GREATEST DECEPTION PERPETRATED ON PEOPLE OF MY GENERATION BY OUR UNBIASED MEDIA: Let us be intellectually honest about the situation in the media today. How many right-leaning intellectuals occupy space in the main stream media today? How many people in the main-stream-media (MSM) have the gumption to say that India is secular because its rooted in its culture and not because some leaders in 1947 chose to be so or it is written in the Constitution? Our people wanted to be secular. We constantly hear about the ills of casteism which we all agree to, but how many times have we heard about intellectuals appreciating universal outlook deeply inherent in our culture that sees unity in both living and non-living things. We dont need a constitution to tell us all religions are equal - we have followed it, enforced it, fought for it, upheld it for aeons. India is secular because people of India want it to be secular. We are secular because majority is Hindu. The mindspace that Babri Masjid demolition and 2002 riots occupies in the minds of people of my generation, does Kashmiri Pandit genocide occupy even 1% of that mindspace? Even though it was a far far far far far far more gruesome tragedy. What hurts me more is that whenever someone tries to talk about KP exodus, people start shouting him down saying one cannot compare one riot to another etc etc. Till today I dont know any details about KP exodus, although it happened not too far back. But I am always reminded about the details of Babri Masjid, how it happened, who said what, who was allegedly behind it. I have intellectuals in the media tell me that Jehadi terrorism gained roots in India after Babri Masjid demolition. People like Amartya Sen, Ghulam Nabi Fai and others openly blame the demolition for the subsequent terror attacks in India. That incident created divide in the society and became the roots of terror in India. And MSM relays that effectively. Not once noticing that KP exodus in 1989-90 was just prior to that. How many temples must have been destroyed during the exodus, does anyone know? Has anyone seen Hindu terrorist outfits (if it exists) throw bombs every other month the way and the frequency at which it has happened with Jehadi terrorists over the last decade? I have the west cry foul about Wendy Donigers book withdrawal shouting for freedom of speech, but no one raised a voice when Modi was denied speaking at the Wharton university, or when Subramanian Swamy was banned from taking courses in Harvard for an Oped he wrote in India. We hear paeans about Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru but nothing at all about Sardar Patel. We hear all sorts of perverse insinuations and expletives about RSS, but no one talks about the amount of relief work they have done in all the national tragedies and calamities, be -it earthquake or tsunami, or the Uttarakhand disaster. No one talks about how RSS workers were active in protecting the Sikhs during the 1984 riots. An Imam on Timesnow newshour as a matter of fact says that for Muslims - Islam is greater than the country and justifies not singing Vande Mataram. But still goes on to argue how Modi is communal. These are the people who are given voice by the media to preach us secularism. If I was not an alert reader, I would have fallen for all this nonsense and concluded that 2002 was the greatest tragedy in the history of India, RSS harbor terrorists, Hinduism has nothing good in it - only filled with caste divisions and other superstitious ritual nonsense, Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru are the only supreme leaders of Indias conscience. And trust me, I know of many of my younger friends, my cousins who tend to think this way because that is what OCCUPIES MOST of the media-space. Its about time right-leaning minds find their legitimacy in public discourse, and their voice respected and heard without branding them one way or the other, or making them feel apologetic about their views. Chaitanya Godbole Pranjal Wagh Pradeep Menon Manoj Odunghat Prasanna Karthik R Shreenivas Anandas Kumaraswamy B Nagaraju Ambareesh Phadnavis Mandar Sahasrabuddhe Mukund Athale Chakradhar Mukkala Vidya Sagar Amirapu Kartik Srinivasan Akshay Iyer Vrushank Mehta Aakash R. Shah Anirudha Deshmukh Aditya Thakar Aakanchha Mishra Sunil Godbole Abhinav Shankar Pushkar Bhide Prashant Iyer Shrikantha Hs Harish Prashanth.R
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 00:29:47 +0000
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