Media in collusion with the IB in war on terrorism
by Mustafa Khan
Ex nihilo nihili fit is an old saying of which the Intelligence Bureau seems to be ignorant of. It has fed successive Prime Ministers and their Home Ministers with canards. What you sow you reap. The mainstream media has been the bedfellow which has given mutual gratification. The investigation into the bomb incidents of Malegaon (2006) and Samjhauta express (2007) have reached a blind alley because of the deliberate design foisted on the public by the IB and the media. The hype created by the two incidents and many others like them have succeeded in keeping the people on the tenterhook of taking in what is coming in the garb of the 'breaking news' so much so that that have been taken in by weltanschauung of jihadi terrorism.
For the same reason the startling news from Kannad near Aurangabad has gone under the carpet of the mainstream media. On January 10, 2010 ex serviceman Gulab Rao Ram Rao Sonowne went out brandishing sword in his hand. When some panicked citizen informed the police, they overwhelmed him. Then searched his house and found two live bombs and swords. In a bizarre coincidence this seizure happens when the town is getting ready for a Jamat -e- Islami convention scheduled for 17 of the month. What can anyone infer from this? What the laity like the uninformed jury would infer does not matter for the media and the IB because their syllogism is already predetermined. This, despite the fact that the bombs were kept in a box containing a paper in Urdu. Why the bomb makers should be enamoured of the Urdu language in places like Kannad and Margao in Goa is the continuing puzzle.
Such puzzles have so much bedeviled the government that there is need for what Shashi Tharoor calls demystifying the government. Perhaps another twitter is on the way. A part of the mystification you can understand from Vijay Tendurkar's play Ghasiram Kotwal. The chitpawan Brahmins (the ilks of Nathuram Godse and Savarkars) in his play make a beeline to the mansions of the Muslim concubines while the Maratha sardars visit the Brahmin houses in the dead of the night. They observe such a code of maintaining silence that this kind of communal prostitution passes on as if no one has heard, seen or known it. But then comes the Brahmin from Benares, Ghasiram. Comparisons are odious. But does it strike someone that Hemant Karkare also playacted a wonderful role of this persona, albeit in real life?
The wall of hush hush created by Marathi language is a monumental contribution. Such a real wall must have also outraged Vijay Tndulkar so extremely that he wanted a gun to go and kill Narendra Modi. The acquittal of Moulana Naseerudin and twenty one others by the court in Ahemdabad on January 12, 2010 after their imprisonment for six years on terrorism charges, is also an instance of the hide and seek the IB and the mainstream media play. Thus the saga of suffering in the name of 'nothing comes out of nothing' goes on, as the IB and the media gratify each other while the Neros of the time fiddle.
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