Villains of Modern India.. An "OUTLOOK"
Call it cheap publicity, call it a publicity stunt or call it a competition for news Outlook has managed all that in its latest edition where it has enough Masala about the villains of Modern india. Bal Thakrey, Sanjay Gandhi, Narendra Modi, Azharuddin and Godse have been portrayed as modern villains. I don't know who murdered Keneddy but I guess the whole of the Indian media had made a hero out of Godse.
Mohd. Azharuddin's case is still in court and though nothing substantial has been proved against him, he was victimized by press, BCCI and media. Poor he, his advisors asked him to make reference to his minority status and that spelled doom against him. Even his non-muslim fans vented their anger on him and his effigies were burnt in different part of the country. Well, he is now fighting a life long battle against the BCCI. I wonder that when people like Kapil Deo, Prabhakar, Jadeja were braced then how come a magazine like Outlook can portray Azhar as a villain. We have seen his craftsmen like cricketing skills and if you takes into consideration his contribution towards Indian cricket then for a moment you might be tempted to think that he was innocent. Well, that is a matter of court's jurisdiction and I feel that its completely unfair for Outlook to take a position against him. Perhaps he was the only sensible Indian middle order batsmen who use to play with run a ball strike rate. Rest we all know about Shastris and Vengsarkars of yester year.
Godse, was hanged in the morning and cremated at unknown place. Even his ashes were not made available to his family members and as alleged were dumped in a river and the place where he was cremated was ploughed evenly so that people can't build a monument at that place. The story goes like that the book he authored was confiscated from the press and his ashes were dumped in a river from where a fisherman actually recovered the eathen pot and claimed that it's godse's ashes. His brother Gopal was freed after serving a life term in jail and in one of his interviews which was sensored, he mentioned that Gandhi didn't utter the word "Hey Ram" because the revolver they used didn't give you that much reaction time after the bullet hits you. Anyways the whole thing appears messy because I haven't even heard any assasination victim uttering even a word like "Oh god". We have seen the Gandhi side of the history but not the Godse side. His confession statement were never made public and I wonder that no Right to Information activist have take up the cause. Well, this is a country where being anti Gandhi is a crime and most of the people who opposed Gandhi's philosophy they died a painful death. Had it not been the courage of Bhagat Singh and a slew of movies made on Bhagat Singh his story might also have ended in dumps. We all know about Subhas Chandra Bose. Government never had the courage to put the papers relating to the investigation about his deaths on the table. Neither they asked Japan or Zermany to provide more information.
I am not compairing, Godse with any of these great leaders but the fact that there is not enough writing in the public which is enough for a magazine to take a stand. Anyways was hunting on google and this is what Nathuram's Court Confession document. Click Here
Sanjay Gandhi was arrogant brat but he wasn't able to match his mother in terms of arrgance and dictator like attitude. Seriously he was nothing. But probably the magazine can go ahead with Sanjay's character and can't take the present government head on by publishing anything against Indira or for that matter Nehru. Congress very easily shrugged off "Nehru Was Naive" comment from American diplomat but the fact is fact. He brought on us the three wars. We still have lot of ground to capture against these two countries. Sanjay could be a villain but we had bigger villains in congress itself.
Modi is a dictator (alleged) but atleast he lead Gujrat to Glory in less than 10 years. What about Lalu Rabri combine who plunged Bihar into a state of poverty and illiteracy. The growth figures were negative and the state became a hub for kidnapping, ransom and daylight murders. Gujrat is still way safer than Bihar and way more developed. Bihar got divided into two states and the state of law and order went to mess. Cattles roam freely on road filled with potholes whereas Gujrat added more than 50000 kilometers of highway. I have no doubts that Modi is acting as a tyrant and is against freedom of press and practicing a politics of hatred but still his sins are of lesser intensity than that of Lalu. By not taking any proactive measures to stop a riot is genocide but what about allowing law and order to fall down to a level when no one feels safe. MCC, Ranveer Sena in their dual killed 1000s of people in these 15 years of Lalu's regime but nothing much happened. And can you beat this that the top brass of Ranveer Sena (the private army of landlords) was a 75 year old man who was a follower of Gandhi and participated in freedom struggle?
About Bal Thakrey, I don;t know much but I know this thing for sure that to get cheap publicity you need to poke into something big and they have hit the target this time. Given the tolerance level of the Shiv Sena I guess that at-least they will take this issue further and will storm the news paper's office at some more places. Though the government is of opposition but still Shiv Sena has powers to break a few window panes to scare even the influential people. Well, now they can be sure of enough text against the Shiv Sena.
