I Agree With Subramanian Swamy

Abhinandan, what do you mean by, “I” don’t get it, “I” don’t understand???? You must remember that “you” are an anchor, and ‘your’ job is to pose questions and elicit responses for the audience. Isn’t that the fundamental job of the media- to act as a conduit between masses and politicians? All anchors have gotten derailed in self-assuming vanity…that’s the real curse of the pseudo-democracy that India today is…where the very pillars that claim to be neutral are so lop-sided, prejudiced and self-engaged that they fail to discharge their basic duties. Very disappointing interviewing skills indeed.

Abhinandan:

1. You got balls, have to give you that, Nobody else from the mainstream has dared to bring up Issues like Sonia with Swamy.

2. How about a more detailed interview with Swamy discussing the content on his website.

3. You need to do a little more research on your guests and not go by what is available in the mainstream media(ironic). Other sources like foreign publications, court records etc.

4. Would like to see you assert yourself more during interviews, some of your guests took liberties that are usually reserved for very junior or novice interviewers, case in point Tavleen Singh sort of cleaned your clock didnt she?

5. Its okay to be politically incorrect, that is what will make newslaundry work.

6. Also your left leanings are clearly visible(even though you try hard to portray a centrist position) in most of the media you’ve appeared on. Try and hire a few people from a more right point of view otherwise you may end up like an ndtv or ibn which is great for tv barons but sort of defeats the purpose of a whistleblower portal. Do remember most of your hits would be from people who are somewhat fed up (read disgusted) of the shit spewed on TV by left, liberal, corrupt channels, so give em a reason to revisit.

7. Pls Advertise, you guys are bit too tame for my liking but I cant recommend you enough. But most people havent heard of you, where are the ads on google, online news portals and I dont think you guys have an SEO department!!

Heres hoping for more hard hitting content and a couple of million unique views for you guys.

I suppose it was too much for Abhinandan to digest ….lol…anyway secularism followed by many in the media is nothing short of escapist and shallow in thought! Swamy as is known is clear in his thoughts

Abhinandan, consider yourself very lucky to have this man in front of you, and consider me a internet hindu/troll….. but If you don’t recognize this man’s strength today, tomorrow it would be too late, you will ask yourself a question, how did I miss that …. it was so easy… And most importantly you seemed to have forgotten how to give respect to elders, look at your body language, crossing your legs as if you are some hot shot anchor? Sit right! That is a very respectable person sitting in front of you. That’s why Mr. Swamy wants you morons to understand the importance of Hinduism, which your leftist ideologue will never comprehend.

“I am a Professor and I am used to Definition” Nicely said and a tight slapped. By Swamy

Dr. Subramanian Swamy (not unlike Ram Jethmalani) is one of those persons for whom it is difficult to tell whether one likes them or dislikes them (and reactions can be extreme both ways). Personally, just when I find myself in violent agreement with his statements and actions on several issues, his stand on certain other issues turn out to be such that one can only vehemently disagree. I suspect he is himself a person of inherent contradictions, which is obvious if one follows his personal political history (starting with JP’s anti-emergency movement and stint in Morarji Desai’s govt while remaining friendly to RSS but unfriendly to Atal Behari Vajpayee; then fallout with BJP/RSS and jump on to Rajiv Gandhi’s camp and becoming a staunch Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist; then subsequent fallout with Sonia Gandhi in the post-Rajiv Congress and political intrigues with Jayalalitha against Vajpayee’s NDA govt; and finally embracing RSS all over again and joining hands with BJP and NDA).

Overall a good interview, and unlike several other commentators here, I would actually like to commend Abhinandan Sekhri for holding his own (and getting his valid points across) against someone as intellectual and combative as Subramanian Swamy. He rightly called out the fallacies inherent in Dr. Swamy’s radical proposal to disenfranchise non-Indian-origin religious minorities unless they accept and embrace their Hindu ancestry — not only does that not make sense for orphans, but also rules out immigrants from other countries ever becoming full naturalized citizens of India! However, let me also take the opportunity to educate Abhinandan on certain other aspects during this interview where he was factually incorrect with wrong understanding or perceptions of historical facts:

1. There is nothing bizarre about Sonia being paid by the KGB for services rendered during the height of the Soviet Union’s influence in domestic Indian politics. Abhinandan is not a junior intern or newbie journalist — surely he is also aware of the “Vasily Mitrokhin archive”, and how several other members of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty such as Indira and Rajiv themselves, over several decades, have been paid millions and billions of dollars by the KGB to do the USSR’s bidding during the cold war.

2. Vaishnavism and Shaivism are not the only philosophies of India’s ancient Dharmic traditions (I would refrain from using the term “Hinduism religion” which is a European invention to make up for their failure to comprehend historical Indian philosophy and thereby mis-categorize it as a “religion”). Google around and read up about the huge material on “Carvaka”, the first well-researched atheistic philosophy in the world and the spiritual and philosophical predecessor of later atheist philosophies such as Jainism and Buddhism, paradoxically categorized as one of the traditions of the “religion of Hinduism” (now you see why the latter phrase does not make sense?).

Sekhri is pathetic! watch out man! Tavleen Singh will definitely eat you out for breakfast

DR swamy is perfectly right when he says that pakistan was created for muslims who did not want to co exist with hindus and i am sure if the pseudo secular politicans are not allowed to create communal vote banks the muslims in india would only be very proud of their rich hindu heiratage instead of claiming arab afgan persian as their ancestors and south indian muslims declaring urdu as their mother tongue and trying to dress like arabs further dr swamy is absolutely right the common heiratage of all indians is a very powerful binding force to make the country very powerful just like the united states in the first 150 yrs when people from one part of the world who c spoke the same language and followed more or less the same religion

Abhinandan goes out of way to prove that he is just a stupid kid with no historical perspective, who also is incompetent enough not to do any homework or background research on the topics that he discusses with experienced,knowledgeable and elderly people.

now whats the diff. b/w nl and ndtv.long hair with naxal-ism,he gave a theory but you wrote it in front as if its more important than sonia and rahul mayno issue.

the interviewer is too vague.not worth!! Madhu Trehan is better

wonderful work !!! Im-Pressed

Ppl here want the interviewer fired because they think they are better. Must be a bunch of journalism grads lurking around without much to do.

Mr reporter with balls,

At one instance you used ‘how can you even think of that’, to counter Swami’s argument that muslims who dont acknowledge their hindu ancestry in the voting form, dont have that right to vote, after all voting is not a fundamental right, its JUST a right.”

With this statement Mr Swami left himself open to all journalists for potshots, but you chose to engage him in a battle of morals, “how could you even thing of that, sir”.

Does being a journalist warrant being high on secular morals or objectivity?
And Voting is a fundamental duty, It is greater than any fundamental right. Go back to your class 8 NCERT books my friend because that right there was a knockout jab which you just missed.

If you are disappointed with this interview, watch Karan Thapar’s interview of Dr. Swami. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uswfTdIRVg0