Comments on: A taste of the tests http://kbalakumar.com/2010/02/05/a-taste-of-the-tests/ All is fair in love & laughter Sat, 19 May 2012 11:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: MN http://kbalakumar.com/2010/02/05/a-taste-of-the-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-201 MN Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:36:56 +0000 http://kbalakumar.com/?p=453#comment-201 Hi Balakumar, I've been reading your column for many months now. Appreciate it very much. I keep wondering (if not fixating) about a particular theme that is going on in almost all Mainstream Media outlets. More than words, the following TWO news items illustrate what I seek to point out. 1. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/raped-dalit-girl-kills-herself-as-cops-let-off-the-accused/110366-3.html?from=tn 2. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/3-sentenced-to-life-for-raping-surat-schoolgirl/110384-3.html?from=tn Do you too share this wonderment? How is it that 3 members who committed a gang rape of a minor 17-yr old SCHOOL-GIRL never get identified with any caste, creed, race, ethnicity (Obviously, I won't say that *R* word)? However, an invididual who raped another (not minor, not 17-yr old, not SCHOOL GIRL) gets identified with his *CASTE*? I suppose this must be one of the values enshrined in some OATH of OFFICE that media-folks undertake. Hope to, someday, read your thoughts on this & other such events by comparing them. Hi Balakumar,

I’ve been reading your column for many months now. Appreciate it very much.

I keep wondering (if not fixating) about a particular theme that is going on in almost all Mainstream Media outlets. More than words, the following TWO news items illustrate what I seek to point out.

1. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/raped-dalit-girl-kills-herself-as-cops-let-off-the-accused/110366-3.html?from=tn

2. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/3-sentenced-to-life-for-raping-surat-schoolgirl/110384-3.html?from=tn

Do you too share this wonderment? How is it that 3 members who committed a gang rape of a minor 17-yr old SCHOOL-GIRL never get identified with any caste, creed, race, ethnicity (Obviously, I won’t say that *R* word)? However, an invididual who raped another (not minor, not 17-yr old, not SCHOOL GIRL) gets identified with his *CASTE*? I suppose this must be one of the values enshrined in some OATH of OFFICE that media-folks undertake.

Hope to, someday, read your thoughts on this & other such events by comparing them.

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