Does not mean the end of the war or the end of plots or terrorism either this liberation does not mean the enemys will surrender this liberation means that we put our enemies pride and nose in the dirt as a primary step to defeat them completely sooner or later. Our batteries on the turkey syria border with more on Bashar Al Assads comments. This is a delicate moment for the Syrian Opposition but also for the Syrian Government at this explains why president bashar assad has been celebrating in his speech the new major gains made by the syrian army particularly on the outskirts of aleppo and also the southern parts of it live saying basically that this is just about a matter of time before the opposition is defeated this explains why he has been saying that the fight will continue until the terrorists of this is the term that he uses. Most of the time to describe the Syrian Opposition would no longer in 2014 or 13 when the Syrian Government was on the verge of collapse and when the Syrian Opposition was making spectacular gains across the country all those gains were reversed and just confined to it which is their last stronghold but president bashar assad also told his people that they have to wait or that this is not the end of the war and i think he was hinting to the fact that with the growing turkish involvement with turkey sending more voices into into taking over it might take some time now its no longer up to us or to decide what happens next and i think this is something which will boil down to 3 players russia turkey if you have been holding talks in moscow to defuse tension iran is also another regional player the 3 iran russia and turkey will decide the future of syria in the near future almost 100. 00 cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed on board a cruise ship docked at a japanese port it comes as 300. 00 american tourists who were quarantined on the boat were flown home where than 70000 people have now been confirmed to have the virus in china with nearly 1800 deaths were fishes in beijing are considering cancel one of the countrys main political gatherings of the year to stop people travelling. Well the head of the World Health Organization says new data from china is giving a clearer picture about the impact of the virus the data also appeared to show a decline in new cases this trend must be interpreted very cautiously trend is going to change as new populations affected its too early to tell if this report to decline will continue every scenario is still on the table it also appears that caused 9 didnt is not as deadly as a record and i viruses including sars and murders more than 80 percent of patients have mild disease and will recover the European Union will launch new sea and their patrols in the Eastern Mediterranean to try to stop more weapons reaching libyas warring factions that decision marks a major breakthrough after weeks of negotiations between the Member States the current operational scrapped after it was criticized for bringing more migrants into europe a un arms embargo was 1st imposed 9 years ago but is it is now there in the upheld a senior u. N. Official warned on sunday that any weapons ban was meaningless because there is no one to enforce it. These are the top stories that stay with us in search of indias seoul is coming up next ill have rules for you and. My name is artist taseer im a writer and a columnist. In this the 2nd of 2 films im traveling through india the country i grew up in. I want to see for myself the changes taking place amid a rising tide of him do it for the hindu 1st politics these ideas which place hindus above people of other faiths stem from the very top leadership in this land of 1300000000 people. I started my journey in the holy city of our and i see in northern india. This is a deeply religious country in the middle of a battle for her soul and it is no surprise that it was this place of the hindu nationalist leader in the ranger mode he chose this election battleground republic sing its powerful symbolism in a new time. Behind this image of a religiously diverse nation india faces a new mini crisis. And minorities including 200000000. 00 muslims fear an underlying current of violence more brutality and death at the hands of hindu linus the hardliners claim injustices against him whos from muslim rule and sentries past justifies their drive to return india to a golden age as they see it and a nation where hindus come 1st hindu is making up to get back the birthplaces of his ancestors and these films ive been asking where did these ideas come from. Following independence in 1947 which was closely intertwined with the bloody episode of partition some people had thought that the politics of division was finally a thing of the past in the newly created secular state of india all would be equal before the law but here the word secular would come to have a particularly indian meaning. Secular in india merely meant a the existence of a profusion of religions all of which were allowed and encouraged by the state to flourish. But over the past few decades a series of events occurred that threaten the very fabric of indias secular identity it set then tiny b. G. P. Political party on course to become the ruling power they are today on the 6th of december 1902 a crowd of 150000 militants supporters of the pro hindu r. S. S. Descended on the barbary mosque in the northern town of the reputed birthplace of the hindu god rom i was standing next to the mosque when this crowd started increasing the gate broke down and the huge rush of people inside beyond the control of the of it i shouted down was a Young Journalist and a key witness to the events that were to unfold. What they started doing was breaking the barricade philistine barricading all around and with the fury that could be even that was visible they walked in within. Half an hour you saw dozens of people at the mosque. With its pro hindu agenda the r. S. S. Had long been agitating to destroy the 16th century mosque built by the mogul ruler barber and reclaimed the sacred ground for him booze for them the existence of the mosque was a long standing move when you saw this thing come down what did you see what. I thought about the the social and political back i said well they have now this is a divide that they have created in the country they are taking us back to 147. 