Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Taslima violence
Two newspaper offices have been attacked in India's Karnataka state in continuing violence over an article by Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen. The Kannada Prabha newspaper, whose offices were attacked by a mob on Tuesday night, had published an (apparently rather badly translated in an unauthorised way) article of Ms Nasreen, triggering off protests in the Shimoga and Hasan areas. Police said a group of ten masked men attempted to set the newspaper's office in Mangalore on fire after dousing petrol in the premises, but fire brigade personnel extinguished it in time. The police said the same group attacked another newspaper office in the area. "The miscreants have been arrested. We have some clues about who was behind the attacks," senior police official Gopal Hosur said.
IMO: Sometimes it is rough justice, if indeed it is justice, around here. I am far from clear on the motivations . Locally, in beautiful downtown Vasai, the Viva supermarket seems to have closed down recently after attacks on it during a bandh, which appears to have been anti-Christian in at least some respects. Viva has been replaced by a branch of More, but probably small chains need little pressure to have to close at the moment. Even the large Spencers chain closed at least two branches around here recently. Newspaperwise, I suppose we have to hope that the Kannada papers are not now taken over by the Rupert Murdoch chain - like the dear old BBC might be if the Tories come back.
IMO: Sometimes it is rough justice, if indeed it is justice, around here. I am far from clear on the motivations . Locally, in beautiful downtown Vasai, the Viva supermarket seems to have closed down recently after attacks on it during a bandh, which appears to have been anti-Christian in at least some respects. Viva has been replaced by a branch of More, but probably small chains need little pressure to have to close at the moment. Even the large Spencers chain closed at least two branches around here recently. Newspaperwise, I suppose we have to hope that the Kannada papers are not now taken over by the Rupert Murdoch chain - like the dear old BBC might be if the Tories come back.
# posted by uv : 11:04 PM
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