1. Having worked with these jokers for over a decade I can tell you without a bit of exaggeration that the secular/leftist journalist is inherently cowardly. While hatred for Hinduism, greed, bribes dictate their journalism, they have an irrational fear of fundamentalist Muslims.
2. For instance, a Muslim employee would be addressed by the journos as "Khan Saab" or "Siddique Saab" as if they were descendants of Mughal emperors. This parallels the appeasement that has been happening for the last 75 years. Muslims must be treated with special deference.
3. One of these guys was a 26 year old Muslim and the much older seculars would call him Khan Saab. It was sickening. But I'd call them "Khan" or "Mr Siddiqui" and these Muslims were totally fine with it. In fact, they respected me because they knew I was not a secular sycophant.
4. On the nights before festivals, all papers place a small coloured box in the margins, wishing readers happy Diwali, Holi, Durga Puja etc. But if it was Eid, the editors would get hyper paranoid because they didn't want to get it wrong as there were two different Eids.
5. "If we mistakenly wish Bakr rather than Fitr, the hordes from beyond Red Fort will pour into the office and keel us all." One Lutyens editor used to just write "Pakistan Express wishes its readers Eid." Even "happy" was not to be used as they feared it would upset Muslims.
6. However, no such deference was given to Hindus. An editor at Toiletpaper of India ordered one of his female journalists not to wear bindi to work as "I don't want any "religious symbols in the workplace".
7. But the biggest crime of these seculars is they treat Pakistan with kid gloves. They conflate the Pakistanis with the Mughals and gave undue respect or they hope one day the Pakistan Army would enter Delhi, shoot all Hindus and install the seculars as rulers of India.
8. The defining impression of my decade in the Lutyens media was the complete lack of self respect in these journalists. Some pimped their wives to editors for promotions. Not one of them had pride in India. They thought they were cool but they were really coolies.
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