00 when india was divided. In the riots that followed between muslims and hindus some 2000 people were killed. For Indian Muslims these events meant much more than just the loss of a defunct building. Because as an identity it was not be a mosque was not it was not the mosque that was important for the of that identity so do you feel that that they knew politics had been born absolutely to like a new politics of division of division began. This was a division that would change the face of indian politics one that pushed many among the 80 percent hindu majority to support the be chippy at that time a relatively obscure political party. Truly astonishing to hear sherrod story because it makes so clear how the stage was set for this Political Drama to play out in which a defunct mosque became the vessel of religious passions. This hindu reawakening was underlined by a long running t. V. Adaptation of the hindu epic the ra milan for years record numbers of indians were grouped by the series that chronicled the life of lord rum and tapped into a deep sense of pride and nostalgia among him. Its really amazing for me to see because i grew up on the t. V. Serial its the raw mine and it was played to india in the eightys to great passion and large audiences and knowing it has a kind of an edge to it because we have large audiences again were in a stone quarry where the stones are being prepared for a future ram temple where the mosque had been demolished. For 28 years lawyers forth over the rights and wrongs of building a temple to lord ram on the site of the barbary mosque in the meantime the stones for the new temple were caught with the confidence that the situation in favor of building the long awaited temple would surely come. Almost what our political tell. I dont know much how to get our back our thoughts our money monday or theatre or mama america much more than monarchy at our place or value only because if we didnt in one day but nobody could look good we think of the universe that. Is new sneaking a hindu is making up to get back down but places of his ancestors. In do can go and make use temples in jerusalem no can i go room and build example of hindu temple there no can i go to maka and build a temple there no i will not be allowed. Why we are considered different when the case of your dad comes. It is the but face of arda. What were seeing is the construction of partitions in hearts and minds of millions of people across the country i think a hurtling in a direction which is potentially catastrophic. Same to the idea of india that the leadership of the represented was that india would be a country where you dont matter which god you worship or if you were shipped no good book or that beach you would be in if you be an equal citizen that was elected the same true cornerstone of. The stood for many of us believe that the show was all for ever but it was not the beauty of it have succeeded in uniting. All communities into believing that theres a common enemy which is the muslim war the also has the backing of the largest Civil Society organization in the world. Which is which is the which is deeply committed to the ideology of indiscipline this is. The campaign to get back the sides of the barbary mosque for the hindus had been running for years. But the act that made it possible came from a completely unexpected event one that played into a negative narrative about muslims and secularism promoted by the r. S. S. In 96 and otherwise obscure family dispute involving a muslim couple that became known as the shah bano case reached the Supreme Court in delhi. The has been claimed he divorced his wife islamic lee by saying they were to lock on 3 occasions. Are if Mohammad Khan was a cabinet minister at the time a lot just repeated grace and its all over and now we have cause for the court absolutely divorcing you had not divorce her on the day you had devoted to. Undermine to secular law the court refused to recognize the triple telarc islamic divorce he was ordered to pay his wife maintenance Congress Party pm and member of the narrow gandhi did misty rajiv gandhi initially supported the judgment his 1st instinct was the right one which was to back the Supreme Court decision that granted this poor old lady alimony and to encourage his cabinet ministers are a moment come you spoken to to sister in parliament and to say so with some courage in laymens. The personal low board which represented muslims claim the award was against islamic law angry clerics demonstrated outside parliament the stand of the parcel board was that these judgement is against islam this is interference in the slum called therefore it must rajiv gandhi buckled under the protest of conservative clerics he went back on his decision and passed a bill that reversed the Supreme Court ruling the case would now be judged under muslim personal law in tightening the wife just 3 months maintenance seeing this is an assault on womens rights progressive muslims and many hindus were appalled county came under attack from both sides. Rajiv gandhi did the worst mistake of his life by extending to these conservative elements and overturning the Supreme Court judgement and taking away her date to maintenance indian politics