Darab Farooqui
@darab_farooqui • 32,379 subscribers
Storyteller. Screenwriter. Freeborn.
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Dear fellow Indians, The news coming in is very disturbing and I am hoping it's wrong. Mohd Junaid, our hero, who has been selflessly serving food and water to the protestors at Jantar Mantar is being harrassed by Sanghis. UP Police has raided Junaid’s house and taken his father and minor brother into custody. Please raise your voice. We can't let this happen. This is pure Sanghi vileness and desperation.
Darab Farooqui259,254 views • 1 day ago
Watch this video of Pinki. Notice the order. It never changes. First he goes after the girls. "Wo ladkiyan ashleelta phaila rahi hain." It's always the girls first. Women speaking out is the thing that hurts them the most. Then come the Muslims. Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam. A Sanghi cannot finish a speech without them. Even for Pinki's own birth, partially, Muslims were responsible. Then the opposition. Then, right on cue, Hindu khatre mein hain. And finally, the whole point of the performance: the call for violence against the protestors. Same script, every single time. Scholars have a name for this machinery, the Institutionalized Riot System, the mechanism through which riots in India are manufactured, not erupted. Modi appeals for peace at midnight. Pinki calls for violence by evening. Two hands, one body. They both know exactly what they are doing. I only hope India is watching.
Darab Farooqui19,549 views • 2 days ago
Watch this clip carefully. Three people. Two Hindus, one Muslim. A comedy show called 'Teen Taal'. Khan Chacha, through his self-deprecating humor, describes his dip at Har Ki Pauri. And he makes two observations, almost in passing, that should make you stop. One: He removed his taweez before entering the water. *"What if someone objects... the way things are now."* Two: He paid via UPI. What if his Muslim name showed up. The room laughed. He hid his identity. Twice. At a river. To bathe. The thing that gets me is, he's done this dip before. Many times. He never had to think about any of this before. That's the new thing. Not the river. Not Khan Chacha. Just this quiet new math he does now before stepping in. Amulet off. Name hidden. Don't give anyone a reason. And the way he tells it, light, funny, unbothered on the surface, you can tell, maybe he's made peace with it. Which is somehow worse. Now, I get the room. I get the affection. I get that comedy has its own language and you don't stop every joke to make a point. But here's what I can't get past. He is the powerless one in this story. And he is the one making fun of himself. He is doing the work of making everyone comfortable with his own discomfort. Packaging it so nicely that the room can laugh and move on. And the two Hindu men, who clearly love him, I'm not questioning that, they just... laughed along. Warmly. And moved on. Just one line. That's all. "Yaar, Ganga kab se sirf hinduon ki ho gayi? Ganga-Jamuni mein bhi aadhi Ganga hai." Or anything, really. Any small moment where the joke turns outward instead of inward. Where it pokes at the thing creating the discomfort instead of just cushioning it. One funny, throwaway, irreverent line that tells the Muslim man watching at home: Haan yaar, this is wrong, you shouldn't have to do this. That's it. That's all I'm asking for. Because somewhere a Muslim watched this clip and recognized every single beat. The taweez coming off. The half-second before the UPI payment. The quiet calculation, am I too visible right now? He laughed, because Khan Chacha is funny and warm and the joke lands. And then the clip ended. Maybe it's too much to ask. Maybe in this climate even a throwaway joke feels like a risk. Maybe I'm romanticizing what comedy can do. But I also think, what is the point of humor between friends, on a public platform, if it doesn't do this one small thing? If it can't, just once, say I see what's happening to you, and it's not okay? Khan Chacha made it funny. He did the hard part. All they had to do was to put the hand of humor on his shoulder.
Darab Farooqui290,217 views • 2 months ago
"This Eid, we will play Holi of blood." ~ Lalit Sharma, Member, Hindu Raksha Dal.
Darab Farooqui307,718 views • 4 months ago
This video is supposedly from Lucknow and is quite embarrassing to see. A mob of Hindus gathered close to Hazrat ganj cathedral to disrupt the Christmas festivities by singing loudly and creating a disturbance. This insecure display of faith is fraught with inferiority complex. This is too cheap and uncivil to even watch.
Darab Farooqui810,056 views • 1 year ago
Let me tell you something very cool about this video. Look at Rahul Gandhi's straight dive in the first few seconds. An effortless, elegant dive. Now let me make a point. First, it shows he knows how to swim well. The kind of swimming where you could actually save someone else's life. Now a point more political in nature. It also shows the man developed other skill sets in life. He has a rounded personality. A politician with other skills, other life skills. The mark of a life that was curious, enterprising, but above all a life that was looking to grow and challenge itself. Now look at the top BJP politicians. We've seen them in Ganga snan. Pudgy, fat, out of shape. If they slip, they'll need someone like Rahul Gandhi to save them. We've seen Modi float like an inflated tube, clumsy, trying to look comfortable in water and failing. These are not men who ever pushed their bodies, minds or souls or much else. Now you may ask what this has to do with governance. Maybe nothing. Maybe everything. I prefer politicians with additional life skills. Skills that tell me you challenged yourself in life. The whole BJP top brass looks like it has spent its life sitting on benches and khatiyas in RSS shakhas. These people may be good at winning elections, which they are. But governance is a different ball game. It's art more than science. It needs people who are innovative, intuitive, imaginative. But above all, people who challenge themselves.
