Recent bomb blast has again shaken the faith of the people in the government and its security measures. Perturbed by the fact people are always distressed to find answer to the question- how to end terrorism?
Two ways that usually come to mind is either killing the people who are involved into this heinous crime or simply follow the policy of building confidence among them. Personally, I see no way out.
Killing such people will make them martyrs among the upcoming generation of the society who are entrapped into the same theology. Suicide bombing or killing people will project them as great people who will reach paradise. There after life would be sweet with rivers of honey and wine and the company of seventy-two virgins. Is it not sad to find religion above humanity?
Considering another way of making them understood of the fact terrorism will cause nothing only an end to a glorious civilization. Diplomats and politicians are always cribbing on frivolous issue of ignored and marginalized people. There are more serious issues that need to be dealt at this hour. Global warming, food crisis, safe potable drinking water that are the basic needs to the human kind. Some body has aptly said that if ever the third world war occurs it will begin with the issue of the food crisis and global warming.
Terrorism, which links its roots to fundamentalism in all the religious traditions, is impervious to suppression. The more one tries to squelch it, the stronger it becomes. Counter it with cruelty, and it gains adherents. Kill its leaders and they become martyrs. Respond with despotism, and it will become the sole voice of opposition. Try to control it, and it will turn against you. Try to appease it, and it will take control.
Terrorism has become a big nuisance. Killing or making confidence building measures will not cause any timely measures. Isolation and barring unnecessary media coverage to terrorism may help us to some extend. Giving indefinite coverage to the militant and terrorist activities leaves a mark on the audiences mind. Apart from that democracy should project to the militants that communalism and democracy both are compatible. But fundamentalism has no way out. It will and has to fade out as the time passes.
(inputs from NO GOD BUT GOD by Reza Aslan)
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Media loves unethical and rich !!
In a recently released research and analysed report of the BMW hit and run case and Shivani Bhatnagar murder case by the http://www.newswatch.in/research/1758 wherein the court verdict came out pronouncing respective cases accused as criminals. Print and online media unnecessarily hyped the accused and to some extend did the job of collecting the sympathy for the accused of the cases. Writing the points stating what Nanda (prime accused in the BMW hit and run case) wore to the court and R.K.Sharma (main culprit in the journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case) does in the jail, makes no point.
Hello! Is anyone interested in such frivolous issues, guess no? Media seems to work for the rich, gets operated by the rich and creates sympathy for the rich. No point talking about degrading standards of the media ethics, where in they repeatedly reported the name of the poor nun, rape victim of the Orrisa violence clashes. Talking, debating, analyzing media might be of some help but actually talking in numbers and cases media standard are going to hell.
One can always revert back to the report published by World Press Freedom Index 2008 of Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) where in India holds the position 118 in the list. The fact that monopolization of media has eaten away the ethics that are taught in the media schools giving way to lot of discrepancies in the practical scenarios.
Somebody please suggest some policy iniative to help these ‘media retail outlets’ to rise above their financial crisis and do some healthy work for the better future of our country.
Hello! Is anyone interested in such frivolous issues, guess no? Media seems to work for the rich, gets operated by the rich and creates sympathy for the rich. No point talking about degrading standards of the media ethics, where in they repeatedly reported the name of the poor nun, rape victim of the Orrisa violence clashes. Talking, debating, analyzing media might be of some help but actually talking in numbers and cases media standard are going to hell.
One can always revert back to the report published by World Press Freedom Index 2008 of Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) where in India holds the position 118 in the list. The fact that monopolization of media has eaten away the ethics that are taught in the media schools giving way to lot of discrepancies in the practical scenarios.
Somebody please suggest some policy iniative to help these ‘media retail outlets’ to rise above their financial crisis and do some healthy work for the better future of our country.
Efficient India - Are we really becoming real superpower?
INDIA, a new upcoming super power.Sorry! is that real.But somewhere we all see it as a dream.I condemn the statement because of the kind of the state of affairs we are in.Great round of applause for our Politicians who are really keen on projecting India a secular, democratic,republic, economic country on the international front.
As far as I remember, our constitutional framer-forefathers developed our country democratic structure on the three pillars of democracy-Executive, Legislature, Judiciary. Fourth one as unsaid -Media ,also holds the task of now projecting a magnificent picture among our "foreign friends".
Thanks but no thanks!
