Winds of change or winds of pain- Seething with anger: In India Are TV channels one among many culprit?
As the political class chews on elections, impending by no stretch, still 10 and a half month away polls has led many to dissolve themselves senselessly (as seen in some TV channel debates) into something that is inevitable after every five years. What has been lost in the hullabaloo is concern over a range of issues that bedevil the nation state. Anarchy of sorts is playing out across states with some people losing the will to control their anger and taking it out on those who are by no means known to them or having antagonised them. The basic premise is we need to show respect to everyone irrespective of religion or background he or she comes from.
Mob violence can't be seen in isolation in the task of nation building. Taking law into their hands some continuously poach into a territory where not-to-cease thrashing and throwing abuse turn imaginative souls into lifeless objects on the ground of suspicion. If suspicion has travelled by word of mouth they add fuel to the fire by prodding bystanders to turn into a mob and mete out a treatment with whatever force that is available to them. Lynching is fast forwarded on the suspicion of cow slaughter here or child lifter there and sets in a process where anyone on a routine work or whoever dodge or assumes to do so would be dealt with same sickening mindset.
Lynching is by no means just an aberration, the conduct of so called guardian of faith neither collective, qualitative imagination, it is a resemblance of a banana republic in making where it is up to each individual to decide when to trespass and whom to assault. A lawmaker in Jharkhand decided to pay for legal expenses of a large number of accused who had lynched a man just on a mere suspicion. A CM taking offence on why there is no Dalit reservation in institutions like Aligarh Muslim University is like giving an open invitation for trouble to erupt. A Hindu man being thrashed by right wing groups for adopting a child hailing from minority section.
As TV sets / smartphones belt out images of a princely wedding here and astonishing, plush hamlets/homes as featured in different soap operas there to newsrooms/editorial tutors in the lap of luxury, a sense of being left out gets to find foothold among those who make up the republic (read public). This gives way to distaste for the nation state with a large number of under unemployed giving vent to their frustration. Those news channels which binge on tabloid journalism (teetering on the brink of kitsch) like next surgical strike would be on Islamabad (just two to three days ago on a Hindi news channel) should at least show some maturity. A politico from opposition ranks repeatedly taking jibe at ruling dispensation and ruling party returning the honours should instead ask their cadres spread across country to deliver the homily about the need to show patience. Instead of showing clashes the news channels should report on efforts underway to bring sanity to the ground.
Reams of newsprint would have gone into giants falling wayside in football world cup , a CM on a sit-in to civil servants refusing to take up work, all these catching the imaginative minds of a newspaper man, there is no secrecy code to be unraveled on why mob violence and efforts underway to contain the same doesn't make headlines. The party in power need to put out ads in vernacular press that lynching/mob violence would be dealt with a heavy hand and a law should be in place- if it has not been so far - that stringent punishment would be handed out to those who indulge in mob violence. The speech from the ramparts of Red Fort on August 15 should broach on this issue with enough hints of law enforcers leaving no stone unturned to deal with defaulters.
For some indulgences of this nature one need not lose sleep for a nation as vast as India with enough dialects and enough delusions a stray incident here and a stray incident there need not be magnified. That is nothing but turning a blind eye to such acts of irrefutable evidence. Acts of lynching have to be derailed from the word go and law machinery and Press need to get into their respective acts to see a broad sense of camaraderie is brought to the proceedings. As for news channels who take comfort in tabloid journalism, the lab from where they took lessons in journalism they need to revisit and work with a mindset that doesn't rob the nation of much cherished peace and patience.
Kadhal Rojave - A R Rahman - Arvind Swamy, Madhoo - Roja and Pudhu Vellai Mazhai - Roja Tamil Songs have a charm of its own. This reminds me of my visit to Tirumala in 1995 and 1996.
As the political class chews on elections, impending by no stretch, still 10 and a half month away polls has led many to dissolve themselves senselessly (as seen in some TV channel debates) into something that is inevitable after every five years. What has been lost in the hullabaloo is concern over a range of issues that bedevil the nation state. Anarchy of sorts is playing out across states with some people losing the will to control their anger and taking it out on those who are by no means known to them or having antagonised them. The basic premise is we need to show respect to everyone irrespective of religion or background he or she comes from.
Mob violence can't be seen in isolation in the task of nation building. Taking law into their hands some continuously poach into a territory where not-to-cease thrashing and throwing abuse turn imaginative souls into lifeless objects on the ground of suspicion. If suspicion has travelled by word of mouth they add fuel to the fire by prodding bystanders to turn into a mob and mete out a treatment with whatever force that is available to them. Lynching is fast forwarded on the suspicion of cow slaughter here or child lifter there and sets in a process where anyone on a routine work or whoever dodge or assumes to do so would be dealt with same sickening mindset.
Lynching is by no means just an aberration, the conduct of so called guardian of faith neither collective, qualitative imagination, it is a resemblance of a banana republic in making where it is up to each individual to decide when to trespass and whom to assault. A lawmaker in Jharkhand decided to pay for legal expenses of a large number of accused who had lynched a man just on a mere suspicion. A CM taking offence on why there is no Dalit reservation in institutions like Aligarh Muslim University is like giving an open invitation for trouble to erupt. A Hindu man being thrashed by right wing groups for adopting a child hailing from minority section.
As TV sets / smartphones belt out images of a princely wedding here and astonishing, plush hamlets/homes as featured in different soap operas there to newsrooms/editorial tutors in the lap of luxury, a sense of being left out gets to find foothold among those who make up the republic (read public). This gives way to distaste for the nation state with a large number of under unemployed giving vent to their frustration. Those news channels which binge on tabloid journalism (teetering on the brink of kitsch) like next surgical strike would be on Islamabad (just two to three days ago on a Hindi news channel) should at least show some maturity. A politico from opposition ranks repeatedly taking jibe at ruling dispensation and ruling party returning the honours should instead ask their cadres spread across country to deliver the homily about the need to show patience. Instead of showing clashes the news channels should report on efforts underway to bring sanity to the ground.
Reams of newsprint would have gone into giants falling wayside in football world cup , a CM on a sit-in to civil servants refusing to take up work, all these catching the imaginative minds of a newspaper man, there is no secrecy code to be unraveled on why mob violence and efforts underway to contain the same doesn't make headlines. The party in power need to put out ads in vernacular press that lynching/mob violence would be dealt with a heavy hand and a law should be in place- if it has not been so far - that stringent punishment would be handed out to those who indulge in mob violence. The speech from the ramparts of Red Fort on August 15 should broach on this issue with enough hints of law enforcers leaving no stone unturned to deal with defaulters.
For some indulgences of this nature one need not lose sleep for a nation as vast as India with enough dialects and enough delusions a stray incident here and a stray incident there need not be magnified. That is nothing but turning a blind eye to such acts of irrefutable evidence. Acts of lynching have to be derailed from the word go and law machinery and Press need to get into their respective acts to see a broad sense of camaraderie is brought to the proceedings. As for news channels who take comfort in tabloid journalism, the lab from where they took lessons in journalism they need to revisit and work with a mindset that doesn't rob the nation of much cherished peace and patience.
Kadhal Rojave - A R Rahman - Arvind Swamy, Madhoo - Roja and Pudhu Vellai Mazhai - Roja Tamil Songs have a charm of its own. This reminds me of my visit to Tirumala in 1995 and 1996.
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