RE:RE:Who killed 254 Hindus in Gujarat?
by antonio on Nov 20, 2007 11:19 AM Permalink
Again, Modi is said to have gone to the site of the Naroda Patiya massacre and acknowledged the efforts of the Chhara tribe who were key participants in the carnage there. The fact is Narendra Modi did not visit Naroda Patiya at that time!
In order to play up the horror of some of the ghastly deeds of those post-Godhra riots, Aaj Tak mixed the Tehelka tapes with clips from the movie Parzania that told a story around those riots.
Sadly, there is such fear in our institutions of these %u201Csecular exposes%u201D that they will promptly jump into them, lies and all. Thus, the Nanavati Commission probing the 2002 communal violence in Gujarat quickly announced that it would examine the footage of Tehelka%u2019s latest %u201Csting%u201D. Not to be outdone, the National Human Rights Commission announced that the CBI should investigate the tapes and, if needed thereafter, take necessary action.
All this because, unlike in the US and Europe where there are codes and regulations governing %u201Csting%u201D operations, our country has no statute or rule of any kind to control them. With our Supreme Court giving the widest possible latitude to %u201Cfreedom of expression%u201D under Article 19(1)(a), the state cannot impose any prior restraint on the freedom of the press on the grounds that the publication concerned would offend the privacy of any individual. No remedy will lie before publication.
That is why, in the Operation West End alleging corruption in defence procurements, while leading lawyers and journalist
RE:RE:RE:RE:Who killed 254 Hindus in Gujarat?
by antonio on Nov 20, 2007 11:20 AM Permalink
By the same author: Uncle Sam%u2019s nuclear hardsell
On October 27, he announced at a press conference that he had resigned as government counsel, and had filed criminal cases against Dhimant Purohit, correspondent of Aaj Tak, charging them with cheating, criminal conspiracy, breach of trust, fraud, trespass and breach of communal harmony. He contended that Purohit had offered him a role in a serial which the TV channel was purportedly producing and that he was captured on a hidden camera when he was reading from what had been given to him as a script for an audition test. The immediate result of Pandya%u2019s legal action was that Purohit sought anticipatory bail!
What ultimately happens to Pandya%u2019s cases should, it%u2019s suggested, be closely covered and followed up by all the media that cares for truth and decency in investigative journalism.
Such media, if they exist at all, should also ascertain why the usual bunch of social and human rights activists are not going to the highest judiciary and generally raising hell --- if not a %u201Csting%u201D---over the recent tragedy at Nandigram in Communist Bengal.
Our government%u2019s Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Priyaranjan Dasmunsi, called the Nandigram killings as a %u201Cstate-sponsored terrorism%u201D. Then why is Teesta Setalvad mum? Why are she and the rest of the usual suspects so tongue-tied now, when for the minutest reason, they rant and rave against the RSS, the VHP, the BJP, the Bajrang Dal and the sadhus and saints of Hindu
RE:Who killed 254 Hindus in Gujarat?
by Sathish N on Nov 20, 2007 11:50 AM Permalink
Also Times now is another channel that indulges in biased reporting. I have stopped watching them.
