Jeopardy. Its now 10 months since general haftar appended the international communitys peace plans by ordering an offensive to try and seize tripoli the operation launched defiantly just hours after he met u. N. Secretary general antonio good terrorist who was visiting libya at the time in the months since the death toll has mounted as weapons have continued to pour into the country despite the latest attacks when he spoke to reporters the secretary generals envoy was determined to push the diplomatic momentum forward is your plan back on track my plan is not back on track my plan has never left that that it is being implemented was patience and determination this by the many of the key you need a ceasefire before next week i better have a ceasefire in order to implement all the rest but this is not the precondition but hours later sporadic indiscriminate attacks on tripoli continued the government to fire is issued this statement there were needed violations of the truce with the targeting of civilian facilities this time the tripolis seaport which is the life artery for many libyan cities where they get basic medical and Food Supplies in this context we announced the suspension of ongoing talks in geneva the president ial Council Reaffirms that without a permanent ceasefire there is no point in any negotiations the un is now left struggling to see if it can save the geneva process wider talks involving all the political factions in libya would use take place next week once again or day shifts military action by general haftar has derailed peace efforts james bays out 0 geneva. 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Says nearly 300. 00 civilians have now been killed in northwest syria since the beginning of the year almost all of them in attacks by the government and its ally russia has denounced the offensive as cruel beyond belief Syrian Government been trying to capture that last rebel stronghold in the area ukraines president says heavy fighting in the Eastern Region one to hamper efforts to end the conflict with russia backed separatists the flare up as left one ukrainian soldier dead this is some of the worst fighting actually since the region in the region since the peace talks were held back in december. A u. S. Federal judge has thrown out chinese czech tech giant challenge to a law restricting its business the case relates to a law which bans huawei from doing business with us federal Government Agencies and contractors many in the usa who could use its networks to spy on behalf of the Chinese Government while way one of the worlds Biggest Smartphone makers and Telecommunications Companies denies all of this. The jury in the form a hollywood producer Harvey Weinsteins trial is now deciding his fate weinstein is facing life in prison on charges of predatory Sexual Assault a trial in new york focused on allegations specifically made by 2 women but more than 80 others have also accused him of Sexual Misconduct weinstein denies all allegations. The headlines in search of indias soul is coming up next. 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 look for a 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 that the hindu nationalist leader in the rain room of the 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 whether 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 im sure to dan was a Young Journalist and a key witness to the events that were to unfold. What they started doing was breaking the barricade that was thematic getting all around and the fury that could be even that was visible they walked in 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 there now this is a divide that theyve created in the country they are taking us back to 147 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. Businesses and i. Dentity it was not the mosque was not so it was not the mosque that was important for the of that identity so do you feel that that the new politics had been born absolutely feel 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 b j p at that time a relatively obscure political party. Truly astonishing to hear sherrod story because it makes it 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 ra milan and it was played to india in the eightys to great passion and large audiences and now and 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 because with the confidence that the situation in favor of building the long awaited temple would surely come. All this was our political tell way of i dont know much how to get by but our thoughts are well mighty monday at the door mom. America much more than monarchy at our place a value only because if we didnt even do been able to get political. We think at the levels that. Is news making up here who is making up to get back the birthplaces of his ancestors. Any hindu can go and make use temples in jerusalem no can i go room and build exam temple or 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 the hearts and minds of millions of people across the country i think a good clean 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 people dont matter which god you worship or she was shipped or go and walk like a bitch you would be if you be an equal citizen that was elected the same to a cornerstone of all 14 stood for many of us believe that the issue was resolved for ever but it was not the video be that have succeeded in uniting. All communities into believing that there is 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 of mohamed khan was a cabinet minister at the time. 