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Zubair Ahmed's avatar

thanks for Mirror/ Far from plying the role of a conscience keeper, the media has unleashed tropes that justify the marginalization of Muslims, or connive at it. True that Modi and his party have always been experts at communal polarization. But prior to 2014, the media was always there to report on such polarization, call it out as wrong, and fight it where necessary. In contrast, today it uses any and every means to legitimize such marginalization, and if that fails, to brush it away as something all political parties do./ Not necessary to quote Kasgunj.much appreciated as I am in twitter's Jail,my 'Rights' to respond to your tweets are suspended.

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Vinod's avatar

Wow! In this riveting essay @sonaliranade rips apart SG with her eloquence in a candor manner, with an attitude and gravitas! An invigorating example of what happens when astute, inquisitive minds engage on deep questions. Astutely diagnoses our nation’s greatest malady. Brilliant!

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Umasharma's avatar

Every Indian shoul go through this article to know about the fraud pm modi

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Ranjan Sapra's avatar

The forensic dismantling of SG. Brilliant

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Tabasco Sauce's avatar

Correct this typo, too noticeable: Indians note against bad governance; not for a person, party or Government

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Digvijaya Singh's avatar

Excellent rejoinder to Shekhar. Now Shekhar must post it on his portal and answer issues of good journalism raised by Sonali. Digvijaya

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Murugavel's avatar

The BJP is doing an extraordinary thing. more than showing its true colours It is exposing so called neutral people who are actually not.

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Haneef's avatar

Excellent madam. SG should publish this in ThaPrint, even if 1% of journalism left in him.

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Abhinav Bhatnagar's avatar

Very well said and thank you for saying that it is the Media, SG and his ilk that must do their duty first. As a saint said, 'Bura jo dekhn main chalaya, bura na milya koi.... ' . The rot is in the media, especially, small town hindi news papers, Gujrati papers, etc. That is why youth is ignoring SG.

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Ashok's avatar

Always educative to read your columns and tweets, Madam.

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Jagdeep Singh's avatar

True.... Every pillar of democracy is hit and the worst is the media .....

SG and his likes have hurt the very soul of Media by crawling when asked to bend

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John doe's avatar

A decade is coming to an end!.Hopefully a time comes when bjp ,congress ,regional parties all look safe and focus on economy and growth

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Ranjan Sapra's avatar

Sonali, brilliant fare as usual. One day we have to shake off this yoke.

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Santosh Anand's avatar

Brilliant piece of writing and correlating with your last essay, whoever she may be, there is no escape in rebirth... there has to be a payback!

All poetic justice!

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Narender Bhardwaj Advocate's avatar

Solid rebuttal...

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