As I land home groggy and jetlagged, I learn of India’s new ‘shoegate’ status. A Sikh journalist expresses his anger over a recent political move by throwing his shoe at the Home Minister.
As the national media debates the rights and wrongs of the methodology used, the throw sure did not miss raising a public voice on the ’84 riots when 2,000 Sikhs in the Indian capital alone were killed in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination by her bodyguards belonging to the same community.
An issue that has oft been swept under the political carpet has now been kicked upfront by the humble shoe. A friend of mine, also friend to the new ‘betrayer of the journalistic fraternity’ says the 25-year old scars are hard to ignore. I say a billion pairs of shoes are even harder to discount.
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