Times of India or Times of Pakistan

Every morning, I wake up and wait for the Times of India to give me my daily fix of new, views, happening and what not is happening in the country. But, since the agitation in Jammu and Kashmir has started my stomach churrns every morning after i go through this paper.

Times of India seems has turned into Times of Pakistan or Times of Kashmir and like the other separatist papers of Kashmir valley biased reports that smack of pro-kashmiri and anti-national agenda are filling the paper. TOI it seems supports the anti-national and anti-India agenda of the Pakistan supporters in Kashmir valley, while the paper talks of atrocities in Kashmir, it has effectively censored most of the news from Jammu.

While pictures of kashmiri protesters flying Pak flags can be found prominently, no one is talking about the anti-national agenda of the leaders in Kashmir. On Thursday, August 14, Sumit Ganguly, a US based professor has asked the BJP to stop its dogs agitating in Jammu to ensure the temperature comes down in Kashmir Valley.

The tragedy is that despite being nationalists, the people of Jammu are neither required by Kashmir and nor the Indian nation, whose media has tried to brand the agitation of the people as secular. But in Kashmir where lakhs of hindus were thrown out, temples destroyed, amarnath shrine board divested of land, where Indian flag is burnt-The government of India is begging and playing footsie to every demand of the fundamentalist Kashmiris.

But why is the Indian media, so supplicant to the Kashmiri cause, if the Indian government thinks Kashmiris have a genuine cause then they should allow a plebiscite in Kashmir and give due rights to them and let them go. But, why are the people of Jammu being made slaves to the Kashmir cause.

The Times of India on August 15 has filed a story 'No quiet on Kashmir Front' by Mohd Saleem Pandit, and he writes in a clear anti-India style sending the message that India will lose Kashmir, if their demands just and unjust are not met.
His each and every story smells of an impending revolution in Kashmir unless India meets their every demand. But TOI has to answer where are stories from its Jammu based stringer Anil Kotwal. Is he not filing stories, why no story from Jammu is being published on the popular agitation and whether some newsworthy happenings are taking place there.

Avijit Ghosh of ToI looks more to be a reporter of Greater Kashmir and it seems he is suffering from Kidnappers syndrome, where the kidnapped person sympathizes with the Kidnappers. Trying to be more Kashmiri than Kashmiris, he has written that a Blockade in Kashmir has led to stoppage of marriages and how rural kashmiris are helping people with vegetables as if none is available in Kashmir due to economic blockade by jammu people. Has he taken pains to visit lower munda, Jawahar tunnel and Lakhanpur on the national highway, where hundreds of trucks under army supervision are travelling daily. It is shameful that a national paper is supporting a wrong agenda and the publication appears completely biased.