"Impeccable taste", "connoisseur of high art", "grand personality", "elegant" - these are just some of the adjectives that are generously being used by the media about Jashwant Singh. His book is now getting rave reviews. Even Congress leaders would be envious of the treatment Singh is getting from the media. This is also the first time Jashwant Singh's name is being mentioned in a context other than the Kandahar hijack episode. Now that we learn Jashwant Singh is such a cool dude, maybe we can revisit the issue and give the way the situation was handled a different grade?
Jashwant Singh is as much a victim of the confusion and paranoia that must surround a national party post election defeat, as he is of a mercenary media. As soon as the book hit the stands, the headlines screamed: Jashwant has praised Jinnah! That is pretty much all you need to set the ball rolling so to speak.
As far as we can tell, the partition issue still remains an unfinished business. Hey, mi casa su casa, but in practical terms, does anyone really believe that .....
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barb, you forgot the quintessential burkha's adjective for JS ... she called him in the interview "the central thinking cerebral of the party". I dont remember when she called him the same last time! And the worst part is that one could see JS blushing. If veterans give in like this, then the game will be played by media's rules. No wonder BJP has made a circus of itself!
Let JS enjoy his moment in history
To the secular intellectuals and media, the only good Hindus are dead Hindus
If anyone spends more time on dead people, it this those from the Sangh. Blaming Nehru is their favorite pre-occupation.
naming every scheme and street and airport and railway station after dead people from one family is whose favorite pre-occupation?
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