06-15-2005, 09:52 PM
You have a good point Viren. Professional-communalists have so much clout in the print and broadcast media that internet petitions should not have any value. Yoginder Sikand the author of the petition could as well have thrown that gibbersh he calls a petition to Indian Express and TOI and lo, it would have got published unedited.
For the RGF's report, Indian dailies have maintained an astounding silence. This petition is the first voice of dissent I have seen. So obviously the numbers put forth by RGF are so strong that even editors sympathetic to professional-communalists have a hard time denying it.
Same thing with Rakesh sharma's brush with NYPD. In the past Bollywooders Aamir Khan and Kamal Hasan got wide coverage for their brush with authorities in the US. Even a little known actress from Kerala that had a brush with airlines got wide publicity. None of Rakesh Sharma's misadventures got reported. Not even on the page 3 columns.
This leads me to believe, 700 signatures for Rakesh Sharma are all spurious. I will be surprised if they even have the guts to present it to any competent authority.
For the RGF's report, Indian dailies have maintained an astounding silence. This petition is the first voice of dissent I have seen. So obviously the numbers put forth by RGF are so strong that even editors sympathetic to professional-communalists have a hard time denying it.
Same thing with Rakesh sharma's brush with NYPD. In the past Bollywooders Aamir Khan and Kamal Hasan got wide coverage for their brush with authorities in the US. Even a little known actress from Kerala that had a brush with airlines got wide publicity. None of Rakesh Sharma's misadventures got reported. Not even on the page 3 columns.
This leads me to believe, 700 signatures for Rakesh Sharma are all spurious. I will be surprised if they even have the guts to present it to any competent authority.