
Darab Farooqui
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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 Farooqui265,598 次观看 • 3 个月前

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 Farooqui290,289 次观看 • 5 个月前

This answers the most essential question: why didn't Kejriwal save Muslims during the Delhi Pogrom. Because, he claims, 20% of the votes he received in his 52% Vidhan Sabha election vote tally came from BJP supporters. I mean, doing soft Hindutva is a question of survival for Kejriwal, and we should be more understanding.
Darab Farooqui82,362 次观看 • 1 个月前

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 Farooqui810,211 次观看 • 1 年前

The folks at Teen Taal talk about everything, and somehow a lot of people find them convincing. Here's a simple test: put one dissenting voice in that room. Ideally, someone from an oppressed caste. Watch how fast their polished arguments start to look uneducated and idiotic. Because that's what they are.
Darab Farooqui31,045 次观看 • 21 天前

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 Farooqui856,721 次观看 • 2 年前

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 Farooqui794,718 次观看 • 2 年前