Media shall look upon this as a retraction, due to the onslaught it created and the fear of negativity on my account. But what else can they do. They created an incorrect headline, propagated it through all the mediums possible and shall now sit back and enjoy the fruits of its effect. A correction or any attempt in seeking or extending clarification, shall never be entertained by them. How can they ? It would show them up in bad light. It would dent their credibility.

Reactions of others come from the headline created by media. No one has the temerity to read the blog to judge whether what media wrote was justifiable or not. Once a headline always a headline. It has been carved on stone for eternity. From Bofors to Abhishek’s marriage to the recent land issue, it has been a constant and repeated castigation on my character, attitude and position with a hostility and a rancor, that has defied reason; even in the minds of senior and seasoned celebrities of the journalistic world !

Not until we moved the Royal Courts of Law in the United Kingdom for defamation and won on the Bofors matter, not until I had to personally walk into the offices of all the prominent newspapers to clarify the hysterical fallacies surrounding my son’s marriage to Aishwarya, not until I moved the Supreme Court of India and won judgement by the honorable justices on the farm land matter, did the vitriol diminish !

And even as I write, I can feel the pencils being sharpened to attack again, not just what appears here, but some new and grand pasture for them to gloriously feed on and for me, on bended knee, to clear up the waste.

What is it I have often wondered that prompts them to put me on this ‘pedestal’ ?

Source: AB Blog