It is time to start this debate. Now that Gujarat is slowly getting back to normalcy. Today many are clueless why the Indian media is obsessively anti-majority _ that is, anti-Hindu. But here is the clue. ``It is no wrong'' says the editor of a popular English magazine, ``to jettison the parameters of objective journalism and being partisan on the side of the victims.'' It does sound noble.
But its implications are far-reaching. It is not just a clue, far more. An admission. This came when the `secular' establishment had to rationalise its totally one-sided reporting on the Godhra massacre and on the Gujarat riots.
Did the secular establishment apply this rule _ of being partisan on the side of the victims _ to the roasting of Ramsevaks, women and children included, at Godhra, and take their side. No. It was the other way round. Nearly the entire secular establishment, the media included, virtually rationalised the mass roasting of the Ramsevaks.
The seculars' voice is the loudest, the shrillest in the country. What the seculars did in millions of words in thousands of journals and newspapers is difficult to capture in a few hundred words here. So the next best proof is the testimony of one of the approvers from the secular ranks as to what the seculars did. The Editor of one of the largest English newspapers _ -a paper, which did as much damage as any other, in reporting on Godhra _ and a secularist himself had an open introspection in the front page of the paper
