07-18-2005, 05:52 PM
Tall claims to a girlfriend is not a crime Add to Clippings
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1173620.cms
The traitor PRITISH NANDY weighs in Salman's tape scandal..
This bast**ard goes on a tirade on BJP calling Fernades a traitor. Man! With anti-nationals like this, India deserves what it gets. It is a bad thought. But I hope [edited] and hopefullt, he will feel what is Salman Khan kind of people are worth...
I don't want people to click on this link and give any credibility to this bas**tard. I am reproducing the article here.
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Tall claims to a girlfriend is not a crime Add to Clippings
... if it were, we would all be guilty. Just as getting caught in pictures shot with thugs is a professional hazard all movie stars and politicians live with.
Secondly, no one knows as yet whether the tapes are genuine. If they are, there could be a case for investigation. But the question is: No one is ready to disclose the source of these tapes presumably because they are illegally recorded.
No one can eavesdrop on a telephone line without first seeking five levels of clearance under both ITA and MCOCA. This does not appear to have been done in this case.
Bangaru Laxman was caught on camera receiving a cash bribe and the BJP, who are the ones pointing a finger at Salman today, insisted that the tapes were digitally doctored.
Laxman was then the BJP party chief. Serious evidence was published in this newspaper, and later tabled in parliament, accusing George Fernandes of making money from defence deals, including coffins bought to bring back dead soldiers from the Kargil border.
But the same BJP that today calls Salman an anti-national were the first to defend George and claim that the evidence was fake and motivated.
If Bangaru and George were not anti-national after stealing money that was supposed to spent on the nationâs defence, how can drunken boasts and silly threats exchanged between lovers become clinching evidence of anti-nationalism? The truth is: There is a curious coalition of business interests and politics behind this.
A new newspaper launching in Mumbai needed a sensational story on its front page. So it dug up this four-year-old recording and published it.
It was salacious; it was exciting. It had the potential to sell copies. If the recording was genuine (or, for that matter, legally done) surely the police (who are the only ones allowed to record private conversations) would have taken action against Salman years ago.
But they did not do it. Instead the story helped a newspaper launch. It was almost simultaneously picked up by a TV channel with a pronounced BJP slant and known for carrying salacious video clips.
Next coincidence: All this happened on the very day a film featuring Salman was being premiered in the theatres. Thus enabling the lynch mobs to immediately demand that the film be banned and Salman arrested. No, they did not demand an investigation.
That came later. No, they did not ask who taped these private...
conversations and whether the appropriate sanctions were obtained, which would make them admissible as evidence in the courts. No, they did not even demand a check on their authenticity.
It was instant justice. In the kangaroo court of public opinion. The judge, the jury and the hangman was the sameâthe BJP and its cohorts.
Cheering on the sidelines was the media. In the age of MMS erotica and digital double takes, this is a dangerous trend. Remember the case of Anara Gupta, Miss Jammu?
She was picked up by the J&K police on mere suspicion that a porn video clip circulating on cell phones featured her. They publicly called her a whore, jailed her, hung her from a fan and beat her mercilessly for three days and nights demanding that she go before the TV cameras and confess that she was the person in the video. She refused.
Months later, after forensic investigations ordered by the court, it was proved that the clips were fake. But by that time her life was destroyed.
There are still over a hundred sites on the net featuring what they describe as the Anara Gupta tapes when everyone knows by now that she was totally innocent.
This is the power of the media and when it misused to sell copies or raise...
TRPs, common citizens get very seriously hurt. Our defamation laws are so weak and time consuming that there is virtually no way to stop the collateral damage.
And, as we all know, the political parties are waiting on the sidelines just for an opportunity like this to exploit. My concern is Salman has got the short end of the stick again not because he has committed any crime.
Talking nonsense to oneâs girlfriend and making tall claims are not a crime. If it were, we would all be guilty. Just as getting caught in pictures shot with thugs is a professional hazard all movie stars and politicians live with.
By no stretch of imagination does it suggest that the two people seen together are jointly involved in a criminal conspiracy.
Every day on the sets of movies people turn up from all over the world to be photographed with stars. Does it prove culpability?
Not at all. Stupidity perhaps. But certainly not culpability. Yes, Salman Khan may be stupid. Many of us are when we fall in love.
This does not mean we are criminals. Or worse, anti-nationals. Eavesdropping and keyhole journalismâand I dare say, some degree of digital doctoringâcan make virtually anything look dangerous.
That is why the law does not accept such evidence unless it goes through several layers of permissions and procedures.
If the law can be wise, why not the media? The media does not exist to make us into a nation of sick, depraved voyeurs. It exists to inform, educate, improve our lives.
