Feb 27, 2002. Can you forget what happened that day?
I forget who it was, but
some RSS leader had said: we will give an answer in Gandhinagar to what happened in Godhra, referring to the Gujarat elections. Whoever that was, he clearly didnt know how much bigger Godhra would get. The wave that started in Godhra swept through Gandhinagar and then swept across the Indian heartland, translating into an unprecedented 282 seat mandate for Narendra Modi to become Prime Minister. In Indias political history, Godhra sticks out like a sore thumb for every secular. The visible symbol of the burning train went to every corner of Gujarat through the new electric media. Secular elite of our country had long been used to Hindus becoming voiceless victims of atrocities. They could not understand what changed after Godhra. Never before in Indias recent history had Hindu lives been valued so highly. Confused and stunned, never forget the lies they tried to peddle. Various lies were hatched, with Commies trying to justify the massacre as a reaction to some apocryphal story about a karsevak refusing to pay a secular teashop owner at the railway station. Even if this story was true, what was the price the Commies put on 59 lives? Rs 2 for 59 Hindus or a little more than 3 paisa per Hindu! Anyway, that was probably the highest price quoted by a Commie for the life of a Hindu ever. When the Queen came to power in 2004, never forget the Justice Banerjee Commission that was created to specifically peddle lies such as the fire started inside the train or the fire was an accidentetc etc No, the debate over who the perpetrators still rages in the pages of the New York Times even after the killers have been sentenced by the court. But that does not matter, because the average Hindu knows the truth. More importantly, the average Hindu knows who deliberately tried to distort the truth and for what purposes. Note to ABP News: Remember that the average Hindu knows who tried to distort the truth and why. In this might lie the clue to how your channel dropped from No. 2 to No. 4 in Hindi news TRP ratings.
Arundhati Roy Although I Do Not Believe That Awards Are A Measure of The Work We Do, I Would Like To Add The National Award For The Best Screenplay That I Won in 1989 To The Growing Pile of