took a turn from that family davies and was dead the language which was the spoke threatening language outside parliament in the meeting of the parts of the low board been called was given to break the legs of all those m. P. s who defied reports and if it is which was. A keen and again definitively how Supreme Court which at that will smash the Supreme Court may just pieces. There was a discourse about appeasement to muslims the idea that people have done too much for muslims. Many hindus were angered at what they saw as the state caving in to muslim demands. For years the pro hindu r. S. S. Had agitated to access to the barbary mosque in new york here. To placate them rajiv gandhi ordered the site to be open for him to prat. A decision that has had deadly consequences ever since. On february 27th 2002 a train was set alight just outside go dressed asian in the Western State of gujarat. 58 hindu pilgrims were burnt to death theyd been returning home from the barbary mosque in new york here. There was an outcry and mobs of hindu hardliners took to the streets. Danica start up again as hard as get their window but to ever hold out the idea her or him door go clear. Follow her to her instead of handing the dead to their families the bodies were transported nearly 200 kilometers to the town of under about to be paraded through the streets you can tell yourself alan lobo act on the just because a lot out there are just for gases and nature kendall btselem i dont get what out what role then. Got done many how the mind of it is going member told me to tell you any suggest that he got his desk in the shops and then why. The reading 58. 00 charged corpses through the streets was always likely to provoke further violence. But permission for the reportedly came from the then chief minister of. The ring through modi himself. In the ensuing riots over a 1000 were killed 3 quarters of them mostly. In the engine 92 when the last was the morning india changed for they were. The issue of the charbonneau. Be emotive and important. The riots in. The sequence of events. Charted the path and lead the foundation for the ease of hindu supremacist politics and it lay to the emergence of this leader in the mood. For long hours the good drugs state authorities stood by as rioting took place prompting allegations of state complicity. Saying forget i was a young Police Constable his unit was kept in active as people were massacred. In the run up by pm. Police or they can also has a thing public the cigar was your body of. One point hard tanita well generally that or a matter of degree but that because you get out there that. I. Dont know. But. We will. Soon margaret will just 10 years old when the attacks took place. The family. Needed the money. But they didnt know was that theyd want to try. Again good idea if you dont. Be a nobody. But you know im like. You know were not. Even. Sure he she was at home with her husband and 3 small children. Thank you. He couldnt finish the mission of the said by heart of the modernity but the town itself oh good what he said. About china good to know but having me find a way of getting to tell all the good that i. Didnt know bustling baby to minute but show with a fairly clear on when i was hartman tom. Advice would be needed and i was regarded to maybe go away. For a legit complicity in allowing the mob violence and killings to go unchecked during their body was barred from visiting the us a ban that lasted for 10 years. Indias top court has ruled that a disputed religious site given to hindus for the construction of a temple and do hardline has destroyed a 16th century mosque in 1992 sparking riots that killed at least 2000 people. I find myself wondering how far do these events ive loved about on this journey represents an attempt at a historical record are we witnessing a weakening of the secular character of modern and do that set of rules on which the newly founded country was established. Can. Invent in there without taking into account tragedies of more than those how much weve tried to sanitize i dont think the muslims of today should be blamed for what i have to do if i received their list particularly trying. To see that it didnt happen gets peoples backs its not evil securitisation its the reaction. This. All by pretending that it was all a happy family only long it was and it was a very troubled history. In the muslim world to accept that yes we are muslims and we shall remain muslim but our ancestors the same as yours i would say 99 percent of the problems with the muslims of meal because of the way they are portrayed is the descendants of the murders of the looters and butchers and rapists the making common cause with people who broke the law on temple the Krishna Temple the kashi vision not temple 40000 other temples but its true that they are converted. I think was a full force here for 2 months a backlash you might call it and the need for a strong leader combined with the need to assert what they thought was the hindu identity and by implication the best latent. People are coming back to the word the people are thinking to come back to their troops they are filling that. Right the connect with with their roots and their roots does not lie in. Identity is connected with. Whether i have converted to islam my true identity was before the islam we are not proud of identify oneself with baba they were they made us. The hindu for our view of the past might sound great if you happen to be a hindu but where does this leave the non hindus naseer room became acutely aware of the challenges facing her muslim daughter growing up in increasingly pro hindu surroundings shes written a book about saad says i kept waiting for my teacher to react in school the class me. I was silent i didnt respond and i just kept sitting there i