Executive,the very branch which has been given the task of executing all the programmes, policies,initiatives etc.are implementing laws and regulations formed by the legislature branch very efficiently. So efficiently that terrorists like Afzal Guru has not been sentenced till date even after Supreme court pronouncing him guilty.So efficiently that about 34% of India still lives in malnutrition.So efficiently that 80% of the educated India lives below Rs. 2700/- of earnings per month.So efficiently that in last 10 months India saw 83 bomb blast all over the country.
Legistature has always been working so efficiently that in last 20 years there has been no stringent laws made to deal with terrorism.Not even that there had been no provision made to get the Federal investigation done in such cases.So efficient that police reforms are still pending.Poor hawaldars! bechare! jab samne terrorist gun se fire kara hota hai toh aap lathi se uska samna karte hain.So efficient that there is no Uniform Civil Code of law for Secular India.So efficient that Women Reservation Bill, in, India for Equality is still pending.So efficient that out of some 536 MP's about 348 MP's are having bad name and criminal offenses charges registered against them. Sorry let me ask - politician sir do you need anything more than money, fame, power, girls,oil reserves, bank accounts? We Indian can provide you .We know it is hard to find "GREAT PATRIOTS" like you!
Judiciary our third foundation stone has also worked so efficiently to maintain the law and order in the country that about 14,000 cases are still pending in our courts.The names goes on increasing,the list goes on multiplying.For every law in our country there is way to break it out.Fast Track Courts were to be made in order to resolve cases fast in our country but they are also under the influence of the rich and the money class.So efficient are our lawyers like R.K.Sharma who were fighting for the rights of Nanda's,another money spoilt brat.So efficient that our judicial gurus are involved in the bribary cases.
These 3 pillars of our democracy on which our forefathers laid our constitution has begun to shamble.Politicians are involved everywherer and how now media has also forgotten its principles. No doubt, education in journalism and education/work experienced gained in the profession, the duo cannot match anywhere. There is serious dearth of good journalists.Media has forgotten the ethics which are ATLEAST expected out of them to follow. But what the scenario now!
Our economy has become capitalists plus materialistic.
Elite class used to trust NDTV for its comprehensive and correct ethical reporting. But sorry after the Mumbai terror attack, the series of the unethical reporting done by media has led the hopes of the lay man/ common man down.So what do you think Should be done? Are we really to become a superpower? Thank you but this title suites US only or say upcoming global power China wherein atleast people have the faith in government.Contention of the fact that whom so ever they will choose to govern will prove beneficial to them and their country.
As far as I remember, our constitutional framer-forefathers developed our country democratic structure on the three pillars of democracy-Executive, Legislature, Judiciary. Fourth one as unsaid -Media ,also holds the task of now projecting a magnificent picture among our "foreign friends".
Thanks but no thanks!
Executive,the very branch which has been given the task of executing all the programmes, policies,initiatives etc.are implementing laws and regulations formed by the legislature branch very efficiently. So efficiently that terrorists like Afzal Guru has not been sentenced till date even after Supreme court pronouncing him guilty.So efficiently that about 34% of India still lives in malnutrition.So efficiently that 80% of the educated India lives below Rs. 2700/- of earnings per month.So efficiently that in last 10 months India saw 83 bomb blast all over the country.
Legistature has always been working so efficiently that in last 20 years there has been no stringent laws made to deal with terrorism.Not even that there had been no provision made to get the Federal investigation done in such cases.So efficient that police reforms are still pending.Poor hawaldars! bechare! jab samne terrorist gun se fire kara hota hai toh aap lathi se uska samna karte hain.So efficient that there is no Uniform Civil Code of law for Secular India.So efficient that Women Reservation Bill, in, India for Equality is still pending.So efficient that out of some 536 MP's about 348 MP's are having bad name and criminal offenses charges registered against them. Sorry let me ask - politician sir do you need anything more than money, fame, power, girls,oil reserves, bank accounts? We Indian can provide you .We know it is hard to find "GREAT PATRIOTS" like you!
Judiciary our third foundation stone has also worked so efficiently to maintain the law and order in the country that about 14,000 cases are still pending in our courts.The names goes on increasing,the list goes on multiplying.For every law in our country there is way to break it out.Fast Track Courts were to be made in order to resolve cases fast in our country but they are also under the influence of the rich and the money class.So efficient are our lawyers like R.K.Sharma who were fighting for the rights of Nanda's,another money spoilt brat.So efficient that our judicial gurus are involved in the bribary cases.
