'Little wonder then that the image of Kashmiri youths throwing stones is played over and over again accompanied by texts and voiceovers which erase contexts; whereas the video of Kashmiri youths stripped and herded by security forces, barely finds mention in the media.
In a *Times of India* report, two days after Geelani’s meeting, the reporter sees a grand plot of sedition, hatched by Kashmiri insurgents and Maoists: “The presence of Maoist sympathizers at what was a show to fete Kashmiri secessionist Ali Shah Geelani could not have been just a mere coincidence,” writes the reporter. “Those tracking the Naxalite movement from the inception feel that it could be part of the Maoist gameplan to forge a strategic alliance with militant outfits pitted against the Indian State,” she adds. Our media is increasingly on twenty-four hour alert: as paranoid, suspicious of rebels, contrarians and dissidents as they are trusting of the military, intelligence establishment and the state. I wonder if this what they mean by shaping “the discourse and steering it away from rancour and divisiveness.” ' wikileaks ( http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101022/pl_yblog_upshot/nyt-editor-defends-publishing-wikileaks-iraq-docs/print ) <http://kafila.org/author/anigam98/> WikiLeaks, Azadi and Arnab Goswami: Monobina Gupta<http://kafila.org/2010/10/25/wikileaks-azadi-and-arnab-goswami-monobina-gupta/> *Aditya Nigam <http://kafila.org/author/anigam98/>* | October 25, 2010 at 11:13 AM | Tags: Arnab Goswami <http://kafila.org/tag/arnab-goswami/>, azadi<http://kafila.org/tag/azadi/>, military leaks <http://kafila.org/tag/military-leaks/>, Monobina Gupta<http://kafila.org/tag/monobina-gupta/>, RSS <http://kafila.org/tag/rss/>, Wikileaks<http://kafila.org/tag/wikileaks/>| Categories: Bad ideas <http://kafila.org/category/bad-ideas/>, Empire<http://kafila.org/category/empire/>, Media politics <http://kafila.org/category/media-politics/>, Mirror Worlds<http://kafila.org/category/mirror-worlds/>, Politics <http://kafila.org/category/politics/> | URL: http://wp.me/pcwAA-1l9 This Friday Dean Baquet, Washington Bureau Chief of the New York Times defended his paper’s publishing of explosive information gathered by WikiLeaks, putting the US intelligence and the military establishment squarely in the dock for the Iraq war. The largest ever classified military leak in history, the WikiLeaks revelations have exposed the complicity of the [...] Read more of this post<http://kafila.org/2010/10/25/wikileaks-azadi-and-arnab-goswami-monobina-gupta/> Add a comment to this post<http://kafila.org/2010/10/25/wikileaks-azadi-and-arnab-goswami-monobina-gupta/#respond> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/kafilabackup.wordpress.com/5155/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/kafilabackup.wordpress.com/5155/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/kafilabackup.wordpress.com/5155/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/kafilabackup.wordpress.com/5155/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/kafilabackup.wordpress.com/5155/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/kafilabackup.wordpress.com/5155/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/kafilabackup.wordpress.com/5155/> [image: WordPress] WordPress.com <http://wordpress.com> | Thanks for flying with WordPress! Manage Subscriptions<http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=35487b93aa5bf1f7030a02754c73332a&email=kmvenuannur%40gmail.com>| Unsubscribe<http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=35487b93aa5bf1f7030a02754c73332a&email=kmvenuannur%40gmail.com&b=uILVzTzniCCPctR%2BDzNNeULdkYwfKG%7CaL%7CTt%2Bv%5B%5D>| Publish text, photos, music, and videos by email using our Post by Email <http://support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/> feature. *Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser:* http://subscribe.wordpress.com -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
