Indian Urdu Press sees ghost of Hindutva in popular TV serial Kaun Banega Crorepati
By New Age Islam Edit Desk
June 1, 2014
In his article ‘Kaun
Banega Crorepati and Hindutva’ Mr Athar Faruqi, has smelled a conspiracy
to revive Hindutva sentiments through the popular television serial
Kaun Banega Crorepati. Urdu daily Rashtriya Sahara, New Delhi published
his article expressing these thoughts on its editorial page this Sunday
morning. The learned columnist says that the people behind the quiz
programme are actually promoting Hindutva by asking majority of the
questions from Hindu mythology. He gives the example of a question in
one of its episodes that was a difficult one from Hindu mythology. Mr
Faruqi sees in it a deliberate attempt to promote Hindutva as rarely
questions from other religions are asked.
India is a Hindu
majority country and more than seventy five percent of its population is
Hindu. Naturally, all the departments are dominated by Hindus. The
media channels are funded by Hindu investors and professionals in the
same way as in Muslim majority countries, all the departments,
government or private, are dominated by Muslims. It is therefore natural
that in a programme that banks mainly on the participation of common
people will keep the sentiments and religious beliefs of the viewers, a
majority of whom are Hindus. Producers of a reality programme also try
to make the programme interesting so that ordinary viewers also take
part in it or at least view it. Though the Muslims live in a Hindu
majority country and in their own matters, they demonstrate communal
mindset in a brazen way, they expect Hindus to be drastically secular
even in their own religious matters. Thus they want that a programme
like KBC too should not have any Hindu element in it and the mention of
Hindu mythology drives some of them crazy.
Take for example the
recent fatwa of Syed Ahmad Bukhari who had asked the ‘Muslims’ to vote
for the Congress and other secular parties. He could have issued a
veiled fatwa asking all the secular minded people of the country to vote
for secular parties. And while doing so he should have invited some
Secular Hindu leaders and social personalities by his side. On the
contrary, he personally asked the Muslims to vote for the Congress. Was
this not a communal statement driving a wedge between various sections
of the society? Some sections of the society rightly criticized his
fatwa.
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