
Leaflets in Kannada and English were distributed, which explained the symptoms of influenza, how it spread, and how it was important to ‘separate the sick from the healthy,’ and to avoid ‘the entire family congregating in the sick room.’
People were advised to ‘tie a clean handkerchief on which a teaspoon of eucalyptus oil is sprinkled, across the nose and mouth’ when entering the sick room, to provide a certain extent of protection. They were also strongly urged to avoid crowded places.
A striking feature of the response to the influenza pandemic was the voluntary effort in providing relief. Much like today, when several people are working, often with the police and the BBMP, to ensure the poor are not forgotten during the lockdown, in 1918 too, volunteers helped ensure relief supplies reached the poor and families where there was no one left to tend to the sick.
In Bengaluru, the relief operation was coordinated by Chief Officer R Subba Rao. He divided the city into several blocks with a relief party in charge of each. Supplies included medicines, milk and kanji, a lot of which was prepared at a government facility and then distributed by car, carts and even lorries.
Municipal councillors and volunteers who worked ceaselessly included Father Briand, Ramachandra Rao Scindia, Rev D A Rees, B Usman Khan, B Chinnaswami Setty, Ghulam Dastangir, B K Garudachar, R Gopalaswami Iyer and many, many others.
Assisting them were the Social Service League, Young Men’s Christian Association, students of the Wesleyan, London Mission and National High Schools, and many others. Puttanna Chetty toured the city himself to assist the relief works and ensure they went on smoothly.
By the end of November, the disease was finally under control. More than 1,95,000 people died in Mysore State, 40,000 in Bengaluru alone. With the compounding problems of agrarian distress, rural areas were affected much worse.
source: http://www.deccanherald.com / Deccan Herald / Home> Spectrum> Spectrum Top Stories / by Meera Iyer / April 08th, 2020
Jamia Hamdard Professor Mohd. Aftab Ahmad has been awarded for Drug Research in Unani Medicine.
Jamia Hamdard Professor Mohd. Aftab Ahmad recieving the award from Union Minister Rajnath Singh.
Professor Mohd. Aftab Ahmad of School of Unani Medicinal Education and Research(SUMER), Jamia Hamdard has been awarded by the Ministry of Ayush, Govt of India for his contribution in Unani Medicine at International Conference on Unani Medicine.
Brief details about Jamia Hamdard Professor Mohd. Aftab Ahmad
1. Professor Mohd. Aftab Ahmad has about 25 years of teaching and research experience.
2. He joined the Department of Ilmul Advia, erstwhile Faculty of Unani Medicine, presently School of Unani Medical Education & Research (SUMER) as a Lecturer. Since then he is imparting teaching and giving practical training to the students of BUMS, MD. (Ilmul Advia), BPharma (Unani) and DPharm (Unani).
3. He has established the Dawasazi lab at Jamia Hamdard with all necessary alterations and prepared Unani Murakkabat (Compound Unani Medicines) in a meticulous and scientific manner using good pharmacy practices, for the practical demonstration of Dawasazi to the students.
4. Dr. Ahmad used some mutatis mutandis in the formulation of Unani Pharmacopeial Murakkab Advia to enhance their efficacy, using Modern and clinical techniques.
As of now, 100 types of Murakkab Advia/pharmaceutics are being prepared in the inhouse-lab and distributed to the indoor patients of the Majeedia Hospital, Jamia Hamdard.
Speaking on the occasion, Mohd. Aftab Ahmad was quoted saying It was a great honour” to receive the award in recognition for Drug Research in Unani Medicine and to get appreciation and even more so to be awarded by the Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh.
Unani Day observed at Jamia Hamdard
International Conference on Unani Medicine was organized by the Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine on February 11 and 12, 2020 at New Delhi. Every year Unani Day is observed on February 11. The event provided a platform to discuss wide range of topics which would help in developing knowledge and understanding Unani System of Medicine and its contribution to health and well-being.
The theme of this international conference is Unani Medicine – Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG-3) of Good Health & Well-Being.
Jamia Hamdard Unani conference witnessed participants from across the globe
A galaxy of experts and luminaries from the field of health sciences across the globe shared their knowledge, experiences and innovations. There was participation from industry, academia and research organizations engaged in the development of Unani Medicine and related health sciences.
