Preface
Apart from the loss of over eight hundred innocent lives of both the communities and property loss of hundreds of crores, widespread riots of Gujarat have fractured the psyche of the nation in a number ways. Those who care for national integration and strive for forward march of India must take corrective measures earnestly.
The bulk of Muslim masses in India, are as peace loving as Hindus and others. Most of them have shaken from within individually and socially. Fear, frustration, alienation have once again crept in. Psychological dimension of loss of crores of Muslims is a matter of greater concern.
Contrary to this phenomenon, lacs of hardcore anti-Hindu and anti-India separatist Muslims, who put Islam over India and Indian constitution, have further hardened. They see an opportunity in this climate to further register a gain into their rank to destabilize India as per the grand plan of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). It is not yet established by the Indian intelligence that mega-provocation of Godhra was ISI planned conspiracy, but linkages are visible, though not in hand. It is most unfortunate that a mob of two thousand Muslims of Godhra became pawns in the hands of conspirators. This calls for introspection in depth on part of the Muslim society.
Roasting alive of 58 Hindu karsevaks, women and children including, was the worst communal shock after partition for all Hindus worldwide. It was bound to be an instant mega-provocation. Chain reaction was programmed in the Godhra conspiracy itself. What happened afterwards is recent bloody history?
National English media with its anti-Hindu secular habits as usual harmed the Indian image outside and damaged the Indian psyche inside. "Godhra and After" were bound to meet the same fate by habitual treatment by top Indian media with electronic speed and tornado of anti-Hindu parlance, in effect which caused anti-India image outside.
As a result of the Godhra carnage and the widespread backlash, the image of thenation took a severe beating in the international community. The most vital reason for the nation's image getting tarnished was the biased media coverage, which reflected inbuilt anti-Hindu angle of English media's cultivated secular tradition. Since the international community's medium of getting Indian information is English, they read only what the English media writes. If there was any other way of putting across the reporting of the local vernacular press coverage from the centers of the strife-zone, the international community would have got a balanced picture of the entire 'Godhra and after' violence. But in the given situation, foreign media confirms the Indian top media by India's own recycled stories. I would like to ask six questions to the English and electronic media about its role in this unfortunate series of events