Dear Selma
Did you understand correctly the message from Sonia on above subject ? Seems like you are lost in oblivion and straying away from the context of the matter !!! How is the Gujarat and BJP linked to Goa Govt's announcement of List of Holidays ??? Let me inform you that the BJP Govt had only planned to make Good Friday & St. Xavier's feast as optional Holidays along with even number of Hindu festivals. There was such a big fuss about it and BJP leadership was painted as communal & saffron at that time. Why is the secular intellectuals like you are observing a smug silence or go into hibernation when the Congress Govt infect has implemented the same or do you want to talk only selectively what suits your philosophy. Talking about Gujarat riots, it has agitated the phony seculars so much, but it is not their faith in secularism as much as their concern for the Muslim vote bank. Secularism as practised in India has become a defining manifestation of anti-Hindu communalism that is packed and marketed as 'secularism' and the Gujarat riots precisely proved such hypocrisy and double standards. If violence and killing, or concern for preserving the pluralistic society was really the concern of the biased Press and Electronic media why is the same activism lacking in questioning Muslim communal elements? Equally heart rending and poignant would have been the stories and photos of Godhra. Why did the media fail in its investigative journalism on Godhra or name the community or the organizations responsible for the Godhra train inferno. Who then is distinguishing the killings in Godhra from that of the rest of Gujarat? Vinay