[Reader-list] OB vans in Mehrauli

[Partha Dasgupta]

What I found shocking was the reports that the Police washed the place down
with buckets of water before the NSG reached the site.
As criminal as the oversight of not checking the entire building in the
Arushi case and so much time being lost that the case broke down.

Wish they would make a policy that is explained to all the police people.

Rgds, Partha
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Dear Shivam
>
> A good post. Thank you for recording these observations.
>
> Kshmendra
>
> --- On Sat, 9/27/08, Shivam Vij शिवम् <mail at shivamvij.com> wrote:
>
> From: Shivam Vij शिवम् <mail at shivamvij.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] OB vans in Mehrauli
> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 10:59 PM
>
> Dear friends,
>
> I was in Mehrauli today for a few good hours. I don't have the
> patience to write a long post. Just a few things.
>
> Firstly, Star News should be banned, like forever, for showing those
> graphic images of part of a boy's head. If not for tom-tomming all day
> how they were the first of the vultures.
>
> Secondly, all you illiterate TV journalists, you don't have to know
> about Phoolwalon Ki Ser and what it's about. You can just ask the
> locals, "Tell me a little about this area". If there's a bomb
> blast at
> the intersection of a Hindu and a Muslim colony, in a place that has a
> syncretic culture maintained now for centuries, strengthened by Gandhi
> and Nehru… surely, this is important background detail?
>
> Thirdly, all you idiotic TV camerawalas, no, I will not move, your
> visual is not a bit more important than my observation.
>
> Fourthly, a police cordon is not meant to be jumped. If you jump it,
> so will the rest of the wolves. And you will trample over the forensic
> evidence that's being collected.
>
> Fifthly, all you TV reporters who used the words ammonium nitrate as
> frequent as 'byte', the police never said there was any ammonium
> nitrate. Stop talking on you effing live broadcasts. Stop and listen.
>
> Sixthly, all you TV reporters who crowded the small house of the boy
> who died, it was not a public place just because it was a poor
> labourer's house. When somebody says please leave, leave. You can't
> force a mourning family to give the same byte for two dozen cameras
> one after the other.
>
> And you don't have to run the camera over a washed pucca road and say
> again and again, "There was blood all over here. There was blood all
> over. All over." Your viewer will get the point even if you weren't as
> excited about human blood.
>
> I have more to say but writing this much is enough to bring down my
> blood pressure. Thanks but no thanks. May those graphic images never
> let you sleep because during office hours you're a camera without a
> brain.
>
> shivam
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