Letter to editor by Wg cdr Kapoor

From: RSingh305@aol.com [mailto:RSingh305@aol.com]
Sent: 09 August 2010 17:47
To: Kamboj Chander
Subject: Re: SOME OF THE EMAILS RECEIVED FROM MEMBERS - SET 3 - "REPORT MY SIGNAL" -...

With reference to the excellent letter to the editor, "The Times of India", written by Wing Commander SC Kapoor (retd.), I would like to say:

He has rightly lodged his strong protest with the editor over the publicity given to the victims of atomic "bombs that shook the world," while ignoring any homage whatsoever to the sacrifices of our own Jawans who are killed in action.

I recall my own disgust a long time ago when our political leaders used to "wail and cry" over the partition of Palestine, hailing Yasser Arafat as a great leader and patriot but never ever mentioned the Partition of our own India that suffered huge loss of territory and created TEN TIMES more refugees than the number of Palestinian refugees.

Mr. Yasser Arafat was received and honoured in India as State guest. He used to go back laden with honours and cash awards. Indian news media covered every detail of his trips at full length. I realized then that it was India's official policy to ignore her own Partition but to make big fuss over similar tragedies thousands of miles away from our borders.

It is very bad, indeed, to see that decades on, the same policy of ignoring our own soldiers and their sacrifices by the Indian media continues.

Regards
Rajinder Singh Rajput
Veteran, UK
9 Aug 2010