Modi Haters Naked

No interview of a Prime Minister is ever going to be perfect. And considering Narendra Modi doesn’t speak to media all that much it causes greater heartburn. It is also impossible to cover all the issues confronting India in an hour-long interview for any anchor. So when Arnab Goswami landed an interview with PM Modi for the first time on TV since the latter became PM it naturally became the talk of the whole country. It is not so much about Arnab but that people care to hear Modi speak. Whether the questions and responses of the PM were good, moderate or bad is something that depends on the menu of the person who watches it. So, we will safely leave that to the subjective views and opinions of individuals. What the interview did do is that it brought out thousands of idiots who still have no objectivity but limitless hatred for the PM. They have been unable to come to terms with the fact that this is a PM working at tremendous pace who has had more successes in a short period than his predecessors.

That in poll after poll Modi continues to remain a popular PM riles almost all these haters. Let’s look at some of the morons who responded to the interview and how their cup of hatred over-flowed. Where better to start than the Category5Moron (unfortunately I cannot assign a higher title to her):

Ahem! Sagarika is challenging Modi to hold a presser instead of favouring one individual. It doesn’t occur to this Goddess of Moronery that this individual is a senior colleague from her own Tabela called TOI. Leave that alone for a minute. This C5M has a problem with Arnab landing the chance to interview PM but not long ago she was begging for a “Sit-down” with her Street-thug, garbage of a journo called Rajdeep Sardesai:

So a Modi sit-down with Rajdeep would be TV Gold? Laughable idiocy! Modi did make Rajdeep sit-down on the bus-floor like a cleaner and made mince-meat of him in October 2012. Well, that is TV Gold for the C5M. These fools must now realise that their petty hatred has long dimissed their claim to be called journalists in any form. TOI naturally took her to task for her stupidity and forced her to delete her tweet on Arnab. For Sagarika, stupidity and lack of discretion is eternal. I have often called her the “Sergei Bubka of moronery”. She is likely to break her own record again. So let’s move to another chronic Modi-hater, the darling of Sagarika and Rajdeep. The camera-seeking-item-dancing Arvind Kejriwal (who chants Modi,Modi,Modi non-stop every day and night) who is India’s first and only National TwitterCM. Here:

This TwitterCM RTs his own tweet. Amazing! And he again calls Arnab a propagandist for Modi, like he did after an interview in April 2014. The TwitterCM forgets, of course, that he grandly tweeted his own appearance on an interview with Arnab on the same “Frankly speaking” show in 2013 over Delhi elections. Considering Kejri is an “Imandaar” CM as he grandly calls himself here is how he discourages propagandists:

That article in May 2016 in Fountain Ink exposes how AK courts media by appointing dozens of journalists to various govt bodies and institutions under Delhi Govt control. FountainInk is not accurate – I would call it “PURCHASE OF JOURNOS” for propagandising every foolisheness of AK as a grand accomplishment. And the names in the list of journos include some prominent bootlickers who frequently appear on TV shows or write columns in papers. Thus, Modi-hater AK has actually innovated new methods to PURCHASE journos and make them his slaves apart from bogus ads to various outlets. And they are rewarding him with 24X7 coverage of his lungi-dance. As with this pyschotic moron, the Congress couldn’t help being ahead of him:

Our journalists? Sometimes these losers don’t think before they speak. They still think they are in power and their slaves like Barkha, Shekhar, Rajdeep or Sagarika will cover up for them. It’s a bad goof-up that exposes the acute poverty of thought within the Congress. If their initial response was to poke holes into what the PM said or did not say, then that would have at least been passable criticism. No! They are stupidly poking holes at Arnab and his interview and claiming “our journos” merited asking questions. We all know what kind of scumbags the Congress had bred under inside their warehouse. It was one of my strongest reasons to start this blog itself to expose such crooks. Dumb as they are, the Congis even clarified that by “our” they meant entire nation:

Entire nation? And where was Arnab from? The hometown of their stupid boss RahulG in Jupiter? It is fascinating that fools tend to compound their own stupidity by clarifiying an unintended admission. That brings us to the biggest media AAPTards and Modi-haters in the league who let their envy of Arnab go to distastrous and distasteful lengths. Here are the scumbags of AajTak:

