** Narration **

I always hate the way 'Ananda Vikatan' (Tamil Magazine) or the magazines of its folk narrate a few incidents and paraphrase interviews. They give more value to sentiments and a few things that people prefer to read allowing values to vanish in thin air. So, when you read an article that treads a different path, you come out impressed.

I read an article written by "Urvashi Butalia" in Outlook. It was on Sanjay Dutt. He has been pronounced guilty and is now on parole. Nevertheless, that hasnt stopped him from rubbing shoulders from none other than PM, Sonia Gandhi and the Home Minister !! Commenting on that, the author wrote so in her last two paras....

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"...... Somehow the Munnabhai persona - the bubbling, rustic, heart-in-the right-place, values-of-the-best-kind human being - has leached into the real persona and we no longer can separate one from the other. We love Sanjay Dutt, are concerned that the punishment he got was 'too harsh', are secretly delighted that he's been let out on bail, are glad the film industry will not lose the Rs 100 crore they say they have invested in him (and yet, when has this ever been a concern for any other convicted person, or indeed for any other industry? Why should such a potential loss be taken into consideration anyway?). And so all of us - the media, politicians, top leaders, the glitterati, ordinary people - are willing to go that extra mile for him.

But we're not willing to do the same for Zaibunisa Kazi, in whose house the weapons were stored for just three hours, who got 10 years, or for Yakub Memon, who was not even necessarily guilty, but who got death."
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Here, I am not taking sides and do not want to comment on the article in any way - just wished to talk about how an article was written. Compare this to how AaaVee finishes one of its article this week....

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" KangaLil num-bik-kai OLI minna, kai kothu-ch sirik-keerargal kanavanum, manaiviyum."
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This at the end of an article about 3D animation pictures being made in India.

Hmmm !!! Pzsst !!