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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Journalists connect dots -Pheroze L Vincent

Journalists connect dots -Pheroze L Vincent

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published Published on Sep 7, 2017   modified Modified on Sep 7, 2017
-The Telegraph

New Delhi: Hundreds of journalists, activists and Opposition leaders converged at the Press Club of India and other venues in Lutyens' Delhi to speak out against the fear that has set in after senior journalist Gauri Lankesh's murder.

Journalists condemned the hate campaign by Twitter trolls followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and called for introspection within news agencies on the role the media play as the fourth pillar of democracy.

"Why am I here?" asked Ravish Kumar of NDTV India. "By killing Gauri Lankesh, they tell us to be quiet about you losing your job or your kid's school fees being hiked, or your body will be found like hers and the society - on social media - will laugh at your death. I am here to stand against this and we must find ways so that we don't keep meeting for condolence meetings."

Siddharth Varadarajan, the editor of the news portal The Wire, said the "context of the murder is clearly before our eyes".

He cautioned against "rumour-mongering on channels".

"Connect the dots. Know the stand she took and who was against her. Understand the ideology whose forces want to target her," Varadarajan said.

"Inflammatory, provocative and horrible comments were made by people on social media. These people can be found on the (Twitter) timeline of the PM. It is this attitude of permissibility, of 'chalta hai', that has led to this (murder)?" he said.

"The message," said senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, "is clear - that the more we keep quiet, the more such people (murderers) get emboldened."

The Press Association, Press Club of India and the Indian Women's Press Corps passed a joint resolution asking the government to "nab the killers at the earliest in order to restore confidence in the journalist community as well as the people of India".

The Editors Guild of India said in a statement: "Gauri Lankesh was a known critic of the central government on key issues and had fearlessly expressed her views in the newspaper she edited as well as in other forums.

"Her killing is an ominous portent for dissent in democracy and a brutal assault on the freedom of the press. The Editors Guild of India demands that the Karnataka government act with alacrity to bring the culprits to justice apart from instituting a judicial probe into the killing."

Representatives of the Congress, CPI, CPM, CPIML-Liberation, AAP and Swaraj India also spoke at the Press Club of India gathering.

"There is an eerie pattern, the growth of intolerance to a level that people are killed. Our country can't tolerate this. We have to not merely protest, but also create an atmosphere to end this intolerance," CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury said.

Drawing parallels with the murders of rationalists and academics Govind Pansare, Narendra Dabholkar and M.M. Kalburgi, CPI parliamentarian and party national secretary D. Raja said: "The right-wing fascist forces are using a two-pronged strategy. Mob lynching of Dalits, tribals, minorities and marginalised, and individual annihilation of those who criticise the government."

Yogendra Yadav of Swaraj India, which held a candlelight vigil at India Gate today, said: "Gauri did not represent culturally uprooted secularism but a rare kind that was rooted in this country. Ideas can't be killed by individuals but by counter-ideas and a system. The police can identify the individuals who killed her but it is up to us to identify the ideology that killed her."
 
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The Telegraph, 6 September, 2017, https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170907/jsp/nation/story_171280.jsp


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