didnt really know what to do. What is it like now to grow up as a muslim child in india take you through one story in your book the boys called house and they they come and call him to go to this Birthday Party and then a few minutes later he comes back home the boy refused to let him maintain his house and said that he cannot share the cake with you you cannot eat together. My parents dont want you at my house and the mother said i did. Was your experience growing up in india what when you say look at yourself in context of these stories what was it like for you i grew up in a different india i think it was also because of the larger narrative i doubt if we can even see the same country and. You know all we had that one National Television channel to the ocean which would have this little girl who would sing. How there are so many different kinds of birds but and we had all those different kinds of birds but were all birds of a flock together. Good the beauty of being told that you are one or you know people of different identities can write a little thing that one song together in different languages also but theyre singing that one song together and if we are one bottom. One of the things you can do to protect her from this environment i talk to her about india the map and show our neighbors our you know your china you have put down here you have. Bungled the issue you have pakistan and sri lanka so i can tell albany bers and then i say what if somebody called you chinese you laugh and say right im an indian the military is what if somebody calls you a bangladeshi you laugh and say they did not have a lot of somebody called supermarkets than you laugh and say another funny thing kind of made it down to him and you could ruin any of the so because of course the assumption being that the dutch away that prejudice would play out the its a good pakistani or go to pakistan because that is what is happening on an everyday basis we need leaders to make sure that no child grows up with hatred nor child grows up with fear this is not about muslim kids this is about every child out there because im sure as a parent youll be varied if a child today grows up. Challenge i think so much a patriot. A unique kid endangered biodiversity lives in the heart of one of the back with those tropical jungles there was a lot of misinformation about a city i knew most of we have here i know that probably alleges becoming by their self conservation in their communities there are journeys deep into the rain forest to follow a scientist im told teams are fighting to save the flora and fauna so precious in the region women make science ecuadors Hidden Treasure on aljazeera. Or. Hello im Barbara Starr in london these are the top stories on our jazeera syrias president says he is committed to continuing his governments offensive in the north of the country until the very end Bashar Al Assad made his comments in a rare appearance on television he his forces have made Massive Gains in the last rebel held areas in recent days capturing dozens of villages in aleppo province asset says advances including retaking a key strategic highway are the beginning of the end of the 9 year culturally but he stressed the war was not yet over. We fully understand that this liberation does not mean the end of the war or the end of plots or terrorism either this liberation does not mean the enemys will surrender this liberation means that we put our enemies pride and nose in the dirt as a primary step to defeat them completely sooner or later the European Union will launch a new sea and their patrols in the Eastern Mediterranean to try to stop more weapons reaching libyas warring factions that the syrian marks a major breakthrough after weeks of negotiations between the Member States the e. U. s current operation will be scrapped after it was criticized for bringing more migrants into europe a u. N. Arms embargo was 1st imposed 9 years ago but is now theyre only held a senior u. N. Official warned on sunday that any weapons ban was meaningless because there is no one to enforce. Almost 100 new cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed on board a cruise ship docked at a japanese port it comes as 300 american tourists who were quarantined on the boat were flown home more than 70000 people have now been confirmed to have the virus and china with nearly 1800 deaths officials in beijing are now considering canceling one of the countrys main political gatherings of the year to stop people traveling. At least 7 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in pakistan 2 Police Officers were among the dead in the blast in the southwestern city of quite a. Hospital Officials Say more than 30 people were injured when the bomber detonated their device while stopped by Security Forces police say that the attacker was intending to target a religious rally so far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack those of the top stories stay with us in search of indias sole continues next that im going to have the aljazeera news hour for you in under half an hour i hope youll join me that. The hindu fear has been the problems. It is the only major in the world which actually legitimized inequality in cost to. Be among the lower castes doll its also known as untouchables sit at the very bottom of the hindu hierarchy. They perform the lowliest tasks such as manually cleaning sewers often with no protective clothing or breathing apparatus. With a reporter the 11 deaths per month this ranks among the worlds most dangerous work people saying right or is a valid i dont lawyer hes taking us to meet some members of the community some of whom he represents. Underpaying is a lot his own course but still it when the big one come back again. I like the comedian got it i was a fag i