Advantage Modi 6-2015 23 Jan 2015
Main Chup Rahoonga Starring “Narendra
Modi”
This is seriously worrying. Too many
voices were silenced recently. And our voluble Prime Minister said nothing.
Yes, he did condemn the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris and tweeted about it.
But closer home, when Perumal Murugan, a highly respected scholar from Tamil
Nadu, was forced by rightwing extremists to declare his own death as a writer
and flee, there was no official response from Narendra Modi or his team. The
reason behind the PM’s stony silence is naturally being attributed to what we
in India call ‘vote bank politics”. It is being said he didn’t condemn the
killings in France too vociferously for fear of antagonizing the clerics back
home. And he stayed mum about Murugan to appease those who play caste politics
in a state where his party has no real presence.
Producer
& Director Shobha De TOI 18 Jan 2015
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