Dear Rajdeep Sardesai,
For years, the Indian audience had to suffer the shenanigans of you and your ilk in silence. Your snide remarks, your biased reporting, your lies, your smug, supercilious smile, that arrogance of your Oxbridge education that entitles wifey to snidely refer to other journalists as ‘Bhaisahabs and Behenjees’, we have seen it all.
Someone showed you your place in Madison Square. You went to Madison Square Gardens and asked people who were heckling you, ‘Did Modi teach you this? Did America teach you this’?
Well, and who taught you this ‘journalism’ Rajdeep? Did Sonia Gandhi teach you how to treat your audience with disdain? Did your hero Arvind Kejriwal teach you how to lie with a straight face?
Rajdeep, you told the people ‘you have money, but no class’, just because they booed you and called you biased. Class doesn’t come free with an Oxbridge education, I am afraid. By making comments like these, you proved that YOU were vulgar and uncouth, not the NRIs.
YOU called someone as A$$hole first, that person returned your label to you with interest. Then YOU lunged at him and pushed him like you were some two-bit Mawali from a Bandra local and then whined that YOU were abused.
The world doesn’t owe you anything just because you have a microphone and a camera. If you have the right to peddle lies in the name of ‘journalism’, your viewers have the right to call your bluff as well.
Rajdeep, you confused Shri Devendra Fadnavis, honorable Chief Minister of Maharashtra for some two bit ultra-right Hindu who doesn’t understand insults hurled at him in the first place, let alone responding to them. You were wrong like you always have been. Fadnavis’s letter didn’t just debunk your lies but also exposed your malicious propaganda.
You stand exposed. Now laugh it off, try to downplay it and gear up for the next stunt. Someone will put you back in your place. Again!
Regards,
Shefali Vaidya