Manjunath Shanmugam, May god rest your soul.
By now all of you would have heard of Manjunath (IIM-Lucknow batch of 2003) who was shot dead two days back. Details of this ghastly murder have been put up only on the
Well so much for the state on web-journalism. Also found wanting are Hindu and Times of India, who allocate reams and reams of paper to baseless Page 3 news and advertisements (recall this week’s page-long IIPM advertisement) but do not consider this a news worthy item.
I also did a Google search on this topic and came up with just one result. Most of the details are coming from his batch mates and friends. Some of the few posts on this subject.
Gaurav Sabnis
Sharad Patel
Dhammonia
But do not let this dilute the fact that Manjunath paid with his life by standing up for, what he believed was right. He was an honest person who did not believe in taking the easy way out and paid for his principles with his life.
Hopefully justice shall prevail and the culprits will pay for their crimes. But knowing the Indian judicial system and apathy of the Indian media, I have serious doubts.
One more newspaper catches up.
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