MESSAGE BOARD
NEWSLINKS
US EDITION
COLUMNISTS
DIARY
SPECIALS
INTERVIEWS
CAPITAL BUZZ
REDIFF POLL
DEAR REDIFF
THE STATES
YEH HAI INDIA!
ELECTION 99
ELECTIONS
ARCHIVES

Search Rediff

E-mail from readers the world over

'The government should hang itself in shame!'

Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000, 03:19:58EST
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

I am ashamed to be an Indian. Where every journalist can get interviews from these criminals and seem to be aware of their activities, the Indian government cannot arrest or kill these people. The government should hang itself in shame!

Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000, 08:47:47EST +0100
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

A classic investigative report!

Ketan Tirodkar

Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000, 15:59:09EST +0530
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

Wow! Keep it up!

Lambas

Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000, 20:50:17EST +0530
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

How can a don be called `patriotic'?

Anis ul Rehman

Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000, 20:04:17EST +0530
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

How can you publish such an interview and glorify a criminal?

Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000, 14:54:37EST +0530
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

Is it true that Chhota Shakeel chatted with you or mailed you? I find it difficult to believe so.

Yogesh R Thakur

Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000, 00:13:13EST -0700
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

You should also interview Arun Gawli and learn of his future plans.

Rediff lover

Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000, 13:11:59EST -0700
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

The interview is nothing more than a publicity stunt by Rediff>.

Ravindran Nambiar

Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000, 17:40:28EST -0500
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

I was surprised to hear the news from your site. Anyway, this is a good lesson to people who follow the path of destruction. People like him will die such violent deaths.

I am impressed by the interview. My compliments to the interviewer.

Srinivas

Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000, 16:02:21EST -0700
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

The interview sounds very immoral. You have interviewed this criminal as if he is any other citizen of India and have let him talk freely. This was irresponsible on your part.

Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000, 19:27:04EST -0400
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

That was a good interview. What caught my attention is the audacity with which he says that his group had sent 10 people from Mumbai with weapons to Bangkok. Is our security so lax that a person can take weapons out of the country so easily and also openly claim in the press that he has done so? And if they can take weapons out of the country, does it not mean that they can bring weapons into the country too?

Ravi

Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000, 07:18:51EST +0530
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

So Rediff has now started giving space for the views of criminals and murderers. Is this how a reputed media service like yours should nurture democracy and society?

R K Venkatesh

Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000, 19:33:24EST -0700
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

Being an Indian site and an Indian journalist, why did you choose to interview a Pakistani? I am enraged after reading this interview. These criminals deserve to be killed.

Srekanth Babu

Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000, 08:26:29EST +0530
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

When journalists can zero in on these criminals, why can't the police arrest them and bring them to justice? If your reporters can gather so much information, can't they give some to the police to help society?

Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000, 22:29:47EST -0500
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

I strongly disapprove the publishing of this interview. I do not think criminals, like the one who is interviewed here, deserve the kind of media attention and publicity they are getting. You may have had the chance to interview Chhota Shakeel exclusively. But in the process of sensationalising the issue, you have overlooked the fact that you are providing criminals with the coverage they need to spread terror.

Srujan

Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000, 09:03:39EST +0530
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

Good interview!

Shashi Mijar

Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000, 09:22:23EST +0530
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

It is time the Indian state or anybody patriotic enough killed these guys!

N Takley

Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000, 05:11:53EST +0100
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

It is very sad that we have come to a stage where we give publicity to these goons.

Kishori Mudaliar

Date: Sar, 16 Sep 2000, 05:14:16EST -0000
Subject: `We had not planned to kill him so easily'

I am pained to see that the media is hell bent on making these criminals heroes.

Yes, it was a good piece of investigative journalism, but at the same time the bad effect of all these publicity should make media rethink on their approach towards investigative journalism.

Rohit Singh

Earlier Mail