Wednesday, July 2, 2008

India under threat of Islamization


Few days back along with one of my friend and national convener of new emerging political formation Yuva Dal (Youth party)Vinay Kumar Singh I visited diamond harbor jail in west Bengal situated some more than hundred miles away from holy Hindu pilgrim place called Gangasagar. Occasion and motive of our visit was obvious as we have to meet leader of Hindu Samhati Tapan Ghosh who had been put behind bars under some non-bailable offence after a communally charged Muslim mob attacked workshop of Hindu Smahati on 12th of June in Gangasagar. Our visit has journalistic motivation rather than any political. After this attack lot of versions came out in various articles in several websites but this incident had no coverage in so called mainstream media. After visiting West Bengal and meeting to workers of Hindu Samhati along with jail officials and local journalist it was quite clear why this incident did not has any coverage in mainstream media. First it was very normal incident which happened and in some way it was below normal because it had no causality and according to people of that state which is ruled by communists for more than decades and decades with its identity of political blood shedding rather than development or industrialization witness attack on political opponents of communists on regular basis and because of zero causality in the incident of 12 June in no way was a news for newspapers in West Bengal. So called national media or mainstream media refrained from giving coverage to this incident with fear of antagonizing establishment and government in centre, if they had to take cognizance of this incident they have to recognize the feud between Hindus and Muslims which aggravates the debate on communal status of the state so mainstream media adopted the middle path not to engage itself in the debate of relationship of Hindu and Muslims in West Bengal. But thanks to evolution of alternate media in the form of several websites and groups on various domains that ignite this debate and exchanged information between them.

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