Muthuanand ’s Reviews > The Fiction of Fact-Finding: Modi & Godhra > Status Update

When the right questions are not put, there will be neither the right evidence nor the right conclusions.

The farce played out by the Modi regime vindicated George Orwell’s insight into modern politics: ‘Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.’

For the king or the ruler cannot discriminate between people, whether on the basis of birth, caste or religion.’ Worried over the implication of Vajpayee’s reply, Modi, who was sitting next to him, butted in to say, ‘Hum bhi wahi kar rahein hain, Saheb’ (Even I am doing so, Sir). Vajpayee left him with a face-saver, saying he trusted Modi’s claim.