There is a culture in this country of committing a crime of stereotyped nature, evading the subject entirely and diverting attention to something else as though the crime never happened (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Feb 17). The Congress had mastered this culture, as did the BJP in a smaller way but on a huge scale by the Sangh parivar in the last 62 years. Now even the Samajwadi Party has got into it. Overturning this culture will take an enormous amount of time and effort. aap did show some promise, but alas....
Anis Mohiuddin, Calcutta
I am neither Hindu nor Muslim. Yet I want to ask this: 254 Hindus too were killed in the Gujarat riots. How is that a magazine like Outlook, which claims to be unbiased, doesn’t have a word about them. Their sufferings and their anger goes unnoticed and is silenced by the media.
Molly Sauraxa, on e-mail
Lies, lies, and more lies...does this nonsense still have a market? Or is it sponsored?
Madhukam Nikam, Hyderabad
Your cover story is a lot more than the book extract it claims to be. It betrays the writer’s bias against Modi and blames the SIT for not hanging Modi anyhow. You seem to forget that the SIT’s brief was to examine the events and come to a reasonable conclusion based on facts. It was not charged with writing a report on who said what and why. You seem very disappointed that Modi was not framed by the SIT. Thank heavens for the objectivity of the Supreme Court and the SIT in this case.
Sekari Vaidy, Chennai
Your cover story voices the angst of many at the way legalities have been arranged to benefit Modi. Though ‘exonerated’, Modi still has to answer his conscience a la Macbeth: “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
Vijai Pant, Hempur
Manoj Mitta seems to be the latest inductee in the endless list of Modi-baiters. Perhaps he authored the book with inputs from the perjury-prone Teesta Setalvad.
M.A. Raipet, Secunderabad
After going through the entire 12-page cover story, I find it worth my while to continue with my subscription of Outlook than purchase the “fiction of fact-finding”. It’s said that time tests truth. So will the case be with Modi, the PM probable of 2014.
A.S. Raj, Bangalore
What could be the alleged deferred payment for Raghavan—a governorship or Rajya Sabha seat? No need to speculate. We’ll know soon enough if the NDA comes to power.
Kishore Dasmunshi, Calcutta
But for the SIT and Raghavan, Modi would have been behind bars. He is sure to get a plum post along with the other SIT officers once the BJP comes to power. Raghavan was indicted by the Verma commission that probed the Rajiv assassination for misrepresenting facts. He must stop writing about ethics in police and public service in the media at once.
Nasar Ahmed, Karikkudi
I am feeling really sorry for Outlook. A decade of propaganda has fallen flat on its face...but still everybody is wrong: Modi, Amit Shah, the courts, SIT, five million Gujaratis.
Vaibhav Shrivastava, Calcutta
You commies never accept facts and evidence, do you? You want to write your own history and narrative and live inside that. Good luck.
Ravi Jain, Hyderabad
In view of Outlook’s anti-Modi stand, it was least surprising that it chose this book to make a cover story out of so close to the general elections. No leader in India has survived as extensive, as vicious and as persistent a hate campaign launched collectively by ‘secular’ politicians, media, intelligentsia and social activists.
M.C. Joshi, Lucknow
It’s all very well to compare Modi with Hitler, but how come a Supreme Court-appointed SIT was never constituted to investigate the role and intentions of another national leader during the time of two major riots—the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 and the Bhagalpur riots of 1989, both of which took place before two general elections in the country? About 2,700 people were killed in the Delhi riots and 1,180 in Bhagalpur, according to police records.
Ashima Goel, Hisar
A ‘whine’ book for Rs 599. I pity the guys who buy it.
Rakhal Chandra Ghosh, Tomball, US
