What do you call someone who says- Clinton has outgrown Lewinsky therefore Gujarat has outgrown the pogrom? A ‘half-crazed killer’ or a ‘braggart’?

In a hardhitting post, Amrit asks all the apologists for the BJP in the media- Why should we move on?

The problem with the right-wing media in India is that it is always trying to sweep things under the carpet. Why can’t they accept that whatever happened in Gujarat was inhumanly terrible and somewhere the blame lies with Narendra Modi and his henchmen? Just because he is improving the economy of the state doesn’t mean that his crimes should be ignored; it doesn’t mean that the country should move on. If we started moving on, then every five or ten-year-old crime will be pardoned. Going with this logic why should Sunjay Dutt then be sent to jail? No, neither Hindus nor Muslims of Gujarat should move on until the perpetrators are punished. We will move on when the guilty are punished.

Ameerudhin salutes Tehelka:

Reams of papers have been written about the mass killings. Numerous TV shows have dwelled on the ’safety of Muslims in Modi’s Gujarat’. But nobody has succeeded in getting the sound bytes straight from the horse’s mouth.

Hats off to Tehelka, and Ashish.

Aditya directs us to what else is being violated…

And what about free speech? The governments decision to ban all the TV channels that showed the news clip is now a rider to the free speech clause in the Constitution. Hah! gone are the days when Article 19 1(a) was the ultimate sword for the press. If my readers are interested, I’d request you to read Express Newspapers v. Union of India; an amazing case that exposed the link between Gov action and free speech in 1985 and the Delhi riots.

…apart from justice- he quotes Camus:

And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don’t want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.

Prabhu Guptara opines that it is upto the courts now:

It is clear that the political system in India is entirely incapable of dealing with the situation, as the political parties have their eyes firmly fixed on the elections and will not take any action that may jeopardise their chances of being elected.

An Idea Called India feels:

I think it is important for these stories to be told. And for all of us to read them. We may not be able to understand what drives men to such brutalilty. We may not be able to understand what justification one man can give for burning another in cold blood or for raping women and killing children. But we must be aware that such things happen. We must force ourselves to face this uglyness if ever we are to purge it. May god be with the the victims. We the people of this country have let you down. I will try to do at least the little I can to prevent this from happening again.

Googasur goes back to the riots that followed Jinnah’s call for ‘Direct Action’ in Calcutta and how the British Government exhibited ‘restraint’ all through the killings, to the riots that followed Indira Gandhi’s assasination in Delhi and how Rajiv Gandhi shrugged them off with similar restraint and his ‘let-them-eat-cake’ one liner- ‘When a big tree falls, the earth is bound to shake’. And comes back to Gujarat and concludes- we’re like hyenas:

I think it is the psychology of victims and cowards. Riots, arsons, mob-killing are our opportunity to get out of this overwhelming truth, our repressed Identity. A bunch of non-achievers, losers that we are, our only way to taste the win is by being part of anonymous, almost histrionic, celebration of aggression. It helps us to lose our Identity and feel like winners. We should enshrine this deliberate act of humanity, the best bakery, the charred houses, shops so that as Tarun Tejpal wrote in his editorial, we as a nation do not forget our coward bestiality and hopefully not repeat.

Rehan Ansari examines the rot, so vividly highlighted by the Tehelka sting, spreading across all our institutions- the bureaucracy, the legal community, the political parties and asks- Why congress does not file the case when Mr.Abhishek Singhvi himself admitted in the talk show that these tapes can be used as legal evidence?

It also clarifys that the Hindutva presented by the RSS, BJP, VHP, Bajrang Dal is different or in fact contradictory to the Hinduism. The true Hindu and they are in Majority, will never support Schism in Gujarat and will term it a slap on Hinduism. In fact No sane human being will ever support the butchering of pregnant women, burning of Children and slaughtering of innocent human being. All these were the reaction of the misguided masses but what is more brutal, ruthless and inhuman was the attitude of white color criminals like, the Police who allegedly murdered the Indian citizens just because of their religious affiliation, the Lawyers, who managed the court cases in favor of the Criminals, the Politicians who instigated religious sentiment, polarized the society to get elected and remain in the power.

BVN too is unimpressed with the Congress:

Now, we have this Chief Minister who led a genocide. He is running again. If the Indian republic is so marinated in impotency sauce, any Chief Minister can be a Modi. What is the world’s next Super power gonna do about it?

Manish asks: Will public shame at last force India to move these murderers from government house to jailhouse?

John Mathew posts an appeal from Citizens for Peace.

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