Eight convicted, three let off in the Khairlanji case, the news tells you. The news also tells you of hostile witnesses. But they won’t tell you how and why Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange himself became a hostile witness in a case he wanted justice done tone; the papers and TV channels won’t tell you why Bhaiyyalal is [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Priyanka Bhotmange’
November 3, 2006
Dalits, Like Flies to Feudal Lords
A Maharashtra village serves up ‘moral justice’ by gang raping and lynching a dalit family. That didn’t merit front page news in 21st-century, 10-percent-growth-rate India.
[This article by me has appeared in Tehelka.]
On September 3, Siddharth Gajbhiye finally paid the price for helping dalits in a clutch of villages in Bhandara district near Nagpur in Maharashtra. [...]
November 2, 2006
Their motives and mine
Update 2: Thanks to all of you who, in various posts and comments, have defended me: in particular, this post by Gawker who points out Gaurav Sabnis’ vicious personal attack on me in the name of the dignity of the dead in contrast to his commendation of Aadisht Khanna’s abusive attack at a reader of [...]
October 31, 2006
Photographs from Kherlanji
Update 8: Thanks to all of you who, in various posts and comments, have defended me: in particular, this post by Gawker who points out Gaurav Sabnis’ vicious personal attack on me in the name of the dignity of the dead in contrast to his commendation of Aadisht Khanna’s abusive attack at a reader of [...]
