Originally posted by: vidya0906
Times Of India once again proves it's TOILET😡😡😡
Ashamed to see the entire front page and extra 4 pages shouting headlines of defamed Yakub hanging😡 and an obscure tiny space on page 15 given to President Kalam's cremation today at Rameswaram 😔
Have we reached the pinnacle of nihilism of all values? It's a sad reality that the so called media propagates sensationalist articles versus those events which reflect true reality...honoring a true Bharat Ratna is not sensational enough for them😡 Truly Sad. The criterion seems to be "number of eyeballs attracted" as opposed to "honoring an honest contributor" 😕
The various news channels are behaving as if some national hero has gone..the way they are giving a blow by blow account 😡🤢 Justice has been served, move on for godsakes!!!!! Now please switch over to the man who actually deserves news time - Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam _/\_
I never had much respect for TOIlet Paper of India from the very beginning. It was almost a Congress Party mouthpiece for the longest time and has always had an anti-Hindu slant (also the case with 'The Hindu' which is generally called 'The Anti-Hindu').
What were the 'eminent' retired justices and advocates and other jokers (Ram Jethmalani, Mani Shankar Iyer, Mahesh Bhatt) doing for all these years if they felt an injustice was done to YM? How did their hearts suddenly start bleeding for him? Have they shed a single tear for the 257 dead and 716 injured by the bomb blasts? Do they not know that contrary to the recent propaganda, YM did NOT surrender?
This poor innocent chap was absconding since the bomb blasts along with his family and was under the protection of ISI. He was caught in Kathmandu and extradited to India - so much for the myth of his 'surrender'.
Why the death penalty of some others was commuted and not his is not a question these retired justices and advocates should be asking the President - they should stand in front of a mirror and ask themselves. Why his dealth sentence was carried out and not that of Rajiv Gandhi's or Beant Singh's killers? Does it matter? It's like asking the policeman why you are ticketing me for speeding and not the other guys who are going even faster? The answer to both the questions is the same: Are you at fault? Then face the punishment you have been given.
To those who ask when others involved in rioting (1984 anti-sikh riots, 2002 Godhra train burning, 2002 post-Godhra riots etc) will get punished - let the wheels of justice turn. We did wait for 22 years for YM to hang, after all.
The signatories to the petition include some usual suspects: Anand Patwardhan, a 'secular' Marathi filmmaker, Mahesh Bhatt & Ram Jathmalani - 2 senile contrarians (they always take a view against popular opinion), the usual commie brigade etc. But why have a bunch of NGO officebearers who work in the area of women's education/ emancipation signed the petition? YM's petition has nothing to do with their area of interest/ expertise.
I am quite disappointed that noted Marathi writer Vineeta Bal, filmmaker Sandhya Gokhale (of 'We are on - houn jau dya' notoriety), women's rights activists Sujata Gothoskar, Manisha Gupte and economist/ journalist Anant Phadke signed this petition. What were they thinking?
I almost expect the usual 'secular' troublemakers like Rev John Dayal, writer Dinesh D'souza etc to be among the signatories, but I wish the petitioners had written even a single sentence about the enormity of the crime to which YM was a party.
The petition quotes late B. Raman, (the RAW operative who oversaw the arrest of YM) whose article questioning the wisdom of the death sentence to YM was released to the press by his brother just last week. But it fails to note that Mr B. Raman has unequivocally stated that for his role in the Mumbai blasts and his actions until his arrest, YM fully deserves the death penalty. He goes on to say that since YM gave important testimony incriminating his brother and exposing the conspiracy, his post-arrest behaviour deserves a more lenient sentence (i.e. life imprisonment).
Going by the chest-beating in the press over the last few days, a person unfamiliar with the case would feel that YM was a genuine Bharat Ratna who was wrongly hanged!
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