Deafening silence! Why? Where are the Human rights organisations, where are the NGO's, where are those secular parties? Where is the secular Media electronic and Print?Not to be seen, not to be heard. They have for last 7 years at every occasion pointed a finger at the incumbent government. Their demand and prayer was granted by none other, than the Supreme Court. What has this impartial probe brought out in public? That barring, the Supreme Court, the incumbent government, rest were indulging in communal hatred of the worst kind with little or no regard for the victims and their families.These votaries of secularism now need to answer to this country Why? and for what? did they indulge in such blatant vilification of the everything Gujarat first and Hindu next.These so called secularist have dealt a body blow to the very idea of secularism and public activism. Who will believe and trust when one of us raises his voice for genuine cause which may be communal in nature.This is a case of extreme national shame.

teesta did all this just to be in good books of her muslim husband .Shame on u teesta the selfish lady .U just demonise the communinity of ur birth just for urs selfish goals

Why no ngos no secularists no congressman came to the rescue of kasmiri pandits n hindus killed in cold blood by sikh terrorists

teesta is a total hypocrite. Though born in a gujrati hindu family she is noticeably anti hindu.She talked of minority n women rights but changed to muslim faith to marry a muslim.How this act of changing religeon to marry is in line with her thinking of "woman has equal right" Why istead of converting to the faith of her husband she could of insisted on remaining hindu. Now she became one of those breeds whch takes pride in being part of taliban whch beleives in shariat by flogging young woman n murdering human who dares to differ from them

the stand by a good majority of the bloggers is very much justified.the azams ,owaisis,siddiquis,and bukharis as they are.the entire 2002 is now a dispute which no side is going to accept what ever the verdict of the court.one side are those who can see no questions be raised about the rulers of the day in 2002.on the other we have a fare number who want justice for 59 odd and the disputed 2000 believed to having been killed ruthlessly ,without any religious or ideological leanings.whats been amazing is the shrill in views bieng expressed,more so of those who enjoy justice above ethnic background and who live in the devloped world.the aim is pretty clear nobody question thou.Just say gujrat never happened and move on.U are getting nowhere.

No Matter what happens ,until now no Justice has been delivered to the innocent people who lost their lives this includes 60+ people who were burned alive on the train and thousands who lost in the riot planned and executed by the able support of the CM who is still ruling that state. Unless the attitude ofthe majortiy of the people who support butchers and mob who commit violence against innocent people change the country is heading for a Civil War. THis is a classic case which resembles the early days of Hitler's bid to capture power.

I would suggest the citizen of our country to not hold our breaths in anticipation of media taking a fair stance. We have to realize that the reason media is not doing fair reporting is not because they cannot, or are somehow unaware of their partisanship. It is a deliberate decision, they are not indulged in journalism but in propaganda.

If anyone thinks that he can change their inherent character, he is living in a fool's paradise. Truth loving people have to find effective ways to transmit the facts to the general public.

The point of contention here is Sundeep's description of virtues of Indian Secular, namely, Truth, justice and impatiality. In this entire episod of Gujarat riot coverage where do you see these virtues manifested? More hindus died from police bullets in this riot than any other racial riots in last sixty years. Coverage was such that as if the Muslims took it lying down. While the number of dead tells a different story. The most unfortunate part is numerous films produced on this riot, which showed gory scenes of mass killings (of course play-acting), are being used by the terrorists to brainwash young Kasabs.

I think violence of any kind should be punished. Indian state needs to assert. But at the same time people shouldn't be allowed to defame others by cooking up stories and use media nd pronounce people guilty even before it has happened. Teesta seems to have done it and she should be punished along with all others who did that. But others involved in the burning of the train and subsequent rioting. all should be punished. The Law and Judiciary needs to be totally impartial. Otherwise we shall ahve these kind of incidents and subsequent speculations which ruin many lives

The secular brigade must have known it all along. But, Teesta Setalvad's fraud on the judiciary, the media and the people of India has come as a great shock to all of us non-secular Hindus (which means all Hindus), who have been watching for long with a lot of patience but growing concern the systematic propaganda against the Hindus in general, but Narendra Modi in particular by a very well heeled NGO network and supported to the hilt by the so called secular media. It was finally the non-committed, no non-sense SIT chief, Raghavan, who nailed a gigantic hoax played on the nation by this secular enchantress and Hindu-baiting seductress of the media. What a fraud! What a scale!! It is a shame that the media willingly partnered her in this fraud with astounding credulity and went along with her in her Modi-baiting and witch-hunting.

The interesting part is that such an epoch making news item was tucked deep inside in small print by The New Indian Express, while the media leader, The Times Of India, Bangalore, didn't feel obliged to print the news at all !!!

Perhaps, the seculars, who carried on such a huge vilification campaign worldwide with the active help from the American church will at least now show some contrition, if not an outright apology. I also hope the media will now pursue the matter to put Teesta Setalvad and her other fellow conspirators behind bars with equal fervour to erase at least a part of their shame.