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 deserted. Under indias secular law the court refused to recognise 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 minutes out of normal can you spoken to to sister in parliament and to say so with some courage and lehmans. The personal low board which represented muslims claim the award was against islamic law angry clerics demonstrated outside parliament. The stand of the parcel of 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 titling the wife just 3 months maintenance seeing this is an assault on womens rights progressive muslims and many hindus were appalled company came under attack from both sides rajiv gandhi in the worst mistake of his life by exiting to the east in the overdevelopment and overturning the Supreme Court judgement and taking away her date to maintenance indian politics took a turn from theft. Only davies and was dead the leg wage which was the spoke threatening language our excited by limited meeting of the parts of a low board open call was given to break the day the legs of all of those m. P. s who defied reports and if it is which was juiced again and again definitively compote a Supreme Court which at that will smash the Supreme Court may just pieces yes. There was a discourse about appeasement to muslims the idea that people have done too much for muslims. Many hindus what im good 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 crack. A decision that has had deadly consequences ever since. On february 27th 2002 a train was set alight just outside go dry station in the Western State of gujarat. 58 hindu pilgrims were burnt to death theyd been returning home from the babri 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. Pull 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 tallon lot of act on the just because a lot out there are just for gases and nature kendall btselem i dont get a lot out what the whole then. Got done many other how they were minorities going apple to me to tell me any slick just that he got his days conditioned and i. Know. 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 muslims. In 1902 when the mosque was the. India changed for the world. The issue of the charbonneau was be emotive and important. That i had seen. Through. The sequence of events. That charted the path and indeed the foundation for the ease of hindu supreme assist politics and it led to the emergence d of this leader in the mood. For long hours the good dr state authorities stood by as rioting took place prompting allegations of state complicity. With deep saying forget i was a young Police Constable his unit was kept in active as people were massacred. In the run up by b. M. S. Police and they can also has a thug. Public the cigar. Or. No sun. Or. Just go to bed. We will need to get. You seen margit will just 10 years old when the attacks took place. The family. Member will lead them. To want the money. But they didnt know was that theyd want to try. To get the idea to download. A new body. You know. That would. Not. Even. Shahin qureshi was at home with her husband and 3 small children. Nikhil was out a. Go to get it. Was said by heart of the modernity but the town itself oh good one he said. Bengal but trying to get them in but having the fine until a good day to tell all though that there. Was an angel baby team in it but so what do. They want us out meantime. Advice would be needed and now so were going to maybe go away. For legit complicity in allowing the mob violence and killings to go unchecked during their more the was barred from visiting the us a ban that lasted for 10 years. Indias top court has ruled that a disputed religious site be given to hindus for the construction of a temple hindu hard liners destroyed a 16th century mosque in 1992 spot hall 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 then do that set of rules on which the newly founded country was established. Can. Invent india without taking into account tragedies of more than the whole bunch weve tried to sanitize i dont think the people in the muslims of today should be blamed for what i have. If i really save them a list of particulars trying. To see that it didnt happen gets peoples backs its that evil secularization its the reaction to this secularization all by pretending that it was all a happy family all along it wasnt because of a troubled history. If the muslim were 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 you because of the way they are portrayed is the descendants of the murders and looters and butchers and rapists the making common cause with people who broke the long temple the christian a temple the cause she was sure not 40000 other temples but its true that they are converted. I think where was it. 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 feeling 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 a 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 or 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. You know the beauty of being 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 even if we are one bottom. What are the things you can do to protect her from this environment i dont do about india the map and show our neighbors our you know your china you put down here you have. Bungled the issue you have pakistan and sri lanka so that all the neighbors and then i say what if somebody called you chinese you laugh and say right im an indian a military means what if somebody calls you a bangladeshi you laugh and say they did not have water somebody called supermarket done you love and see another pakistani so i 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 they had to grow a parka stanley 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 to be grows up. Challenge lies in so much of featuring. An estimated 100000 lives cruelly ended over a century ago. A distant past not to the descendants of the slaughtered. A tale of colonialism and racial supremacy. Unravels in the quest for justice and recognition of the sacrifices of tribal. Scales of my people i witnessed documentary. Is here. Im come out santa maria with another look at the headlines on aljazeera libyas internationally recognized government as pulled out of ceasefire talks in geneva after the port in the capital tripoli was targeted by forces loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar at least 3 civilians were killed in that showing after has been trying to take over tripoli since april and