Individuals on SM trolling Modi or media is one thing, but a media house to publicly troll another media colleague and the PM with tasteless comments is truly unheard of. Even if they had criticised the interview with some points that could have passed. But no, this is raw hatred from AajTak that is pouring against Modi. And this cannot go un-noticed. Their nonsense was well caught by @ManicheJain who interacted with me on this and sent me info on how they begged him to delete his tweets:

You have humans behind machines? And the PM is what you morons – a machine parading as Modi? It is not just the channel that was pleading with him to delete his tweets but also individuals behind the nonsense who were trying to emotionally blackmail him into deleting:

Her job is at risk? It damn well be – sack the moron and sack every scumbag in IndiaToday group that believes that political hatred is passable in their jobs. These scumbags employed by AajTak also personally and professionally spew hatred against Modi? And Arnab is a Chamcha as AajTak claims? Have these Paid-Morons forgotten that Krantikari interview of AK by PP Bajpai. That wasn’t even an interview – it was an absolute SCAM! It is alarming that such shameless people are employed by news channels who exercise no discretion in venting their political frustrations and persuasions. They do have a right to their political preference but certainly not to the extent they start publicly pouring scorn on the PM and another media colleague. These are not common citizens who rant for one or other reason on SM. And this is not the first time from the garbage-can called India Today which has accumulated filth like Rajdeep, Karan Thapar etc. IT can pour filth on a BJP spokie in this fashion?

Thus, the Arnab-Modi interview, regardless of its contents, helped completely expose the pigheadedness of many media scoundrels who want the glory days of corruption of Congress back to profit from. This is where NaMo must strongly pull up Arun Jaitley too. Jaitley is publicly seen as the Durbari who patronises all these channels who pour mindless scorn on the PM and BJP ministers and members. Nobody has a problem even with harsh and invalid criticism. But to pour endless hatred and Jaitley still patronising channels like NDTV or India Today group will cost ModiSarkar heavily. As I&B minister he has done nothing to curb this nonsensical hatred. SM has exposed these Modi-haters naked over and over again. They are not going to change; ModiSarkar will have to.

Redemption For Fearless Cowards

Like any other ordinary Indian I am fond of movies. Some of the posts on this site have used movies as analogies or to demonstrate a situation. The best directors and screen writers tell a story amazingly well when the plot is simple or even if there is no plot at all. Something many of our media celebs would do well to learn. For once I will borrow from Nidhi Razdan, and we can look at the “larger picture”.

Aspiration and passion drive people. Passion drives them to live, to fight for justice, to fight for freedom, to power and to greed and corruption. Redemption comes in many different ways. History hangs on tiny chances. On the left is an iconic image of a man who has found liberation and redemption. Heavenly rains clean the shit off his body. At Shawshank everybody is “innocent”, they joke. Everyone, except ‘Red’! He sucks up to the parole board many times but is never allowed parole for a murder he committed as a stupid young teenager. Red had already served 20 years in prison when Andy Dufresne arrives; sentenced for murdering his wife and her lover. Andy is sentenced to two back to back life sentences for each murder (life sentence means “for life” in the US and not 14 years).

It’s a corrupt system, a corrupt prison and headed by an equally corrupt but religious warden who welcomes Andy and his honourable colleagues to prison: “Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank”. Sounds like someone in the news lately, doesn’t it? The ‘man-for-everything’, Red, is “institutionalised”; he grows to the idea of prison. The cold and aloof Andy is a problem-solving banker by profession. He helps the prison staff with their tax returns and saves them money. Being a banker he is also an expert in money laundering and he provides that service gladly to the warden. First Rita Hayworth and then Raquel Welch adorns Andy’s cell. Turns out Raquel revealed more than her sexy poster did. An incident that could have changed his life from prison brings out a profound message from Andy to Red: “Get busy living or get busy dying”. Watch an excerpt (6 mins):

 

The Shawshank Redemption is a movie about crime, innocence, friendship, human endurance and redemption. Andy Dufresne didn’t kill anyone; he was wrongly sentenced to prison. The one witness who can establish his innocence arrives at the prison and the warden kills him because that witness would mean the end of his money laundering. Dufresne finally escapes; with all of the 300 thousand dollars of the warden’s money he laundered. Some sort of severance pay for 19 years of wrongful imprisonment. The warden’s safe of loot is covered by a very profound religious quote about the lord: “His judgement cometh and that right soon”. Red finally gets a parole when he stops sucking up and tells the board he doesn’t give a damn. Both friends unite and live a free life in Mexico. The warden shoots himself when his corruptions and crimes are exposed by Andy. “Geology is a study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes, really. Pressure and time!”.   

