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The Educated Andhbhakt

It's always good to know how an Andhbhakt thinks or rather is made to think 

 

Tum Apni Karni Kar Guzro, Jo Hoga Dekha Jaayega

 

Indian Railways Is Now Adani Railways

 

False Video Circulated To Discredit and Defame #ShaheenBagh Protestors

A video widely circulating in WhatsApp in India was sent by me to Webqoof for verification. Here's their response


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After ascertaining the location, The Quint's WebQoof team visited Old Mustafabad area and found out that the video was shot there. We also spoke to a local businessman, who could also be seen in the video, and he told us that he distributed the money to some women, who had come from Shiv Nagar after their houses were burnt or attacked following the violence in Delhi. According to him, they ran out of relief material supplies but some women were left, so he gave them money.

You can read the story here: https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/shaheen-bagh-women-protesters-being-paid-in-video-from-old-mustafabad

Delhi Violence Relief Video Used to Malign Shaheen Bagh Protests
The Quint found out that the video is neither from Shaheen Bagh, nor were the women being paid to protest.
www.thequint.com


Hope this clarifies your doubt.

Regards,
Team WebQoof

Help siblings Shakir and Rukaiya

Help siblings Shakir and Rukaiya

Have you ever thought of a 15-month-old baby suddenly rendered helpless, motionless by a stroke of medically induced spasticity, not even able to suckle her mother for the much-needed milk, How a father used a dropper like a pipette to put the milk in her mouth one drop at a time, How the family coped with this child as she grew up, her spinal cord paralyzed. The relentless effort by the father to get her back to "normal" making her sit, her back to the wall with two pillows on either side for support - at the age of four years! And as the years passed she improved but very slowly. She started walking only with someone at her side, which was to be a lifelong necessary precaution, as her balancing function was far from working optimally. She attended the Savera Special School (opp New  Excelsior Cinema) for children with special needs for almost three decades. After her parents passed away her brother was her sole caretaker who quit his job as a copywriter to be able to take care of Ruqaiyah full time...

But the loss of income has made there life really difficult as he takes her for her out for an outing throughout south Bombay in her wheelchair pushing it himself which is physically draining him since both are aged. Shakir bhai is 59 and Ruqaiyah bai is about 69 years of age.
Shakir bhai is her sole caregiver. They used to have a two-wheeler before but it has also broken down and funds for its repairs or replacement are not something he can afford with costs for her medical needs and diapers are continuously making it difficult for him to manage their lives. 
a few years back livemint even published an article about them. Here’s a link to the same https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/TIoEvzuPhNjv2hOC6lAYBM/The-ride-back-home.html

please do all you can to help them who have been struggling in old age.

Details for direct bank transfer / UPI

UPI ID
shakirvirpurwala@okhdfcbank

BANK OF INDIA

BENEFICIARY NAME- SHAKIR R VIRPURWALA,
BENEFICIARY BANK A/C
NO.002810110001297,
BENEFICIARY BANK-BANK OF INDIA, MAHALAXMI BRANCH,MUMBAI
400026.
BANK IFSC-BKID0000028,
BENEFICIARY PAN CARD NO.-AESPV5815J

KOTAK BANK

BENEFICIARY NAME- SHAKIR ROSHANALI VIRPURWALA.
BENEFICIARY BANK A/C
NO.0911973486
BENEFICIARY BANK-KOTAK BANK , WORLI BRANCH, MUMBAI
BANK IFSC-KKBK0000634
BENEFICIARY PAN CARD NO.-AESPV5815J

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Relevance for our times is magnified by the conduct of those in governance today

Thought it is fitting to reproduce what a man by the name of Khushwant Singh wrote in his Editor's Page of 'The Illustrated Weekly of India' 50 years ago. It makes sense, and I believe is a must-read for all Indians in the present political situation. Looks like he just woke up from the dead and wrote the pièce yesterday. Don't miss the last
On Feb 15, 1970 Khushwant Singh wrote under the headline
'Why I am an Indian'.**_

I did not have any choice; I was born one. If the good Lord had consulted me on the subject I might have chosen a country more affluent, less crowded, less censorious in matters of food and drink, unconcerned with personal equations and free of religious bigotry.

Am I proud of being an India? I can't really answer this one. I can scarcely take credit for the achievements of my forefathers. And I have little reason to be proud of what we are doing today. On balance, I would say, 'No, I am not proud of being an Indian.'

'Why don't you get out and settle in some other country?' Once again, I have very little choice. All the countries I might like to live in have restricted quotas for emigrants; most of them are white and have prejudice against coloured people. In any case I feel more relaxed and at home in India. I dislike many things in my country--mostly the government. I know the government is never the same as the country, but it never stops trying to appear in that garb. This is where I belong, and this is where I intend to live and die. Of course, I like going abroad. Living is easier, wine and food are better, women are more forthcoming--it's more fun. However, I soon get tired of all those things and want to get back to my dung-heap and be among my loud-mouthed, sweaty, smelly countrymen. I am like my kinsmen in Africa and England and elsewhere. My head tells me it's better to live abroad, my belly tells me it is more fulfilling to be in 'phoren' but my heart tells me 'get back to Ind'. Each time I return home and drive through the stench of bare-bottomed defecators that line the road from Santa Crux airport to the city I ask myself:

"'Breathes there a man with soul so dead
who never to himself hath said
this is my own land, my native land?"

I can scarcely breathe, but I yell, 'Yeah, this is my native land. I don't like it, but I love it!'

Are you an Indian first and a Punjabi or Sikh second? Or is it the other round? I don't like the way those questions are framed. I am all three at the same time. If I was denied my Punjabiness or my community tradition, I would refuse to call myself Indian. I am Indian, Punjabi and Sikh. And even so I have a patriotic kinship one who says I am 'Indian, Hindu and Haryanvi' or 'I am Indian, Moplah Muslim and Malayali' or 'I am Indian, Christian and Assamese'. I want to retain my religious and linguistic identity without in any way making them exclusive.

I am convinced that in our guaranteed diversity is our strength as a nation. As soon as you try to obliterate regional languages in favour of one 'national' language or religion, in the name of some one Indian credo, you will destroy the unity of the country. Twice was our Indianness challenged: in 1962 by the Chinese; in 1965 by the Pakistanis. Then, despite our many differences of language, religion and faith, we rose as one to defend our country. In the ultimate analysis, it is the consciousness of the frontiers that makes a nation. We have proved that we are one nation.

What then this talk about Indianising people who are already Indian? And has anyone any right to arrogate to himself the right to decide who is and who is not a good Indian?

(Khushwant Singh's Editor's Page, Edited by Rahul Singh, IBH)