Madras: The ghost of “foreign hand” and “Gulf money”, said to be responsible for the mass conversion of untouchables in TN, has been at last laid to rest by the country’s topmost authority, the Prime Minister herself.
She told newsmen in Madras on Sept. 11 that “there was no proof” of foreign money used in conversions. The Hindu, India’s most important Brahmin paper which was chiefly responsible for raising this bogey, reported such an important statement as if it is of no consequence. The same statement almost went unreported in the country’s press, which had described the mass conversions as a national crisis. The Hindu report (Sept 12) said: “Replying to the question whether the Centre had any report that : Gulf money had played a role in mass conversions, the Prime Minister said some people had suggested this. But there was no proof”. Look at the way the “national press”, owned by corrupt capitalists and manned by high caste journalists, are playing havoc with the lives of the minorities. What should have been a front page report, did not even see the light of the day.
