Dear innocent liberals and other “neutral” anti- sanghis of Kerala,
Today, the homes of several human rights activists, lawyers, writers, social workers and journalists in various cities across the country were raided and some of them were taken into custody. The targeted persons include Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira in Mumbai, Gautam Navlakha in New Delhi, Sudha Bharadwaj in Faridabad, Stan Swamy in Ranchi, Varavara Rao and his family members and activists Kranti Tekula and Naseem in Hyderabad and Dalit scholar Anand Teltumbde in Goa. They are all persons of unmatchable integrity, who have sacrificed their comforts to work for the downtrodden. The accusation against them? A non-existent assassination plot against Narendra Modi and alleged involvement in instigating the Bhima Koregaon violence (which were actually instigated by Hindutva terrorists).
The proof against them? A badly composed letter released through Arnab Cowswamys media terror channel Repooplick a few weeks back. For several days, this channel and Times Cow ran a campaign against an imaginary group called “urban naxals”, a phrase coined by c-grade sanghi filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri. Every dissenting voice against the thugs ruling us was branded with that name.
The past two days, you were busy defending this same Arnab Cowswamy, who branded all Keralites who were wishing for the donation from UAE to reach us as “shameless”. You were more concerned about your own image as a “neutral” who observes things in a “balanced” way. Some of you were also concerned about probably not again being called again as a talking head for debates in Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s other channel ‘Asianet’, if you spoke against cowswamy. You all were acting as if you were unaware of the toxic history of Cowswamy’s shows, through which he has incessantly targeted everyone who disagrees with the person whom he sucks up to. Even young student leaders were targeted with lies, thus endangering their lives. With your public show-off of your fake “neutrality”, you were just legitimising his hate machine, which should mercilessly be targeted and pulverised. Probably, today, as more innocent people were targeted, after cowswamy’s shows created an enabling atmosphere for such targeting, you might have got atleast a faint understanding of the grave mistake you committed in defending that pathetic media terrorist.
It is about time we ostracised the ones still working for his hate machine, for it has started endangering the lives of the tireless fighters amongst us. The ones still working there are not humans by any stretch of that term.
August 28
