Dear Mr. Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar,
This letter may
find you in good health and mental condition amidst international catastrophe
due to COVID-19.
I am writing this
letter to you by dedicating this open letter to your sister, late Haseena Parkar,
who showed extreme courage and determination to fight against all the
antagonisms according to her own norms.
I am also writing
this letter to you with due respect to imagined nation statist sovereignty, integrity,
the ethos of pancasila and
non-violence.
In fact you do
not know me, though I know you through popular movies, mass media and different
anecdotes. From those reports or otherwise allegations or narratives, as far as
I understand, from my academic interest in so-called “criminology”, that you are
a victim of the circumstances and persecution in the context of parasitic
money-signifier based economy. I have also gone through your confessions, when
you were interviewed by the super sleuth, Mr. BV Kumar (Former Director General
of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence).
When I am hearing
or reading or viewing your narratives in different forms, over and again, I
remember Bertolt Brecht’s “The Resistible
Rise of Arturo Ui” (1941), where we found the same type of narrative of a
tragic hero, dialoguing in elitist blank verse, with legal conflict--- like
you.
However, you are
a tragic “winner”, as you have might and right, i.e., money, wealth as well as
power, by means of which, you could run a parallel or shadow-governance in a
certain area throughout your life like legendary Robin Hood. Your contribution
in both the Indian and Pakistani Cricket Team is also to be noted.
The particular
purpose of writing this letter to you is to convey DHFL FD-holders’ extreme
misery due to one of your close allies’ connection with Wadhawan family. It is
alleged that the Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL) had a “secret”
deal with Late Iqbal Mirchi.
They have
invested our widow’s mite in Wadhawan family’s company in the form of Fixed
Deposits and that is stuck due to legal complexities. They do not know Mandoli and Hawla-type of illegal transactions; they are also ignorant about
other forms of investment through syndicate and share market and we also
condemn riba and any form of violent
activities, legal or with legal conflict (terrorism and counter-terrorism) and
I myself am for the total disarmament—world without violence.
We are now living
within archipelago. Therefore, I am just reiterating a surah from the Holy Quran (4.29):
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ لاَ تَأْكُلُواْ أَمْوَالَكُمْ بَيْنَكُمْ بِالْبَاطِلِ إِلاَّ أَن تَكُونَ تِجَارَةً عَن تَرَاضٍ مِّنكُمْ وَلاَ تَقْتُلُواْ أَنفُسَكُمْ إِنَّ اللّهَ كَانَ بِكُمْ رَحِيماً
“O you who
believe! Do not consume one another's wealth in wrongful ways (such as theft,
extortion, bribery, usury, and gambling), except it be dealing by mutual
agreement; and do not destroy yourselves (individually or collectively by
following wrongful ways like extreme asceticism and idleness. Be ever mindful
that) God has surely been All-Compassionate toward you.”
I, an agnostic,
am appealing to you for peace and harmony (Rifq) and of course, Zakat, instead of Unf (violence). I think that revenge (Qisas) by means of any type of violence is not the solution (The Holy Quran 5:45).
Yours faithfully,
Debaprasad
Bandyopadhyay
PS: The
responsibility of writing such letter will be borne by me—none other than me is
responsible for such letter (I am saying so as many of my friends are extremely
scared and suffering from persecutory paranoia). It is an appeal for peaceful
co-existence without atrocities. I am indebted to them, who oppose this letter
by branding it as “anti-national” and “seditious”. I must convey my deep
regards to them. Long live international equality, liberty and fraternity.
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