I agree with Jayesh Patel and Ramesh Jhalla’s comments eloquently expressed in last week’s AV regarding one sided, anti-Hindu sentiments expressed time and again by Jubel, sometimes his letters occupying pride of place in Readers’ Voice page. (RVP) Although variety is spice of RVP, his habit of being economical with truth in pursuit of anti-Hindu agenda somewhat devalues his intellectual sincerity.
His latest letter “Gauri Lankesh” is no exception. Gauri was brutally murdered by unidentified assailants in her own home in Bangalore, Karnataka, State ruled not by BJP but Jubel’s favourite politically dynastic Congress. Gauri’s confrontational, blatant, firebrand style made many enemies right across political and religious divide. She split up with her husband and recently from her long-time college friend Prakash Belawadi after he joined BJP Media Team.
Heterogeneous Gauri used to run family established, Kannada language weekly tabloid “Lankesh Patrike” in association with her brother. They recently split-up under acrimonious circumstances, Gauri, a political huckster, started her own tabloid, “Gauri Lankesh Patrike”. As paper did not accept advertisement, financial mainstay of practically every newspaper, one may wonder how she managed to balance books.
In the latest development SIT has questioned her brother and two Naxal leaders. So Jubel’s assumption of involvement of religious extremists, wanton blame is out of ignorance. If fiduciary Jubel feels India is ruled by goons, then he should try living in ethnically cleansed neighbouring States. It is particularly unpatriotic to criticise one’s motherland in “Foreign Press!”
In November 2016, lustre Gauri was convicted of criminal defamation over an article published in 2008 and attracted six-month jail sentence along with hefty fine. But she does not deserve such brutal end. Let us hope truth will prevail and guilty appropriately punished.
Bhupendra M. Gandhi
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