Part of leaving an organization that is complicit in hate, violence, and further erosion of decency is also acknowledging individual complicity. The act of leaving now doesn't absolve anyone from accountability. That is still something you have to live and grapple with.
This is also where caste, class, and where you are in the hierarchy of things come into play. I know far too many people who had nothing and gave up far too much to just do their job - report the damn fucking truth. Many of them are not on this site.
Also, let's not act as if the Republic is the only villain. How much do these places pay their reporters and writers? And how many of you actually pay them on time.
No one is perfect. We all err. Change your mind, please do better. Become better. But that does not relinquish accountability. What about other young people who are criminalized and arrested. How old is Amulya Leoni, Sharjeel Usmani, Devangana Kalita, and Natasha Narwal?
Any movement/group of people who don't make space for the idea or even the possibility that people can change, grow, or even do better will fail. If we believe that people change for worse, we can believe that they can for the better. But that change comes with accountability.
+ And responsibility.
I read the essay on journalists having bills to pay. It was Republic TV that first targeted Sudha Bharadwaj and claimed she was involved in a plot it kill Modi. Goswami refused to furnish proof. This was simply one of the many instances. How do you reconcile this?
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