“I'm not going to study and, you know, cram up the Quran or, like, Sharia.” Shubham Yadav shares with Brut all that comes with topping an unconventional exam.
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00:00People have started calling me Malvi or like something like that Islamic studies not just studying about Islam. I'm not gonna study and you know
00:07Cram up Quran or like Sharia. It's like it's reading their interpretation
00:11You see the polarization and the you know, Islamophobia in our country specifically due to the political weightage towards the rightist groups
00:18So that motivated me
00:30You
00:41People should take this as a normal measure not even as a good measure or a bad measure
00:47It's simple as simple as you know, political sciences normal student, you know topping political science
00:52What is difference between history and Islamic studies? Okay, so history is a broad scope
00:56Okay, and when you study Islamic studies, you're studying a small scope of Islamic study
01:21When you read about such cases you are so much heard about the you're so much concerned about the society that you live in
01:26You see the polarization and the you know, Islamophobia in our country specifically due to the political weightage towards the rightist groups
01:33So that motivated me, you know, because there is a lot of misrepresentation and misinterpretation of Islam
01:38So I really wanted to know what really Islam is, you know, so that I can tell people
01:43I don't know whose tweet was it, but I guess it was Rajdeep Sardesai who said, you know
01:48Genocide didn't start with the mass killing. It started with the hate speech
01:52So that's what we need to realize, you know
01:54So I don't want to imbibe a hate towards anybody not even my Hindu brothers, not even my Islamic brothers
01:59This is not a battle of ideologies. This is a battle of granting simple basic living rights to everybody
02:13People have started calling me Malvi or like something like that
02:16You know, what is going on going on in the society is you don't know when you're studying Islamic studies
02:21They don't take it as you studying Islam. They take you as studying Islam. Islamic studies is not just studying about Islam
02:28I'm not gonna study and you know
02:30Cram up Quran or like Sharia
02:32It's like it's reading their interpretation people need to move ahead of this orthodoxy that you know
02:37Islamic studies is just about Quran and Islam
02:46You
03:03Wouldn't believe we civil servants we civil service
03:06Experts were asked to not read news then the media and the government is politicizing everything so much
03:13And you know media is a watchdog of democracy. It is not a watchdog of democracy, but watchdog of these political parties now
03:27So what I have been to Kashmir it's like totally different from media shows us it's the media that creates a problem
03:33You know, even if a cylinder explodes, right they created it as a terrorist explosion earlier
03:39I used to feel great when I used to read, you know terrorist scale
03:41This is the terrorist scale. But how do we know they are really terrorists?
03:45So need we really need honest sources which can tell us what really things are, you know
03:50What really things are on the ground? So it's like it's so hard to judge from here
04:02Want to become a civil servant, you know and as a conciliatory measure
04:06I would like to work between Hindus and Muslims to you know
04:10Reach out a solution if there is ongoing problem in five to ten years from now
04:14I thought COVID would bring us closer. But again people are into that Hindu Muslim thing. So let's get together now
04:20We have got a problem right this COVID is a great great problem
04:22So just believe in yourself just believe in humanism and just propagate the message of humanism because there is already a lot of mess created
04:29In this world, right?