[Reader-list] Gujjar Muslim Lady and her Burnt House (Kashmir Pictures)

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Go to : http://www.expressindia.com/gallery/picture_gallery.html?sec=96
 
Click on : SLIDE No. 3
 
It shows a lady sitting on a filled sack and in front of a hut. The hut has a thatched roof and mud walls held together by sticks.
 
If this hut had to catch fire, it would look obviously burnt and certainly not retain it's thatched roof. No it is not burnt.
 
The Indian Express caption for the photograph reads:
 
 " A gujjar muslim lady sitting before her burnt house in Jourian, Akhnoor."
 
Is Indian Express communal? Well in this case it certainly seems to be intent on provoking communal trouble. Transparently so and rather stupidly.
 
Kshmendra