'Saqi ki maut pe maikhana udaas hai', the comment was made by a leftist journalist on Jessica Lall's murder and I felt it was in a poor taste then.
Agreed, she was serving liquor, but nobody had the right to belittle her. However, apart from the public outcry and the newspapers carrying the campaign for justice in the case and even going overboard on the issue, the entire national media seems to have ignored the Khairlanji (Kherlanji) massacre (in Bhandara district of Maharashtra).
Only when the Dalit activists came out on streets, held protests and later stromed CM's secretariat, did some papers and channels took cognisance of the heinous crime. Tehelka did carry a report recently by Shivam Vij that is available on his blog.
Is it that the women who were 'gangraped to death and raped even after they died', don't make news because they are no celebrity and the urban India is just not concerned about such massacres!
