THE NIKAH OF SHAME: A 13-YEAR-OLD, A 50-YEAR-OLD MAULVI, AND THE STATE THAT LOOKED AWAY
You call it nikah. I call it rape with a religious stamp. You dress the crime in the language of tradition, but a 50-year-old man taking a 13-year-old child as his bride is not a spiritual union.
It is the spiritual bankruptcy of a society that has failed to evolve. You worship the girl child as a goddess, then sell her for ₹600. This is not Islam. This is not any religion. This is the darkness of a collective human failure dressed in the language of faith.
The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, is unambiguous: marriage below 18 is voidable at the child's option and criminal for all who facilitate it.
The Allahabad High Court, in a landmark 2026 ruling, held that Muslim personal law permitting marriage at puberty cannot override PCMA or the POCSO Act. And yet, in Varanasi, a 13-year-old was abducted, converted, and married to a cleric.
The law exists. The Constitution exists. The will to enforce them does not. Dharma lives in the hearts of public men; when it dies there, no Constitution, no law, no court can save the girl child.
I cross-examine the State of Uttar Pradesh. The victim's father approached Adampur police repeatedly. He was threatened by a mob of 200. He was told he had no right over his daughter.
The FIR was lodged only after the intervention of the Varanasi police commissioner. Where was the law for three months? Where was the Child Welfare Committee? Where was the POCSO machinery?
The accused paid ₹600 for the conversion and the nikah. Six hundred rupees. That is the price of a child's life in this country. The state's negligence is not administrative failure. It is complicity in a crime.
The Allahabad High Court has already declared that no personal law can override PCMA and POCSO. The NCRB reported a six-fold rise in child marriage cases in 2023—6,038 cases, against 1,002 in 2022. The numbers are rising because the enforcement is dying.
We demand: immediate arrest of the Maulvi, the groom, and every family member who facilitated the nikah. Prosecution under POCSO, PCMA, and the anti-conversion law. Compensation for the child, funded by the state that failed her. And a mandatory audit of every nikah performed in the last five years involving minors.
The girl in Varanasi was rescued. She will live. But the question remains: how many others are still waiting for a police commissioner to care?
Dear @Javedakhtarjadu. I'm afraid your response is as boring and overloaded as your similes and metaphors. When countered with facts, you shift the goalpost, bring in the RSS, berate the right wing, take refuge in context, cushion the bigotry, and claim Kafirs were Colonialists not Hindus.
I know countering you again is like watering a cactus and praying for leechis, but in the hope that all that knee massaging with Doctor Ortho would have sprouted some neurons, here goes:
You asked for a source because you said the quote was “quite unlike” Azad’s “lifelong sociopolitical stances.” I gave you the source: Calcutta, 27 October 1914, published in Khutbat-e-Azad. The words are his. That should have ended the enquiry. It did not. So let us walk through your new script, line by line.
1. “The khutbats were about Khilafat and British colonialism.”
Yes. That is what I wrote. Maulana Azad was telling Indian Muslims that a Turk’s battlefield thorn must be felt in a Hindustani Muslim’s heart; that Millat-e-Islam is one body; that friendship and enmity are for the religion of Allah. Then he quoted Quran 48:29 and added his own gloss: be extremely hard against disbelievers, extremely kind among yourselves, and do not pass over this as if you had not heard it. You asked for the when and where. You received both. “It was about Khilafat” is not a rebuttal. It is the context in which he said it.
2. “To claim he was quoting this about the Hindus of India will not be true. The Kafir here was the colonialist.”
I did not say the 1914 speech was a municipal circular against the Hindus of Howrah. I quoted what Azad quoted: a Quranic verse about kuffar, and his commentary on unbelief, Tawhid, and hardness toward disbelievers. If Azad had meant “kafir = only the British officer,” he knew Urdu enough to say Angrez. He did not. He used the Book’s word, then told his flock not to skip it.
And if “kafir” in Azad’s mouth was a temporary colonial nickname, kindly explain the 1920 Hijrat fatwa, published in Ahl-e-Hadith of Amritsar, in which he said Indian Muslims had no choice but to migrate, and that those who stayed and kept connection with “the enemy of Islam” would themselves be counted as the enemy of Islam. That is not a lecture on income-tax collectors. That is a theology of the land.
3. “When Ataturk took over, Azad called it a closed chapter and condoned the secular government.”
Men change. Texts do not. If later Azad made peace with the death of the Caliphate, good for the later Azad. It does not unsay 1914, nor the Khilafat years, nor Masala-e-Khilafat, nor the call that any government hostile to Turkey was hostile to Islam, not the belief in the Quranic verse damning the Kafirs. You began by saying the paragraph was unlike his lifelong stances. Lifelong includes the years he spent as a pan-Islamist firebrand. Evolution is not an eraser. It is a timeline.
4. “Read his Calcutta High Court statement. An honour no member of the Mahasabha or RSS was ever given.”
Sedition charges from the Raj are not a unique family heirloom. Tilak got them. Aurobindo got them. Savarkar was given two life terms and sent to Cellular Jail, where the honour included the oil mill, the lash, and years in a cell the size of a cupboard.
