{"id":19370,"date":"2025-05-19T05:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T05:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=19370"},"modified":"2025-05-19T05:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T05:04:45","slug":"full-text-ashoka-university-professor-ali-mahmudabads-posts-that-haryana-police-calls-sedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=19370","title":{"rendered":"Full Text | Ashoka University Professor Ali Mahmudabad’s Posts that Haryana Police Calls \u2018Sedition\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is the full text of Ali Mahmudabad’s posts for which he has been arrested under charges that point to sedition.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the full text of Ali Mahmudabad\u2019s posts for which he has been arrested under charges that point to sedition.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strategically India has actually begun a new phase in terms of collapsing distinction between military and terrorist (non-state actors) in Pakistan. In effect, the response to any terrorist activity will invite a conventional response and so this puts the onus on the Pakistani military to make sure that it cannot hide any longer behind terrorists and non-state actors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any case the Pakistan military has used militarised non-state actors to destabilise the region for far too long while also claiming to be victims on the international stage. It has also used the same actors \u2013 some of whom were targeted in the recent strikes \u2013 to foment sectarian tension in Pakistan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Operation Sindoor resets all received notions of Indo-Pak relationships as the response to terrorist attacks will be met with a military response and removes any semantic distinction between the two. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite this collapse, care has been taken by the Indian armed forces to not target military or civilian installations or infrastructure so that there is no unnecessary escalation. The message is clear: if you don\u2019t deal with your terrorism problem then we will! The loss of civilian life is tragic on both sides and is the main reason why war should be avoided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are those who are mindlessly advocating for a war but they have never seen one, let alone lived in or visited a conflict zone. Being part of a mock civil defence drill does not make you a solider and neither will you ever know the pain of someone who suffers losses because of conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

War is brutal. The poor suffer disproportionately and the only people who benefit are politicians and defence companies. While war is inevitable because politics is primarily rooted in violence \u2013 at least human history teaches us this \u2013we have to realise that political conflicts have never been solved militarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, I am very happy to see so many right wing commentators applauding Colonel Sophia Qureishi, but perhaps they could also equally loudly demand that the victims of mob lynchings, arbitrary bulldozing and others who are victims of the BJP\u2019s hate mongering be protected as Indian citizens. The optics of two women soldiers presenting their findings is important, but optics must translate to reality on the ground otherwise it\u2019s just hypocrisy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a prominent Muslim politicians said \u201cPakistan Murdabad\u201d and was trolled by Pakistanis for doing so \u2013 Indian right wing commentators defended him by saying \u201che is our mulla.\u201d Of course this is funny but it also points to just how deep communalism has managed to infect the indian body politic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, the press conference was just a fleeting glimpse \u2013 an illusion and allusion perhaps \u2013 to an India that defied the logic on which Pakistan was built. As I said, the grassroots reality that common Muslims face is different from what the government tried to show but at the same time the press conference shows that an India, united it its diversity, is not completely dead as an idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jai Hind<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The blind bloodlust for war!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite a ceasefire there are those who are baying for war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

