> From: " J. Cola?o < jc> " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Goanet] VHP goons allegedly beat up 25 priests > (Vidyaghar)
> On 12/11/2007, Vidyadhar Gadgil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted the following: > VHP goons allegedly beat up 25 priests in Maharashtra > Mumbai: With broken ribs and a fractured leg, Father Victor Pareira is > just one of the 25 victims, who were brutally beaten up allegedly by > members of Vanvasi Kalyan Parishad, an oraganisation affiliated to the > VHP. > jc's comment: > > I fail to fathom Vidyaghar's primary purpose of reposting the above > quoted item - that too, without even bothering to analyse the story. I am not aware that this was a reposting, I am unable to find an earlier post on this, maybe I missed it. Would just like to mention that since I subscribe to the digest version, I get messages a little late, so there may be some duplicate posting, for which my apologies. > I do not believe that there were 25 priests in one village in > Maharashtra at one time - unless they were there for a convention. The article doesn't say there were 25 priests; it mentions only one priest, Fr. Victor Pareira. A similar article also appeared in Herald on 11th -- http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=4085&cid=2 > IMHO many of Vidyaghar's postings on GoaNet are as unreasonably and > unnecessarily biased as Bhandare and Rajan's. Well, I post articles etc. that interest me and that I feel may be of interest to other goanetters (note that the article above is from CNN/IBN, not written by me). Any view is necessarily 'biased' -- 'objectivity' is a myth, and any process of selection perforce indicates a 'bias'. I am sure jc is not himself claiming to be 'objective' and 'unbiased'. All one can do is try to present facts to buttress one's viewpoints. -- Question everything -- Karl Marx