India is going through quite an interesting time right now. So many things happening, media busy 24x7 showing opposition parties, howsoever small they may be, barking non stop, thinking they are roaring; college students getting hyper, getting anti national; crimes of over enthusiastic (guy humari mata hai) majority increasing over abundant beef eating minorities; Parliament not functioning properly over family matters of leaders of parties not in power; the man who never spoke for 10 years, speaking on the government now; the man who does not know what to speak is still speaking rubbish and killing the Grand Old Party even more; minority super star's wives feeling scared in this intolerant India whereas the Baby and Drishyam stars enjoying super hit movies; Awards being returned on increasing intolerance (against whom is still a question) but the Afzals of the world being glorified in the heart of the country and among all this the normal man is still living a normal life hoping for development in his own motherland.
The moment you switch off the news channels, you get the feeling that you are back in India. Everything around you, your neighbourhood, friends, job etc are all same and we are all working hard to make India grow.
Right from the time when the nation had decided to vote out INC and get in BJP, the media started playing the 'polarisation' tape. And as soon as this government came into power with the kind of majority it came with and the way INC and other regional parties were cleaned up, obviously things were painful for those who have been in power for so long.
Then the way media has became judgemental and over analytical rather than just being informative, the whole country had to be in a mess. But what option do these 24x7 media houses have. They are run by corporates, they have bottomlines to take care of, they face competition every hour, they have political Godfathers and have to keep them satisfied, they have to pay salaries and thus they have to maintain their revenues. And as they say everything is fair in love and war, so when the question of survival comes, you have to get news and if there is no news then you have to create news, failing to understand the repercussions. Then one fine day a journalist shows the news on a black out TV saying some stuff that is again not relevant as the news (now, I am being judgemental).
Now a days everything catches media attention even from a mosquito to an elephant, from aalu to beef and from 0 seat party to the party in majority. Media is creating divides in every possible way they can and off late people have started losing interest in switching on a news channel because its the same story with different role players each night, same panelists, same arguments, same tones, same fights, same blame games, same non-sensible talks or rather shouts!
I still believe and hope that majority (not by religion I mean) of people in this country are sensible and ignore these media created hue and cry each night and are busy developing this country and themselves.
The time is not far when the sensible class of this country will completely stop watching and getting affected by this media terrorism and as rightly said by some one (though a little rash) these enlightened, all knowledgeable 'presstitutes' will learn their lessons the hard way. The way they have abused the freedom of speech under this government and before is condemnable and still the government and we the people are tolerating these people, shows that India is still the most tolerant country of the world.
Jai Hind
Signing off
Siddharth
PS: I started writing this blog against reservation, but the prelude itself is so long that it will take 3-4 more blogs for me to reach till reservation until I reserve one of my blog space to write against reservation ;)
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