Mazaar razed, but four years on Wali Gujarati not forgotten [India]:
AHMEDABAD, MARCH 2: Nafrat phailah rahe hain yeh mazhab ke naam parMore here:
Satta ke bhookhe logon se mazhab bachaiye
(They are spreading fear in the name of faith/ Save faith from those hungry for power)
Four years after his tomb fell to mob fury in the Godhra aftermath, the renowned 16th century Urdu poet Wali Gujarati was remembered again. NGO Act Now For Harmony And Democracy (ANHAD) paid floral tributes to Ahmedabad’s cultural icon and lit candles at the site where his grave used to be.
Located in the middle of a busy road in Shahibaug, the grave was just 50 metres from the police headquarters. But that couldn’t save it from being vandalised on March 1, 2002, with a tarred road being laid over it barely a week later. Despite repeated requests to the government by various NGOs, permission to reconstruct the tomb has not yet been granted. [...]
Today a slight unevenness and discolouration in the road that runs adjacent to the Ahmedabad Police Headquarters is the only surviving vestige of a man who is acknowledged by all with a knowledge of Indian culture as one of the founders of modern Urdu poetry. [...]
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