[Reader-list] from Trideep Pais about SIMI

[atreyee majumder]

On 8/9/08, Vivekananda N <n.vivekananda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Trideep Pais <trideeppais at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 4:45 PM
> Subject: SIMI
> To: Vivekananda N <n.vivekananda at gmail.com>
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> It will take a lot of clarifications in the media over a period of time to
> remove the negative bias that SIMI has faced thanks to the sustained
> propaganda against them since 2001 (which I also beleived for the want of
> any alternate point of view until I was hired to fight there case in 2006).
> This is one story where till the recent judgment all (media, bureaucracy,
> police, intelligence, prosecution, counsel for state and judiciary) were
> compromised.  As the reporter of the story in this link will tell you,
> between September 2001 and now very few mainstream news papers and magazines
> and TV channels have bothered to even listen to the point of view of the
> erstwhile SIMI (now banned) let alone publish/ braodcast them.  During the
> 2006 tribunal when I had the occassion to represent this group, I tried very
> hard to reach out to the media to put across the other side of the story
> however no one was willing to listen.  I sent letters and emails to
> mainstream news papers and TV channels about the inaccuracy of their
> reporting nad requested them to issue clarifications and all of it fell to
> deaf ears.  My clients found my efforts hilarious as they had suffered this
> bias for 6 years by then and had got used to it and they knew there was no
> point in it.  BUT,  everyone likes a winner and after the news of the
> judgement of Justice Gita Mittal was out and till the Supreme Court
> stay, for the brief period between the night of the 5th of August 2008 and
> afternoon of the 6th of August 2008 several unknown persons like me received
> calls for a comment or a bite on what 'SIMI' is about or what I thought of
> the judgement etc.  What persons like me told them was completely
> unpalatable to the media.  The NDTV anchor told me "you know you 're
> representing the the wrong guys right? just doing it as a part of your job
> eh?".  I had to remind him that I had sent his organisation an email in feb
> 2008 bringing to thier notice the gross inaccuracies in thier report on
> SIMI.  This just did not interest him. He did not even wait for my answer
> before going on to read the preprepared text that his ticker required him to
> read out.  However for the right reasons SIMI is in the news and I would
> think that the developments of the last week have made at least 2 % of its
> detractors think that there may be something wrong in the Government
> Version.  This is a very well researched story by a journalist who has spent
> 3 months chasing up Jawahar Raja and the tribunal and the victims.  I would
> request you to read it.  I dont want you to agree with him.  Just hear the
> other side of the story.  Just like Justice Mittal's Judgement, such stories
> are also rare.
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> http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne160808thekafka_project.asp
> http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne160808ajudge_stirs.asp
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> http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne160808thesupremecourt's.asp<http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne160808thesupremecourt%27s.asp>
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> http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne160808terrorhas_twofaces.asp
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> http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne160808simihere_simithere.asp
> http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne160808thehaunt_ofour.asp
> http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne160808thecry_ofthe.asp
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> http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne160808adoubtful_crime.asp
> http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne160808theyjustwant.asp
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> http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne160808insidethe_whale.asp
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> Trideep Pais
> L - 1/16, Hauz Khas Enclave
> New Delhi - 110 016
> Tel: + 91 11 41656033
>        + 91 11 41656034
> Fax  + 91 11 42654952
> Mob  + 91 9810273032
> em at il trideeppais at gmail.com
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