I don’t buy the idea of being segregated on one identity.
There are times when we as people of a region,religion,caste,creed,sex are categorised Into an homogeneous identity, which I don’t ever buy.
This phenomenon of segregation is all opposite to the whole idea of evolution, and when with our simple acts we undermine the millions of year of evolution into oblivion.
My religion, and my region has always been a intriguing interest of those unconsciously want to segregate from rest of us.
Muslim and Bihari...
These two titles have been my patch of identity throughout my life, and to the fact these piece of my identity were interchangeable whereever one is more worse or good(in some cases only).
Why I don’t buy this segregation is that just by birth how I become a Bihari while I have spent my whole life in other parts of India, not that I don’t like my hometown or I don’t I feel like being a member of that society, but at the same time I carry many other regional traits and not just a Bihari but more than that.
How can you take up my one piece of identity and neglect other originality of same person, segregation is not just taking out me from us but it is segregating me from myself.
Why I don’t buy this segregation is just by having birth in a Muslim family I don’t become a Muslim without having the faith and my commitment to myself and the humanity, again I would make it clear that it’s not that I don’t like my religion and the identity which I got because of it but I follow this religion is because I have made a conscious decision to follow it with all my faith.
There are times when we as people of a region,religion,caste,creed,sex are categorised Into an homogeneous identity, which I don’t ever buy.
This phenomenon of segregation is all opposite to the whole idea of evolution, and when with our simple acts we undermine the millions of year of evolution into oblivion.
My religion, and my region has always been a intriguing interest of those unconsciously want to segregate from rest of us.
Muslim and Bihari...
These two titles have been my patch of identity throughout my life, and to the fact these piece of my identity were interchangeable whereever one is more worse or good(in some cases only).
Why I don’t buy this segregation is that just by birth how I become a Bihari while I have spent my whole life in other parts of India, not that I don’t like my hometown or I don’t I feel like being a member of that society, but at the same time I carry many other regional traits and not just a Bihari but more than that.
How can you take up my one piece of identity and neglect other originality of same person, segregation is not just taking out me from us but it is segregating me from myself.
Why I don’t buy this segregation is just by having birth in a Muslim family I don’t become a Muslim without having the faith and my commitment to myself and the humanity, again I would make it clear that it’s not that I don’t like my religion and the identity which I got because of it but I follow this religion is because I have made a conscious decision to follow it with all my faith.
But I have been brought up in a society where Ramayan was taught at home along with other religious stories, studied in a school where we started the day with the word “ॐ”, .
Most of my friends are having different faith and I have learnt a lot from them about their faith and vice versa, and now I feel more Muslim at the same time equally Hindu or Sikh or Christian.
Well, now those who segregate with my partial identity are total wrong thus I don’t buy any of their labelling.
I am a Bihari but not only a Bihari, more than that if you could see.
I am a Muslim but not only a Muslim, more than that if you could see.
Thank you from an undecided and undivided identity.