These 3 pillars of our democracy on which our forefathers laid our constitution has begun to shamble.Politicians are involved everywherer and how now media has also forgotten its principles. No doubt, education in journalism and education/work experienced gained in the profession, the duo cannot match anywhere. There is serious dearth of good journalists.Media has forgotten the ethics which are ATLEAST expected out of them to follow. But what the scenario now!
Our economy has become capitalists plus materialistic.
Elite class used to trust NDTV for its comprehensive and correct ethical reporting. But sorry after the Mumbai terror attack, the series of the unethical reporting done by media has led the hopes of the lay man/ common man down.So what do you think Should be done? Are we really to become a superpower? Thank you but this title suites US only or say upcoming global power China wherein atleast people have the faith in government.Contention of the fact that whom so ever they will choose to govern will prove beneficial to them and their country.
What kind of patriots are we?
Men or women take birth in India, die in India, grow up in India, get education in India but do they ever think of serving people in India? Do they ever think of serving nationhood in India?
Today we were on our college assignment of collecting vox-pox of the people on the issue of ‘the extent of media coverage shown by media on the mumbai terror attack’. We took up this issue voluntary to know about the opinion of the masses as we ourselves felt curious about the variety of views we would be getting. Surprisingly to collect the vox-pox we went to India gate and we met people coming from various walks of life.
After talking to the military official (expired an retired), this thought pinched me a lot, that what kind of services are we offering to our country. We sit back at our homes and actually crib over the kind of things that are happening in our country. But do we ever make an effort to participate in this kind of effort. Forget about all other things but do we actually care about giving vote to the right candidate. We are very much aware which actress is playing a role in which particular movie but are we actually bothered about the martyrs who have sacrificed their life for the nation. Of course we don’t and we might be remembering a name or two. Don’t they deserve at least respect?
It is irony of the human mind that we hardly remember good things that we either do to ourselves or to others but bad memories always get retained in our mind. We remember our politicians and the work they do for us, but do we ever think of military soldiers that die fighting for us? It is hard to digest this fact but what I personally felt today after doing the assignment was that India is somehow giving a wrong message of a scared country rather than a generous and peace loving country. We really need to think again the way we had been serving the country.
Today we were on our college assignment of collecting vox-pox of the people on the issue of ‘the extent of media coverage shown by media on the mumbai terror attack’. We took up this issue voluntary to know about the opinion of the masses as we ourselves felt curious about the variety of views we would be getting. Surprisingly to collect the vox-pox we went to India gate and we met people coming from various walks of life.
After talking to the military official (expired an retired), this thought pinched me a lot, that what kind of services are we offering to our country. We sit back at our homes and actually crib over the kind of things that are happening in our country. But do we ever make an effort to participate in this kind of effort. Forget about all other things but do we actually care about giving vote to the right candidate. We are very much aware which actress is playing a role in which particular movie but are we actually bothered about the martyrs who have sacrificed their life for the nation. Of course we don’t and we might be remembering a name or two. Don’t they deserve at least respect?
It is irony of the human mind that we hardly remember good things that we either do to ourselves or to others but bad memories always get retained in our mind. We remember our politicians and the work they do for us, but do we ever think of military soldiers that die fighting for us? It is hard to digest this fact but what I personally felt today after doing the assignment was that India is somehow giving a wrong message of a scared country rather than a generous and peace loving country. We really need to think again the way we had been serving the country.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Is the internet usage to its optimum ?
Ever since the globalisation,internet has acted as a catalyst to bring forward the branches of liberalization together .
Bringing many countries together but still it has not been successful. Even after the 17 years of globalisation in India ,she still comes under the category of the digital divide. We are far behind the 3Gtechnologies and super computers. Internet is still not international.When i say international certainly it means internet usage in the india in comparision with the other countries, which is really minimal.India on the great turn over of becoming a super power.
According to the Internet World Wide stats where in internet penetraton is 69% in North America and 54 % in Australia /Oceanic still Asia is 12% where in india is also a part of it. Still what we called as Internet Searching and Exploration is not expert Internet searching beacuse many of us still does not know about the offline Html and the basic FTP technologies used in seaching the required material on the net.
Further , the internet in our India in the rural parts have not penerated much . What we considered as a best model of E-governance in Punjab that actually had been a cup of coffee for many of our international front competitors.
