I was never a avid newspaper reader until few years back! Last year, there was a news item, that said Israt Jehan(the suspected terrorist who was shot dead by Gujrat Police); died of "fake encounter". The committee was set up under Justice Tamang and it flashed all over the online news papers. All major newspapers had this as the headline. My husband said, "oh my god see what these cops are doing". He was very upset that a 19 year old "innocent girl" was killed by the cops for no fault of hers. I knew deep down that this is nothing but a media propaganda. I told my husband not to believe these newspaper stories because they work for congress and whatever suits congress will be published. In other words, this was to malign the Gujrat BJP govt. Mr. Modi. Having said that, I started on doing my own search. I found that this girl was missing from home one day and absconded for 3-4 days till the day she was killed. The day she was killed, she was traveling with 4 unidentified armed men, two of which are pakistanis. Those who believe in her innocence fail to explain why a girl should secretly leave her home and roam around with unidentified males with arms. Sounds fishy isn't it? Oh, ya, but this does not prove she is guilty. That is also true that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. So, this is also applicable to Modi because nothing has yet been proved against him on the Gujrat killings. But, all the printed english news media never shy away from projecting Mr. Modi a monster. I would say Gujrat police should also be labelled as innocent because its not yet proved if Israt was innocent or not.
Just few days back, it was reported that Headly(The mastermind behind 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai) confessed that Israt was indeed a terrorist deployed for Modi killing operation. Now, this gives me relief that there was no "fake encounter". I was going through some of Times of India's comments by people, and surprisingly, some people even argue that we should not trust a terrorist like Headly and base our judgment on that. Appalled - I ask, if you are not going to believe a terrorist at any cost, why interrogate him in the first place? Does it make any sense? Somehow people just come up with absurd thoughts and logic that makes no sense at all and it gets propagated in the news channels. Now coming back to the news reporting, who will undo the damage the earlier Tamang report has already done?So, why do we get to see partial news reporting day in and day out? People like my husband that keeps keen interest on national items too get carried away by this false reporting. Why is the congress govt. doing this? Why does it pay the media to publish untrue stories? The reason is for appeasement that links to vote bank politics...
Sigh, it sounds so bad that in a country like India with so many intelligent people, only very few go out to practice their franchise. Even in my own family people hardly go out to vote. As a result of which our elected leaders are those that are chosen by ignorant few. In other words we are ruled by ignorant few. I ask my family why don't you go out for voting and pat comes the answer. No one is good, whom should we vote? Now, that is a valid question. But it is high time we have to choose between 2 devils. There may be one who is less of a devil than the other, so choose the lesser devil...
Today, I read a very interesting article in one of my favorite web sites that strikes a very important chord. The article can be found here. Now, I strongly feel somebody should fund a research on the economic loss worldwide caused by the security checking menace at the airports. This is not just finding the productive working human hours loss at the airports but also the associated menace like missing flights because of long queue at the security points, and other inconveniences that leads to economic loss . For example, for being not able to carry items like food, water and other basic things can lead to monetary loss as well. Every time I go somewhere, at the airport they confiscate my shampoo, moisturizers, tooth paste and other basic items. I end up buying them again. I end up buying over priced water bottles inside the security zones. At sometimes because of long security checking queues, I miss my meal, miss my flight, stay in a hotel. Miss important work assignments etc. People who have certain health condition may loose their lives because of this! This list could grow endlessly... So, I ask why should I be paying for something that I am not responsible for? It is high time we all ask ourselves what to do with the appeasements..
Just few days back, it was reported that Headly(The mastermind behind 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai) confessed that Israt was indeed a terrorist deployed for Modi killing operation. Now, this gives me relief that there was no "fake encounter". I was going through some of Times of India's comments by people, and surprisingly, some people even argue that we should not trust a terrorist like Headly and base our judgment on that. Appalled - I ask, if you are not going to believe a terrorist at any cost, why interrogate him in the first place? Does it make any sense? Somehow people just come up with absurd thoughts and logic that makes no sense at all and it gets propagated in the news channels. Now coming back to the news reporting, who will undo the damage the earlier Tamang report has already done?So, why do we get to see partial news reporting day in and day out? People like my husband that keeps keen interest on national items too get carried away by this false reporting. Why is the congress govt. doing this? Why does it pay the media to publish untrue stories? The reason is for appeasement that links to vote bank politics...
Sigh, it sounds so bad that in a country like India with so many intelligent people, only very few go out to practice their franchise. Even in my own family people hardly go out to vote. As a result of which our elected leaders are those that are chosen by ignorant few. In other words we are ruled by ignorant few. I ask my family why don't you go out for voting and pat comes the answer. No one is good, whom should we vote? Now, that is a valid question. But it is high time we have to choose between 2 devils. There may be one who is less of a devil than the other, so choose the lesser devil...
Today, I read a very interesting article in one of my favorite web sites that strikes a very important chord. The article can be found here. Now, I strongly feel somebody should fund a research on the economic loss worldwide caused by the security checking menace at the airports. This is not just finding the productive working human hours loss at the airports but also the associated menace like missing flights because of long queue at the security points, and other inconveniences that leads to economic loss . For example, for being not able to carry items like food, water and other basic things can lead to monetary loss as well. Every time I go somewhere, at the airport they confiscate my shampoo, moisturizers, tooth paste and other basic items. I end up buying them again. I end up buying over priced water bottles inside the security zones. At sometimes because of long security checking queues, I miss my meal, miss my flight, stay in a hotel. Miss important work assignments etc. People who have certain health condition may loose their lives because of this! This list could grow endlessly... So, I ask why should I be paying for something that I am not responsible for? It is high time we all ask ourselves what to do with the appeasements..
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