Frustrations very often ends in violence and sex so said a pauper somewhere in North Atlantic. But now a days shoes have become the symbols of frustrations. It happened in China and Iraq and now it is India. Sadly, none of the shoe stoppers were good at their aim. They all missed. But they did not miss the opportunity to attain international media status for their cause and for them personally.
And not to be far behind, the television channels jumped into the fray immediately asking viewers to type SHOES followed by Y or N depending on whether you got fainted by the shoe odour and send to 55555 and win hundreds of prizes.
But if I were in his place, I would have done this much before. Not to Palaniappan Chidambaram but to his predecessor, Shivraj Patil. And since I played a little cricket, my aim would have been better. Shivraj Patil would have put me to jail not for throwing shoe at him but for having damaged his wardrobe.
But this is not a good trend. You cannot just do this to your own home minister because his reply was not to your taste or what you anticipated him to say. A journalist is not a Sikh, Christian, Hindu or Muslim. He is a reader’s man and his loyalty should always be towards the reader and not to anything else.
Unfortunately, most journalists in India or for that matter most part of the world repeat this cardinal sin very often and what we get in the next day’s morning newspapers are all crap.
Praising the culprit in this case, Delhi journalist Jarnail Singh, for his "courage and bravery" in hurling the shoe, Sikh political party Shiromani Akali Dal even announced a cash reward of Rs 200,000 for him.
SAD behaves as if they are not in India and as if Jarnail hurled shoes at Pakistan home minister and not Indian home minister. They have done the most shameful act by announcing the cash reward. More regional parties emerging in India is putting the one India theory to rest.
RIP India.
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