A Question of Survival

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In his introduction Jeremy describes the premise of the book thus:. He makes the most important point when he says that there are Urdu speakers among these Muslims some of whom migrated from Bihar, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh in the 'twilight' of the British empire and some in the 'dawn' of Independence. In the early years they either worked as coolies in ports and docks or put their artisinal skills to use in factories and industrial enterprises, but now, with much of their skills having put to disuse by the technological and economic advancement, they pull rickshaws, work as maid servants or as workers in plastic and rubber factories, in transport and in construction and in the vast labour of recycling every conceivable used-up commodity.

Then comes the indictment. Jeremy says if poverty were the major generator of terror as many leaders across the globe make it out to be, then Kolkata should have been the principal breeding-ground. And since that is not the case, he concludes, poverty does not create extremism, at least not among the poor themselves: It is not that what are euphemistically called 'anti-social elements' are absent The almost destitute condition of a majority of our largest minority is sure to drill a hole in the silken pride that India has spun around in the recent past and it may even get dismissed as 'poverty porn'.

He also understands that it is going to be far more bitter if it comes from a foreign national like him. Yet, he says with absolute conviction, that this is a story that deserves to be told. In what can be read as a tongue-in-cheek comment, he says, in present day India the skinny hands of the poor has been replaced by the "fleshy well-being of Bollywood and the unstable flicker of the IT screen.

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Let me pick a tiny sample of lives he interacts and records in Topsia, an elongated island between two canals of waste water:. A small group of young men inhaling fumes of heroin; Sheik Siddiqui whose spine was crushed after a metal pole fell on him while he was driving his rickshaw and his wife Salima Khatoon, who buys half-burned coal from restaurants, cleans it and sells it as fuel; Nurjehan who changed her name to Bina to be able to work in prosperous Hindu apartments; a group of young men watching 'unerotic sex' on their mobile phones "blue movies with western actors, at which they laughed and simulated uneasy arousal, perhaps to conceal the frustrations of repressed desire: Mind you, these are only a tiny sample of people from just one locality.

The book scans many such Muslim areas across Kolkata and documents hundreds of such struggling, destitute and famished lives with enormous empathy. This book, when published, would be a must read for anybody who is keen to understand the Indian Muslim. If Mamata Banerjee were to read it perhaps her argument against the three-decade-old Left government would get far more strident and cogent.

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