Gravitas: Lulu mall row hurting India's business-friendly image?

A new shopping mall in India's Lucknow city is at the centre of a communal row. Right-wing groups claim Muslim men tried to stoke tensions by offering prayers inside the mall. Palki Sharma tells you how this episode reflects poorly on India's business-friendly image.

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[geetanjalikharbe]

She missed out on the biggest fact that as per the cctv footage those people entered only to pray and left once namaz was offered. The whole thing was done only to create controversy and maybe some civil unrest against Yogi govt

[swatisharma]

Agree to the simple rule- no religious prayers in common public places. I think it would benefit humanity if we all practice religion in our personal space like home. True for all public including politicians

[shaileshmistry]

Namaz in public place is assertion of the political power of the alleged religion. But yes this is very inconvenient for Palki to say. Just observe that namaz is done in public places only in non-muslims countries. Why is that ? Because the doctrine of intolerance uses tolerant rules of democracy to assert its street power.

[taiburrahman]

Offering namaz in public places should not be tolerated . All must be arrested . Thay are all doing so create an atmosphere of hate . Offer namaz in masjid or home . Not in public place

[vikirocks]

This is Namaz G-had. Road, Airports, railway stations, Schools, you name it.

[AdvaiticOneness]

As far as I know, Lulu malls have dedicated prayer rooms in each malls! I've seen it in Trivandrum and Kochi malls. I don't understand why these people are not using it!

[thedroidbha]

All this happens because India has different set of laws based on religion. There is no "Common Civil Code", some of the Criminal Code though common is archaic & out dated, too lenient. India's Constitution is biased. Education system is divided and allow "Madrasas" to run. Politicians of the country are only focused in vote bank politics. These are the signs of a healthy _Banana Republic._

[LVYRSLF]

A peaceful religion that has nothing to do with peace

[atchaiahsastrykalagav.v.]

First, one has to realize who is instigating and igniting the fire and communal disharmony. I stayed in Oman and Dubai, number of times I visited Lulu in those two countries, never saw any person doing Namaz in common area, to that matter in any mall. Even, it happened to me to stay for one day in Sana capital of Yemen, a staunch Islamic country, there also I have seen the authorities asking the people to go for some closed areas to complete their prayers. These TV channels also should bring in such information along with this type of incidents, so that the public will have complete information. Yes, I too agree, one should not react like this, which leads to spoil the image of tolerant India.

[umwelten]

I don't know about anything. Aside from popular festivals of all religions, Malls are for shopping and free AC.🤟🏿

[SaUrAvNeil]

It's muslim community who started prayer in mall

[discoverchina]

Religious activities should just stay in religious venues
Shopping malls are not where you could pray

[tulika]

Rather than criticising right-wing activities, Palki should be criticising hopeless miscreants popping up everywhere these days in India whose only aim is to disrupt the communal harmony and India's growth. India's image remains intact, just this incident won't harm. It is definitely undergoing an important change in its strength and character which is becoming hard pill to swallow for many.

[thegamerdoc]

Peaceful people and peaceful religion at it once again 🤣

[sibaytc]

Mall is built for the purpose of shopping and recreation.
Not for offering prayers 🙏.
Neither Hindu 🕉 nor Muslims ☪️ should take their religion in the mall.

[vishnu]

First of all relegion is not a fancy thing to exibit to others and show ur pride.
Even Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia is banned Namaz at public place like Road sides recently.

[jamesb]

One time I hired a Muslim woman as AA, she was good for few months and then she came to me and said she needs my office as prayer room. I said she can take it to HR but she is not getting my office. I told her the most I can do is to allow her to leave during her break off the premise if she wants, but I don't have space for namaj.

[sunright]

Even here in my country which is muslim majority, every mall has its own prayer places and no one here is weird enough to do prayer in the middle of public place outside of prayer place like that.

[maxsmith]

some people will take advantage of countries secularistic attitude and use it to become a public nuisance. these men could have chosen a quiet corner to offer namaz but they chose the atrium for a very specific reason. i would have loved to see if it would have escalated had these men gotten away with it, how long it would have been before there would have been a few hundred men doing the namaz in the air conditioned mall, 5 times a day, 7 days a week.

[viditaghule]

Its about the hidden agendas!.... Its how the reputation of a community affects you!