A Miracle in The Hindu

Two weeks back a miracle happened in the Hindu news paper. There was a picture of a tribal women and her child crying for loss of the head of the family. I thought the guy was another victim of police encounter as the news is reported in the second page. But I was wrong, he was killed by Maoists doubting that he was an informer. The news is odd, as usually news papers print these kind of news in 7th or 8th page without any pictures. They only highlight the news where cops are bad, especially The Hindu. The journalist condemned the killing. I thought its some kind of mistake, in the later pages an article was printed about the completion of 10yrs of PLGA (People’s liberation guerrilla army), explaining how powerful it became, how it is structuralised, informing that it has managed to kill around 2000 cops in the last decade, Informing that the technology for making and planting Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) has been successfully imparted to the large 30,000 base force, but also said that PLGA is losing the trust of tribes.

But it did not stop there, that week’s Frontline (Dec 17th Edition) came with an article on how youth are recruited in the name of fake NGO’s and how girls are sexually harassed.

For the regular readers of The Hindu, its kind of a weird thing to happen, Hindu always tried to maintain its leftist ideology. Anti-americanism, trying to show the brutality of police on tribes, and trying to make Maoists as heroes etc etc

. Its an open secret that the so called intellectuals usually extend their support to the poor, the poor farmer, the oppressed women and naxalites, sitting in an A/C room filled with journalists. Even the so called ‘Human rights activists’ wont their voices against the atrocities of Maoists. The interesting question is Why?