An open letter to Arnab Goswami
February 18, 2016 18:38
That Times Now, which has been flooding the airwaves with its 'We Changed the News' ads of late, has been attracting a lot of flak over its coverage of the JNU protests.
And Aarti Sethi has added her voice with an open letter in kaafila.org to India's most famous news anchor.
'You are a bully and a brute. It may seem a strange thing to say, that it is how you say things more than the things you say that seem to bother me,' she says in it.
Arnab's performance on News Hour night after night 'is not about love for India, or patriotism, or the country. This has nothing to do with love of anything at all. This is simply the infantile vengeful response of a child lashing out at thwarted desire. So what is it that you want Arnab? What will fulfill you?' Aarti Sethi asks.
'You are not an angry man Arnab. You are a hate-filled man. This is why night after night you can marshall such limitless reserves of deranged indignation. A lesser person would be spent. But not you. You persevere,' she says.
'I am writing to ask you to stop. Put yourself on a diet. Moderate your appetite. Curb your gluttony. Because when finally the snake has eaten its own tail there is no snake left. Just a creature whose eyes can only look at its own arse. I am asking you to behave yourself so this country does not become a public urinal in which we wallow in our own shit because we mistake it for gold (this is Freud not me, and he's dead so you can call him an anti-national in heaven where he most certainly is),' Aarti writes, here.
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