Letter to the Hoot: Why is Jaya Jaitly’s article on the Hoot?

BY Uma Iyer| IN Opinion | 03/02/2003

What is Jaya Jaitlyøs article, from the Indian Express doing on TheHoot?

What is Jaya Jaitly`s article, "Gilani and Badal, same difference" from Indian Express doing on The Hoot? This is an example of a politician using the Press for personal vendetta.

Indian Express is very happy to have political connections, which a complete political novice like me can see. Why should The Hoot reproduce her article?

Jaya Jaitly really clearly has no shame if she is willing to forget that she has hardly faced any persecution even after being caught on video taking a bribe, which a journalist, let alone a common citizen, will not get away with.

For her to take a moral high-ground and criticize journalists, for heaven`s sake **&^% killing animals, as though people are not getting easily killed. What with George Fernandez talking about nuclear strike, and what with Narendra Modi and his goons walking free.

Uma Iyer
Bloomington
February 1,2003

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