http://www.sandeepweb.com/2003/08/22/somebody-stop-them/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:04:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.sandeepweb.com/2003/08/22/somebody-stop-them/comment-page-1/#comment-169031 Flaunting of the Liberals | Seriously Sandeep Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:03:52 +0000 http://204.11.51.228/~sandeep/wp/?p=5#comment-169031 [...] Let’s agree that the treatment meted out to Hussain and Deepa Mehta were disgraceful. But protests do not arise in a vacuum: smoke and fire and all that. Yet, being the liberal, the champion of free speech he is, has he allowed the other side to voice its concerns about why Hussain and Mehta so infuriated them? His own paper had vehemently rejected the enactment of the Uniform Civil Code when the BJP was in power. Hardly exemplary of a liberal. [...] [...] Let’s agree that the treatment meted out to Hussain and Deepa Mehta were disgraceful. But protests do not arise in a vacuum: smoke and fire and all that. Yet, being the liberal, the champion of free speech he is, has he allowed the other side to voice its concerns about why Hussain and Mehta so infuriated them? His own paper had vehemently rejected the enactment of the Uniform Civil Code when the BJP was in power. Hardly exemplary of a liberal. [...]

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