Darab Farooqui80,579 views • 1 month ago
If Rahul Gandhi had not traveled to Poonch, we would never have witnessed the carnage inflicted by Pakistani shelling. This is India Media's job, but it has turned blind, silent, deaf, and essentially invalid. Imagine living this horrific shelling with your children.
Darab Farooqui558,033 views • 1 year ago
Congress in: Rajashthan - 9 seats, Muslim population 9.07% Haryana - 5 seats, Muslim population 7.03% Karnataka - 9 seats, Muslim population 12.92% Maharshtra - 13 seats, Muslim population 11.54%. Punjab - 7 seats, Muslim population 1.93% Tamil Nadu - 9 seats, Muslim population 5.86. The only exception is Kerala. Where Congress got 14 seats and the Muslim population is 26.56%. It is commonly known that Congress performs better in states with fewer Muslims. In states with a large Muslim population, such as Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, Muslims vote for other parties. Prashant Kishore is the genuine Sanghi Snake. A lying piece of filth, and we should ensure that he never gets a job or gets a single vote if he ever contests in an election.
Darab Farooqui856,499 views • 2 years ago
Everyone should be asking these questions: 1. How did BJP workers get their hands on a truck loaded with EVMs? 2. Were these EVMS intended to replace the old EVMs? 3. If these EVMs contain bogus votes, does that imply that EVMS may be hacked? 4. It is stated in Hindi that this is occurring with the assistance of the Administration. Of administration is involved, how can trust the outcome? 5. If one truck has been caught, doesn't this imply that far larger number of trucks have escaped? 6. If BJP members were carrying these EVMs, isn't the electoral commission playing dirty here and helping BJP? 7. How can the Elections Commission be trusted following such a major uncovering of rigging? 8. Is this the reason why all pollsters predict 350-400 seats for the NDA? 9. When was the last time, a truck full of EVMs was caught with India Alliance workers? Which should tell you who is playing dirty and who is not. Think. These are important questions.
Darab Farooqui794,627 views • 2 years ago
Muslims of UP, you don't have one leader in UP, Hindu or Muslim, who can talk to this DSP of Sambhal Kuldeep Kumar? In the video at 31 second he says: "Even if one man seen praying outside the Masjid... We will not tolerate it, we will send him to Jail". I am attaching the pictures of Sambhal Holi (pic 2 and 3) where the Jama Masjid and the other Masjids had to be covered on Holi because of the hooligans. That's how the rowdies play Holi that Masjids have to be covered. It's simply embarrassing that Akhilesh Yadav can't go himself or send someone to talk to him. And ask him, when Hindus can celebrate all their festivals on the road, why can't Muslims read their Eid Namaz there? And is the Indian constitution even applicable in UP anymore or some version Manu Smriti is running UP now? However the question comes back to Muslim leadership. What kind of coward Muslim leadership is being produced in UP right now. This looks like Hitler's Germany. Sambhal looks like a place run by Gundas dressed in Khaki. This is pure injustice and absolute inequality.
Darab Farooqui109,694 views • 4 months ago
In Lucknow, a Dalit youth named Gautam was killed for saying "Happy Holi." Mohit Tiwari and his sister Shivani are accused of carrying out the crime. Let me reiterate: a Brahmin brother and sister killed a Dalit for simply wishing him a happy Holi. "But what about Tarun?"
Darab Farooqui108,581 views • 4 months ago
Dear Saurav Das, Taking a stance on Umar Khalid is a problem for Kejriwal and the rest of AAP, because they won't even take a stance on Bilkis Bano. That's their politics. It doesn't have to be yours. A politics of principle, ethics and ideology doesn't bend to viewership. If you want to be a leader, learn to lead in thought, not just in presence. Umar was a student leader too, just a few years before you. In a democracy, his freedom should never be up for negotiation. That's the basic ABC of it. His name, "Umar Khalid," shouldn't become a stigma for you simply because it's a Muslim name. If anything, standing with him is what lets you break free of the IAC tag and its history with the Sangh. So think it through. The Cockroach movement is exactly that: the ones they tried to stamp out and couldn't, the ones who keep coming back no matter how many times power thinks it's finished with us. It may survive or it may not. But you have a long road ahead of you. Ask yourself who you are, what you believe, and what you're actually willing to fight for. Once you have clarity, we'll have clarity too. Because we do like you. But that liking will never come before our ideology of justice, equality, brotherhood, and dignity.
Darab Farooqui23,880 views • 1 month ago
