11-15-2010, 06:19 PM
November 13, 2010
by janamejayan
[url="http://janamejayan.wordpress.com/"][size="5"]An example of the bootlicking media doing salaam to Maino[/size][/url]
No national pride, no investigative journalism but crass and abject surrender for a bone! What a shameless secular media that we have!
Indian express editorial on Sudharshan
Crass politics, parivar style
The New Indian Express
http://expressbuzz.com/opinion/editorial...22598.html
At regular intervals, the saffron brotherhood demonstrates that it hasnââ¬â¢t quite absorbed the restrained norms of mainstream politics. The habit of making crass remarks, which are the hallmarks of parties on the sidelines, still persists although the BJP, the Hindutva campââ¬â¢s political arm, has been in power at the Centre and now rules eight states. Yet, the party president Nitin Gadkari has faced flak for describing Lalu Prasad and Mulayam Singh Yadav as the faithful dogs of Sonia Gandhi. Now, a former head of the Sangh Parivar, K S Sudarshan, has created a minor storm by levelling a set of bizarre allegations against the Congress president. Apart from calling her a CIA agent at a meeting called by the RSS, Sudarshan has accused Sonia of being responsible for the assassinations of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi. To show that he was serious, Sudarshan wanted to know why Sonia had opposed the removal of a Sikh sentry, who subsequently killed Indira. Moreover, the former RSS chief alleged that Sonia had wasted time by taking the injured prime minister to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and not to the nearby Ram Manohar Lohia hospital.None of this would have merited attention if the indictment was not made by someone who once held the highest position in the RSS, an organisation to which the BJP and other members of the parivar routinely pay an annual gurudakshina or a tuition fee of sorts. However, if a former headmaster conjures up such outlandish theories and airs them in public, the value of what the guru imparts to his students cannot but be of dubious worth. The abysmally low level of political diatribe, which Sudarshan has displayed, explains, however, the crudity of Gadkariââ¬â¢s jibes against the Yadav duo and also his description of Digvijay Singh as Aurangzeb ki aulad.Sonia, of course, remains a thorn in the side of an avowedly nationalistic party and parivar. They simply cannot understand how an Italian ââ¬â one of the inoffensive terms used by the Hindutva warriors in cyberspace ââ¬â can hold a larger political space than the self-proclaimed patriots. The anger and frustration caused by their inability to accept her continuing importance evidently make them occasionally break out in a rash, so to say, to present a spectacle, which is not a pleasant sight.
by janamejayan
[url="http://janamejayan.wordpress.com/"][size="5"]An example of the bootlicking media doing salaam to Maino[/size][/url]
No national pride, no investigative journalism but crass and abject surrender for a bone! What a shameless secular media that we have!
Indian express editorial on Sudharshan
Crass politics, parivar style
The New Indian Express
http://expressbuzz.com/opinion/editorial...22598.html
At regular intervals, the saffron brotherhood demonstrates that it hasnââ¬â¢t quite absorbed the restrained norms of mainstream politics. The habit of making crass remarks, which are the hallmarks of parties on the sidelines, still persists although the BJP, the Hindutva campââ¬â¢s political arm, has been in power at the Centre and now rules eight states. Yet, the party president Nitin Gadkari has faced flak for describing Lalu Prasad and Mulayam Singh Yadav as the faithful dogs of Sonia Gandhi. Now, a former head of the Sangh Parivar, K S Sudarshan, has created a minor storm by levelling a set of bizarre allegations against the Congress president. Apart from calling her a CIA agent at a meeting called by the RSS, Sudarshan has accused Sonia of being responsible for the assassinations of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi. To show that he was serious, Sudarshan wanted to know why Sonia had opposed the removal of a Sikh sentry, who subsequently killed Indira. Moreover, the former RSS chief alleged that Sonia had wasted time by taking the injured prime minister to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and not to the nearby Ram Manohar Lohia hospital.None of this would have merited attention if the indictment was not made by someone who once held the highest position in the RSS, an organisation to which the BJP and other members of the parivar routinely pay an annual gurudakshina or a tuition fee of sorts. However, if a former headmaster conjures up such outlandish theories and airs them in public, the value of what the guru imparts to his students cannot but be of dubious worth. The abysmally low level of political diatribe, which Sudarshan has displayed, explains, however, the crudity of Gadkariââ¬â¢s jibes against the Yadav duo and also his description of Digvijay Singh as Aurangzeb ki aulad.Sonia, of course, remains a thorn in the side of an avowedly nationalistic party and parivar. They simply cannot understand how an Italian ââ¬â one of the inoffensive terms used by the Hindutva warriors in cyberspace ââ¬â can hold a larger political space than the self-proclaimed patriots. The anger and frustration caused by their inability to accept her continuing importance evidently make them occasionally break out in a rash, so to say, to present a spectacle, which is not a pleasant sight.