Today while being on twitter saw a few tweets from some journos (@seemagoswami, @virsanghvi) about Pak not having civil society. It was some satirical tweet that u can find on their profile. Something that would surely spread the not so good message about our neighbor. My problem with that was simple… Why do you make such exaggerated statements about the country about which you really don’t know much? We have such elements (the mujahiddins, the hindu extremists, the senas) then are we to be branded the same way by Pak media?
The even bigger problem is that these stupid journos go on to make big statements for their own telecast TRP ratings. But they forget that they have some social responsibility of reporting without their own personal bias. They make the story sound so horrific that the people who consume the news without analyzing it then go to form opinions based on those blown up reports. They form a misinformed decision. I am sure their is an argument that the twitter messages are personal views. But to that I would say, it is a social media consumed by many people who trust these journos for correct information. If they are fed in with biased news then I think this is completely WRONG!! These journos leverage their celebrity status to gather their followers and then feed them their personal views without even mentioning it might be biased.
Another problem I have with this kind of reporting is, if can not bring peace to people’s life then at least don’t feed them with hate and anger or with information which will raise these two emotions. We must understand it is because of these emotions that people take to extremism and violence. Can you imagine 1 billion insane and angry people fed completely on irrelevant and biased information? I don’t want to… there is not enough arsenal with any army to eliminate those many humans. And well killing one angers 100s and going by this proportion we are looking at something TERRIBLE in the coming time. It is not all lost as yet, we can change this. We should demand for journalism and not biased, TRP motivated information for all of us. WE ARE A DEMOCRACY!!! Lets act like one.
Please consider this for all journos not just the two mentioned. They are mere examples…
I happen to Read this article on Indiatimes.com about the Pune traffic condition and it made to the front page international edition for something quite interesting. This techie apparently beat up a cop, and now instead of putting him through the court case and stuff the commissioner of police has made him work with the same cop on the job that the cop was doing, MAN A TRAFFIC SIGNAL IN PUNE. Guys believe me it is as tough as watching the Indian borders for infiltrators from across the border. It is in the hope that the techie will realize how difficult it is to manage the traffic and then also may be have some sympathy towards the police men who work extremely hard towards managing the ever unmanageable Pune traffic.
Kudos to the cops for finding this innovative way of teaching lesson, it is the fact that lack of understanding and apppreciation of eachothers job is something that lands most of us in quarrels and arguments with other, which at times can be avoided by having this simple knowledge. BUT, Will the police send their men to a techie’s cube to sit with him and see what kind of pressure he handles, if in some (most?) cases cop is wrong? We shall see… for now it it is a good initiative.
Better late than never… thats how i first react to this new thing that comes up. Well can we change the mindset of people and make them quit it? time shall tell all that…
Today it is not just one or few cities in India whose residents wake up worried will they see their family again? It is the whole country! Why? Did you just come form Jupiter? or You live in America? If so I would not say anything… than just read a few news papers. I do not want to drool over how ignorant American society is of the rest of world, it is a matter for some other day.
Today Indians are bleeding because the problems which we always thought were caused form outside are now being spread at will by the insiders. Yes lets accept it that, it is not any foreign country thats behind this kind of an attack but rather they are some radical sects of our own society that are doing this In-Humane act of killing innocents and trying to make their presence felt right across the country be it Eastern region of Tripura or Western city of Gujrat or the Southern City of Banglore or the Capitol Delhi. They are just planting them like crackers and exploding them at will. While I am writing it, I do not know who of those jerks is making a bomb. But more importantly what are we going to do about this situation?Are we going to look at a particular community as the people who did this? Is it really fare? Did the good neighbour that you have do it? Probably No, it is some jerks who have sought the wrong path for themselves who need to be brought on the right track. They probably have no religion, because religion is for human development and not destruction. Anyway, the point is we as a society need to rip such problems that have sneaked in to our society. To do this, we need to stand together in Unision.
I know people will say “sitting in the US it is easy to talk like this”. My only point is this did not start after I came back to USA it was even when I was in India. So the point is these Indian Mujahiddins need to understand that they are doing no good to themselves by terrorizing people, the anger of people might get them some time and that time no law will be enough to save them. Dont let the movie A Wednesday come in to a reality! The day that happens things will be quite different for the mujahiddins, it will be a no point of return.
If I have seen any sensible movie in past some time that just means business or relates the most ot inner me that is “A Wednesday”. Acting is top class. Performances by Anupam Kher and Nasruddin Shah are just fitting for the situation and their reputation. No songs and stuff, this movie means bussiness, it is a thriller so it does grips the person.The use of day to day language was something I thought was good. Also the concept and the twist at the end was awesome, great direction andnice cinematograph.
Cant those crazy ba**** see, if you get the North, South, East, West out of there it says INDIANS!!! What the heck is going on? Cant the jokers in political circles see that it is creating the problem that we might have to live with for ages to come, or are they busy reaping the benefits by _Criticising in Media_???
Guys, break the ice, and get down to table, beating people up will not solve the issue. If there exists any problems then sit across the table and talk. Sticks and Guns are no good. If you retaliate now, they will retaliate later and then again you will get your vengeance back.. it is a cycle which will be broken only with someone’s sacrifice, lets make one now, someone has to make it. Please don’t divide India based on North, South, East, West, it is a land of unity lets keep it that way.
It is important that we leave the swords and take things objectively… I hope people back home in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra understand this, it is important. If you have problems and people are not listening then we have got other means of getting it done.
With a population of 1.2 Billion we have a danger of an violence outbreak every other day thats not good. We need stability to turn India in to a golden eagle again, and these things can’t get one thing and that is stability. Hope that some joker’s Sena understands this. or are they really bothered? May be just that they want is popularity of their new party…