And of course, knowing your pitiful knowledge of Indian History, I guess you would not know legendary RSS names like Devipad Chaudhary, Jagatpati Kumar, Anna Saheb Deshpande, Ramakant Keshav, Vasantrao Oak, Narayan Singh, Chandrakant Bhardwaj, Dada Naik Chimur, Baburao Begade, Lala Hansraj, Balaji Raipurkar who participated in our freedom struggle and were jailed or shot.
5. “Azad was in British jails for nine years. Name one from your right wing who can match that.”
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar: roughly a decade in Kala Pani, further years in mainland jails, then thirteen years of internment in Ratnagiri. Sentence on paper: fifty years. Conditions: not Ahmednagar Fort with time to write Ghubar-e-Khatir.
By the way, you might know that your great-great-grandfather Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi was also incarcerated at Kala Pani. What you might not know, or would want to hide, is that he wrote a grovelling mercy petition to the British, pleading to be released.
6. “In 1946 Jinnah refused to shake Azad’s hand. He hated Azad for his patriotism.”
How does this turn “be severe against the kafirs, merciful among themselves” into a sonnet about communal harmony? A man can spend 1946 refusing Partition and still have spent 1914 telling Indian Muslims that their first body is the ummah. Fairness is holding both pages open. What you are doing is hiding the 1914 page and waving the 1946 one like a flag.
7. “Your reference to Rahul Gandhi was unnecessary, I expect decency and class.”
And I expected you to have some sense of humour. The PS was a reminder that this is the second time I have had to fetch your hero’s paperwork. Last time it was Nehru’s India: books banned, editors sacked, films blocked, Majrooh jailed for a couplet.
You lecture me on class after moving from “this cannot be Azad” to “it is Azad but you must read kafir as colonialist” to “anyway he went to jail” to “Jinnah was rude to him” to “please don’t mention Rahul.” That is not class. That is a guided tour of every exit except the text.
Look, Javed sahab, let us end this here. I like you. Doubtless a lot of your work is incredible, truly it is. So in that spirit, permit me to pen an ode to you:
Javed Akhtar ko dekha toh aisa laga, jaise chhal ka nawab, jaise jhoot ki kitaab, jaise dhong ki kiran, jaise adambar ka van, jaise kapton ki baat, jaise pakhand ki raat, jaise janpath mein ho ek jalta diya.
Alvida, Shabba khair. WDTP
🚨France Denied It During the Rafale Deal. DRDO Built It Anyway: India Cracks Indigenous GaN Technology for Next-Generation Radars, Ministry of Defence Confirms it.
What France refused to transfer during the Rafale negotiations, India has now demonstrated through its own defence research ecosystem.
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that DRDO has successfully developed and demonstrated indigenous Gallium Nitride (GaN) MMIC technology for applications up to the X-band. The technology was sought by India during negotiations for the 36 Rafale fighters but was not transferred by France.
Instead, DRDO developed it domestically.
Scientists from DRDO's Solid State Physics Laboratory and the Gallium Arsenide Enabling Technology Centre in Hyderabad developed a working GaN MMIC, creating an important indigenous capability in high-performance radio-frequency electronics.
GaN technology is crucial for next-generation defence systems because it can deliver high power and high-frequency performance while operating reliably under demanding thermal conditions. Its applications include AESA radars, fire-control and tracking radars, airborne radar, missile seekers and electronic warfare systems.
The breakthrough can strengthen India's indigenous radar programmes while reducing dependence on foreign suppliers for critical semiconductor components.
The significance goes beyond one chip. Modern warfare increasingly depends on the ability to detect, track and respond to threats faster than the adversary. Advanced RF semiconductors form a critical part of that capability.
France may have denied India the technology during the Rafale deal. DRDO's response was to build it at home.
That is the real significance of India's GaN breakthrough: turning technology denial into indigenous technological capability.
Only 6 Countries had the Tech, Modi Govt asked France. They offered Chips but not Tech
Modi Govt decided to build it within India and we have achieved it
Amazing
Report: India has achieved a pivotal breakthrough in military semiconductor engineering, successfully demonstrating advanced Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology tailored for high-frequency defence applications. Successful fabrication and demonstration of X-band Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs), alongside S-band GaN High Electron-Mobility Transistor (HEMT) power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, and switch MMICs have been achieved.
स्पेन में, यह महिला सुबह एक रेडियो स्टेशन में गाना गाती हैं। यह वीडियो दुनिया भर में वायरल हो रहा है
भारत की समृद्ध संस्कृति पूरी दुनिया में प्रशंसा हो रही है।
सब को सुबह की राम राम 🙏
सुप्रभात 🌞
Good morning 🌞
Fufa is extremely Naaraz !!
Putin arrived in India, hugged PM Modi and even travelled in the same car with him.
Fufa Naaraz........
Xi Jinping, who was rumoured to avoid attending BRICS in India, arrived, greeted PM Modi with a big smile and had a one to one meeting with him.
