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ASSEMBLY POLL '98
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'Journalists belongs to the same category as politicians/bureaucrats -- use a given situation to THEIR advantage/gain'
E-mail from readers the world over
Date sent: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 15:47:01 +0530 His is a great column... totally objective and impartial. Which is why I suppose one bothers to read it. I really don't understand why one would go for really partisan and prejudiced authors like Mani Shankar Aiyar, who is, was, and will always be, with his dated Nehruvian ideas, a jaded and uninteresting Congressman. Harikesh Nair
Date sent: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 08:24:55 +0530 Mr Shenoy as usual hits the nail on the head. It's only his restraint and his style of understating matters that fails to mention what Sonia really is -- a Trojan Horse. I would like to find out, if possible, the calls made out of 10 Janpath on the evening of May 13th. Can anyone in MTNL Delhi help? Even today she cannot come round to accepting the fact that India is nuclear, for having miserably failed her masters. We have to nail her for what she is and what she represents. Why is it we can't follow the example of the Myanmar regime whose only objection to Aung Su Kyi is her marriage to a person from Britain. I'm sure they (Myanmar) would have had no objection had she had married an Indian, Chinese or any other Asian. Ranjit
Date sent: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:33:42 EST Congrats to Mr Shenoy for a thoughtful and wonderful article. It is only people of this calibre and integrity that are still keeping the country going. Otherwise, Jaichands and pseudo-intellectuals would have presided over the demise of the country.
Date sent: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 23:36:51 -0500
From: Tarun Seam I appreciate your thoughtful article. It seems to me that an Indian electorate that is largely poor, illiterate and divided would serve both the pathetically dynastic Congress party and the ideologically arcane (and questionably patriotic) Communist Marxists very well in their common effort of survival and an "unholy" collusion to become Indian rulers. The Communists have always been an ideological anti-thesis of a representative democracy. The forefathers of the Congress (before Indira Gandhi), on the other hand, swore by democracy and individual freedom. The reprehensible and immoral Congresswallahs have now suddenly found it expedient to become soul mates with their erstwhile ideological enemies. Does it matter that the Communist ideology is founded on principles which are diametrically opposite to the goddess-worshipping subservient culture of the new Congress party? I think not. They are poised, once again, to pull another stunt before unsuspecting illiterate Indian masses. Are there enough idiots who think that this unholy alliance could deliver cheap onions and bring about communal harmony in India? I hope not. The Congress still has many good men and women in its ranks, I am sure, but the party as a whole is completely corrupt and has bankrupted its rich legacy that brought about an independent and democratic India. I cannot fathom why in a nation so large, so historic and so endowed with great leaders of the past, the Congresswallahs of today cannot find one measly lifeline other than their god-like subservience to one dynastic family. I mean, how desperate could these descendants of Sardar Patel, Gandhi and Nehru have become that the very survival of the once revered party now rests solely on an Italian-born housewife who is clearly unaccustomed to Indian culture and life; reluctant to enter Indian politics in the first place; and practically zero in the administrative, business or any other professional field. It is a sad plight that the ignorant gullible masses may follow the deceit of an "onion" trail and yet again bring this bizarre group of corrupt sycophant to power in some of the states and even at the Centre. Could the rise of a Sonia Gandhi or the Congress's collusion with arch-enemy Jyoti Basu have occurred in a literate advanced democratic India? I think not. Tarun Seam
Date sent: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 06:11:59 +0530 It is the most disgusting piece of shit ever printed. T V R is a BJP chamcha. Let him keep this nonsense to himself and not inflict it on the public. He does not have even a facade of neutrality. Why is Rediff promoting people like him? The BJP doublespeak is okay, but other parties is not ok. It is ok for the BJP to break the nation in quest for its power, but the Congress stands pilliored for its corruption. At least, corruption allows your soul/spirit to remain intact. What the BJP has done will require centuries to undo. I hope Rediff keeps such rabble-rousers in the RSS and BJP and not allow them into your columns.
Date sent: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:41:36 -0800 Everything you wrote in this and the previous article sounds very true. As many people pointed it out, Sharma may not undergo any jail term. But one thing perplexes me. In all the articles/news items I read about this Sharma business, every writer/journalist said Romesh had/has connections and gave a list of (names of) politicians, businessmen and bureaucrats, but just mentioned "some journalists". Why WEREN'T the journalists/column writers named anywhere or what their part in the whole deal was?? It's 'freedom of press' as long as we throw mud at politicians (I don't see anything wrong with that), but when it comes to colleagues "He had connections with well known journalists" It's just like one politician protecting other one (to whatever party he belongs) when some shady deal comes out. It makes me feel that (most) journalists belongs to the same category as politicians/ bureaucrats -- use a given situation to THEIR advantage/gain. Anil R
Date sent: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 18:38:17 +0100 Romesh Sharma is the true tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru? Kailash Srivastava
Date sent: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:28:01 -0800 Great investigative and thinking work, keep it up, Shenoy! Biswajit
Date sent: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 18:21:49 +0530 The politicians naturally come into contact with all kinds of people in all walks of life every day in India. They have no way of knowing about all the people. If some big businessman invites a politician for some wedding or something the politician has every right to attend or not to attend. If he attended and later on it was found that the businessman is corrupt, is it right for anyone to conclude that the politician is also automatically corrupt? We must be more rational in judging the politicians or anyone in such matters. We must give time for the investigative authorities to dig the truth out and then only praise and condemn people. Mr Shenoy, you must bring this point up and avoid media trials and hysteric people trials because it requires cool and hard work for the truth to come out. Sankar-Rao Mopidevi
Date sent: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:43:05 -0500
From: "vprabhu" I greatly appreciate your article. However, I wonder if we cannot trust our prime ministers, leave alone so-called civil servants, what future do we have? What is achieved by blasting a bomb or buying F-16s or mending forces with US or Pakistan when we have unscrupulous enemies of the nation within ourselves occupying highest political positions? Maybe it is time for Lord Krishna to take his avatar once again and save the common man from this evil. Vishwanath Prabhu, MD
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