think and stuff i think i do mean a lot over those i dont mean lottery caliber galas family or cleaners her husband was poisoned in a sewer 4 years ago 2 of her 3 sons now do the same work lets face it stream prejudice every day of their lives who are innocent by living in one of the. Them with a tank of. Gas for self which are not any other level other than. Yes i do when you. Consider what i and i did. By george said. Despite protections under the constitution dullards. Untouchables are treated as outcasts how to make their neighbor who wore a tie. They can afford or not but what he would. Many delegates and other low cost him whose have escaped their predicament by converting to other faiths such as islam or christianity the b. G. P. Control state about to predation has prepared an anti conversion law under which religious conversion would require permission from a state official human Rights Groups say the law is aimed at keeping delegates in their place but weve discovered a twist to this theme. One away to a village where an r. S. S. Work has converted a bunch of Indian Muslims back to him who is by a process called curve upson which literally means home coming. True love a mans father was a hindu who converted to islam. A generation on he and several family members have converted back to hindu ism one that is the. Reason im near ghar kii not love the family only the mcnalley my line of the thing will not be how will you because im going to feel the small print in indias anti conversion laws forbids enticements or intimidation to convert its a certificate that law of mohammed is now named she law and none hes now being brought into the hindu falls and it says without any pressure. Without any influence. But i. Got to. Got on a bus. To. Get out and got to. Move on the got to. Get out. Of the. Well but. Ive gotten to be. On the go to moscow. Jovian i come from to the last chandra the local aura says leader who performed last conversion ceremony abi how to get there her head or the new 19 do you care or think you can muslim whom this is only bought nothing has gone if someone you the bomb us was not out there and you know that you know whos in lucky you know peace and the only one nigger all ok ill listen man who have done the who are. To the world about hanna and the president of the young. Girl we have figured out what used to. Be busy a decade at the you. Cannot go up an economic war. You care to take is rooted in that art market bottom about get it and it must was knee high sad me which is nice when muscles gotta be seeking muscles got on its muscles and i will get sick as a muslim and what you get in the most think it will do me good now most people get it you muslims im really nice ive got their family gives out a car got it in given me your money but thats the come in tonight out there are going to argue about that in the in the 1. 00 that shot up in. One of the other groups you could either. Be about here to india given the sentiment here with some belly who thomas is such a headache you are still making duty. I ok if you made out that a market guns had better have seen our. Economy. Under do legally what will. You do the. Chain yank some magic cheese on these things come to the. Well that was such a heated discussion and one of the things that made it so tense was that the r. S. S. Man was really worried about coercion and especially in relation to the evangelical faiths and yet when we spoke to the guy who he had converted to hinduism one could not help but feel that thered been a considerable amount of social pressure on him and that that had been a kind of caution. Whatever the truth behind. Or homecoming to the hindu for its from within the lower costs that most conversions out of hinduism in recent years have taken place. Each week. But along with islam its another ancient religious group that faces the consequences of Rising Hindutva politics there are 28000000. 00 christians in india a 2000 Year Old Community stretching back to the earliest days of the faith but still seen by the most hardline hindus as an outsider religion that took hindus away from their original faith. In 2008 in the state of arizona in eastern India Several 1000 christians came under attack. 400. 00 religious or die or posed of all christians 60000. 00 christians fled to the forest to save themselves. 6000. 00 plus houses more than 300. 00 critical to the race for the ground schools colleges all spittles clinics everything put on 100 People Killed nuns a rape. Case is still going on 10 years later. And we expect a fair justice depending on the facts. Not depending on who is a majority. The radicalization of the structures of state the police their ministries the junior magistracies the teachers the village Self Government mechanisms. All of them actually believe this is the land of the hindus and everybody else if they want to live via must live here as 2nd rate citizens nobody can feel safe. Unless there is a the shoulders of the muslim isee. The isolation of minorities. Risks becoming institutionalized in schools would socalled suffer nies ation the favoring of hindu ism over other traditions and school textbooks. Where just a single drop 10th grade students have been studying a new hindu focused curriculum. It writes out much of the countrys non hindu past. Families and needs an example mistresses and they only get this now i am going to fight and the pain is in my name it says i dont like that we dont like to lie and we had a plan i never did that but the time. They say the word my hand is a person out of me fairly good to do will get up memories from it was a common idea. They let me let this elderly people still in there let me begin part of this. Has got to care about of course here. At open if a. Couple old took up but i see that im just and