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When I opened this mail. 2009/2/10 ranju radha <ranjura...@gmail.com> > > An award for Mr Advani > > > http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=3643&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=1&valid=true > > Among those who were not amused at NDTV's choice were the jury of its > Indian of the Year awards. This was not an award that they had voted > on. THE HOOT's take on NDTV's Lifetime Achievement Award. > > Posted Saturday, Feb 07 10:06:33, 2009 > > > > > > > It can get a bit sticky when you get into this business of giving > awards to politicians. NDTV's politician of the year award went to > Shiela Dixit but the channel was stuck with the problem of having L K > Advani as one of the nominees. How do you embarrass a prime > ministerial candidate from the Opposition by having him turn up for > the ceremony and get nothing? > > > > So it seems to have found a way out by giving the redoubtable rath > yatra man a Lifetime Achievement Award presented on the same evening > as the Indian of the Year Awards. So there you had Laloo Yadav present > and watching as the man whom he had arrested back in 1990 was feted > for his political achievements. > > > > Not surprisingly the choice has raised eyebrows. What exactly, some of > us want to ask, have been Mr Advani's contributions to Indian > politics which deserve an award? Setting in motion the events that led > to the destruction of the Babri Masjid? And contributed to a > heightened communalising of the Indian polity? > > > > An award coming from a channel that helped to expose the 2002 pogrom > in Gujarat which took place under the watch of a Bharatiya Janata > Party government? The party Mr Advani is leading into the elections > this year? A channel that doubtless sees itself as a champion of > secularism? > > > > Among those who were not amused at NDTV's choice were some members of > its jury of the Indian of the Year awards, which comprised Fali > Nariman, Shashi Tharoor, Anu Agha and William Dalrymple. This was not > an award that they had voted on, but that was not made clear when all > awards were given at the same function, and two of the jury members > wrote to Prannoy Roy to say as much. One of them said he would not > want to be associated with any award which gave prizes to communal > hatemongers. > > > > Upon which Roy clarified that he had not meant to embarrass them, but > that it has been the normal practice every year for NDTV to reserve > the right for its editors to select and present one or more non-jury > awards. > > > > Which still begs the question: why did its editors think Mr Advani > deserved a lifetime achievement award this year? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
