Sandip Roy: Why selective outrage is a trap to shut down debate
New Delhi, July 31 -- If you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil; morals have aesthetic criteria. -Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche
As the dust settled on the Jantar Mantar protest in New Delhi, the post game analysis began in television studios.
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders are being grilled by anchors about future plans. One line of questioning that has gained currency lately goes something like this.
What about exam leaks in Punjab or Kerala? Or Karnataka? Are they going to train their firepower on that now? And if not, does that not prove the agitation at Jantar Mantar was just "selective outrage"?
On the other side, I have also seen people saying while the huge groundswell of support...
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