Reply to Gauri's accusations

[Guest guest]

My dear Gauri Shankar Goel,

I am seriously worried about you.

I left for Mumbai on the 22 nd for my son's admission test. I returned

home on the 25 th night. I cannot moderate any mail when I am out of

town, for obvious reasons (Well, at least, obvious to all sane

people.)

Yet, when you found that your mail, sent on the 23rd was not

published, you immediately accused me of foul play and partisan ship

on the 24th and 25th.

Let me make one thing clear. Even if I think that your mails are a lot

of political propaganda, even if I feel that you use emails to tell

others how great you are (though you accuse me of the same), even if I

feel that your emails are a sign of your megalomania, I am most

willing to publish them, as long as they do not hurt anybody.

Unfortunately, I was not present at my home and hence could not

approve your mail as a moderator (though I personally disapprove of

them). I know that you will say then how come other mails appeared

when I was absent. The simple reason is as follows:

The MGIMS egroup is divided into two groups. One group consists of

senders whose mail can be trusted not to hurt anybody. These senders

are not moderated. So you will see Sadbose, Sunil Nivargi, Charusmita,

Ashok Bhaskar, Ravin Das and some others appearing instantaneously in

the mail boxes. I trust these people not to hurt people, so I do not

moderate their mail. By default, all others have to be moderated by

me, not because they send bad mail, but because I do not know what

mail they might send.

You have proven umpteen times previously that your mail can degenerate

into cheap name calling. You think that by denigrating somebody, you

can prove that you are great. By calling NRIs unpatriotic, you can

prove that you are a great lover of the motherland. Hence, your mail

will always be moderated.

So if you feel that your mail was censored because I am against you,

you are wrong. I am not against you, I am against your bad habit of

starting fights in our otherwise placid group. So, if you want your

mail to be published, please behave yourself and stop sending

obnoxious mails. (By the way, your mail was not censored, only

delayed. But so was Shiny's, Manish Kothari's, Prabha Desikan's,

Munish's and even Harinath Sir's mail. They have not accused me of

anything. By the way, notice the paradox: Sir is on the moderated list

while Ashok is unmoderated. That happened because I was too lazy to

correct the settings.)

For the information of other readers I need to mention that all

censored mail is sent to the authorities concerned. I never take any

unilateral decision, as Gauri seems to be implying. Till date, only

five mails have been censored.

Coming back to my first sentence: Dear Gauri, I am seriously worried

about you. Why don't you consult Bedi, Amulya or Duggal (the

psychiatrist trio)?

Kishore Shah 1974

(Moderator)

PS: Readers who are used to my humour must have been shocked by my

angry outburst. But this guy really gets my hackles up with his unjust

accusations. His mail has even prompted Ashok, who was sent a mail by

Gauri, to ask why I censored Goel. This has hurt me more than Goel's

stupid accusation.