How many days will we celebrate the Anderson thing and then forget about it, pursuing another story?

Media hype is ephemeral, and it seems there is no dogged pursuing of an issue to its natural ending. This happens to be because public memory is short. And people forget about even the bitterest thing after a while, for there are other issues cropping up by the day.

Now no one speaks about Shashi Tharoor and Sunanda Pushkar, after the eloquent poor guy has been shown the door. It seems IPL anti-hero Lalit Modi may also escape hype coverage and he may escape.

After the Warren Anderson issue became active following the court verdict, Sharad Pawar’s alleged family involvement in the IPL deal seems to be left to oblivion.
All these years we have not been touching upon the fact that the criminal case against Indian managers of Union Carbide has been whittled down by the Supreme Court itself and that consequently, the trial court could not go beyond giving a maximum sentence of two years’ jail term.

No one had challenged the verdict of the Supreme Court. And all these years when the case against the Indian managers of the company has been going on, the fact about Warren Anderson absconding has not been hyped. He has not even been declared a proclaimed offender.

Will the production of Warren Anderson in court provide succour to the millions of victims of Bhopal gas tragedy? While we may pursue the issue of getting hold of Warren Anderson, let everything be done to alleviate the sufferings of the victims.