Power and passion play a double hand. Power and corruption are also a study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes, really. Pressure and time! Ask Tarun Tejpal (TT) all about it. The ‘senior’ inmates at Shawshank had a practice of laying bets on the new inmates; on who will crack on the first night in prison. Red spots Andy as a “tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass” and places his bet on him to crack. Andy never cracked. At Tehelka some employees are coming out and probably saying “we were all just prisoners here of our own device”. TT may have won his bets in the past but this young 23-year old lady (V) didn’t crack. She stood up for herself and redemption for a “fearless” coward is at hand. Today TT hides in a hole but he’s not the only fearless coward around. If ordinary laymen like me could see the crimes of Tehelka since the first THINK in 2011 and their politically-motivated articles and stings; how is it that his fellow fearless cowards in the media couldn’t see it? Hammam?

There’s Hartosh Singh Bal who was associated with Tehelka at the resurrection in 2004. We shouldn’t forget that resurrection was on personal intervention of Sonia Gandhi. Bal tells Firstpost: “It didn’t last. As soon as funding issues starting cropping up, editorial compromises followed. What happened with my story in the media was in keeping with how events unfolded in the magazine once a fund crunch hit the organisation. I witnessed stories in other departments being killed after advertisers came and directly spoke to Tarun. And I had seen attempts made to slant political coverage not out of commitment to a certain set of values, but out of an obligation to a particular political party”. Any surprise why the Congis are very upset and will go all out to protect TT? They are behaving as if one of their own was caught in a sting operation. V only happens to be the latest but a courageous victim. What about others earlier?

There’s Sayeema Sahar, formerly of StarNews (now ABPNews). She claims to be sexually harassed by the bosses at StarNews (Avinash Pandey and Gautam Sharma). On protesting she was harassed and finally thrown out of the company it seems. Her complaints went unheard and even the “we-cry-for-all-women” NCW did not respond to her complaints. The NCW did nothing. Sahar is a Muslim woman but she hasn’t claimed being harassed because of that. Maybe she made a mistake. Maybe if she claimed she was harassed because she was a “woman and a Muslim” she would have got the attention of the NCW, the Congress, Minorities Commission, the AIMPLB, Digvijaya Singh, the Babri Committee, Teesta Setalvad, Barkha Dutt, Mulayam Singh, Nitish Kumar, Vrinda Grover and Javed “SAAB”. NOTHING! She was just thrown out and no one still wants to talk about it. I believe both Avinash Pandey and Gautam Sharma should be questioned by the NCW and the Police. Sayeema was pregnant when she was thrown out of the company after being harassed. (Read here, here, here, here).

Then there is another case at AAJTak. A letter from Rukmini Sen (read here) to Aroon Purie, the plagiarist-head of IndiaToday group, makes astonishing reading. She claims harassment but even as she is quitting her boss has odd questions on her reasons for leaving: “So Are you leaving this job for that man? Where does he live? Oh I know because you changed your FB status! Why are you in a long distance relationship? Will you marry him? Boyfriend waala maamla bekaar hai. Oh but I am sure you have many boyfriends. Which number is this one? Will you never get married? Live like this? with many”? I wonder if this boss wanted to discuss her resignation or write the story for some movie of a multiple-boyfriend heroine. Why don’t the grand pontificators of media like Rajdeep, Barkha, Swapan, Rahul Kanwal notice? What did they do about this? These editors are prisoners of their own selfish, greedy devices. Everybody is “innocent” at Shawshank. Let’s hear a sermon from Numero Uno Rajdeep Sardesai:

Imagine CNN-IBN without Rajdeep. Imagine TimesNow without Arnab. Almost every channel has promoted a personality cult rather than the news organisation. Yes, it is good to have stars but dangerous to allow them to grow so big that the organisation’s survival is put at stake with them. TT reflects the disease with most media outlets. NDTV’s credibility has been permanently damaged with Barkha Dutt’s Radiagate episode. Rajdeep is 3 years late. Here’s what I wrote when I responded to her self-righteous and shrill protests in her self-defence:

“Barkha is also extremely fortunate that NDTV has chosen to respond to this expose in her support. Does it mean the conversations Barkha was having with Nira Radia was approved by or in knowledge of NDTV? Any major organisation would have typically stated that the conversation Barkha was having was in her “individual and private” capacity. This is also a warning for all media channels not to have their brand names be so heavily associated with "personalities". A media channel needs to be bigger than personalities. Else, one flawed celebrity would be enough to bring the house down”.