Contribution of government
The Unani Day celebration inter-alia included the conferment of annual AYUSH Awards for Unani Medicine, wherein awards conferred for excellence in different categories, viz. Best Research Paper’, Young Scientist’, Best Teacher’ and Lifetime Achievement’. An exhibition of industry and academia will also be organised.
source: http://www.indiatoday.com / India Today / Home> Education Today> News / by India Today Web Desk / New Delhi – February 12th, 2020
The beginning of this decade, 2020 marks the centennial anniversary of the very reputed Institute, R. Ahmed Dental College in Calcutta, West Bengal, India which was established solely by the effort of the “Father of modern dentistry” of India, Dr Rafiuddin Ahmed in the year 1920.
Dr Rafiuddin Ahmed established the Indian Dental Journal in 1925 and served as an editor till 1946. He published the first student handbook in Operative dentistry in 1928.
It was due to his constant efforts and endless endeavour that the year 1946 witnessed the formation of the Bengal Dental Association which was later renamed as the Indian Dental Association, as it is known today.
Dr Rafiuddin has an exemplary achievement in his professional career. After completing his alma mater from Aligarh Muslim University, He earned his D.D.S (Doctor of Dental Surgery) degree from the University of Iowa School of dentistry, USA in 1915. During the world war- I, he worked at the Forsyth Dental Infirmary for children in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 1919, a year after the war ended, he returned to India to open a dental institute in Calcutta. Initially, the college was run on an experimental basis with only eleven students from 1920 to 1923. Dr R Ahmed took the responsibility of teaching the student both theoretical and practical alongside other dedicated teachers. By 1928, this college was a well- organised institution for scientific dental education in India.
In 1947, Dr Ahmed was awarded a fellowship at the international college of dentistry. He also received a fellowship at the royal college of Surgeons of England and the Pierre Fauchard Academy in 1949.
The founding father of IDA became a minister of the Bengal Government and supervised the Department of Agriculture, Community Development, Co-operation, Relief and Rehabilitation until 1962.
This great personality is an epitome of excellence. His entire life revolved around providing services to the communities. His contribution in the field of dentistry is something to be remembered and truly appreciated. Dr R. Ahmad proved to be an all-rounder. He wasn’t just a dentist, but also was a publisher, an editor, a dedicated teacher, a minister, a president (of IDA). These are just to name a few.
The distinguished achievements of this great personality was recognised by the Government of India and in 1964 Dr Rafiuddin was awarded with the prestigious Padma Bhushan, making him the first Indian Dentist to be honoured with the third highest civilian award of the republic of India.
source: http://www.heritagetimes.in / Heritage Times / Home> Education / by Dr.Zareen Fatima / January 24th, 2020
Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India’s pluralist ethos, on April 14, marked the birthday of B R Ambedkar which is a national holiday popular as Bhim Jayanti in India.
On the occasion of Bhim Jayanti, IAMC also welcomed the first ever congressional resolution introduced by Representative Ro Khanna, who is the Congressman representing 17th District of California. In his resolution, Khanna has honored Dr B R Ambedkar by highlighting that in this Dalit history month, even in a dark time of Covid, it is inspirational to know that we can find the light of hope in our history as the chief architect of our Constitution had envisioned: labor reforms, codification of gender equality, and the successful inclusion of Article 17 in the Constitution of India to abolish untouchability and its practice in any form.
IAMC endorsed the resolution urging all Indian Americans to join in to celebrate the towering historical figure that Ambedkar was – a fearless feminist and caste abolitionist – whose contributions to the fields of economics, philosophy, religious, jurisprudence, and democracy remain unparalleled, even today. The resolution is also endorsed by Equality Labs and South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT),
“We are forever grateful to Babasaheb Ambedkar for his fearless struggle against systemic oppression, and for his phenomenal contributions in ensuring India’s Constitution celebrates the diverse nature of India,” said Ahsan Khan, President of IAMC.
Speaking about the recent arrest of Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon case, Khan stated that both the leaders have been indicted based on “fabricated evidence.” The case originated from the annual celebratory gathering at Bhima Koregaon to mark the 200th year of the Battle of Bhima Koregaon victory. Khan added that both Teltumbde and Navlakha were not even present in the event and this is “a clear case of a brazen ‘witch-hunt’ that is reflective of a fascist model of governance.”