In the case of Salman, this witch hunt has caused enough damage. It is now time for the media to back off and allow truth and justice to prevail.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1173620.cms
The traitor PRITISH NANDY weighs in Salman's tape scandal..
This bast**ard goes on a tirade on BJP calling Fernades a traitor. Man! With anti-nationals like this, India deserves what it gets. It is a bad thought. But I hope [edited] and hopefullt, he will feel what is Salman Khan kind of people are worth...
I don't want people to click on this link and give any credibility to this bas**tard. I am reproducing the article here.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tall claims to a girlfriend is not a crime Add to Clippings
... if it were, we would all be guilty. Just as getting caught in pictures shot with thugs is a professional hazard all movie stars and politicians live with.
Secondly, no one knows as yet whether the tapes are genuine. If they are, there could be a case for investigation. But the question is: No one is ready to disclose the source of these tapes presumably because they are illegally recorded.
No one can eavesdrop on a telephone line without first seeking five levels of clearance under both ITA and MCOCA. This does not appear to have been done in this case.
Bangaru Laxman was caught on camera receiving a cash bribe and the BJP, who are the ones pointing a finger at Salman today, insisted that the tapes were digitally doctored.
Laxman was then the BJP party chief. Serious evidence was published in this newspaper, and later tabled in parliament, accusing George Fernandes of making money from defence deals, including coffins bought to bring back dead soldiers from the Kargil border.
But the same BJP that today calls Salman an anti-national were the first to defend George and claim that the evidence was fake and motivated.
If Bangaru and George were not anti-national after stealing money that was supposed to spent on the nationâs defence, how can drunken boasts and silly threats exchanged between lovers become clinching evidence of anti-nationalism? The truth is: There is a curious coalition of business interests and politics behind this.
A new newspaper launching in Mumbai needed a sensational story on its front page. So it dug up this four-year-old recording and published it.
It was salacious; it was exciting. It had the potential to sell copies. If the recording was genuine (or, for that matter, legally done) surely the police (who are the only ones allowed to record private conversations) would have taken action against Salman years ago.
But they did not do it. Instead the story helped a newspaper launch. It was almost simultaneously picked up by a TV channel with a pronounced BJP slant and known for carrying salacious video clips.
Next coincidence: All this happened on the very day a film featuring Salman was being premiered in the theatres. Thus enabling the lynch mobs to immediately demand that the film be banned and Salman arrested. No, they did not demand an investigation.
That came later. No, they did not ask who taped these private...
conversations and whether the appropriate sanctions were obtained, which would make them admissible as evidence in the courts. No, they did not even demand a check on their authenticity.
It was instant justice. In the kangaroo court of public opinion. The judge, the jury and the hangman was the sameâthe BJP and its cohorts.
Cheering on the sidelines was the media. In the age of MMS erotica and digital double takes, this is a dangerous trend. Remember the case of Anara Gupta, Miss Jammu?
She was picked up by the J&K police on mere suspicion that a porn video clip circulating on cell phones featured her. They publicly called her a whore, jailed her, hung her from a fan and beat her mercilessly for three days and nights demanding that she go before the TV cameras and confess that she was the person in the video. She refused.
Months later, after forensic investigations ordered by the court, it was proved that the clips were fake. But by that time her life was destroyed.
There are still over a hundred sites on the net featuring what they describe as the Anara Gupta tapes when everyone knows by now that she was totally innocent.
This is the power of the media and when it misused to sell copies or raise...
TRPs, common citizens get very seriously hurt. Our defamation laws are so weak and time consuming that there is virtually no way to stop the collateral damage.
And, as we all know, the political parties are waiting on the sidelines just for an opportunity like this to exploit. My concern is Salman has got the short end of the stick again not because he has committed any crime.
Talking nonsense to oneâs girlfriend and making tall claims are not a crime. If it were, we would all be guilty. Just as getting caught in pictures shot with thugs is a professional hazard all movie stars and politicians live with.
By no stretch of imagination does it suggest that the two people seen together are jointly involved in a criminal conspiracy.
Every day on the sets of movies people turn up from all over the world to be photographed with stars. Does it prove culpability?
Not at all. Stupidity perhaps. But certainly not culpability. Yes, Salman Khan may be stupid. Many of us are when we fall in love.
This does not mean we are criminals. Or worse, anti-nationals. Eavesdropping and keyhole journalismâand I dare say, some degree of digital doctoringâcan make virtually anything look dangerous.
That is why the law does not accept such evidence unless it goes through several layers of permissions and procedures.
If the law can be wise, why not the media? The media does not exist to make us into a nation of sick, depraved voyeurs. It exists to inform, educate, improve our lives.
In the case of Salman, this witch hunt has caused enough damage. It is now time for the media to back off and allow truth and justice to prevail.