Opinion - Letters to the Editor   

Nandigram challenge

The editorial “The challenge of Nandigram” (Nov. 12) stood out for its courage, clarity and purpose. While most of the mainstream media preferred to go with the tide, singing and dancing to the tune of the very perpetrators of the Nandigram tragedy, The Hindu took an ethical stand.

Had it not been for The Hindu, I would not have known that thousands of Left Front sympathisers were living in relief camps for months after fleeing the region following attacks on their families and livelihood by the Trinamool Congress-led BUPC; that the democratic institutions had not been allowed to function; that 15,000 children were prevented from taking pulse polio doses; that the Union Home Minister took over 15 days to send the CRPF; that there was no cause for violence after the West Bengal Chief Minister announced in February that there would be no chemical hub; that the Governor forgot his constitutional obligation; and that I had for some time been naively following the media, forgetting the maxim — read between the lines.

P.C. Shaheed,

T.R.S. Rangan,

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Supercomputing breakthrough
U.S. slowdown’s global impact
The need for cautious optimists
Space launches and the cost factor
Robots, progress, and the human cost
The new web TV station
A horse in the house
Corrections and clarifications
Pakistan crisis
BJP’s southern debut
Nandigram challenge

Copyright © 2007, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu