Tarun Tejpal weighs in on the symbolism of the "shoe protest" phenomenon. A recent addition to its annals is the incident in which a Sikh journalist threw a shoe at P. Chidambaram, Indian's Home Minister, to protest the central government's clean chit to two prime accused of the anti-Sikh riots/pogrom in 1984 - the prime accused are politicians and members of the same political party that the Home Minister belongs to.
Tejpal's edit also serves as a reminder that good journalism is not just proving a voice to the population but also holding a mirror to it.
Then again, how many really care for true journalism really.
2 comments:
you have a typo there..."Indian's Home Minister". Delete the 'n' already or a shoe is coming your way :-p
Well... Indian could technically be a person too! Remember Kamal Haasan in Indian?;)
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