Palghar Lynching: Mainstream Media Predictably Chose To Downplay Violent Incident Against Sadhus скачать в хорошем качестве

Palghar Lynching: Mainstream Media Predictably Chose To Downplay Violent Incident Against Sadhus

Three men, including two sadhus from the revered Juna Akhara of Varanasi, were lynched by a mob to their death in Maharashtra’s Palghar district on 16 April around 10 pm. The incident remained largely out of the public glare until 19 April, when videos of the lynching surfaced on the social media. The videos show an aged man clad in saffron being escorted by a cop out of a building. A crowd wielding sticks is waiting outside. As the aged man comes out, looking scared and bleeding on the head, the crowd takes him away, easily and right under the police’s nose, and begins to beat him mercilessly. The videos show no intervention by cops. Videos also show a group of people breaking the glass windows of a police vehicle. It’s not that the national English media did not cover the horrific crime. Prominent newspapers such as The Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Hindu and The Indian Express carried reports in their Mumbai print editions on 18 April. What was missing from the headlines, however, was a glaring detail that two of the three victims were sadhus – members of the largest and oldest order of sadhus in India, no less. Any casual observer of the English media knows that if the victims belonged to a priestly order or clergy of Islam or Christianity, this identity would have been displayed prominently in the headlines. * Subscribe to Swarajya on YouTube. Get a Swarajya subscription: https://subscriptions.swarajyamag.com/ Website: https://swarajyamag.com/ Twitter:   / swarajyamag   Facebook:   / swarajyamag