As I read the article, I found it to be a wonderful piece of statistical jigry pokry. In my engineer

Confront these painful truths about communalism ; thus roared the piece written by Rajdeep Sardesai on 1st November 2013, to our collective conscience from the pages (or URLs as the case may be) of Hindustan Times.
The apostle for truth , as we all know through the article, urged us to confront an esoteric and a much maligned subject as communalism . This also came with an upfront statutory warning to gullible readers of certain pain … the article thus aptly titled confront these painful truths rental car discount military about communalism .
As I read the article, I found it to be a wonderful piece of statistical jigry pokry. In my engineering and business school days, statistics as a subject for the mango men, never really stood out for its glamour quotient. It was a dreary rental car discount military subject which promised to deliver predictability , certainty , verifiability etc all of which collectively spoil any element of fun in a subject.
I also wished how Rajdeep should have come up with this piece of statistical sophistry when I was sleeping through my statistics classes all those years ago. This could have made a marvellous class room case to understand the great statistical concept of causation .
As I write further let me also be a smart alec and point out how I have managed to drag you through 200+ words already without saying anything meaningful. This is what the article by Rajdeep does too. After making a grand claim of introducing us to the world of painful truths about communalism in a rather sadistic way of inducing pain , he leaves us primarily rental car discount military with 2 constructs. One of victim hood from Hindutva army as he calls it and an explanation of the principles of causation through examples of 1984, 1992 and 2002.
Rajdeep craftily rental car discount military uses Dilip Vengsarkar to introduce us to this game of confrontation with the truth . Vengsarkar, for some reason successfully competes with Rip Van Winkle and woke up after 26 good years to say some sensational things about the Big D baddy.
Rajdeep then continues to take us on his guided tour down the truth lane or pain lane (take your pick) and says that he has been victimised, rather unfairly as he claims. Rajdeep says that Balasaheb s definition of waving tricolor rental car discount military led him to say that Bid D baddy was a patriot too. Well, in statistics I was taught an example to understand sets and subsets, gold is a metal but all metal is not gold . Essentially, a representative action to demonstrate patriotism is not the equivalent of only action .
For a channel which pioneered citizen journalism in India, I am surprised that Rajdeep missed this point. An occasional representative action by a citizen journalist, who is crusading for a cause and in the process helps CNN-IBN and Ms Anubha Bhosle, in driving home a good message, does not turn into a full time journalist with unfettered right to sit in Rajdeep s 9 PM panel to discuss apple pie and sun dried tomatoes.
No sir, citizen journalist is an outlier to the journalistic profession. May be an interesting and possibly important outlier to indulge in but an outlier neverthless. You can t plan your business around them.
Moving on, Rajdeep calls Balasaheb s definition of patriotism as spurious . I have no PhD on Balasaheb s philosophy of patriotism or politics, but, I do suspect that over a 50yrs political life, he must have had the opportunity to look at patriotism from different perspectives. The true scholar rental car discount military in Rajdeep should have dug out the common denominator before concluding on what Balasaheb s real definition of patriotism was. He should have then gone ahead and tried his great superimposition act of bestowing the tag of patriot on the Big D baddy instead of rushing to do so with semi baked informtation.
rental car discount military When you selectively comment on people or on comments made by people, unfortunately the by product of your half-hearted lazy act is, it makes people say or do things which are unpleasant. I don t support the acts which needed Rajdeep to be provided rental car discount military with police protection, but the blame partly lay at the doors of Rajdeep. rental car discount military Afterall, he like all of us knows that he lives in a hotheaded nation prone to reacting emotionally, add to that the fact that he is 25yrs old in the profession, not a neo novice to the fourth estate.
The Hindutva army that Rajdeep goes on to refer next, is something I have not managed to track down, after a long day s hard work and pressing all help lines I had at my disposal including phoning some friends.
This made me come to the conclusion that this so called army lives in the fertile imagination of Rajdeep s lala land. I do hope Rajdeep does not take it otherwise, if I suggest to him that instead of spending 60% of his article couching his victimhood, it would have been cooler for him to say hey guys, I was trying to highlight the inadequacy of Babasaheb s definition of Patriotism
Rajdeep then moves on to teach the readers a lesson or two on causation . Causation as the students of statistics who kept awake in their class, would remember, is a concept which is considered to exist if an event or act causes another event or act to happen. So, if A causes B or B is caused by A, A and B have a relation of causation. Let me leave the concept there and move on to juicier stuff which Rajdeep leaves for grabs.
