Where is Your "Aman ki Asha" now TOI? A comparison with Amrita Bazar and its rabid anti-Subhas stance

About 15 years back the Times of India group launched a vigorous campaign of Aman ki Asha. They portrayed Pakistanis as a friend and Hindutvavadis as the monsters unleashed by India, with Pakistani terrorists as aberrations who could probably be turned around, and the problem of Islamic fundamentalism nonexistent or at best not a major issue. Fortunately, people except for the elites and liberals and Marxist cabals had sense enough to reject it. The candlelight marches soon fizzled out. Now first with Pulwama and then with Pahalgam, I hope that 'Aman ki Asha' will go forever, and with that Times of Pakistan paper should have its downward spiral and descent to hell for promoting anti-India forces.

A similar story was enacted almost 90 years back by Amrita Bazar Patrika under Tushar Kanti Ghosh. Driven by a need to get advertisements from the British Government it was advised by the Government to target Subhas Chandra Bose and spread canards against him. Amrita Bazar did so diligently for over a decade, spreading falsehoods, and spewing hatred against Subhas, even when he stood for Congress Presidency. It relentlessly attacked Subhas. Incidentally, the now-appeaser Anandabazar Patrika took an opposing stance of supporting Subhas. Amrita Bazar remained for some time post-independence but fizzled out by the 80s. Nobody misses it. I am sure the same saga will be repeated for both ToI and Anandabazar, the latter merely surviving on account of its older good karma. TOI as the British-established anti-Nationalist paper of that time does not even deserve that karmic reprieve.