The Gut Feel

Every Sunday, Vir writes more nonsense on the HT editorial "counterpoint". This time around he vomited on the Sania marriage issue starting off by saying that its a non-issue but going on to make the same mistakes that media and media savvy people make. He announced his stand in the beginning itself that he cares not of whom Sania marries. Fair enough. But then, he doesn't stop at fair as he never does in his articles.

He accuses the so-called "Hindutva" stand by reading more into it. I'd say that some right wing bodies have expressed their sentiment being hurt. At least VHP did just that. There isn't anything wrong, I feel, in saying that some of us Indians are upset that an Indian is marrying a Pakistani. Be it a Hindu, a muslim, or whoever. We all know that Indians are not happy with people inhabiting their western border. To that effect, sports ties have long been broken. So its natural to be hurt when an Indian is marrying a Paki and people are expressing opinions is all. Now as much as Sania's marriage is private domain, a non-issue and not to be read into, people opinions of a public domain figure should also be private individual opinion, a non-issue and not to be read into.

However, Vir reads some hidden agenda in those stands and puts together everyone who has disapproved of the marriage to say that they are Hindu (giving a religious tag when it is clearly not) extremists. And such extremism, to Vir's f*d up interpretation of the Shivsena or whatever others' stand is, means that all Indian muslims are traitors and Pakistan lovers! WTF?

No one said that, no one means that. Its utter bullsh* and Vir should know better than that being thought of as a matured journalist.

Labels: India, politics, sania, wtf