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Dear br.,salam,what you related holds good for the whole of india and everyone like you and me has his own story to tell about his locality.This is a well planned affair and not just accidental.I was in Hyderabad for some work many years ago and there was no temple there.
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Muzafferuddin ahmed <quranandahadith2020@gmail.com> wrote:
DearWhen I was in Hyderabad and when we were children we used to visit Charminar after praying Juma at Makkah Masjid in the year 1974. There was no temple. A woman was sitting at the side of Charminar Police Station. Puting kumkum and also Gero near one stone. The visitors who came to visit Charminar they put some coins. Like 10 paisa, 50 paisa, 5 paisa. One day a man was shouting at her. She left the place. She came back after some time and she started same practice facing to Lad Bazar. She put kumkum to stone gero and putting one gero cloth. The same thing happened the visitors throwing alms and she was getting good amount not much. She was leaving before sunset. Because we friends came back from tuition and sit inside the Charminar and talk. I do not know whats happen now she again changed the place. She changed the place towards Makkah Masjid. The same practice. We moved in the year 1976. Later we learnt that the same stone converted to Temple. But we find the temple at the corner. But she was placing Makkah Masjid side but in the Middle. How and why they create Temple I do not know. Because there was no temple, no sign except the stone where she practices and getting money from the visitors. Even there was no Idol it was. What I witnessed she moved from Charminar police station to Lad Bazar site and then from there she moved to Makkah Masjid Side.May be some Hindu Cult find it is good business. So they expanded her business with the help of Communal Government.In Hyderabad the temples are mushrooming. In my last visit I found every knook and corner there is temple. Even some temple was small now they are huge. I found R & B building at Moazzam Jahi to Nampally Road a huge temple. I used to visit my father there was no temple at all. The temples looks like commercial venture. I found all new temples came where the area is commerically viable and yield good returns. Unemployment and easy earning also one of the idea.
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 5:24 PM, ibnsuleman bhai <ibnsulemanbh3@gmail.com> wrote:
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Date: Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 7:11 PM
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As protests roil Charminar, Hyderabad's heritage slowly vanishes
A.SRIVATHSANThe HinduThe photograph of Charminar, a protected monument in Hyderabad (right) taken on Friday last, shows the abutting Bhagyalakshmi temple which has become a subject of controversy. An old photo, at left, taken over 60 years ago and accessed by The Hindu, has no such temple. Photo: Special arrangement & Mohammed YousufA small Hindu temple constructed by the side of and abutting one of the four minarets of the 420-year-old Charminar has been at the root of recent troubles in Hyderabad. What started as objections to erecting a temporary structure over the shrine has now grown into a violent protest that questions the legality of the temple. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) -- responsible for protecting this national monument since 1951 -- is blamed for failing to protect Hyderabad's Islamicate heritage.Also see: A note on the Charminar photograph.Over the past 10 days, vehicles have been burnt, people have been attacked, and shops in this busy hub have been shutdown. The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), the political party that is at the forefront of the protest, has withdrawn its support to Congress both in the State and at the Centre over this issue.The fight in the name of Charminar is not a warning flare about the condition of just one heritage structure. It is a reflection of persisting state apathy, dismal performance of institutions that manage the city's heritage and the misuse of history for political gains.Contrary to the claims by Hindu groups, an old photograph available with The Hindu shows that the contentious temple dedicated to goddess Bhagyalakshmi is not as old as the Charminar. There is no date stamp on the photograph, but from the presence of the cars, it can be inferred that the photograph was taken about 60 years ago. No temple structure is visible in the picture.This lends credence to reports that the temple is only a few decades old and that what started as a tiny structure surreptitiously expanded into a shrine of significant size. There may not have been any serious protest against the presence of the Bhagylakshmi temple in the past, but the fact remains that the ASI failed to check the construction of the temple and its subsequent expansion.This is the case even in Golconda fort, another centrally protected monument located at the outskirts of the city. This fort along with the Charminar is vying for World Heritage Site status. Despite being a protected monument, more than 2000 illegal constructions have come up within this complex and the ASI has not been able to prevent them."Though ASI is empowered by an Act, we can only issue legal notice, but enforcing and removing encroachments cannot be done without State government support. We neither have the manpower nor the force," an official explained.Also see: A note on the Charminar photograph.The State department of archaeology does not fare any better. Of the 42 protected structures listed by the department, five are missing. Anuradha Reddy, convenor of INTACH Hyderabad chapter who inspected these sites as a member of the technical committee, points to the case of Malkajgiri fort as a classic example of state apathy. "This ancient structure has been leased to a brewery company. Not only have they added many new buildings inside, even public access has been blocked," she explained.Even the 16th century Badshahi Ashurkhana, which is a revered sacred space in the city and world renowned for its mosaic tile work, was not easy to protect. The Ashurkhana is a state protected monument, but shops and others structures steadily encroached the site. Following public interest litigation, in 2009, the High Court ordered the removal of unauthorised constructions. But the shop owners and MIM party members tried to resist it. Till date, for want of police protection, the state authorities could not fence the cleared area and erect a board declaring that the structure is a protected monument.The authorities have remained indifferent to many insensitive and unauthorised expansions of beautiful old mosques which are also in the protected list. The three storied concrete construction in front of the Musheerabad mosque is a case in point.The condition of another 150 historic structures in the city declared as heritage buildings by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority is even more precarious. Theoretically these structures are regulated by special building rules and any plans to modify them have to be scrutinised by the Heritage Conservation Committee (HCC). But in reality these rules have been selectively applied and largely overlooked.The Hyderabad Corporation, citing ASI rules, rejected an application to build in a private property near Charminar. But in another case, when a shopping complex was built within the prohibited zone of Charminar, the Corporation regularised it without referring to the HCC. It has also de-notified a few heritage structures despite the HCC opposing it. The pedestrianisation of the Charminar area which was first planned in 2000 is yet to be implemented in full.MIM, which is demanding better protection for Charminar, has not been consistent in its position on heritage structures either. Asaduddin Owaisi, MIM president and a Member of Parliament said that "a general answer cannot be given" regarding conservation of the city's Islamicate heritage. "Each building has to be separately looked at," he told The Hindu in an interview "We welcome road widening projects and do not agree with some of the objections made by heritage groups. But in the case of the proposed metro, we have recently submitted a letter asking one of the alignments be changed to save a large number of Islamic historical structures from being affected," he added.The situation was neatly summed up by Sajjad Shahid, heritage activist and a member of the HCC: "Hyderabad was the second city in the country after Mumbai to bring in legislation to protect heritage structures. But all that enthusiasm and benefits of an early start were lost. A general apathy has set in and planning has failed. The government has no political will and had not upheld the law. The Charminar incident is an instructive example."
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