Jaswant at RSS camp

Sir, - The News Analysis titled ``Jaswant becomes a Swayamsevak'' by Mr. Harish Khare (Aug. 14) based on a picture of the External Affairs Minister, Mr. Jaswant Singh, with some RSS leaders at an RSS camp in Bangalore that appeared in some newspapers, grossly betrays the trust readers have in the impartiality of TheHindu in disseminating information to the public.

True to the adage quoted by him, he has read ``a thousand words'' into the picture, the presence of Mr. Singh as ``intriguing'', that someone is trying to ``brew a post-Vajpayee scenario'', that Mr. Singh thinks he can propitiate the RSS bosses-the ultimate self-styled king-makers'' and that the Advani camp is wanting to move ``for the kill on an ageing and faltering Prime Minister.''

I, for one, am pained and I believe many of your readers are, that the pages of the newspaper are being used to malign men in high positions by innuendoes per se defamatory.

Is this a proper analysis of news? I am afraid not.

M. P. R. Nair,

Kochi, Kerala

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