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To call M J Akbar a communalist would be erroneous in my opinion.
That does not, however, take away from the fact that both he and
Khushwant Singh, were little more than bootlickers of the Nehru-
Gandhi family through their careers. For Subimal to call both of
them "great journalists" is probably habitual - he is prone to
sweeping statements that are usually pathetic if not merely
ridiculous. But then, that is to be expected from a
closet "intellectual" who tries to sound profound.
Akbar was singlehandedly responsible for the death of "Sunday" a
magazine that he turned into a pro Rajiv Gandhi pamphlet during the
most difficult period in the history of India under the Congress. It
would take someone who was either ignorant or yet another sycophant
to forget the weekly harangues that Akbar put out to attack anyone
who was even remotely critical of Rajiv and the added sugary sweet
drool that he irrigated the scene with at the slightest mention of
Rajiv Gandhi's name. He was the one who brought Mani Sankar Aiyar, a
former IAS man turned AYA Ram Gaya Ram who went from the Congress to
the Trinamool Congress and back to the Congress only to be sacked
over trying to get a plum UN assignment for his daughter to Sunday as
a columnist.
Akbar was vehemently against the Shah Bano verdict. He sumpathised
with Rajiv's opening of the Babri Masjid. He lauded India's
disastrous intervention in Sri Lanka. The list goes on.
And what about Khushwant Singh? Yes, the very bootlicker who called
Sanjay Gandhi, fresh during his excesses during the Emergency, "a
most delightful goonda?" The same Khushwant Singh who set a trend in
sycophancy for Akbar to follow when he cheered the demolitions of the
homes of poor Muslims at the Turkoman Gate during the Emergency. The
same Khushwant Singh who lauded the forcible sterilization of Muslims
and who cheered when Sanjay Gandhi's thugs opposed the first Family
Planning Programme calling it "a waste of Hindu semen." The very same
Subimal Chakrabarty who finds it expedient to occasionally post
nonsense about atheism comes in to praise these two apologies for
human beings whom he anoints "great journalists".
Ah, well, everyone who sidles up to Khushwant has something to gain
from him. Some years ago, in a note to Outlook, I had to take David
Davidar and Khushwant on for exactly this kind of skullduggery. For
those interested, the story starts at this link:
http://www.outlookindia.com/rants.asp?date=02/04/2002&type=magazine
I wonder exactly what Subimal has to gain from jumping up and down
and clapping his hands in support of this duo of Nehru-Gandhi
sycophants?
Mehul Kamdar
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