Fufa more Naaraz.......
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian emphasised the importance of building tangible economic and strategic connections between India, Iran and Russia.
China (Real Paw Paw of Fufa was not mentioned)
Fufa Naaraz.......🔥🔥
Then Iranian President Pezeshkian bent down and touched the feet of a Hindu spiritual leader, Jagadguru Satishacharya to seek blessings.
Another blow to the "Manusmriti oppression" narrative.
Fufa ka toh dil hi toot gaya.💔💔💔
Then Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim stated on camera that Narendra Modi is "so popular" that his phone was flooded with messages asking him to pass on their regards.
Fufa got epileptic fits.💥😝
And despite the UAE and Iran being at loggerheads, Modi got them together at the same table resulting in a joint declaration being accepted and signed.
Fufa in coma !!!💥
Aur sone pe suhaaga. The Malaysian PM even sang a Kishore Kumar song, not an Urdu song.
Also, International journalists are praising the BRICS Summit.
Fufa ko acidity, diarrhea, dysentery sab ek sath ho gaya.
Best was the camaraderie between PM Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin which was warm and extremely friendly.
Fufa ke paas Burnol ki kami ho gayi hai.
Burnol stocks have officially been depleted!!! 💥💥💥❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥
Not one, but I saw 100s of tweets crying for human rights for this Jihadi who lynched an innocent woman to death.
What kind of mentality do they have? Do they think such monsters deserve human rights?
In fact, Gujarat Police deserve a salute for this.
Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni has now embraced the traditional Indian greeting-“Namaskar.”
But in India, there are still some who spend day and night attacking Sanatan culture.
Meanwhile, look at Meloni’s new style of greeting. 🙏🇮🇳
@GiorgiaMeloni
When 740 children died at sea and every country said "no," one man—who had reason to remain silent—said "yes."
The year was 1942.
The ship drifted in the Arabian Sea, like a floating coffin. There were 740 Polish children on board. Orphans. Survivors of Soviet labor camps, where their parents had died of the flu or starvation. They had escaped through Iran, but a more terrible punishment awaited them.
No one would accept them.
The British Empire—the most powerful power of its time—refused entry to port after port along the Indian coast. "It's not our responsibility. Sail away."
Almost finished with food. No medicine. Time was running out.
Twelve-year-old Maria held her six-year-old brother's hand. She had promised her dying mother to protect him. But how do you protect someone when the whole world turns on them?
And then news came to the small palace in Gujarat.
The ruler was Jam Sahib Digvijay Singhji, Maharaja of Navanagar. In the royal system, he was just a minor prince. The British controlled the ports, trade, and army. He had every reason to obey and remain silent.
When his advisors told him that 740 children were stranded at sea after the British refused to take them to any port in India, he asked one question:
"How many children are there?"
"Seven hundred and forty, Your Majesty."
He paused and calmly said:
"The British may control my ports. But they do not control my conscience. These children are docked at Navanagarh."
The advisors warned him:
"If you challenge the British—"
"So I will stop. "
He sent a message to the ship: You are welcome here.
When British officials protested, the Emperor remained firm.
"If the strong refuse to save the children," he said.
I, the weak, will do what you cannot.
In August 1942, the ship struggled to enter Navanagara harbor under the blazing summer sun.
The children walked like ghosts—exhausted, blank-eyed, many too weak to walk. They had learned to hope for good. Hope had turned dangerous.
The Maharaja was waiting for them on the dock.
Dressed simply in white, he knelt down to be at their eye level. Through interpreters, he spoke words they had not heard since their parents died.
"You are no longer orphans.
You are my children now.
I am your Bapu—your father."
Maria felt her brother's handshake. After months of rejection, these words seemed surreal.
But he was serious.
He didn't build a refugee camp.
He built a home.
In Balachadi, he created something amazing—a little Poland in India. Polish teachers who understand trauma. Polish food flavored with memory. Polish songs in an Indian garden. A Christmas tree under a tropical sky.
“Suffering tries to erase you,” he said. “But your language, culture, and traditions are sacred. Let's keep them here.” "
Children who were told they had no place in the world finally found a home.
They laughed again. They played again. They returned to school. Maria watched her brother chase a peacock in the palace garden, and her body remembered again what safety meant.
The Emperor used to visit them often. He remembered names. He celebrated birthdays. He watched high school plays. He comforted children crying for parents who would never return. He paid for doctors, teachers, clothing, and food—from his own wealth.
For four years, while the world was torn by war, 740 children lived not as refugees, but as a family.
When the war ended and it was time to leave, many wept. Balachadi became the only home they had ever truly known.
These children have grown and moved around the world—becoming doctors, teachers, engineers, parents, grandparents. And they have never forgotten.
Warsaw's Good Emperor Square appeared in Poland. Schools bear his name. He was awarded Poland's highest honor.
But the original monument wasn't made of stone.
It cost 740 lives.
Today, at 80 years old, they still gather. They tell their grandchildren about an Indian king who refused to turn compassion into political calculation.