up the one who has more now on the attack on the port from tripoli the government has notified the United Nations support the mission in libya that its suspending its parts. In the talks in geneva the government says that it cannot continue in any peace talks with. The capital is under attack the State Facility is that it is the areas and also the port which is the government describes as the lifeline not only for the people in the capital city but all libyans because this is the main and major port in the capital city where the headlines and the number of people have died due to coronavirus in china has now crossed 2005 to who are province the epicenter of the outbreak reported another 132 deaths on tuesday when 74000 people have now been infected in Mainland China also russia has become the 1st country to temporarily banned chinese citizens from coming in to try to stop the virus from spreading this comes into effect on thursday. The United Nations says nearly 300. 00 civilians have been killed in northwest syria since the beginning of this year almost all of them in attacks by the government and its ally russia its denounced the offensive as cruel beyond belief a government has been trying to capture the last rebel held strongholds. Ukraines president says heavy fighting in the eastern donbass region wont hamper efforts to end the conflict with russian backed separatists the flare ups left one ukrainian soldier dead some of the worst fighting seen in the region since the peace talks were held in december and the us federal judge has thrown out the chinese tech giant ways lawsuit challenging a restriction on its business the case relates to a law which bars hallway from doing business with u. S. Federal Government Agencies and contractors many in the u. S. Say that while we could use its networks to spy on behalf of the Chinese Government our way itself denies those accusations news hour and 25 minutes time right now though part 2 of in search of indias sole. The hindu fear has been a problem. 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 its a name. I like they call it a god i like or stuff like i think of stuff i think of they all mean little theyre those little mean lottery color benvar 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 misapplying minivan and it all went down and at the end of the tank ill cop out if i need to have asked for some quotes on that and other a level other than. Yes i do when you. Consider what i and i did. My job was said. Despite protections under the constitution delegates. Untouchables are treated as outcasts how to make. War time. 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. 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 do it by a process called curve ups which literally means homecoming. Truelove a mans father was a hindu who converted to islam. A generation on he and several family members have converted back to hindu is im. Wondering is the. Model of the film lonely you dont normally have my line of 2 things will not be how will you go from with. This small print in indias anti conversion laws forbids enticements or intimidation to convert its a certificate that love mohamad is now named she last month hes now being brought into the hindu fall and it says without any pressure. Without any influence. The can tell your name of love for where youre going with and wish of a diagram of the level of. Love you think are above. Not to. Get out of got to be. Both and. Move on the got to. Get out. Not the. Bird. But. On the go to mosque on the. 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 on the new 19 do you think you can was born this way when they bought nothingness was 42 years ago if someone you the bomb us was going to get into were not out there and you know that you know whos in lucky you know peace and the only one nigger all ok are muslim man who have done the who are. The world about hanna and the present a little jealous of the new young. Girl we never get out what used to. Be because you have becky. You cannot go up and you cannot go to sleep or top in. You get it take is rooted in that art market bottom about get it here 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 not so bad i think it will do me in good now most people get it you muslims are really nice i got their family gives out a car got it in a given me your money but others that come in do not out there are going. To be in the one thats out the op in. One of the other groups you could i do yes. About a year to india came a settlement with some pelley. Made out of market. Operates under dont legally or what will. You do the home key but. Only chain yank some magic cheese on the stump. 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 castes that most conversions out of hinduism in recent years have taken place. But along with islam its another ancient religious group that faces the consequences of Rising Hindutva politics there are 28000000. 00 christians in india for 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 the 2 conducive way from the original faith. In 2008 in the state to eastern India Several 1000 christians came under attack. 400 religious or die or posed on christians 60000 christians. Fled to the forest to save themselves. 6000. 00 plus houses more than 300. 