War has gone from being somewhat self contained to now being everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Civilians have always been impacted by war but due to military technology, the impact is now exponentially much more than even two centuries ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when you clamour for war or you call for a country to be wiped out, then what exactly are you asking? For the genocide of an entire people? I know Israel is getting away with doing this \u2013 and some Indians admire this \u2013 but do we really want to advocate the wholesale murder of children as potential future enemies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just because you are far from the border or because you have internalised so much hate that you no longer think of human beings when you think of an entire country, people, religious community, ethnic group, or social group doesn\u2019t mean you are safe. This goes for all places where this conflict. You cannot equate an entire people with their government. In any case war eventually hits everyone. It\u2019s just a matter of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about what it means when you say \u201cwipe them out,\u201d \u201cfinish them,\u201d \u201cdestroy them\u201d etc?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are saying kill all the children, the elderly, minorities, those who are opposed to war on the other side and many other innocent people who want to do exactly what you want to do: be a father, a mother, a daughter, a son, a grandparent and a friend. You can only ask for such wholesale destruction if you have completely dehumanised them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what the media, religious\/ community leaders, politicians and others seek to do: dehumanise the other so that you do not even see them as human beings. It\u2019s happening on both sides of the Radcliffe line \u2013 there are madmen everywhere, but those closer to the border know what war means. It means arbitrary, unpredictable and senseless death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those far from the border seem to think war is some kind of video game. This dehumanisation is symptomatic of deep seated insecurities within us because we somehow need to deny someone else\u2019s humanity to affirm our own. But the reality is that the minute we dehumanise someone else \u2013 even though they might represent the opposite of everything we stand for \u2013 then we have given in to our basest instincts. We have sown the seeds of our own destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People will tell you that those who call for peace are cowards. No, I tell you. Those who sit at home and call for war are cowards because it is not their sons and daughters who have to go to battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, how on earth will war ever lead to peace? Does more abuse lead to less trauma? The military industrial complex in the world is the most profitable business ($2.46 trillion), in comparison pharma is $1.6 trillion and oil is $750 billion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

War is about profit and greed not about ideals and values. The days of those wars have gone if indeed they were ever there. We like to tell tales of honour in war but these stories are actually often about warriors who are exceptional human beings who transcend their ego and base sense of self. How strange that, as Sassoon said, Soldiers conceal their hatred of war. Civilians conceal their liking for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gita<\/em> like many other holy books speaks of the complex moral dilemmas of going into war and of what kind of violence is justified. Contrary to popular misconceptions the Gita<\/em> is not about war but about the reasons for going into war including dharma<\/em>, duty and righteousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What makes war just? Even if we accept that war is inevitable because violence is a part of the human condition, it is precisely this \u2013 the violence within all of us \u2013 that we have to try and overcome. Wars fought for pride, ego and all the false ideologies that flow from them can never be just. Remember Krishn Ji\u2019s main contention is that Arjun set aside his own ego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Supreme Lord said: It is lust alone, which is born of contact with the mode of passion, and later transformed into anger. Know this as the sinful, all-devouring enemy in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In the above verse from the Gita<\/em> (3:37) the word for lust is kaam<\/em> which doesn\u2019t only mean sexual desire but all kinds of material desire. Lust in some cases is the urge for money, physical cravings, craving for prestige, the drive for power, etc. Desire deceives the soul into believing that material objects will provide satisfaction. However, when desires are satisfied, they produce greed; when they aren\u2019t satisfied, we see anger. One commits wrongs under the influence of all three\u2013 lust, greed and anger. They are all linked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Prophet said \u201cdo not desire to meet your enemy in battle, but if you do then be patient.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This patience is what is key. Once Imam Ali was in combat with a warrior called Am ibn Abd Wadd during the battle of the Trench. Maulana Rumi says: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cLearn the purity of of actions from Ali. <\/em>Know that the Lion of God is free from deceit.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Imam Ali felled Abd Wadd and was about to kill him when the latter spat on his face. Imam Ali withdrew immediately. When someone asked why he did this, he said in that moment I would have killed him because I was angry. My ego would have got in the way. So the only honourable thing was to withdraw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The kind of war mongering we are seeing amongst civilians is actually disrespecting the seriousness of war and dishonouring the lives of soldiers whose lives are actually on the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent trolling of Vikram Misri, India\u2019s foreign secretary, by supporters of the BJP who are clamouring for war, actually shows just how blinding hate and anger can be. Imagine abusing someone who was following orders from politicians and trolling their family. This is the extent to which blood lust has gripped these people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ali Khan Mahmudabad is a professor at Ashoka University.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/thewire.in\/rights\/full-text-ashoka-university-professor-ali-mahmudabads-posts-that-haryana-police-calls-sedition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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