Khan opined that in order for us to continue with the legacy of Ambedkar’s lifelong battle to protect basic civil liberties and secular principles, we must “recommit ourselves to the founding vision of the Indian Constitution through liberty, equality and justice for all.”
source: http://www.twocircles.net / TwoCircles.net / Home> Dalit> India News> Indian Muslim> Lead Story / by TCN News / April 15th, 2020
Prof Zubair Meenai of the Department of Social Work, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has been awarded the Shastri Indo Canadian Collaborative Institutional Research Grant, 2019-20. He shall collaborate with Prof Christine Walsh of the University of Calgary, Canada to conduct research on “Care Reforms in India: Operationalising the ‘Best Interest of the Child’ in the Child Protection Decision Making System”.
A team of researchers from India and Canada shall be focusing on the research during the two year grant.
Prof. Zubair Meenai’s team includes Prof. Sheema Aleem and a research scholar whereas the Canadian team headed by Prof. Christine Walsh includes Prof. Dorothy Badres and Angelique C. Jenney of the University of Calgary, Canada.
Prof. Meenai is also the Director of Centre for Early Childhood Development and Research of the university.
source: http://www.jmi.ac.in / Jamia Millia Islamia / Home / by Ahmed Azeem / April 16th, 2020
When CIPLA started producing generic medicine, the US complained of patent-violation. Indira Gandhi stood by CIPLA. It is ironical therefore that the US should now dial India for supply of HCQ
Khwaja Abdul Hamied was a great fan of Mahatma Gandhi
The manner in which Muslims are being demonised in this country by a section of the media and Bhakts of the BJP, here is a story that should uplift the hearts of almost everybody else.
In the 1920s, a rich man in India put his son on board a ship from Bombay to the United Kingdom in order to acquire a law degree and become a barrister, as was fashionable among all privileged families in the country at the time. The boy, however, did not want to be a lawyer; his heart was in chemistry, a pursuit without a seeming future in those days.
But his father gave him little choice, so while he waved to his father as his ship pulled away, Khwaja Abdul Hamied was already running over other plans in his mind while standing on the deck. He jumped ship halfway through the seas to land in Germany which, in the early decades of the last century, was leading in the study of chemistry and chemicals. He acquired a degree, married a German Jew who was also a communist – two communities the Nazis hated the most. But before they could be caught by Adolf Hitler’s Gestapo, they escaped from Germany and safely reached India.
With his vast knowledge of chemicals, Khwaja Hamied set up the Chemical, Industral and Pharmaceutical Laboratories in 1935 which was shortened to CIPLA decades later after Independence.
Khwaja Hamied was a great fan of Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and got down, in true nationalist spirit, to producing cheaply priced generic drugs for the common people. These included not only medicines for malaria and tuberculosis but also other respiratory disorders, cardiovascular diseases as well as routine and mundane ailments like diabetes and arthritis.
Sometime in the 1970s, Cipla (so renamed in the 1980s) began to manufacture a drug called Propranolol, patented by a US pharmaceutical giant from Brooklyn in New York, that was used in treating blood pressure, migraines and heart ailments, among others. In a bipolar world at the time, the US was no friend of India and a real superpower. Unlike Donald Trump, it did not need to issue threats for any country in the world to comply to its diktats.
The US complained to the Indian government. But unlike Narendra Modi last week, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi did not immediately cave in. She sent for Yusuf Hamied, Khwaja’s son, himself a chemistry graduate from Cambridge, who had by then taken over the running of the company. When Mrs Gandhi asked how he could violate the patent law on drugs and get India into trouble, Yusuf told Mrs Gandhi the story of his father and why he had set up the company – to bring low priced quality drugs to the poor.
When he had handed his company to his son, Khwaja had told Yusuf just one thing – remember why this company was founded. “Unlike other pharmaceutical companies around the world, we are not here to make profits but to bring relief and healthcare to the poor who may otherwise have to die for want of quality drugs.”
