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Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
Ms. Anatara Baruah, just like Ms. Jyoti Yadav, has been under the tutelage of Mr. Shekhar Gupta and has turned out to be a perfectly “secular” journalist.
Just like Ms. Yadav, she too has very carefully crafted the article so as to brush under the carpet the brazenly communal nature of the heinous crimes committed. The story has been “secularised” and presented as if it’s just another grooming gang story – an approach taken by Mr. Shekhar Gupta too on his CTC episode.
No mention of the religious angle of the crime has been made. Facts of the case, most certainly known to both Ms. Yadav and Ms. Baruah, were deliberately suppressed which would make it appear like a “secular” crime.
Kudos to Mr. Shekhar Gupta for mentoring such “secular” journalists.
Ms. Anatara Baruah, just like Ms. Jyoti Yadav, has been under the tutelage of Mr. Shekhar Gupta and has turned out to be a perfectly “secular” journalist.
Just like Ms. Yadav, she too has very carefully crafted the article so as to brush under the carpet the brazenly communal nature of the heinous crimes committed. The story has been “secularised” and presented as if it’s just another grooming gang story – an approach taken by Mr. Shekhar Gupta too on his CTC episode.
No mention of the religious angle of the crime has been made. Facts of the case, most certainly known to both Ms. Yadav and Ms. Baruah, were deliberately suppressed which would make it appear like a “secular” crime.
Kudos to Mr. Shekhar Gupta for mentoring such “secular” journalists.