Know Your NaMo

"...I was particularly struck by the manner in which Modi has talked about Prof Keshavram Kashiram Shastry or Keka Shastri... who had been State president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad for quite sometime... He emphatically mentions that ‘he was as a father to me’... The interview Keka Shastri gave to the website http://www.rediff.com was an admission for the first time by a leading member of Hindutva brigage about his organisation’s direct role in the carnage which officially saw over- 2,000 deaths, uprooting of lakhs of people from their home and hearth and loss of hope of a just and peaceful life for millions of people... he was not even called to the police station to explain his utterances. It was as if he was putting it in black and white what others of his ilk were implementing through this ‘successful experiment.’... Let us watch out for a ‘Bharat Ratna’ to Prof Keka Shastry - a small tribute from a ‘son’ to his ‘father’ - if the ‘dear son’ manages to cross the 272 hurdle..."