--- On Sun, 11/30/08, Marshall Mendonza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Of late I notice that for a person claiming to possess scientific >temper, > Santosh has developed a habit of rushing to conclusions without >getting his > basics right. >
What else is new? Hurl innuendo and cheap shots at the person who points out a glaring discrepancy involving possible politicization of a national tragedy by Times of India or by a contributor to Goanet. One ought to be seriously concerned whether Times of India editors injected their own partisanship and ideology into Julio Ribeiro's article by providing a politically sensational title and adding more than a paragraph infusing electoral politics into his text. The original title of the article appears to have been "The Sad End Of Hemant Karkare". The politicized version of it in Times of India is "The BJP's slander campaign did not deter Karkare from his dharma" Here is the politically-charged material inserted into the Times of India version of the text: BEGIN QUOTE One can understand the BJP’s anxiety to obfuscate facts. The revelations during the investigations have hurt them. The campaign against the ATS and the attempt to politicise the Malegaon investigations may help the BJP to win some votes in the coming elections but they are playing with fire by assaulting the judicial process system. What are they going to do about the mass of evidence so assiduously collected by the ATS? And will they encourage fringe elements in the Hindu community to resort to terrorism, should they come to power? They should think seriously about the consequences of their ill-conceived adventure. In the meantime, a truly distinguished officer, Hemant Karkare, is not alive to suffer their barbs. He has laid down his life for his principles. END QUOTE It is really sad to see a tribute to a fallen hero being sullied by such cheap political propaganda, and I doubt a dignified person like Julio Ribeiro would ever do such a thing. Please compare the two versions of the article at the following links: http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1167697&sid=a2ac998cc9a6a2badbdeaf0932c34fa5 http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDA4LzExLzI4I0FyMDA3MDE=&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom Please also note that the link www.faithdom.org, provided in the rest of the post appended below has nothing to do with Julio Ribeiro's article. It is a Christian dating website. Cheers, Santosh Marshall Mendonza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Though I do not owe Santosh any explanation, out of > courtesy,* *I wish to > inform Santosh that after reading the article in the > newspaper, I tried to > find the link on the internet. However, I just could not > find it. So I did a > google search with various word combinations and found a > similar article > under a different heading under the link www.faithdom.org. > I copied the > article with the intention of comparing it with the article > in the ToI and > saved the link for reference. However, as I found the > exercise too time > consuming, I again did several google searches, till I was > fortunate to find > the article in the e-paper of ToI. I deleted the article > from Faith Freedom > from my mail, but inadvertently, the link remained. I trust > I have set your > mind at rest. >
