The
atmosphere at the site of fasting at Jantar Mantar, yesterday and the day before,
was very constructive. Adnan read poignant poems titled
'1992' and 'Ghar'. Anupam Singh recited Sandeep
Tiwari's poem 'Pahchan'. Hirany Himkakar and Yogesh Paswan
read poems by many well-known poets including Raghuvir Sahay, Faiz Ahmad Faiz,
Pablo Neruda, Emanuel Ortiz, and Harishankar Parasai's satirical compositions. Neeraj Mishra recited the famous
poetry by Raghupati Sahay 'Firak' by reading out the famous poem 'Bahut Andhera
Hai'. Many journalists have joined the fast
and expressed their points of view. Fellow teachers, researchers,
students of Delhi University continued to come and discussed the dangerous
trend of mobocracy/ mob-lynching. Many students of Jamia,
Indraprastha and JNU joined at the fast venue. Many dynamic young people of Delhi
and outside have been persistent present.
Today, the
'Not in my
name' march at Jantar Mantar will be held against the mobocracy/mob-lynching. There is a message that citizens
will also hold this program in other cities of the country. This is a good endeavor. More and more people of Delhi
should participate in it. In such events, we forget
villages, towns, and small towns. Such events should be held there as
well. That is more important. The citizens of Delhi who are
participating in today's march are requested to come to the fast venue for the
next three days and observe the fast for one day.
Today,
our political teacher Socialist thinker Kishan Patnaik is being missed a lot. He constantly knocked at the
minds of political activists and intellectuals of the country, saying that
alternative politics is the only way to counter the neo-imperialist-communal nexus
formed after 1991. The
debris that
has fallen upon India's constitutional order and civilization is the result of our
failure of not creating an alternative politics.
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