Following the TT scandal everyone is now talking about the trail of Tehelka’s finances and the maze of its funding. Why now? Where were Indian Express, TOI, India Today and the latest FirstPost and many others hiding all this while? Even prominent columnists are now left in a quandary over their silence. The culture of vague and ambiguous writing must now come to an end. Honest journalism requires writing with names of offenders and not innuendos. The media is still shielding the former SC judge who has been recently accused of sexual harassment by two interns. Rajdeep did wonder why it takes outsiders to write our story (The Siege 26/11) but he doesn’t want to even talk or write about stuff that is so easily in front of him and doesn’t even need any great investigation or huge research. The extortion and blackmail tactics of Tehelka were visible since 2011 (and probably earlier). And how much cash has flowed into Tehelka from dubious sources is anybody’s guess. Take a look at the sponsors of KINK2013:

There’s BHEL, a PSU, there’s DLF whose chairman calls bribes as “payment for speeding up” service, there’s govt departments like Maharashtra and Kerala Tourism (in Goa??) There’s RIICO, the industry promotion organisation of Rajasthan. Every media celeb knew how Tejpal & Co. got their funds and how their severe loss-making magazine survived. It’s more like an under-hand “Ponzi scheme” without the promise of returns. Why would anyone believe that many other media houses are any different? Tehelka wasn’t paying salaries for months while the top management was enriching itself. Exceptional greed for power and wealth!

NDTV isn’t done with their “Hammam” behaviour. Shoma was their “darling” frequent flier on their panels and NDTV’s “victims” being part of Tejpal’s corruption-ridden THINK escapades. The filthy minds at NDTV pour nonsense into the public domain. Here’s a tweet by their ‘Social Network’ crap which discusses “Voyeurs” of the Aarushi & V case. I do not recall anyone slandering Aarushi or V on SM. If there is a stray moron it is probably from NDTV itself. After all, these are the poisonous channels that got psychologists on their panels to discuss the “sexual habits” of teens because 14-year old Aarushi was allegedly having an affair with the family’s domestic hand. How sick are these people? When Shoma resigned today, their “Ethics” head Sonia Singh tweets another silly message. Sonia doesn’t realise that people aren’t delighted at just about “someone” falling. They are delighted a corrupt bunch of people and a corrupt media house is falling. It doesn’t occur to her that TT, Shoma & Co. as a group enjoyed a perverted thrill at entrapping people with stings and then gleefully celebrating their fall. Till their last day they were plotting the fall of “one” man. Unfortunately for them, fate and justice exposed their slimy character. Bad luck for NDTV!

A word about the “The Shawshank Redemption”: As with injustice in life the movie was nominated for 7 Oscars but went without a single one. A lesser movie like ‘Forrest Gump’ won a few. Shawshank has touched people across the world so deeply that since its release in 1994 it has permanently remained in the Top-10 of many charts of popular movies with viewers. Even this week it remains the No.1 choice of best movie of all time with viewers on the IMDB list. Knowing his fate after being exposed, the warden at Shawshank kills himself. Red observes: “I'd like to think that the last thing that went through his head, other than that bullet, was to wonder how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him”. TT must be similarly wondering in his own literary style: “How the hell did a 23-year old chit of a girl get the better of a crook like me”. Tejpal isn’t the only one in trouble. The consciences of many others have been rattled too.

“Andy Dufresne crawled through a river of shit and came out clean”. V came out clean from the shit in the lifts at the Grand Hyatt. Tejpal and Shoma crawled through a different river of shit and didn’t come out clean. They ended up in an “ocean of shit’. Andy didn’t destroy just the warden; he destroyed the entire corrupt prison system. V didn’t destroy just Tejpal, Shoma or Tehelka; she has destroyed whatever credibility was left of the MSM. Many major media houses are a Shawshank with “prisoners of their own device” and corrupt wardens and innocent victims. It’s time the fearless cowards changed their ways.