i mean yeah but every day on my way youve. Got 30 looking to keep the galaxy from some 8 now are not supporting me about the lani did it wanted me to go back to lie about to be dismissed on such a kid i yell scott. Make. A. Move on sticky man happy camper and tell him. What todays 10th graders may not get to known about is the wealth of learning and cultural blending that accompanied muslim rule in india in the study or may have been harsh and puritanical but other moguls brought a culture of openness and learning the tajima hell is the supreme expression of this. It was built by the mogul ruler sharjah ha as a muslim for his beloved wife 1000 how he preached equality among hindus and muslims and he celebrated hindu festivals a tradition established by his grandfather acquired under him india enjoyed a religiously and culturally diverse existence schools for both muslims and hindus were established policies that earn the loyalty and respect of hindus a blending of culture and religion in my socalled syncretism and an essential part of indian life today i mean for people sikri built by arc which he made his capital success came through acknowledging the multiple cultures within india. Heres a question isnt trying the architecture the column the divan a house in the hole welker would hold court assimilates motifs from hindu islam christianity buddhism islam and zorro astronauts. The pillar itself kind of stands as a testament to this mixing of faiths and this is from a man who brought brahmins near him and pundits near him to learn from them he drank the water of the gunk he had a deep root god for hindu faith and custom and belief and and i think is aim was to find in this land of many religions where he was ruling as a Muslim Emperor to find a way in which people could go forward it wouldnt be secularism as we know its not in the modern european sense but it was clearly driven by a secular ideal. Im about to see something quite extraordinary but which at the same time is peculiarly india. Where the hindu temple that was partially destroyed and turned into a mosque by oren say look at that time like literally the column whats interesting here is that part of this mosque complex remains a place of worship for hindus and you have the ultimate lack of an exit i am sure of. Its being kind of preparing our prayers in the evening and sits in the face of. You cast your eye or are you see very very typical muslim arches and then you see what is really like the pillars of a hindu temple but in the middle of that is the qibla which is the direction of prayer so both face are represented both forms of worship are occurring side by side and this to me is historical resolution. To see other. Anderson february march youd wish for i recalled 100 people who were going to give it. A child like they could do harm except you know. Not marshal the. Dont know. Why i think that i look known hero need to you know why isnt he is with me is absurd but again i want to know their views on the mosque and hindus most important to the cause which owns theyve also destroyed to build a mosque. Just gan might be machines could be there to pick up the cat i know i read john moran going number limited on the cajon number of caution because she was not meant to be sure shasta can join. In monday dont go toward europe not to cut. Hum monday by not measured by the necklace tejada. Good choice now but i got the good the disk and watch funny. The chick. Ive. Learned must. Protect your good by about how to tell you how. Very very interesting you know hes saying whatever happened was not a good thing it was not a good thing that happened and he says for me it was a symbol of slavery because it was built by a brother who was who and saved us lickin our good beach macwhich of our lardner. Our new government can get under. The rug up were not up 100 could not really crap not question do i know when we shall manage 5. So i was really struck by the similarity between these 2 men are you fiction by the warm and i was left with a strange question because when they got talking about history when they got talking about temples destroy what was to be rebuilt. There were really is irreconcilable differences between them and yet there was the civility in the suspection and it left me feeling i thought what is this separate thing is that ability to get on really what counts or do people have to result differences down to their very being easy if thats even possible. On the eve of indias Independence Day im returning to delhi. Im starting the day at the john muir media a Muslim College where celebrations already in full swing. And it. Was already. A dont do you want it you wish me. Good man of the a. T. F. That. May change or leave lindsay and if you. Think. Theres no doubting the commitment of these Muslim Students i was impressed by the scaffold pad display of unity it was on this day 72 years ago that india gained independence from britain along with the events that led to partition. At that time it became clear that indias muslims. Those who chose to remain would be as much part of this nation as the hindus when i arrived in this country i expected to find a place dramatically different from the one i grew up in instead i was pleasantly surprised to find how intact indian life still is how integrated how assimilate. And yet i cannot deny that i felt a sense of foreboding among indias 170000000 muslims a deep feeling of disenfranchisement this is a country in the grip of a historical reckoning the indian past with all its pain and complexity is being realistic it how it negotiates this passage will not merely affect indias most limbs but the moral and Spiritual Health of the nation as a whole. It was time for me to return to my home in new york. I left india feeling encouraged and hopeful for the future of the country im so proud to have grown up in and call my own. But in new york a nasty shock awaited me a letter from indias ministry of home affairs and what the threatening to do is to revoke my overseas indian citizenship which allows me to live and work in india the grounds that the saying that the grounds that they using to revoke this is that apparently i have concealed the pakistani origin of my father. And its a very worrying letter because if it goes through i may not be able to return to india and theyve i meant i have 21. 