NALSAR Minorities' Forum

Wonder how many times we have shed our tears off of at the misery of the other? Wonder how it makes our blood boil looking at the gross injustice popping upon our news feed daily in an amount which rather makes us guilty of our own not so bad existence? To garnish these lowly human emotions instigated through sufficient information overload we have this innate feeling of having no control over what’s happening to who, akin to us or not. Do you not get into this rut? The rut of misery showering upon you wherever you look at. Does it seem ideal? Catching upon the infection and tormenting yourself through the disgraced state humanity has put itself in. Speaking upon what is observed, analysed and accepted by the writer, it is a clear case of some unknown global mission to make us sadder and sadder as a collective. They somehow bring you to this world, put you in an education system best fit for parrots and push you into realizing yourself as a capital generating machine. The salt and pe...

Safoora Zargar is a Muslim student-activist who has been charged under the draconian UAPA on the basis of ‘evidence’ that shows ‘a conspiracy to at least block the roads (chakka jam)’, and is currently being held in judicial custody at Tihar Jail. Between January and April this year, more than 50 activists have been served notices for their involvement in the anti-CAA protests and 8 have been arrested. Safoora is one of them. What marks Safoora Zargar’s case as that of immediate urgency is that Safoora is 5-months pregnant and according to her family and lawyer, has a medical history of PCOS and UTIs which make her vulnerable to having a miscarriage. The Honorable courts see this as no matter of immediate concern. The Honorable courts do not see the governments exploiting the lock-down and panic created by Covid-19 as a means to surreptitiously charge and arrest Muslim activists as a matter of immediate concern. Having only the judiciary to turn to in these terrible times, we are despa...