Those who think I’m either bored, or too tired to pursue the wretched matter need to think again. I’m of course, talking about the Mitrokhin Archives. This entry is brief. Because B Raman says everything.
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Indian Politics,
International Politics,
Media Watch,
War on Communism
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On 09.28.05 parimal gupta says:
Imagine what would have been the media’s response if the same damning ‘evidence’ was found against
BJP/NDA etc.
The defeaning silence in the media over this episode is just another point in case
of the farce called Indian Media.
Remember how Gujarat,Tehelka,Coffin ’scam’,Petrol Pump ’scam’ were kept on the front pages of
all the ‘leading’ dailies for days if not months , thereby keeping the topic ‘alive’ in
nation’s dialogue. Editorials and OP/EDs went amock. Celebrities and their views were roped in the
embarass the govt of the day.
Indian media is worse than even the Chinese media which is government controlled. Atleast
the media there is doing it on orders and fear. But here in India it is doing this
one-sided, pro-establishment reporting purely out of greed.
Indian media sucks !!
On 09.29.05 Sandeep says:
Parimal,
But that’s because the government of that day was “communal.” We’re all secular now.
On 10.01.05 Vibhu says:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-1461-1782367-1461,00.html
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Oleg Kalugin, who became head of Foreign Counter-Intelligence in 1973, remembers India as “a model of KGB infiltration of a Third World government”. He recalls one occasion when the KGB turned down an offer from an Indian minister to provide information in return for $50,000 on the grounds that it was already well supplied with material from the Indian foreign and defence ministries: “It seemed like the entire country was for sale; the KGB — and the CIA — had penetrated the Indian government. Neither side entrusted sensitive information to the Indians, realising their enemy would know all about it the next day.” The KGB, in Kalugin’s view, was more successful than the CIA, partly because of its skill in exploiting the corruption that became endemic under Indira Gandhi’s regime. Suitcases full of banknotes were said to be routinely taken to her house and one of her opponents claimed that Mrs Gandhi did not even return the cases.
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