The said journalist may also receive the ire of the Press Council of India that advocates strict adherence to its published code of conduct regarding communal riots that calls for the media in communal situations like the Gujarat riots to be “peacemakers and not abettors, to be trouble-shooters and not troublemakers”. It commands that news, views or comments relating to communal or religious clashes should be published after proper verification of facts and presented with due caution and restraint in a manner which is conducive to the creation of an atmosphere congenial to communal harmony, amity and peace. True to call, most Indian newspapers in presenting their coverage of the recent communal strife described the minority communities as minority communities. Not so the journalist belonging to the majority community who incidentally has done 6 para-jumps and completed 4 half-marathons and is seen by a particular faction of the wider community as the keeper of the non-pseudo-secular flame. Notwithstanding, he was castigated by senior members of the journalist community as having misplaced his moral compass. The moral compass, it may be noted, is always carried on person by every member of the Indian journalist community and has guided its owners despite the tyranny of distance encountered during reporting of communal flare-ups. Hence the lament.