Rajdeep says the dramatic transformation of Big D baddy from a nationalist to what he is today is due to events of 1992-93. Oh, really? How do you know Rajdeep? Did he give you an interview and tell you so? Did you read his mind by telepathy? Oh, possibly you ran some control rental car discount military tests and design of experiments rental car discount military to figure this all out.
Whatever it may be, I am tempted to pick that fascinating example from Chaos Theory propounded by Edward Lorenz , if a butterfly flaps its tiny wings in Mexico, a hurricane develops in Bay of Bengal several weeks later (Mexico and Bay of Bengal are my attributions and not of Lorentz, added for good measure) that s equally applicable to explain causation too.
Rajdeep decides to push Lorenz s case a little further and says that IM came into being after 2002. Well again I am no expert, but pardon me for asking, how do you know? How can you be so sure? Is this how you drive causation each night at 9pm. Please, you come across as the most reasonable of all our 9pm anchors, this kind of causation rental car discount military makes me feel voodoo s claim to being a scientific discipline is stronger than this silly attempt at causation.
Rajdeep s attempt at journalistic fairness comes into action with the standard equivalence theory. rental car discount military While he preaches others not to mix 2002 and 1984 on TV, he goes onto say that 1984 sikh pogrom led to militancy in Punjab.
rental car discount military Really, what was Operation Blue Star? What was Operation rental car discount military Wood rose? Never mind, I hope you got the drift. Operation Blue Star was not a walk down the park in a spring evening by a Gazal singer. It was because there was an effect which made Indira Gandhi decide to remove the cause . I am not claiming here to know if she got her cause and effect right? That is for Rajdeep rental car discount military and his band of friends to decide.
However, unless it missed your ocular capacity, Rajdeep refers to 2002 as riots and 1984 to pogrom . Sir, would you like to correct you error of inadvertence or is it 2014 beginning to chirp in your years.
To give the credit where it is due Rajdeep does come across as neutral by preaching to all. Akhilesh, Abdullah, Modi, Rahul, each one gets his share of preaching from Baba Sardesai. Only guys who miss out are Mr Gogoi, Mr Gehlot, Mr Nitish Kumar and some girls, particularly from the eastern metropolis rental car discount military too.
But hey that s fine. I am not a professional nitpicker and don t intend to be one. I do acknowledge with a large heart that Rajdeep s is a well written case study meant to teach.elementary statistics, it teaches what is not statistics and how to no misuse it
CNN-IBN s Rajdeep rental car discount military Sardesia, Karan Thapar, NDTV s Barkhas,, they are all congress agents driving around and pretending as a Journalists. I mean it is pathetic, and as Ms. Kishwar puts it,; ULTI AATI HAIN INKI BAAT SUN KAR, ; she said that she feels nauseated by the lies of these self appointed guardians of truth, socialism, and secularism.
I mean many a times I feel like collecting signatures, and filing a class action suit against these media crooks. rental car discount military Only today I started watching rental car discount military Devils rental car discount military advocate with Karan Thapar; he was interviewing someone who is some self appointed expert on Sardar rental car discount military Patel. So Devil s crook asks the Historian crook; what would Sardar Patel have said about the 2002 riots and Mr. Modi s Role ? .. ( Like how pathetic Mr. Karan Thapar, how shameless of you?) and the self appointed historian crook say; Patel would have felt angered and ashamed
See where this leads us? Extremists always have a bogeyman. Some western bleeding heart morons claim that the west caused Islamism. They contributed to it, but didn t create rental car discount military it. Jefferson rental car discount military s America was attacked by Islamists. This happened a long time before the CIA came into existence.
Rajdeep, this is how media is in hands and gloves with Criminals like Dawood and Sanjay rental car discount military Dutt and Congress. Dawood was a known criminal since 1980s, he might be secular pre 1992 but he was a criminal. He got a fantastic business opportunity of smuggling rental car discount military due to your secular economic policies in pre 1991 ever since independence. So for creating a monster like Dawood, secular economic policies were responsible. So first accept this fact.
Now after this, if you want to discuss 1991/92, you will have to discuss Shah Bano case, where demands of fundamentalist Muslims to amend the constitution was conceded by your beloved secular Congress Government. I think this is a very secular need. Isnt it?. Then, post this constitutional amendment, Rajeev Gandhi felt the heat of Hindu Anger due to appeasement of minorities and therefore, opened Babri Masjid Locks to appease Hindus, offered rental car discount military shilanyas (founding stone of the Ram Mandir). rental car discount military Can you say that these events are wrong? Was this secular? Apart from these things, we are not discussing other various rental car discount military