I truly misjudged you, and for that, I apologise profusely.Yes Barkha, I’m not a victim, and, I never will adopt the professional victimhood you seek refuge in so often. Let’s take your quote of my tweet about Gauri Lankesh. Clueless? Barkha, do try reading up on the mentality of pogroms and how they’re spread by rumour mongering in pre-industrial societies. But what rankles me is that in addition to your research skills being so poor, you also seem to think journalists must be above the law, no matter how fatal their actions and how transparent their collusion. It’s what I used in the Karnataka assembly case of sentencing editors to jail to draw attention to Kashmiri newspaper editors inciting and, in some cases, giving meeting points and times in code to stone pelters.Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, senior fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies. If you had, indeed gone through my timeline, you’d have seen me oppose my Right-wing friends and support the Congressright to abuse the Prime Minister, and on many occasions support outrageously provocative tweets against Hindu gods, simply because they had not called for violence in any way.

 Your verbal protests, on the other hand, were accompanied by actions – not against actions but against speech. You don’t deserve my or anybody else’s malice. Twitter: @iyervvalAll views are the author’s own. Curiously, it seems you tried to get Yogesh hounded out of IIMC for precisely the same reason.5. The first in that series was about how she had been convicted by a court of law for printing fake news, and yet she got a state funeral, involving expensive sandalwood, a gun salute, and was draped in the flag. You also, in your usual Goebbelsian way, left out that I called for machine-gunning Ram Rahim’s supporters when they rioted post his conviction, and asked for the same for “Lefty scum” who were engaging in violence. I, therefore, reject your support, which I never sought in the first place.Also read: What if Barkha Dutt had joked about Konark Temple’s erotica instead of Abhijit Iyer Mitra?

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are despicable organisations, who have wreaked havoc on millions of lives through their calling for and support of regime change operations. In all likelihood, some no-name Twitter bots would have made less than credible threats, which, given your modus operandi, you would have taken to town and won some kind of international victimhood award as you tried to do with my arrest. Far more advanced democracies like France and Germany actually have laws against such genocide denial, and in the US the Anti Defamation League uses civil suits in the absence of genocide denial laws. But since reading is not your forte, let me make another attempt. But then again, your inability to absorb the nuances of any kind of law, leave alone security, shines through. How can someone who pens such an infantile piece and could legitimately star in the sequel to ‘Clueless’ ever become a ‘top journalist’?Let’s start with human rights. Guess what? It was those covert interventions and not your ‘support’ that ensured I was treated well and initiated the process of the Odisha government dropping charges against me.I’m not a victim and will never adopt the professional victimhood you seek refuge in so often.You see Barkha, unlike you.

 I have only tweeted for prosecution against violence or genocide denial, but never coupled my tweets with legal action. Given that you weren’t even summarily investigated for your telephone conversations during Radiagate that supposedly tried to help those seeking to influence government formation, or when you allegedly outed positions during army operations, we know that whatever else would have happened to you, it wouldn’t be jail. I, on the other hand, regard it to be unethical. Additionally, this demonstrates that you are utterly clueless about policy issues, legal principles, systems and context across the world. The difference was that Yogesh was sloganeering against you in a place where he had every right to, while Sophia was doing so in a high security, restricted space where the laws against disorderly behaviour are clear, and ruthlessly enforced for good reason since 9/11. One of your ilk challenged me and I replied that lynch mobs were spurred on by fake news of the kind Gauri spread.Now, try googling the word ‘segue’. But I don’t expect you to get it.Let’s start with the quarter of a million Please subscribehere. But I guess after covering the political beat for over two decades you still haven’t figured out how this country works, says more about your undeserved   and I supported her right to call Narendra Modi a fascist, just not create a ruckus and intimidate a passenger in a high-security area.Not content with the havoc they wreaked there, they’ve continued to provide similar justifications in Libya and Syria, and essentially acted as an enabler of interventions by the US. Who’s the free speech supporter and who the hypocrite now, eh?Also read The most undeserving man is on his way to becoming a free speech martyr in IndiaAs for your deliberate attempt to solicit pity and make everything about yourself by asking “what would happen if I did this?”, well sorry to disappoint you, but ‘absolutely nothing’.2KShares. This was while people like you were going hammer and tongs at Jayant Sinha for garlanding those who were convicted.