This isn’t an obituary of Manoj Kumar. It's about the influence he had in defining patriotism for two generations of Indians across our most perilous decade, say from 1962 until the run-up to the Emergency.
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Good write-up, but you conveniently forgo to mention Kranti, a film Manoj made against British occupation in which Indians as one nation fought together against the British rule – may be you do not want to remember the contribution of Muslims to freedom struggle, but Manoj Kumar did glorify it in the tremendous hit Kranti.
For Mr. Shekhar Gupta, the death of Manoj Kumar is more important than addressing the WBSSC teacher’s appointment scam.
Despite the Supreme Court going hammer and tongs at the Mamata administration, The Print and it’s founder have opted to remain silent on the issue.
However, they were not silent when the Calcutta High Court had passed the judgement. They were rather aggrieved and put out an editorial piece criticising the order. Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the Calcutta High Court order and therefore validated every single action of the venerable Justice (Retd) Abhijit Ganguly, The Print does not have the courage to admit it’s mistakes.
Shekhar Gupta, instead of doing a CTC on the scam and the Supreme Court judgement, has decided to focus on Manoj Kumar.
Un-hyphenated journalism at it’s finest.
Good write-up, but you conveniently forgo to mention Kranti, a film Manoj made against British occupation in which Indians as one nation fought together against the British rule – may be you do not want to remember the contribution of Muslims to freedom struggle, but Manoj Kumar did glorify it in the tremendous hit Kranti.
For Mr. Shekhar Gupta, the death of Manoj Kumar is more important than addressing the WBSSC teacher’s appointment scam.
Despite the Supreme Court going hammer and tongs at the Mamata administration, The Print and it’s founder have opted to remain silent on the issue.
However, they were not silent when the Calcutta High Court had passed the judgement. They were rather aggrieved and put out an editorial piece criticising the order. Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the Calcutta High Court order and therefore validated every single action of the venerable Justice (Retd) Abhijit Ganguly, The Print does not have the courage to admit it’s mistakes.
Shekhar Gupta, instead of doing a CTC on the scam and the Supreme Court judgement, has decided to focus on Manoj Kumar.
Un-hyphenated journalism at it’s finest.