I am anyway a big fan of Shah Rukh Khan and not only that my 6 years old daughter Muskan also does not miss a single picture of SRK. Curiously she asked me today morning who are the people rasing slogans against SRK on TV and will we be able to watch MY NAME IS KHAN or not. I told her that the picture will be released on 12th, so no problem we have enough time by which everything will be OK. I told her that since SRK has advocated for Pakistani players playing in India, Shiv Sena & MNS are shouting slogans against SRK and boycotting his cinemas and burning posters and damaging cinema halls in Mumbai. This was the explanation to the small child. Now, on a more mature note, lets us see this matter. Already this news being aired on TV is that SRK has mellowed down now because he cannot see the dmages the channel partners of his films will have to suffer because of the controversy. Its possible that SRK may apologise too but its no denying the fact that it was SRK who first raised the voice to this level that now RSS, Rahul Gandhi, Nitin Gadkari, Aamir Khan , Shabana Azmi and other actors and activists have started raisiing voice against this tyranny of the MNS and Shiv Sena type goondaism. It will be a slap in our face that common people are not saying anything on this matter, may due to the fact that they are not affected in any way and believe that let the big wigs fight among themselves or they have no time to raise their voice against injustice. But enough is enough, awake before it is too late and starts pinching common man. Is it (and I am told that Raj Thakre has raised the bogey of separatism emulating the DMK in Tamil Nadu) fair. We recently celebrated the successful completion of 60 yrs of Republic of India which has been successful to accommodate so diverse people across vast geographical mass as one unit, that is India. I know the problem of the link language because I travel all over India and see that in Chennai there is most problem in doing your common work as people dont know any language apart from Tamil. Do you expect everyone will lean English and speak fluently. No, they will not. (Is it not a bad logic that we want English as link language and not Hindi? Can you be so mean and blindfolded that you wil not accept the language which has emerged out of our own land and depend solely on a language that’s come from foreign land and still some people see this as our acceptance of our Gulami?) After the mother tongue which is the common language which is spoken and understood by maximum people in India, of course it is Hindi and that is why Hindi films are so successful all over the country and even in the foreign countries, especially Pakistan where Hindi films and music is relished too. In fact Hindi films are the common thread which is binding all India and not only that even Pakistan? Don’t you see the Aman ki Aasha ads all over and the efforts from artists and intellectuals from both countries to come reach to some sort of meeting point- after all boundary is just on the paper or at best land, but not in our hearts? And don’t you see that even in diplomatic circles, countries are putting pressure on India to resume talks with Pakistan because they cannot expect the hostility to continue for a long period of time between two nuclear nations. So ultimately both the countries have to talk and solve their matters on mutual understanding and both have to sit regularly. And can you deny the fact that Cultural exchanges and sports like cricket and Hockey is being played between both the sides since last 63 years and even at the height of militancy and war ( today saw the picture of Jawed Miandad at Matoshree with Bal Thakre! ). This love and hate relationship between India is as eternal a truth than love- hate relationship between a husband and wife or saas and bahu! Why do you want to put an end to this drama? Come on, be brave and large hearted and try to accommodate various view points. Don’t fall prey into the hands of politicians, because they only created Pakistan and India and they only create friendship and they only raise war hysteria. People of both India nd Pakistan should know this and try to influence other people to come across these accommodative views otherwise we will play into the hands of one superpower or the other. In the end, well done Shan Rukh, we are proud of you. Carry on. Ekla chalo re. Start the journey, it will soon become a caravan.
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