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In Unlocked Realms, I explore the liminal space between consumer identity and symbolic mythmaking. The green key is an entry point—a tactile metaphor for access, freedom, and transition. A butterfly rests beside it, reminding us that transformation often comes gently, silently. The Off-White arrows confront you with directionality and decision, while the Vivienne Westwood orb marks territory once colonized by status, now reclaimed by individuality. The serpent weaves through yellow blooms and crystalline flowers, representing temptation, wisdom, and life's fertile chaos.

This piece is not about finding one meaning—it’s about letting meaning find you. You are both the observer and the keyholder. Welcome in.

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PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2004 ID-1882 by PaRChA project — the Pamphlet Repository for Changing Activism

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All India Students Association(AISA) .

8.10 .0-t .

Public Meeting.

Marginalised Identities, Minorities and Patriotism: The Politics Of Communal Myth-Making.

Speakers.

Ritu Menon, Author and Feminist Critic .

Sutlej Mess Rizwan Quaiser, Deptt. of History, Jamia .

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8. 10. 04 9.30pm.

savarkar occupiesthe pinnacle in RSS' pantheon ofpatriots. Congress, not wishing to 'speak ill of the dead' describes.

him as aLpatriot ofthe Hindu nation~ A patriot nonetheless! But there are millions in this country who do not fit in thisdiscourse at all. Remember. Savarkarwas one ofthe earliest proponents of religious nationalism. Distinguishing betweenPitrabhu (Fatherland) and Punyabhu (Holy land), he rejected the possibility that Muslims or Christians could be true.

citizens ofthis country because their punyabhoo lay elsewhere, in Mecca orthe Vatican. Their allegiance to the Fatherland,constantly seek certificates of loyalties from the likes of Uma Bharati who are allowed to 'test' them by uhfurling the .

he suggested, would always be tainted by their extra territorial loyalties to their Holy land. Thus the minorities have totricolouratthe disputed ldgah maidan. .

whether by ·correcting historical wrongs' such as reconstructing Somnatha Temple or by lending tacit support to the .

Forall the rhetoric about Nehruvian Socialism, the Indian State, since Independence, gave voice to Hindu majoritarianism..

installation ofthe Ram Iala idol at Ayodhya. When faced with its first crisis of legitimacy in the 1960s, from the growingdiscontent among the workers, peasants, students and marginalized sections, the Indian State under Indira Gandhi.

responded by blurring the lines between politics and religion..

The BJP often raises the bogey of a "Muslim vote bank". The truth is that the Cong. regimes of Indira andRajiv, and laterRao, worked hardtBmanufacture a Hindu vote bank. Even while Indira introduced the term Secularismin the Constitution, she assiduously played the Hindu card to deflect the people's anger against her policies. Through the.

1970s, following the 1971 lndo-Pak war and the Pokharan explosions (which inspired Vajpayee enough to herald Indira as.

Durga incarnate), anti-Pak jingoism became the touchstone of Indian nationalism and the Indian Muslims. the counterpart.

ofPakistan within the country. Overthe years, the Congress competed with the Hindu Right to manufacture and nurture a.

Hindu constituency: recall Indira's cry of ·Hinduism in Danger" after the Meenakshipuram conversions in 1981 ; or the.

State-sponsored sterilization programme which fed Into the communal myth ofMuslim population overtaking the Hindus;.

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Emptied ofall anti-imperialist content, this perverted notion of nationalism has become the reigning consensus orthe factthat Rajiv chose to launch his 1989 election campaign from Faizabad in a bid to consolidate a Hindu constituency. .

parroting the myth of"Madarsas being the dens of lSI". Far from being a 'pampered vote bank', the Muslims have today, so much so that the CPI( M) Chief Minister of West Bengal must prove his loyalties to the country by.

been condemned to a life of perennial suspicion and insecurity. It was the incipient majoritarian impulse in the nascent.

nation-state that the RSS/ BJP were able to build upon and unleash more virulently later. Bhiwandi-Bhagalpur-Gujarat.

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represent a natural progression and maturing of this process in our polity and not sudden shifts..

The Beating Stick of Kashmir: Kashmir clearly remains the favourite issue to-flog all Indian Muslims with. But is.

Kashmir a Muslim issue after all? Kashmiris have a distinctive linguistic and cultural identity that has little to do with the.

Muslims in the other parts ofthe country. The Indian State repeatedly reneged on its promises to the Kashmiri people and.

hampered the process of integration of Kashmir with the rest of the Union. By constantly putting the loyalties of the.

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Kashmiris under the scanner, what is often forgotten is that in 1947, Hindu Right formations in Kashn"Jir did not want.

Kashmir to be a part of the Indian Union, which was adopting a secular constitution. but aspired for an independent.

Kashmir rashtra under a Hindu ruler. .

The Other Anti-nationals: But it is not the Muslims/ religious minorities alone who are painted as anti-nationals. Allthose marginalised, struggling peoples fighting their dispossession from land, water and resources stand accused of not.

'sacrificing' for the common good of the country and standing in the way of the country's progress and development.Should it be any surpriseto us that the largest numberofthose booked TADA underare trade unionist. workers,.

dalits and those protesting against the Naramad dam in Gujarat; and that a majority of those booked underPOTA are the tribals from Jharakhand? The State's response to the democratic aspirations of its peoples is usually by.

first attempting to delegitimizing all struggles as anti-national and then slapping repressive laws. In this 'nationalist'.

mythmaking, all those who stand with the draconian laws like POTA. TADA and AFSPA are patriots,while all those raisingtheir voice against these black laws are condemned as anti-nationals.Who is a real patriot? Savarkar, who promised to be a loyal subject of the British if pardoned; Vajpayee. who.

foreign intelligence agency like the FBI; Messrs. Jaya Jaitely and George Fernandes, who compromise national security betrayed freedom fighters by giving evidence against them in 1942;The NDA, which rolls out the red carpet for a notorious.

for kickbacks; The Congress, which welcomes aoo appreciates the us· 'offer' ofintervention in the internal matters ofthe.

country; those who are mortgaging the country's sovereignty and economy to the imperialist forces; Orthe millions of the.

struggling people ofthe country resisting these sell outs?.

Sd/-Mona Da.s. President. ATSA. JNU uSd/-Siltya Vcnl<nta Siddardhll Kr. 0 .. V. P.. ATSA. JNU .

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