Dhananjay Mahapatra has put his job with the Times Of India on line and he deserves a bigapplause for his commitment and courage.

Beware of indian NGO's. these NGO's are funded by foreign religeous church and arabian shaiks,to promote religeous intersets of some sections of indian society.They are just paid labours with international mouth.

Ajit Tendulkar,

'You seem to have a whole lot of trouble parsing simple phrases such as "If true" '
Not really. I AM troubled a little bit about the spin doctoring of Outlook being accepted as sagely truth. It seems you are just a sane person who, not having followed how Outlook operates for years, is giving it the benefit of doubt.

Secondly, I would encourage you to understand that SIT is not really something put by a government. It has been constituted by the Supreme Court itself, and therefore seems (at least to me) to have more credibility than any agency constituted by any government. In any case, I hope the truth will come out.

Ankan Kumar, easy. You seem to have a whole lot of trouble parsing simple phrases such as "If true".
That is what any sane person would say given the background of what happened in Gujarat and I for one, despite reading the TOI article, am not willing to comment further till more information is available. I am glad to see that Pratap Mehta is also putting that caveat. One should keep in mind that similar tactics was used by the 1984 Congress accused, including Jagdish Tytler, to discredit the witnesses. It could easily have been a technicality - and something about Teesta Setalwad's background doesn't inspire confidence.

having seen whats been coming out of this alleged report of the SIT on mrs seetalvad.Lets concede that 2002 never happened and all that was reported and shown was fabricated.The charges made against the main accused are concoted.Nobody perpetuated or alligned with the mobs.If that is ok for all those who see it as conspiracy to demonise innocents.Why are we wasting our time, who is speaking the truth.lets for once agree that nothing happened and nobody must be held responsible,and if at all anything did happen whats the bigdeal..Lets move on.

Outlook is hanging its coat on the IF TRUE logic, in the long established tradition of its spokesmanship of the Congress. First things first, Times of India has stood by its reporting. It has reiterated that TOI has access to the SIT report and has even quoted from the report (with page numbers included). The link to TOI reiteration is :
http://timesofindia....icleshow/4407437.cms

The quote put up by Outlook in defense of Teesta Setalvad is basically a baloney.

Secondly, none of us should expect Outlook to report the truth. Like Fox News in the US, Outlook lives in a no facts zone. So please realize that any attempt to make Outlook honor the journalistic traditions will be futile.

Look at the great hurry of Sonia controlled government to confer Padmasri award on Teesta Setalvad.Teesta is just one of a kind.Don't forget the equally virulent Arundhati Roy.Both these women hide the fact they are not Hindus.Then,there is a plethora of journalists like Barkha Dutt for whom shrieking in favour of Muslims and Christians is secular.Blame the stupid Hindus for bringing upon themselves to be ruled by secularists like Sonia Gandhi.

The report of the SIT as reported in the section of the press is shocking to say the least,the charge that teesta seetalvad had concoted stories of killings is plain damning.If the charges are true then she has played into the hands of perpetuators of 2002 and taken the so called victims for a ride.As a guy with no affiliations the very facts of 2002 will stand scrutiny by law,if that many people were killed or if all that was reported was infact authentic.The quest for justice if any can now be just forgotten as the charges made.Lets say for the record 2002 never happened and get on.

Well, well, well. The "victims" and "hurt" BJP-supporters are back again? So what's the point this time? That Modi did not allow his goons to go on "revenge killings" for two days? As for Teesta, frankly, I won't be surprised to find that she is indeed guilty of what she is charged with -- and if she is, she does definitely deserve to be prosecuted and condemned most strongly.

There is no reason, however, of treating the claims of BJP government's lawyers as the gospel. Given their past record, and the Tehelka disclosures, they do deserve to be treated with utmost skepticism.

Oh ! The Holier Than Thou attitude of pseudo-secular ! Sundeep descibes so called secular's virtues as "Truth, justice, impariality and the rule of the law". Surely he must be kidding. For these people, Modi, Varun are guilty and they are judge, jury and the executioner for them. Varun's so called hate speech, did not create any wave when it was made or even when it was shown on TV for days on end. Nobody had to take any extra measure to prevent racial riot because of the speech, yet Varun was sent to and kept in jail.

It is quite interesting that Teesta is still given benefit of doubt by the media while someone like Modi is always branded guilty before proven innocent. Having heard her on TV in a debate, I am not surprised by the verdict. What do you expect from anti-nationals like her from group like Subrang who posts india's map without Kashmir on their site and shamelessly justify it ?
This anger about undermining credibility of seculars is fake. These pseudo-seculars never had any credibility and there is nothing surprising in Teesta's actions.

Teesta Pista is shrill biassed woman anyone can tell.. Have you ever seen her talking about the rights of KAshmiri pandits never.....