Author: M Krishnamachary
Publication: The Times of India
Date: December 31, 2007
This refers to Jug Suraiya's article of December
25. Dear me, is this the Jug Suraiya of our times or someone gone off at a
tangent? It is inane to suggest that it is the big fear of Muslims in our
system that needs to be exorcised. The Tal iban destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan
a few years ago. Does it not remind you of our very own Somnath temples which
were de stroyed by Mahmud of Ghazni And Suraiya wants us to look in ward to
rid ourselves of fear.
Sonia Gandhi goes to Gujarat and labels Modi
the merchant of death, while Advani calls that very Jinnah a secularist who
wounded India to the core by carving out a separate country for its Muslims.
Does he want us to bottle up our anger? The country wants leaders like Sonia
Gandhi to be removed from positions of influence and power. Modi did so, and
Jug Suraiya can too, by filling his pen with fury.