Prabhu Chawla's Prejudice
On September 6, Prabhu Chawla, Editor of India Today, delivered a
lecture on ''The Pros and Cons of Coalition Politics'' at IIT-
Guwahati as part of Techniche-2008. During the interactive session,
we pointed out to Mr Chawla that his lecture on coalition politics
covered areas from Kashmir to Karnataka and from Goa to Kolkata, but
that he did not mention the Northeast or Assam, which too is witness
to coalition politics, even once. In response, Mr Chawla said that
his subeditor had deleted/omitted it from the presentation, and he
just skipped the point by saying "that is a different issue"!
Later on, we asked him to tell us the reason why India Today does not
have a Northeast correspondent based in the region. He replied that
due to ''business policy'', his magazine would not keep any
correspondent in the Northeast! So, someone would come from Kolkata
if needed. And later on, he also said that ''Northeast is a separate
part of the country''!
The point is that if a veteran journalist like Prabhu Chawla can have
such distorted views of the Northeast, think of what people in
general, in the so-called mainland, would think us. In that case can
development really be uniform? Will it not provoke the militants
further? Mr Chawla should clarify.
(The Sentinel,TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2008 )
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