Unfortunately, I am not a reader of Sunaparant, as I am not familiar with devanagri script. But some of my friends had mentioned that Subhash Velingkar's weekly column in the newspaper often contains disparaging remarks about minorities. This did surprise me, as Sunaparant is edited by Sandesh Prabhudesai, whose secular outlook was never in doubt However, I recollect that at a meeting in Margao where Dr. Francisco Colaco & Sandesh were present, the former expressed to the latter his views that Velingkar should not be allowed to use the daily to air his anti-minorities feelings. Velingkar is a fanatic RSS follower, whose postures against christians and muslims in Goa are well known. Such people cannot generally hide their communal feelings and hence, if allowed to express their views, these need to be scrutinized and censored so as not to allow hurts to any community. One would have expected an intelligent Editor like Sandesh Prabhudesai to be cautious with Velingkar's writings moreover when his attention had been drawn to them. If he has allowed such diatribes to continue to be printed in his newspaper, perhaps we cannot help to have a rethink about Sandesh's secular credentials, about which we had no reasons to doubt till recently.
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