DEVOTIONAL DECIBEL
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IN RESPONSE TO A GOOD FRIEND'S AFFABLE OPPOSITION TO AN EARLIER POST OF MINE
Both the Azaan and the Sankeertan over blaring loudspeakers are disturbing and must not be allowed to infringe, however unwittingly, upon private peace. People must not be forced out of bed at 4 a.m. by the Islamic call to prayer as it terribly hurts both the health and the peace of non-Muslims like me who do not subscribe to such voluble appeals in the name of God. Patients, old and infirm, are forced into wakefulness, thus, which hurts their physical condition by thwarting them their legitimate rest.
This is the unfortunate state in the name of so-called secularism in our province and calls for the reconsideration of civic rights to peaceful rest at least at night. During the day and the evening as well, the blaring loudspeakers are a momentary menace, and one has to suspend worthwhile work for the while to allow for the passage of the unseemly interruption in one's concentrated labour owing to such needless distraction.
We must recognise civic rights to rest and peace and fruitful activity, and must ensure tranquil circumstance for the execution of successful diligent labour of all, no less that of students who are helped into distraction by loudspeaker volubility in the name of religion.
P.S. : To you, my friend, again then. You are right in a rather restricted way, I should suppose. Both the azaan and the sankeertan are disturbing and must not be allowed to infringe, however unwittingly, upon private peace. But one thing must be remembered in this regard. Sankeertans may be long and may even last for short of no less than 3 days at a stretch, as you say, but the loudspeaker-bolstered azaan goes on 365 days a year, 5 times a day, and at inconvenient hours such as dawn, as opposed to the infrequent sankeertans centring festive occasions.
Written by Sugata Bose
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IN RESPONSE TO A GOOD FRIEND'S AFFABLE OPPOSITION TO AN EARLIER POST OF MINE
Both the Azaan and the Sankeertan over blaring loudspeakers are disturbing and must not be allowed to infringe, however unwittingly, upon private peace. People must not be forced out of bed at 4 a.m. by the Islamic call to prayer as it terribly hurts both the health and the peace of non-Muslims like me who do not subscribe to such voluble appeals in the name of God. Patients, old and infirm, are forced into wakefulness, thus, which hurts their physical condition by thwarting them their legitimate rest.
This is the unfortunate state in the name of so-called secularism in our province and calls for the reconsideration of civic rights to peaceful rest at least at night. During the day and the evening as well, the blaring loudspeakers are a momentary menace, and one has to suspend worthwhile work for the while to allow for the passage of the unseemly interruption in one's concentrated labour owing to such needless distraction.
We must recognise civic rights to rest and peace and fruitful activity, and must ensure tranquil circumstance for the execution of successful diligent labour of all, no less that of students who are helped into distraction by loudspeaker volubility in the name of religion.
P.S. : To you, my friend, again then. You are right in a rather restricted way, I should suppose. Both the azaan and the sankeertan are disturbing and must not be allowed to infringe, however unwittingly, upon private peace. But one thing must be remembered in this regard. Sankeertans may be long and may even last for short of no less than 3 days at a stretch, as you say, but the loudspeaker-bolstered azaan goes on 365 days a year, 5 times a day, and at inconvenient hours such as dawn, as opposed to the infrequent sankeertans centring festive occasions.
Written by Sugata Bose
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