Selective Amnesia

“Confirmed: Sabarimala was desecrated 19 years back”

In what I first thought was a spoof, The Indian Express writes about the Sabarimalai temple “desecrated”. Words like “shameful incident” and “sordid” “faxed a letter to god” seriously kept me thinking that the whole thing was just a spoof. Right till the end. I had a good laugh. And then I read this story by Deccan herald that backed up IExpress.

One incident (and a 19 year old incident at that), 2 newspapers and 2 very different points of view. But the reporter for Indian Express has to be congratulated. He must be a fine journalist for he gave me a lot of things to think about. (Neutrality of the press being one of them)

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