Why do newspapers publish reports which are totally biased? I am not talking of newspapers whose editorial policy itself is biased, but reports in newspapers which are neutral.
I do not know much about Deccan Chronicle's editorial policy. I have started reading the paper only recently. But a report in the Sunday edition of the paper 'RSS kids get anti-Muslim propaganga' goes to the extreme.
The reporter picks out passages from a Sangh-affilliated web site to prove his point. But he fails to mention why the passages are wrong. If a report says something is wrong, it must also say why it is wrong. The reporter doesnt seem to be aware of this simple rule.
The report ends with the following 'revelations':
And "Pakistan is still having a proxy war in Kashmir. It is training and arming Islamic terrorists, for which the country is paying a heavy toll. Thousands of Kashmiri Hindus are refugees in their homeland."
This colourful site also shows history of India through animation. The animation begins by showing India's map with the symbol of "Om" at the top and a Hindu priest at the centre. The animated history provides glimpses of how "Turks and Muslims invaded Bharat, massacred Hindus and converted them." It slowly moves on to the "tyranny of British rule." If that was serious stuff, the site also provides entertainment to children, who can play "match the pair." Here, children are expected to match pairs of Hindu gods, animals and fruits. Jigsaw puzzles are there from the Panchatantra fables and a quiz on Ramayana and Mahabharata. Hindu children are also told about the sanctity of colour saffron, tilak and the Hindu diet - vegetarianism.
I wonder what's wrong with this? And "Jigsaw puzzles are from Panchatantra". What else does he want the kids to do? Do jigsaw puzzles with Britney Spears pictures?
You can read the article below:
RSS kids get anti-Muslim propaganda
BY SANJAY BASAK
New Delhi, April 2:
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is out to catch them young. "Hindukids Universe," a link site of the RSS home website, is all out there to tell the "Hindu kids" about India's freedom movement -- the RSS way.
"A conspiracy was hatched by some powerful Muslims to hoist the Pakistani flag on the Red Fort and take hold of Delhi through the use of massive arms. The doomsday was set as September 6, 1947. The RSS volunteers alerted Sardar Patel and Pandit Nehru and necessary steps were taken to foil the conspiracy," a section on India's Freedom Movement in the site states.
On Kashmir's accession to India, it reveals Jawaharlal Nehru insisted that the people of Kash mir should have a say in the merger of Kashmir into India and so despite Maharaja Hari Singh's approval of the merger it was delayed. The RSS version of history adds, "The matter could not be resolved and was taken to the United Nations. Nationalist leader Shyama Prasad Mukherjee died in the jail of Kashmir while fighting the passiveness of the Indian government to make Kashmir fully integrated to India."
There are more gems like this. "During the Partition of the country, Pakistan signed the agreement that it would make sure that the rights and safety of the minorities would be given proper care. But through planned activities of persecution and torture and forced conversions of minority Hindus and Christians, the number of minorities in Pakistan has gone down from 20 per cent in 1947 to 2 per cent in 1996. In Bangladesh, the number of minorities has gone down from 30 per cent in 1947 to 14 per cent in 1996.
And "Pakistan is still having a proxy war in Kashmir. It is training and arming Islamic terrorists, for which the country is paying a heavy toll. Thousands of Kashmiri Hindus are refugees in their homeland."
This colourful site also shows history of India through animation. The animation begins by showing India's map with the symbol of "Om" at the top and a Hindu priest at the centre. The animated history provides glimpses of how "Turks and Muslims invaded Bharat, massacred Hindus and converted them." It slowly moves on to the "tyranny of British rule."
If that was serious stuff, the site also provides entertainment to children, who can play "match the pair." Here, children are expected to match pairs of Hindu gods, animals and fruits. Jigsaw puzzles are there from the Panchatantra fables and a quiz on Ramayana and Mahabharata. Hindu children are also told about the sanctity of colour saffron, tilak and the Hindu diet -- vegetarianism.
