Tidbits of the region’s media
Okay, first things first. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) cadres need to understand what 'irony' means. Seriously. A group of them 'protested' (read: screamed, burnt tyres, brandished stuff) on 16 July outside the offices of a TV channel, making Chhetria Patrakar wonder what the channel in question had done to earn the RSS's ire. After digging past freeze-dried RSS slogans – a task that CP absolutely does not relish – it turned out that the channel had telecast a programme the previous day indicating that some RSS cadres might have played a role in 'acts of reprisal terrorism against Muslims and their places of worship'.
There might be truth to the story – or there might not – but CP would like to know which genius(es) in the RSS thought pressuring a media house would be a good way to prove their innocence. Basic lesson, boys (and Chhetria feminist Patrakar has not noticed any non-boy in there; not that this is necessarily a bad thing in this case): using violence to show that you're not violent does not work; there is no non-violent violence.