I am outraged by the the false and inaccurate reporting of my remarks on Mr Modi at the Jaipur Literature Festival by some sections of the media, such as in this motivated article: dnaindia/india/report-zee-jaipur-literature-festival-shashi-tharoor-praises-narendra-modi-congress-in-a-tizzy-2055187 The passage I read from my book, which has been wilfully misquoted by the media, reads as follows (since it is a printed and published book, it is on the record, and the session was videotaped as well): There is a paradox at the heart of Mr Modi’s ascent to the Prime Ministership. His speeches and rhetoric appear to recognize, and harness, a vital shift in our national politics from a politics of identity to a politics of performance. Yet he has ridden to power at the helm of a party, the BJP, which is ill-suited to the challenge of delinking India’s polity from the incendiary issue of religious identity that it had built its base on. The rest of my remarks, which other media have reported accurately [including in a PTI story carried by the same paper:dnaindia/india/report-modi-empowered-rss-illiberal-views-accuses-shashi-tharoor-at-zee-jlf-2055150] , were a stinging indictment of the gap between rhetoric and results in Mr Modis performance to date. Two further examples: firstpost/living/implementation-is-achilles-heel-for-modi-sarkar-says-shashi-tharoor-at-jaipur-litfest-2061741.html& oneindia/india/shashi-tharoor-questions-pm-modi-do-you-have-game-plan-shining-india-1630355.html I demand that those media who are trying to stir up trouble for me for their own petty purposes retract their misrepresentation and quote me accurately. It should not be too difficult for a serious journalist to find the actual text read from the published book and to render it accurately. But that would have defeated the sensationalist purpose of the media. Indian democracy deserves better.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 03:15:21 +0000
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