Minister Naqvi dons writer’s hat with aim to promote harmony
NEW DELHI: At a time when political discourse often takes divisive turns and emotive issues continue to take centrestage, a Cabinet minister of the Narendra Modi government has written a thriller he describes as fiction based on ‘reality’ aiming to promote harmony.
“Balwa”, which loosely translates to turmoil, is a soon to be launched fiction by Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who terms it a story based on the happenings that shook the country in the 90s.
“I have been working on it for quite sometime. Sometimes, there was paucity of time, so it took time to be written. It is about the happenings in the 90s, but the lessons continue to be relevant even today,” Naqvi told HT.
The 90s witnessed communal conflicts and Naqvi’s thriller is about the kind of people who would be behind those.
“Often they would seem like enemies on the outside but had hidden understanding. These conflicts could be fixed to the extent which area would be targeted or which community has to be misled and exploited. The nexus of religious, political and administrative machinery comes out in this book,” the senior BJP leader said.
The story underlines how easily even the society is misled by such elements and bears huge losses. “The young generation speaks against these issues but often gets isolated and is not heard,” he added.
The political, administrative system or even the police are often seen standing with such unscruplous elements, the minister-turned-writer said.