How a motorcycle theft in Rajasthan was given a casteist color by media

This is one of those posts that should ideally have been published at least a week ago. But as it often happens, with Mameluk activity always happening at a frenetic pace, this poor blogger often has to place some incidents in the “waiting room”. As we have been discussing often, the Dynasty and its Mameluks have been in cold sweat ever since the BJP began its offensive to create a truly Hindu nationwide vote covering all castes. No wonder then that the desperation to paint the BJP as anti-Dalit is at an all time high. Take this from India Today:

From looking for azaadi inside Kanhaiya’s pants to caste war in an ordinary bike theft case, the desperate secular brigade will stop at nothing. Just a reminder that India Today is the organization that Rajdeep Sardesai works for. And then Madam Sagarika will blog in ToI accusing social media of giving communal color to “road rage”….

 

Well, how could NDTV be far behind? Soon they had put up a whole article about this, for which they received a pat of appreciation from the Shehzada himself!

The Mameluks at NDTV must have partied late into the night. Such appreciation right from the top!

But where did this juicy story originate from? Who is the Mameluk that sowed the seed? I searched hard and from what I understood, the father of this story is a Mameluk by the name of Shoeb Khan working for ToI. Indeed, I look forward to Madam Sagarika Ghose’s next blog in the ToI accusing social media of being irresponsible:

Indeed, Mameluk Shoeb Khan went a step further. Can you spot it? Instead of merely implying it,  Shoeb Khan went ahead and explicitly said that the Dalit boys had been thrashed by “upper caste”. As if we needed further confirmation, could the Mameluks be more blatant in promoting caste war in a desperate attempt to bring down Modi?

Armed with such hard hitting, responsible reporting from mainstream media, the Congress ecosystem went into overdrive. Here is Prashant Sareen, co-founder of Newslaundry fishing in troubled waters:

For good measure, Mameluk Sareen added the spice with the “Bharat Mata” angle. To be fair, Sareen was not alone in adding the “Bharat Mata” spice to the story. There was another cook called Barkha Dutt who had the same idea:

As we focus and fight over Bharat Mata Ki Jai. When really we should be dying of shame at this. – if true. https://t.co/qcM2zzLuhf

— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) April 5, 2016

No wonder, the prospect of  “dying of shame” brought out the animal instincts of the secular vultures. Their mouths began to water.

The pot had been stirred, the cauldron was boiling and a giant feast was being prepared for secular vultures. Vulture Rifat Jawaid of Janatakareporter began to spread far and wide the news of the feast that was ready:

Ah..Rifat Jawad had the video too! The vultures could now let out cries of delight. Together they would make the Hindus “die of shame” so that the secular vultures could eat.

And then, reality poured cold water on the tasty meal that was being prepared:

Ha! Three of the six people who beat up these kids were Dalits themselves! 

All that spice, all that spin and the secular vultures got nothing to eat…one by one they walked out. Some deleted tweets, some confidently got on with blaming Bhakts for the turn of events…But I cannot help feel for one  who really began to cry at the turn of events.

She is a kid fresh out of journalism school. She can’t believe that this feast got away from her… Don’t worry, little one, such is life. They say there is “many a slip between the cup and the lip”. This was one such moment. Make your peace with it.  Life goes on.