01 August,2009 03:03 PM IST | | Alisha Coelho
The common man too is a victim, says entrepreneur who had her own brush with religious discrimination outcast? Nagina Hasan, who now lives in Andheri, was asked to vacate her Vashi home.
Nagina Hasan (43) doesn't know Emraan Hashmi, but knows exactly what he's feeling at this moment. The entrepreneur was turned away by a housing society because she's a Muslim.
"When it happens to a Shabana Azmi or an Emraan Hashmi, it makes news. But people should realise that incidents like these also happen to the common man, who has no glamour value and nobody to turn to," she said.
Last October...
MiD DAY had reported how Nagina was asked by office bearers of a housing society in Vashi to vacate her rented flat last October for being a Muslim.
She lodged a complaint with the Vashi police station against the society members, but that did not help either.
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"The building secretary categorically stated in a letter to the flat owner that the flat could not be leased to 'non-Hindu' families," she said. "Societies that discriminate should be blacklisted."
She had told MiD DAY then that despite the unfriendly vibes she got from residents, she was not going to budge.
However, nine months on, she has shifted to Seven Bungalows in Andheri. "I was fed up of the little things that the society did to annoy me.
They did not to allow my garbage to be picked up, denied a parking spot to my husband and did not allow the fishmonger to come to my doorstep.
I did not want to subject my children to that kind of environment," said Nagina.
