Pursuant to our earlier post calling for the dumping of a trashy editorial by the Business Standard, we’ve received an anonymous comment to our post as below:there are few people working in a delhi based and malaysia based NGO is using the above reporter of Business Standard for planting these type of wrongful and nonsense reports to create confusion in the mind of variousstakeholders including the Government of India. The only intention of these people is their upliftment and they will do any fraud in acheving their desired results. I request all the responsible newspapers not to publish these third party instigated reports without checking the veracity of the claims. I appreciate Spicy IP for bringing the real truth by publishing two excellent and quality writings.”
Does anyone have any further details on this NGO and the accusation levelled against them? Of course in this climate of “spins”, “allegations” and “counter-allegations”, it is difficult to know what is true and what is not. But if true, this allegation has serious ramifications for the credibility of the Business Standard (BS). It ought to therefore investigate this unsavoury allegation immediately.
As a first step, the BS needs to publish their email query to Prof Correa, as also his reply to them. This will go someway towards alleviating the suspicion that the BS was taken for a ride and that the story was planted willfully and maliciously by an NGO for its own personal gain.
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dear shamnad,
i never thought this controversy will blow into such a big thing. from whatever u r reporting, n also from what the ‘anonymous’ blogged abt the indian+malaysian ngo nexus, it appears that some vested interests r indeed attempting at undermining/maligning mashelkar. its unfortunate.
however, i appreciate your attempt at ‘fair’ reporting at spicyip. i also contribute/criticize/comment only at spicy ip coz of its avowed fairness, as i consider myself to be non-partisan/objective.