Salman analyses the difference between Thackeray and Modi- while Thackeray, according to him, hates Muslims for just being Muslims, Modi hates them for being a hindrance to progress:

Gujaratis are more concerned about making money rather than anything else, Muslims spoil the show by clamouring about reservations.What was the result of this drama? Modi won and thus Gujarat saw an unprecedented growth. Or did Modi work so hard to convince the people and justify the risk that he took by endorsing the pogrom? I don’t deny this but chances are rare.And so I conclude the differences between Modi and Thackrey. Modi’s vision of a great state has earned him laurels from all sections of the society. The butchered Muslims, who cares!, they were anyway a burden on the society.

Manish, in a way, answers Salman:

I only have a peripheral interest in the politics of the nation these days! Am happy selling soaps, shampoos and other ordinary artifacts of/ around daily life!

I pay the taxes on time, plan my holidays with cheap airlines and dote on my 4 year old son. Feel proud of being an Indian these days and admire lovingly the sensex’s meteoric rise to 20K!!

But right here, in the most visible corner of our country and the backyard of our collective conscience, about 5 years back an organised genocide happened. Hundreds of innocent Muslims were killed after a train carrying Hindu pilgrims was burnt down. [...]

I was tempted to forget and go back to my job, my blog and my family, but history will never forget or forgive any of us if we forget…

Kalki tries to find answers to the silence:

One would have thought that after such an expose the nation would have come to a standstill. I wouldn’t have been surprised had the media and the BJP’s rivals rake up this issue in every street corner. You would even expect Parliament to witness noisy scenes, disruptions and adjournments as a fall out of the expose.

But no!! It is not to be.

Girish Nikam is hopeful:

Now the question uppermost in the minds of all horror-stuck readers and viewers of “Operation Kalank” and Tehelka, is, will this expose which has established beyond doubt the complicity of Modi in the planned genocide of muslims in Gujarat, make him a hero all over again and find him back in the Chief Minister’s seat in December? Having witnessed the kind of poison, which has crept into the veins of Gujarat’s Hindus, one tends to feel that the fears of Congressmen are not altogether unjustified. But as someone who believes in the essential goodness of human race, one hopes that the Gujaratis will atleast now stand up and remind themselves that they gave this world the greatest apostle of peace, not one of the most cynical and diabolic slaughterers in the name of religion.

Bhaskar puts it succinctly:

The burning of the Hindu activists on the train was gruesome. But these jokers, including Modi, did not have the balls to acknowledge that their intelligence had failed. The political and police machinery did not have the courage to accept their responsibility for the massacre of innocent men, women and children. Instead, these bu**ers instigated the others who call themselves the Ball-less Rang Dal & Vasectomized Humanoids Personified and tried to push the blame on the hapless Muslims living in the state.

Such ball-less bu**ery needs to be stopped immediately and the perpetrators of the false revenge brought to the books.

‘Once a day’, Nisha Susan thinks of ‘emigrating’:

This is all ridiculously deja vu too in a way. You know the moment political consciousness arrives? (Yes, yes it leaves too but remember when it arrived?) I was 20, the Staines murder had shaken me. I have never had faith, never had religion, can barely remember that I am Christian, have in fact referred to myself absent-mindedly as Hindu several times…but right then, dosed on Holocaust literature as I was… I was convinced that my family and I would be lined up and killed. My friends and I ran a little campus newspaper called Enthupataki (dont ask) which we used to sell for a rupee. I wrote a grim little piece in it. A day later one of my teachers dragged me off to a seminar on communalism. I was very reluctant since all the lectures I had ever been to until then had made me cry from boredom. This one too was mindlessly dull with white-haired old men droning on. Then Teesta Setelvad came on stage. She spoke and I was electrified. She listed incident after incident, had statistics at the tip of her fingers, told sardonic, chilling anecdotes about Thackeray. On the way back to college I nearly blacked out in the car.

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