God bless them, I guess the biggest villain for modern India have been media which instead of focussing on bringing existing issues to the light is dishing out some exotic flavours to sell more copies. Great
Mohd. Azharuddin's case is still in court and though nothing substantial has been proved against him, he was victimized by press, BCCI and media. Poor he, his advisors asked him to make reference to his minority status and that spelled doom against him. Even his non-muslim fans vented their anger on him and his effigies were burnt in different part of the country. Well, he is now fighting a life long battle against the BCCI. I wonder that when people like Kapil Deo, Prabhakar, Jadeja were braced then how come a magazine like Outlook can portray Azhar as a villain. We have seen his craftsmen like cricketing skills and if you takes into consideration his contribution towards Indian cricket then for a moment you might be tempted to think that he was innocent. Well, that is a matter of court's jurisdiction and I feel that its completely unfair for Outlook to take a position against him. Perhaps he was the only sensible Indian middle order batsmen who use to play with run a ball strike rate. Rest we all know about Shastris and Vengsarkars of yester year.
Godse, was hanged in the morning and cremated at unknown place. Even his ashes were not made available to his family members and as alleged were dumped in a river and the place where he was cremated was ploughed evenly so that people can't build a monument at that place. The story goes like that the book he authored was confiscated from the press and his ashes were dumped in a river from where a fisherman actually recovered the eathen pot and claimed that it's godse's ashes. His brother Gopal was freed after serving a life term in jail and in one of his interviews which was sensored, he mentioned that Gandhi didn't utter the word "Hey Ram" because the revolver they used didn't give you that much reaction time after the bullet hits you. Anyways the whole thing appears messy because I haven't even heard any assasination victim uttering even a word like "Oh god". We have seen the Gandhi side of the history but not the Godse side. His confession statement were never made public and I wonder that no Right to Information activist have take up the cause. Well, this is a country where being anti Gandhi is a crime and most of the people who opposed Gandhi's philosophy they died a painful death. Had it not been the courage of Bhagat Singh and a slew of movies made on Bhagat Singh his story might also have ended in dumps. We all know about Subhas Chandra Bose. Government never had the courage to put the papers relating to the investigation about his deaths on the table. Neither they asked Japan or Zermany to provide more information.
I am not compairing, Godse with any of these great leaders but the fact that there is not enough writing in the public which is enough for a magazine to take a stand. Anyways was hunting on google and this is what Nathuram's Court Confession document. Click Here
Sanjay Gandhi was arrogant brat but he wasn't able to match his mother in terms of arrgance and dictator like attitude. Seriously he was nothing. But probably the magazine can go ahead with Sanjay's character and can't take the present government head on by publishing anything against Indira or for that matter Nehru. Congress very easily shrugged off "Nehru Was Naive" comment from American diplomat but the fact is fact. He brought on us the three wars. We still have lot of ground to capture against these two countries. Sanjay could be a villain but we had bigger villains in congress itself.
Modi is a dictator (alleged) but atleast he lead Gujrat to Glory in less than 10 years. What about Lalu Rabri combine who plunged Bihar into a state of poverty and illiteracy. The growth figures were negative and the state became a hub for kidnapping, ransom and daylight murders. Gujrat is still way safer than Bihar and way more developed. Bihar got divided into two states and the state of law and order went to mess. Cattles roam freely on road filled with potholes whereas Gujrat added more than 50000 kilometers of highway. I have no doubts that Modi is acting as a tyrant and is against freedom of press and practicing a politics of hatred but still his sins are of lesser intensity than that of Lalu. By not taking any proactive measures to stop a riot is genocide but what about allowing law and order to fall down to a level when no one feels safe. MCC, Ranveer Sena in their dual killed 1000s of people in these 15 years of Lalu's regime but nothing much happened. And can you beat this that the top brass of Ranveer Sena (the private army of landlords) was a 75 year old man who was a follower of Gandhi and participated in freedom struggle?
About Bal Thakrey, I don;t know much but I know this thing for sure that to get cheap publicity you need to poke into something big and they have hit the target this time. Given the tolerance level of the Shiv Sena I guess that at-least they will take this issue further and will storm the news paper's office at some more places. Though the government is of opposition but still Shiv Sena has powers to break a few window panes to scare even the influential people. Well, now they can be sure of enough text against the Shiv Sena.
God bless them, I guess the biggest villain for modern India have been media which instead of focussing on bringing existing issues to the light is dishing out some exotic flavours to sell more copies. Great
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