Godhra and its Aftermath
... The Godhra incident has also evoked many to find the reasons behind the attack. ... All these theories came forward immediately in the English press after the godhra incident, and most were made by people who have kept a sustained and relentless attack on the RSS, the VHP and the BJP. The condemnation of the godhra incident, when it came, was unequivocal, by these self styled secularists but in there pronouncements and in there writings, they also forward the above mentioned theories, to act as subtle justification. A week or a month of silence in Gujarat after the godhra incident might have turned these subtle justifications into louder ones. This is not to affirm the riots in Gujarat but to question the efforts of some in the media of turning godhra into an action and retaliation incident. ... The mass upsurge in Gujarat after the godhra violence, the bestiality of the riots are facts. ... This constant reference does reduce one to become inhuman enough and inquire of why they aren’t vociferous enough about godhra. ... Alongwith the communist who dominate the media, they have played a major role in making the VHP movement of liberating the three great monuments of the Hindu tradition, the Ram janambhumi, the Kashi Vishwanath mandir and the Krishna janambhumi, as a fundamentalist movement and its leaders as fascists, trying to take India back to the medieval ages.