Utopia

While Team Anna, invites much political balderdash and vitriol from media and candle burning elitists, what puzzles me is the target of wrath. Are the members of Team Anna the target or the Anti-graft movement itself? While, no amount of reason can lead me to believe that a sane person would ever object to anti-corruption, unless he himself is corrupt, the only acceptable cause of heart ache to many , in that case seems, Team Anna members. In the wake of allegations against them ,it seems a plausible explanation. But surprisingly Team Anna criticizer’s existed even before the allegations were leveled against them. Any amount of reasoning will lead one to conclude the sanctity of their conduct, and hence the virtue of their criticism. My heart reaches out to second group of criticizer’s (mostly media and media sympathizer’s), who find the conduct of individual Team Anna member’s deplorable and hence the venom-spit. Media has spend more hours debating the allegations against Team Anna ...

The recent public self-righteous rhetoric and emergence of non political leadership has been a topic of much debate and has raised serious concerns on the very character of an “Argumentative Indian”. The other wise docile and abiding Indian middle class has suddenly become the cynosure of all. The Academia is highly concerned of this growing public rhetoric and isolated incidents of “personal attacks” are been seen in connection of this Street Power and theories propounded to the effect that metamorphosis of Argumentative Indian to Intolerant Indian is just round the corner. This intolerant Indian in making is being accused of, substituting the arguments with action, result: attack on parliamentarians and having no regards for elected Parliament. Where any such non constitutional attempt to supersede the wisdom of parliament is abominable, one must at the same time remember that when Parliament moves away from people, people must and will find ways to make parliament come back to the...

Remember DD News, the characteristic sober faced news anchors .Though one might be tempted (considering the current trend of histrionics), to accuse them of monotone, but News was then all about Moderation. Our teachers asked us to emulate them when we spoke English. NEWS was then an hourly daily affair, but it made sure one knew everything worth knowing.News was then not a story, and hence had only one version: TRUTH. But Media has since come a long way. Private Independent channels entered the foray. It was the time when news rooms got bigger, and news making was institutionalized. An army of professional anchors were all over the place, literally reporting from over the ground and under the water. With over a dozen news channels at his disposal, the average Indian viewer was thrilled with this news adventure. The News in India changed forever. Credibility of news today is always under scanner. Below is an attempt to explore the major reasons which lead to increased media apathy ...