Times of India (TOI) has done it again.
On the eve of the World Cup Semi Final between India and Pakistan, when the Prime Ministers of both countries met at Mohali, a young India soldier nabbed a Pakistani spy (a driver working with the Pakistan High Commission), who was trying to fish out military information from the soldier by offering him money.
The soldier obviously deserves a pat on his back for getting the spy caught, and fully justifies a news article in the national daily about his heroics. But, he surely doesn't deserve the kind of title and write up what TOI has published about the entire episode.
More than focusing on his heroics, TOI instead has put a focus on him being a Muslim, and that too from J&K. What is the need to go deep into his religion and the area he belongs? He is an Indian. An Indian Army Soldier.. Period.
We are a democracy where all religions stay together - the idea of India. Why do we need to justify or give a message to our neighbors by writing about heroics in the Indian army who are Muslim and from Kashmir?
Honestly, with the kind of patriotism a soldier bleeds, this young man would have been more proud to be called an Indian, instead of being called a Muslim Kashmiri. By giving him the identity of being a Muslim Kashmiri, we are just separating him from the rest of Indians.
TOI - grow up!
Sidharth Mehta
from the Emirate of Abu Dhabi - UAE
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seriously dude, i never had respect for TOI save for few journalists(swami, jug, swapnil). What can be expected of them when half their websites immured wd sex, scandal and what not.
ReplyDeleteExactly.."Grow up TOI"..We are a secular nation so as to say..All religions co-exist with enough tolerance and respect for each other (at least on papers)..then why so much emphasis on the religion that identifies a person than what he really does??
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