India: “Tell your sahib to watch what he says on TV†– Goons beat up former Hindu editor Varadarajan’s caretaker

On 23rd February, Senior Journalist and former Editor of The Hindu newspaper, Siddharth Varadarajan and his wife Professor Nandini Sundar were indirectly threatened when four goons beat up their flat’s caretaker and told the caretaker: “Tell your sahib to watch what he says on TV“. The couple weren’t at home when the incident occurred.

Siddharth Varadarajan and Nalini Sundar

While Siddharth Vardarajan is often seen in political talk shows on various TV channels, Professor Nandini Sundar is a noted sociologist and the Head of Department of Sociology at Delhi School of Economics. While Siddharth Vardarajan is perceived to be anti-Modi and had to reportedly resign from his job as the Editor of Hindu because there was pressure from the newspaper’s board to place Narendra Modi’s stories more prominently in the newspaper, Nandini Sundar, has also been in news with BJP ruled Chhattisgarh’s police trying to somehow implicate her for alleged links with banned Maoists in Chhattisgarh. She has been waging a battle against the Chhattisgarh government by raising issues of accountability by state police and Government to constitutional requirements and human rights laws.

Though the goons who came and thrashed the caretaker haven’t been identified yet, it is quite possible that they would be members of some fringe organization associated with RSS/BJP as both husband and wife are perceived to be anti-BJP. Usually the job of criminal intimidation is left to these fringe organizations like Hindu Sena, so that they can be conveniently disowned later, even though it is well known that the fringe organizations as well as BJP have their origins in RSS.

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