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Sam Daily Times - the Master Global Publication of the Students of the World, ''The Voice Of The Voiceless'' continues with its honors into eternity...................
INDIA'S GREAT AMBASSADOR NAVJOT SINGH SIDHU - joined the jubilation of his personal friend, the Captain - Imran Khan, with the gait and dignity and openness of a great Indian opening batsmen.
The World Students Society stands up and tall, to give this great man, this great Indian, a standing ovation and wish him the very best for the future.
Navjot Sidhu, knows just too well, how to pick the line of the ball and read the finish of the bowler's arm. Just as he knows how to read the body line stuff, and the short pitch stuff...........
But what truly worries - all the great batsmen of the world, is to let go, sway away, from one that kicks up from the good length spot. and startles the batsman into committing.............
Just so recently, Amidst the jubilation as India celebrated its 71st anniversary of freedom from the British Raj, an atmosphere of fear that has been looming over the country has intensified.
Linguistically violent social media trolls are rapidly defining not just the digital but the physical realm, with their vile being replaced by batons and bullets.
A sense of fear is shaping India today.
On August 13, two days before India's independence day, outside the highly securitised zone of central Delhi, an unknown gunman attacked Umar Khalid who is a prominent student leader at Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Bullets were fired from by the unknown person before he ran away from the spot.
Khalid escaped unhurt, but the attack made his fears a reality. He had been speaking about this fear for a long time now, and for that reason jingoistic TV news channels turned him onto their evening punching bag, calling him a ''terrorist'' and telling him to 'go to Pakistan' -
All of this while the hateful social media campaign and threats against him continue.
''There is an atmosphere of fear in the country, and anybody who speaks against the government is threatened,'' said Khalid, minutes after the attack, speaking at an event called *Kahuf Se Azadi* [freedom from fear] at the Constitution Club.
Also at the event were the family members of those who had been lynched in the country's recent years of mob violence.
Later, in one of the interviews, Khalid said that the ''real culprit are those who from their seats of power have been breeding an atmosphere of hatred, of blood lust and fear.
The real culprits are those who have provided an atmosphere of of complete impunity for the assassins and mob lynchers''. It was this fear he was going to speak about, as he had been, when he was attacked.
There is certainly an atmosphere where no one can speak out against those who lynch people in the name of religion.
Many students like Khalid are today living under this fear and the intensity has only grown. Unsurprisingly, it was clearer when two people shared a video message claiming to have attacked Khalid for being ''anti-National'.
There was no longer any doubt over why someone had attempted to kill him. They wanted, as they claimed, to send an ''independent day gift''.
The Operational Publishing on the state of the world continues. The World students Society thanks author and researcher Fahad Shah, the editor of Kashmir Walia.
INDIA'S GREAT AMBASSADOR NAVJOT SINGH SIDHU - joined the jubilation of his personal friend, the Captain - Imran Khan, with the gait and dignity and openness of a great Indian opening batsmen.
The World Students Society stands up and tall, to give this great man, this great Indian, a standing ovation and wish him the very best for the future.
Navjot Sidhu, knows just too well, how to pick the line of the ball and read the finish of the bowler's arm. Just as he knows how to read the body line stuff, and the short pitch stuff...........
But what truly worries - all the great batsmen of the world, is to let go, sway away, from one that kicks up from the good length spot. and startles the batsman into committing.............
Just so recently, Amidst the jubilation as India celebrated its 71st anniversary of freedom from the British Raj, an atmosphere of fear that has been looming over the country has intensified.
Linguistically violent social media trolls are rapidly defining not just the digital but the physical realm, with their vile being replaced by batons and bullets.
A sense of fear is shaping India today.
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| JNU student Umar Khalid |
Bullets were fired from by the unknown person before he ran away from the spot.
Khalid escaped unhurt, but the attack made his fears a reality. He had been speaking about this fear for a long time now, and for that reason jingoistic TV news channels turned him onto their evening punching bag, calling him a ''terrorist'' and telling him to 'go to Pakistan' -
All of this while the hateful social media campaign and threats against him continue.
''There is an atmosphere of fear in the country, and anybody who speaks against the government is threatened,'' said Khalid, minutes after the attack, speaking at an event called *Kahuf Se Azadi* [freedom from fear] at the Constitution Club.
Also at the event were the family members of those who had been lynched in the country's recent years of mob violence.
Later, in one of the interviews, Khalid said that the ''real culprit are those who from their seats of power have been breeding an atmosphere of hatred, of blood lust and fear.
The real culprits are those who have provided an atmosphere of of complete impunity for the assassins and mob lynchers''. It was this fear he was going to speak about, as he had been, when he was attacked.
There is certainly an atmosphere where no one can speak out against those who lynch people in the name of religion.
Many students like Khalid are today living under this fear and the intensity has only grown. Unsurprisingly, it was clearer when two people shared a video message claiming to have attacked Khalid for being ''anti-National'.
There was no longer any doubt over why someone had attempted to kill him. They wanted, as they claimed, to send an ''independent day gift''.
The Operational Publishing on the state of the world continues. The World students Society thanks author and researcher Fahad Shah, the editor of Kashmir Walia.
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