A Shocking State Of Affairs



Some days back, I came to know of a very confidential letter that gave me a tremendous shock. I read it accidently and reading it my hair actually stood on my edges. This was a letter written to the Human Rights Commission at Delhi from Nandigram, West Bengal. It was written somewhat like this:

Ahead of Panchayat Polls on 11/5/2008 the ruling party sponsored goons continued unhindered violence inspite of the assurance in the all parties meeting that normalcy would be assured.

The CPM goons resorted to bloody violence in this area. They snatched voter-ID cards of nearly 1200 voters and also beaters of the opposite party. 11 to 15 persons including women were admitted in the Nandigram Block Primary Health Center in critically injured condition. All villagers gathered at Block Development Office to give them the permission of casting their votes without ID cards but the Officer present lathicharged them with RAF personnel.

Dead bodies were lying around on the field like stacks of garbage unattended. Uncovered fully mashed bodies of women, supposedly raped were lying. The Superintendent of Police too joined the goons and prevented dead bodies to be carried in the hospital.

Even weeks after this, no action was taken from the Government, Police, Lawyers, Court. Nothing. Absolutely Nothing. So, reconsider India’s status again. India is a democratic country, is it? Well, I don’t think so.

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Media in our lives

My last post was a poem in sympathy for the AIDS patient and my understanding for them. Now, this article is my views on the effect of the media on common people, as a student of media. I hope it would be of some help to you.





Article:                         Influence Of Media on Today’s Youth

As the maxim goes, ‘Man proposes, God disposes’, but it would be far more appropriate to say in today’s society that ‘Media proposes, public disposes’. The media portrays itself as a refulgent personality in the very heart of contemporary society. Media comes across as an apotheosis due to the celerity in raking up subjects after subjects. What subject to perceive or not to perceive is totally rested with us.

Media brings in awareness be it for a good or bad animadversion. For eg.reports or articles on famous personalities and sports victories sell like hot-cakes, while news on rapes, murders is not of the public choice. Thus, public can eclat whatever they like or they can be averse towards what they dislike.

The media brings forth various proposals one after another to accept it or deny it is the public’s choice. Today’s youth personality, temperament, behavior, whatever else you might call it, is built by the way the youth, ill-habited youth have accepted and acclaimed the negative side of media. Only a few days ago, a girl from Uttar Pradesh ran from her house inspired by Ekta Kapoor’s serials to act in Bollywood. She was finally propelled into prostitution.

As for the public, cursing the media or creating a kerfuffle out of media issues would not help the cause of children going into the wrong way. They must guide their children while TV viewing so that they do not get drifted away in a negative way. They must make them non-fragile and teach them to distinguish and isolate bad influence from the good.

My original poem- AIDS

                                              Aids

Knows no boundaries,

Knows no riches,

And of course, no bribes.

Make yourself aware

Else you will be nowhere

                                            A mass killer, AIDS,

                                            Comes to the fore,

                                            Of the non-condom users

                                            And free lovers alike

                                           And Oh! Also through blood transfusion

Knowingly unknown

You must not be,

So, please use condoms

And be HIV free.

And Oh! Also far from free love you must be!

                                        Never joke on a victim,

                                        Of such perilous disease,

                                         They are not a criminal,

                                        You can hug & kiss,

                                        And Oh! You may be the next one to be!