"Ghettoisation" is an alien concept to most Indians and was thus far largely restricted to the Arab world with it's remarkable propensity to create "religion" based enclaves at the drop of a hat; but our motherland too might soon join the bandwagon if the Adarsh group has it's way in Greater Noida (NCR region).........
First came the rather disturbing and perturbing news about the Modi government wanting to create an exclusive enclave for the long displaced Kashmiri Pandits and home minister Rajnath Singh asking chief minister Omar Abdullah to allot an adequate amount of land for the creation of this so called "safe and precluded haven"........
Taking a leaf out of the union government's book, prominent builders and real estate developers; the Adarsh Group has conjured up the idea of developing "Gulistaan Golf View Heights- dream homes for the elite Muslim brotherhood" in a wide expanse of 3.5 acres within the sports city in greater Noida..........
368 odd flats priced at between Rs. 2,500-Rs. 3,750/- per sft depending on the facilities provided within as well as the built up area are soon expected to come up in the above mentioned area with the construction of the same getting underway by the end of this month..........
Keeping in view Muslim sensibilities and sentiments; the builder/developer has also provided for the construction of a mosque as well as madrassa in close proximity to the proposed flats and the construction of the same will also be completed by mid June 2015 along with the 368 odd flats........
While the owner and CEO of the Adarsh Group; Saleem Zafar attributes a purely emotive and heartfelt reason to the construction of the same; questions have already begun to be raised about this "misplaced" attempt to further divide an already hopelessly divided society and create further schisms within the same.........
While a few people belonging to the minority religion find this move the only rational means of addressing the long standing grievance of the Muslim community pertaining to their inability to either rent or own flats in the localities of their choice in the face of unbridled hostility on the part of flat owner/developers and office bearers of building societies; others like Professor Shahid Jamal; head of the communications department at the Shiv Nadar University openly express their distaste towards moving into this supposedly "Muslims only" haven by saying that "unity in diversity" has always been the hallmark of our society and little has changed to warrant the construction of these "ghettos".............
Some other notables also point out the fact that a glut or surfeit of such projects or "ghettos" might end up causing incurable damage to the "Ganga Yamuni" Bharatiya sabhyata and tehzeeb..........
Sign of the times/necessary evil or then the death knell of our so called "composite" culture; well I feel each one of us should make up our own minds about/on this one....... ;
First came the rather disturbing and perturbing news about the Modi government wanting to create an exclusive enclave for the long displaced Kashmiri Pandits and home minister Rajnath Singh asking chief minister Omar Abdullah to allot an adequate amount of land for the creation of this so called "safe and precluded haven"........
Taking a leaf out of the union government's book, prominent builders and real estate developers; the Adarsh Group has conjured up the idea of developing "Gulistaan Golf View Heights- dream homes for the elite Muslim brotherhood" in a wide expanse of 3.5 acres within the sports city in greater Noida..........
368 odd flats priced at between Rs. 2,500-Rs. 3,750/- per sft depending on the facilities provided within as well as the built up area are soon expected to come up in the above mentioned area with the construction of the same getting underway by the end of this month..........
Keeping in view Muslim sensibilities and sentiments; the builder/developer has also provided for the construction of a mosque as well as madrassa in close proximity to the proposed flats and the construction of the same will also be completed by mid June 2015 along with the 368 odd flats........
While the owner and CEO of the Adarsh Group; Saleem Zafar attributes a purely emotive and heartfelt reason to the construction of the same; questions have already begun to be raised about this "misplaced" attempt to further divide an already hopelessly divided society and create further schisms within the same.........
While a few people belonging to the minority religion find this move the only rational means of addressing the long standing grievance of the Muslim community pertaining to their inability to either rent or own flats in the localities of their choice in the face of unbridled hostility on the part of flat owner/developers and office bearers of building societies; others like Professor Shahid Jamal; head of the communications department at the Shiv Nadar University openly express their distaste towards moving into this supposedly "Muslims only" haven by saying that "unity in diversity" has always been the hallmark of our society and little has changed to warrant the construction of these "ghettos".............
Some other notables also point out the fact that a glut or surfeit of such projects or "ghettos" might end up causing incurable damage to the "Ganga Yamuni" Bharatiya sabhyata and tehzeeb..........
Sign of the times/necessary evil or then the death knell of our so called "composite" culture; well I feel each one of us should make up our own minds about/on this one....... ;
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