That is all he was doing, Yusuf told an impressed Mrs Gandhi who could empathise with the concern for the poor. And she turned down the US’s command to India to stop producing the drug, knowing it could have consequences. Americans hated her for this and other acts of defiance, but she always had the interests of her own fellow citizens on top priority.
On Yusuf’s suggestion she also had the patent law on drugs changed to not include the drug per se, only the process of manufacture as inviolable, so that Cipla could go ahead and produce as many low-priced generic drugs for the poor as possible. Since then Cipla has also produced a low-cost drug to treat HIV and expanded operations into several developing countries, including African nations, where most HIV and poor patients existed at one time.
This then is the company which produces hydroxychloroquine used in the treatment of malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis which now has been exported in such large numbers to the United States under threat by a weaker Trump administration, depriving poor Indians of the same.
Even before Trump had bullied India into exporting the drug, Dr Hamiduddin Pardawala, the infectious diseases specilast at the Saifee Hospital in Bombay, had told some of us to note carefully that countries where malaria (and perhaps tuberculosis) was common were suffering less from Coronavirus than those where malaria was almost non-existent.
So where is malaria almost non-existent? The US, UK, Israel, France, Germany, Spain, Canada etc. In other words, countries which have suffered the maximum infestations. When I think of Germany, I wonder where these nations, who are profusely thanking India now for supplying HCQ to them, would have been today if Khwaja Hamied and his wife had been caught by the Gestapo and sent off to the concentration camps.
That goes even more forcefully for the bigots of this country, who have so demonised the Muslims and communalisedthe disease. There is something like karma in this world, even if not you but your future generations have to pay for it. Many of them might have got malaria in the past and been prescribed with HCQ that would have helped them develop the anti-bodies to resist COVID-19.
Many possible afflictions among them will need treating with this drug. Unknowingly, they may have taken many other generic drugs manufactured by this “Muslim’ company and owe the Hamieds a debt of gratitude for keeping their blood pressure under control and diabetes counts in check.
I would like to call this poetic justice without gloating over the fact. No other company in India, and certainly not the world, has done as much to bring affordable health care to poor Indians as has Cipla – and it has not been stingy about its research, often providing pharmaceutical ingredients and processes to other drug companies in the country to manufacture their own.
When India was partitioned Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who was also a Bombay resident and part of the same social circles as the Hamieds, offered Khwaja an honourable move to Pakistan. The Hamieds were sure where their sympathies lay – with Gandhiji – and chose to stay back in India.
There are Muslims and then there are Muslims like the Tablighee Jamaatis of this particular Nizamuddin meet (not others who cancelled their own meets across the country in wake of the pandemic; even the Tablighi Jamaat was denied permission to hold a similar congregation in Mumbai) just like there are Hindus and Hindus, who kill other Hindus because they do not agree with bigotry.
It is not right to target all Hindus for the acts of a few crazy cult members among them. Similarly, a handful of Tablighi Jamaatis do not a whole community make.
We must stop demonising all for the acts of a few.
source: http://www.nationalheraldindia.com / National Herald / Home> India / by Sujata Anandan / April 12th, 2020
MLA U T Khader with the family of Shree Madhu Bhat at her house in Kulai in Mangaluru. (DH Photo)
Mangaluru MLA U T Khader has helped a PhD scholar, who had arrived in India from Italy, to reach her home at Kulai in Mangaluru from Bengaluru on Sunday.
Shree Madhu Bhat, a PhD student at the University of Turin in Italy, had arrived in Delhi in a special flight arranged by the Government of India.
“After completing the quarantine period in Delhi, she was brought to Bengaluru in a special bus arranged by the central government on April 11. However, she could not reach Mangaluru owing to non-availability of any mode of transportation. Her parents had contacted district administration seeking help and also me through a common friend. When I received the information, I was in Bengaluru and brought her in my car,” Khader said.
She is the daughter of Shivaram Bhat and Shailaja Bhat.
After completing the quarantine period, she along with others were sent in a special bus to their respective states on April 8.
The bus had travelled via Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, and reached Bengaluru on April 11.
The MLA had shared a photograph of the family of Shree Madhu Bhat on his Facebook page.
source: http://www.deccanherald.com / Deccan Herald / Home> State> Mangaluru / by Naina J A / DHNS, Mangaluru / April 13th, 2020
