[Reader-list] Fwd: kashmir pictures

[mahmood farooqui]

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From: mahmood farooqui <mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com>
Date: 2008/8/14
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] kashmir pictures
To: kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com


Thanks Kshemendra, I can't say I am getting the answers but the responses
are making me think.

Best,
Mahmood

2008/8/14 Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>

 Dear Mahmood
>
> Whether 'all press' is communal or not, you certainly are. You are trying
> to instigate communal feelings by suggesting a communal slant.
>
> Times of India and Hindustan Times showed photograph of a hoodlum
> attacking a policeman.
>
> Inquilab showed the photograph of a person injured by police firing. If
> this person was a part of the mob attempting to break the law and/or
> attacking the police, then the injured person was a hoodlum injured by
> police firing.
>
> What is communal in all of this? You are the one making it communal.
>
> There was confrontation between the police and law breaking hoodlums in
> Kashmir and in Jammu. What makes either situation communal?
>
> Which is the 'communal' one between two kinds of photographs, one where law
> enforcers are shown as being attacked by law breakers and another one where
> law breakers are shown as having been hurt by law enforcers.
>
> Perhaps if you had furnished the captions accompanying the photographs, one
> could make a call on which newspaper showed a 'communal' tinge
>
> Kshmendra
>
>
>
>
> --- On *Wed, 8/13/08, mahmood farooqui <mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com>*wrote:
>
> From: mahmood farooqui <mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] kashmir pictures
> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>, "Aamir Bashir" <
> unattore1 at gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 12:33 PM
>
> Yesterday, nine Kashmiris were allegedly killed in the valley because of the
> police firing.
>
> Today, in the Bombay editions of the Times of India and Hindustan Times,
> there is an identical image of a policeman being attacked by a Kashmiri.
> There are no images of any Kashmiris being killed or attacked by the police.
>
> The Urdu daily Inqilab, however, shows a Kashmiri injured by the police
> firing.
>
> Is it simplistic to say that all press is communal?
>
> Is the poser itself simplistic?
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