00 critical to restore the ground schools colleges all spittles clinics everything put on 100 People Killed nuns are raped. Kids are still going on 10 years later. And we expect fred justice depending on facts. You know depending on who is the majority. The radicalization of the structures of state the police that mistreat 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 theres in the shoulders of the muslim is seen. The isolation of minorities risks becoming institutionalized in schools would socalled suffer nies ation the favoring of hinduism over other traditions and school textbooks. Where the states in 10th grade students have been studying a new hindu focused curriculum. It writes out much of their countrys known hindu past. And armies and need allentown mistresses saying they are only just now going to fight and he believes in my mrs and tell me that i wouldnt like to lie at bibi hydroplane i never been bad but a tele. Is a word my lad is a person of me fairly good india will get up memories from it was a common early year for a delegation of the delegates of latino people still in illinois became part of this the palace has gotten a lot of missile nikos here. At open it up to so dying of being. Allowed to go out. And i mean yeah but every day on my way you go. Up to give order to 50 looking to keep the galaxy summit now. Back to loni again did it want to make you go back to life. Be. The one who has to be man happy camper man tells him. What todays 10th graders may not get to learn about is the wealth of learning and cultural blending that accompanied muslim rule in india the modeled in the study or exam may have been harsh and puritanical but other moguls brought a culture of openness and learning the targum 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 awkward under him india enjoyed a religiously and culturally diverse existence schools for both muslims and hindus were established policies that own 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 ark for which he made his capital success came through acknowledging the multiple cultures within india. Heres in question is in trying the architecture the column the divan a house in the whole 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 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. 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. 3 other. February march was recalled 100 people who were doing it was from a child like take it dont make sense you know. You dont know marshall the. Dont know. What i think good man and that i love known need you know why isnt he is with me is that somebody that 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. Iraq john moran got number limited on the courage or number of caution the caution was not meant to be sure shasta can drive. In monday dont go toward europe not the car. Because. Hum monday by not measured by nicholas tejada. Good choice now but i got the good the disk and watch funny. The chick get in. June and must. Protect your good by bothered 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 enough waitin do i know when we shall manage 5. So i was really struck by the similarity between the scene where you function by the warmth and i was left with a strange question because when they got talking about history when they got talking about temples destroyed what was to be rebuilt was to be left there were really it reconcilable differences between them and yet there was the civility in the suspection and it left me feeling i thought what is this everything is that ability to get on really what counts or do people have to resolve their differences down to the very big 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 with celebrations already in full swing. Oh. Man. Do you need. To really. Pay. Lindsay. If. Theres no doubting the commitment to these Muslim Students i was impressed by the scaffold 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 said 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 muslims 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 that threatening to do is to revoke my overseas indian citizenship which allows me to live and work in india the grounds that theyre saying that the grounds that theyre using to revoke this is that apparently ive 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 days to respond but i have barely 24 hours to respond to this letter. Ive recently written this article critical in or interim order 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 i 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 then 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 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 that socalled citizenship Amendment Bill for the 1st time in Indian History establishes a test of religion for becoming indian earlier on in this film i had asked myself are we witnessing a weakening of indias secular character. The answer to my question seems frighteningly to be yes im reminded of something the veteran politician r. Of muhammad concert 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 leave the children with parter. 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Hello again welcome back to your International Weather forecast with the big story here across United States is still the flooding across much of the south we have seen a lot of rain well above average rain for this time of year across much of the region and in fortune of the next few days there is more rain to come now we do have a frontal boundary that is making its way out here into the atlantic but in texas that is where our next round of rain is going to be coming from and that is going to be heading over here towards the east across many of those rivers that are moderate and also major flood stage so we dont need to see really any more rain but unfortunately that is what is coming for atlanta it is going to be a wet day also a cool day the temperatures are coming down but by the time we do get to friday it is going to be sunny with a temperature of 8 degrees there while much of Central America as well as into the caribbean is looking fairly quiet right now we are going to be seeing those temperatures rising though from managua maybe 35. 00 degrees here on wednesday as we got up towards parts of end of though it is going to be a nice day with a temperature of 30 and we have been dealing with some very heavy rain here across parts of argentina that is now making its way up here towards southern parts of brazil or rio though is going to be a very hot day here as we go towards wednesday at 35. 00 degrees but temperatures are coming down one is out is from 29. 00 to about 24. 00 with plenty of sun in the forecast. 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