00 days to respond but i have barely 24 hours to respond to this letter. Ive recently written this article critical inner intermodal here in the b j p then attacked me wrongly calling me a muslim and a pakistani with no right to interfere with Indian Affairs with attacks such as this on critical journalists im as worried for my country as i am for the impact of this on myself and my family in india. My lawyer feels that theres something malicious in what the government has done theyre accusing me of concealing the fact that my father was pakistani which is kind of absurd because ive written books and articles for over a decade about my fathers pakistani origin and about the fact that i was always a strange from him and grew up with my mother in india i cant help but feel that the reason is this Time Magazine article more than 250 prominent writers have petitioned the Indian Government on my behalf i was grateful and more than touched by their support the Booker Prize Winning indian novelist kiran this was one of them. I told you to dishonor my parents not to speak up talking about the india i grew up in i am afraid because i know all the minorities in india are very afraid. And when you have a country. That does not honor its minorities then its time to be very afraid the press is under threat in india we have had many cases of books being banned in india and of writers being silenced but i think the situation is growing more acute were talking of murder of silencing writers by murdering them by banning them books silencing the press and with you of course they came up with a technicality every new victim becomes a symbol of this oppression there were plenty of people who would have loved to sign and were really far too scared to sign is so much fear even among indians here that they will be severe repercussions on their speaking up and that they will be targeted. One by one. With a heavy heart i have to surrender my overseas indian citizenship today. Well ive come out one document less and this is a kind of weird goodbye to and feels very hard for me because this is a country ive grown up in ive lived in all my life and suddenly i dont really have the right to go there anymore and i basically feel bereft of my mother my grandmother my country and and the place where i grew up. The bridge appears just past its socalled citizenship Amendment Bill for the 1st time in Indian History it establishes a test of religion for becoming indian earlier on in this film i had asked myself are we witnessing a weakening of india secular character. The answer to my question seems frighteningly to be yes im reminded of something the veteran politician are of muhammad concept about part of the in the name for india. Indian tradition says this whole continent between the sea and the him earlier this is part of and all of those who live the children with parter. The tasteless automator the but senate believed if not made to the gender doesnt matter the place of family residence does not but nothing met i who had children of i had a child a violent i am which i am i a child on a child and if someone was to say to me im not what do i say to him if someone is going to sit on one of us today someone is going to tell me that im not for some of my father like to go to ed. Hello again or welcome back here in a National Weather forecast here across the southeastern part of australia it is going to be a little bit messy over the next few days we do have a system that is coming in off the bye and with that were going to be seeing some winds some rain as well temperatures will be dropping in some areas so here we go on tuesday winds coming out of the south or adelaide 22 degrees through their rain pushing through melbourne that could be heavy at times over here toward sydney we do expect to see more convective activity more thunderstorms there tempter theyre coming down to about 29. 00 as we go towards wednesday in terms of the forecast remember though it is going to still be rainy all the way through thursday we do expect see those temp to slow coming down 24 on tuesday 20 on wednesday 19 degrees as your expected high here on thursday well also messy towards northern part of japan of the next few days notice that storm pushing over here towards a cairo and with it we do expect to see snow anywhere from sapporo all the way down across the western part of japan over the next you days thats really going to be the only day we see the bad weather here on tuesday by the time we get to when stay. Most of that makes its way into the pacific were going to sing more sun across much of the area to tokyo though it is going to be a partly cloudy day a 12 degrees down here towards hong kong though the rain has finally ended were going to be seeing about 70 degrees for their efforts and they stay at 19. We will maintain the finest fighting force the world has ever known United States army was so reliant on the private sector i would call the dependency we have a mismatch between the way we. Work to be and the reality of the 21st century. And i want to show you how many of the persons that youre sending out you should be transferred to the. Child soldiers reloaded on aljazeera. Aljazeera. 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