What lacks in most of all us is the reluctance to use the technology. We can not deny the fact that so called our educated parents (not to be offensive)are least bothered about what their children are doing on the internet For them the life is confined only to make calls n pick calls on Mobiles. Forget about they using the virtual cameras and the line or RSS feeds.
Our reluctance to the technologyis becuase we never felt the need to produce it .India and the other third world countries have always been fed upon the technology by the developed countries. Whenever we tried to raise our standard , sanctions were imposed from the international market.Productive technologies have never been an indian cup of tea.Our Indian managers are generally labour oriented working in the textile and the farms . Major chunk of our labour force in uneducated and outside establised.
How can one dream of the India becoming a tech savy country ? It is still an expensive job for our rural friends , how to soleve the problem?
Bringing many countries together but still it has not been successful. Even after the 17 years of globalisation in India ,she still comes under the category of the digital divide. We are far behind the 3Gtechnologies and super computers. Internet is still not international.When i say international certainly it means internet usage in the india in comparision with the other countries, which is really minimal.India on the great turn over of becoming a super power.
According to the Internet World Wide stats where in internet penetraton is 69% in North America and 54 % in Australia /Oceanic still Asia is 12% where in india is also a part of it. Still what we called as Internet Searching and Exploration is not expert Internet searching beacuse many of us still does not know about the offline Html and the basic FTP technologies used in seaching the required material on the net.
Further , the internet in our India in the rural parts have not penerated much . What we considered as a best model of E-governance in Punjab that actually had been a cup of coffee for many of our international front competitors.
What lacks in most of all us is the reluctance to use the technology. We can not deny the fact that so called our educated parents (not to be offensive)are least bothered about what their children are doing on the internet For them the life is confined only to make calls n pick calls on Mobiles. Forget about they using the virtual cameras and the line or RSS feeds.
Our reluctance to the technologyis becuase we never felt the need to produce it .India and the other third world countries have always been fed upon the technology by the developed countries. Whenever we tried to raise our standard , sanctions were imposed from the international market.Productive technologies have never been an indian cup of tea.Our Indian managers are generally labour oriented working in the textile and the farms . Major chunk of our labour force in uneducated and outside establised.
How can one dream of the India becoming a tech savy country ? It is still an expensive job for our rural friends , how to soleve the problem?
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Happy to help !!!
India, my fabulous country, born out of the culture of the sharing and the caring not only at the international front but also at family level. India on the international front has always been a helping hand for its neighbors and friends so are its local inhabitants.
Happiness and sweets are shared not only on Diwali or Id but at localized gatherings too like Kitty parties and family gathering. On close observation on these gatherings one will definitely find this exchanging symptom. Moms and aunts do keep exchanging saris and suits; so that they can flaunt their clothing collection. To some extend I guess it gives them the opportunity to proudly bitch about the other female. It keeps them so engrossed that they actually prepare a list of the kind of saris she wore on that last particular event.
A similar incident occurred last week when my mom had to go in her kitty party and as usual her all sari collection was used up. Dull and pale she had no idea what to wear for the event. Then suddenly my maternal aunt called in up to tell about her recent purchasing of crockery. It reminded my mom of the saris my aunt bought last week. She was so jubilant of the thought of borrowing that she just jumped in to ask for the dress. And to her much expectation she found the one.
This sharing business is so real and practical that people specially aunts find it easy to relate and work upon. They would borrow clothes, accessories and other household stuffs to flaunt as their own in front of guests or in parties as the case may be. They have this smart business of lending out unwanted and extra stuff that usually comes in the form of gifts, depending upon this very characteristic of the ‘kind’ of the person / party is on the other side is.
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certainly it remind me of the the Vodafone ad - Happy to help!!!
Happiness and sweets are shared not only on Diwali or Id but at localized gatherings too like Kitty parties and family gathering. On close observation on these gatherings one will definitely find this exchanging symptom. Moms and aunts do keep exchanging saris and suits; so that they can flaunt their clothing collection. To some extend I guess it gives them the opportunity to proudly bitch about the other female. It keeps them so engrossed that they actually prepare a list of the kind of saris she wore on that last particular event.
A similar incident occurred last week when my mom had to go in her kitty party and as usual her all sari collection was used up. Dull and pale she had no idea what to wear for the event. Then suddenly my maternal aunt called in up to tell about her recent purchasing of crockery. It reminded my mom of the saris my aunt bought last week. She was so jubilant of the thought of borrowing that she just jumped in to ask for the dress. And to her much expectation she found the one.
