This refers to the article, “Modi wave is turning the media tide now” (April 17) by Gautam Mukherjee. There has been a deliberate distortion of the incidents of violence in Gujarat in 2002. There have been so many communal riots in the country, but the attention on them was never as it has been on Gujarat and Chief Minister Narendra Modi. I was working in Ahmedabad when the riots broke out in 1968. I narrowly escaped being killed in Shahpur Darwaza, a minority enclave.
Mr Modi is right in citing Gujarat's history of riots. Is the media oblivious to 1984 and the Mumbai riotsIJ Why is there so much hate reserved for Mr ModiIJ He had taken over as Chief Minister barely four months before the violence broke out. Even so, he brought the situation under control soon, despite refusal of help from then Congress-ruled Governments in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. The Army was deployed in Gujarat within 24 hours.