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Your reporting is unbiased and free of any political leanings.Īs somebody whose leanings are very clear I respect and appreciate your journalism. Your reporting is perhaps the only shred of conscience that binds a tragically divided nation and its search for a semblance of truth.īarkha, thank you for being you. Every time I see you out on the streets I know you risk infection and I know how that feels. I feel guilty about commenting on the charity of my colleagues or the open bigotry displayed by some of them and questioning them from the comfort of home and family. I feel guilt that while I direct my sarcasm at the quackery promoted by the government and its sycophants in the name of corona remedies, here is somebody who is asking tough questions and drawing our attention to the real challenges ahead of our highly fragile public healthcare system. I see you out on the streets while I am comfortably ensconced in my village cooking for the family and feeling quite protected from infection. Barkha, your uncomfortable questions are comforting.īut I feel terribly guilty about my comfort. Your fearlessness in this environment is comforting. In such an environment I see you go about fearlessly asking uncomfortable questions, away from the comfort of a studio, covered like a character from a cheap science fiction movie. Reporters/journalists have become ‘anchors’ and reporting is based on their obvious servitude to their political masters. I feel comforted because in this time of extraordinary darkness you shine as a beacon of hope. I feel comforted because I know that there is somebody braving the heat (literally and figuratively) to ask uncomfortable questions. Whether it is drawing our attention to our grossly under-equipped health workers or the totally neglected migrants or the criminally ridiculous tableeghis or even questioning those in power, it is because of your reporting that citizens like me feel both a sense of comfort and guilt.īut I feel terribly guilty about my comfort. In a time where the fourth estate is subject to more, if not as much mistrust as our politicians, I feel both guilt and comfort to see you do such a stellar and fearless job of reporting on the pandemic straight from where it is unfolding. As I continue to condemn, criticize, praise, laud, retweet, like, and share, one person has stood out for doing a job that had long been forgotten – reporting. I commented on the state of our country, its politics, its politicians, its media, and its people, amongst so many other things. Even a few months before this pandemic hit us, I have been active on social media doing something that I was advised against doing for the past few years. In these past few weeks of social distancing I have spent a lot of time on social media.