This sharing business is so real and practical that people specially aunts find it easy to relate and work upon. They would borrow clothes, accessories and other household stuffs to flaunt as their own in front of guests or in parties as the case may be. They have this smart business of lending out unwanted and extra stuff that usually comes in the form of gifts, depending upon this very characteristic of the ‘kind’ of the person / party is on the other side is.
cl
certainly it remind me of the the Vodafone ad - Happy to help!!!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Media needs moral policing!
Being a media student I should not be saying that, it is expected out me that I should talk against media bashing.But unnecessary throwing of tantrum and mocking attempt by our media has become a daily habit.Oops! I guess its unwanted and not required.Our society is still clinging on to the concept of societal and communitarian thoughts in part of any individual’s life ,even after claiming that we are free.We find fun in others life incidents and not to be surprised, it is, what most easily achieved! But it is sad.
For the growth of the nation, individuals any stage of life be left to think what they want to and left to do what they wish to!but certainly in bounds of the regulations.
Incidents like radios' attempting to mock on the idea of Rakhi Sawant acting in ‘dharmik’ serial, highlighting the child who said that he saw the bomb blast people, bhajjis attempt on playing role of Ravan can be stated as the attempts of unnecessary intrusion into someone’s personal sphere. Seems like our media friends don’t have some serious business associated with their job! Sad but true.
For the growth of the nation, individuals any stage of life be left to think what they want to and left to do what they wish to!but certainly in bounds of the regulations.
Incidents like radios' attempting to mock on the idea of Rakhi Sawant acting in ‘dharmik’ serial, highlighting the child who said that he saw the bomb blast people, bhajjis attempt on playing role of Ravan can be stated as the attempts of unnecessary intrusion into someone’s personal sphere. Seems like our media friends don’t have some serious business associated with their job! Sad but true.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Job of ordinary man ?
Really sometimes i think! do our generation has time to actually ponder over things that matter to our country. Country when i say in particular our nation, India.
I sometimes feel that the root cause of all these problem is the MNC culture that had in someway benefited our country but also had derooted us from Indian culture. People really are left with no time to actually sit together, chat and make some logical debates.
I wonder if in today's world Gandhiji would have been here how would he had gathered masses. Probably the answer is media. Today media has so much penetration into our society that it is difficult for everyone to stay aloof of its impact. Convergence of media has gifted us with an attractive force through a new medium of debate and forums. Thanks to the Blogging and the social networking phenomenon which has given us the space and shape to express our thoughts.
For this process I agree with my faculty that 'social networking in and social gathering out'. But will we really be able to think and form an opinion the way it used be in past times?
Students at colleges hardly think about the classes and no one takes interest in reading newspapers, postgraduates at colleges think about either higher education or dream of getting placed in top media houses, professionals at work space think about promotion or probably marriage, recently became mom and dads think about securing their new born child's future, once their children grow up they think about their marriages and the cycle goes on......
Hello! where is our country in this whole circle? Is really consideration about our country a job of intellectuals and politicians? Where is the contribution of the ordinary single man in opinion formation? Think about it because otherwise we have no right to crib over any situation!
I sometimes feel that the root cause of all these problem is the MNC culture that had in someway benefited our country but also had derooted us from Indian culture. People really are left with no time to actually sit together, chat and make some logical debates.
I wonder if in today's world Gandhiji would have been here how would he had gathered masses. Probably the answer is media. Today media has so much penetration into our society that it is difficult for everyone to stay aloof of its impact. Convergence of media has gifted us with an attractive force through a new medium of debate and forums. Thanks to the Blogging and the social networking phenomenon which has given us the space and shape to express our thoughts.
For this process I agree with my faculty that 'social networking in and social gathering out'. But will we really be able to think and form an opinion the way it used be in past times?
Students at colleges hardly think about the classes and no one takes interest in reading newspapers, postgraduates at colleges think about either higher education or dream of getting placed in top media houses, professionals at work space think about promotion or probably marriage, recently became mom and dads think about securing their new born child's future, once their children grow up they think about their marriages and the cycle goes on......
Hello! where is our country in this whole circle? Is really consideration about our country a job of intellectuals and politicians? Where is the contribution of the ordinary single man in opinion formation? Think about it because otherwise we have no right to crib over any situation!
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