I am
100% in agreement with the above
statement. Journalists like Rajdeep,
Prabhu and the faces equivalent to
these personalities play one of the
major roles in presenting negativism
about a particular state only for
cheap publicity and nothing else.
The best way to understand Rajdeep's
cheap publicity of his channel IBN 7
can be seen on its news only. They
keep repeating the same news either
of a bar girl or a gay Indian for a
whole day and even they can present
it in such a way as if all the
nation is mere a gay to them.
Now when his state, i.e. Goa, has
brought a nationwide shame for all
of us then they are not showing any
kind of news related to that matter.
This very incident can tell their
cheap mentality.
Believe me, I am listening this news
on BBC UK almost every hour and am
feeling shameful to talk to my
British friends in the college. -
Pramod Tiwary - Mar. 24, 2008
This is a not an isolated incidence.
This kind of double standards is
employed all the time.
On Sept 29, 2006, an entire Dalit
family was brutally murdered by
higher caste criminals in a
Maharashtrian town. This was not
reported in national newspapers such
as Times of India or Hindustan Times
for next month and then it was
reported on back page. First time, I
learnt of the incident was in late
2007 through an article in Wall
Street Journal!*
People protect their own. That is
what is going on. If there are
Biharis in these big press
establishments at all, for reasons
known to them - they prefer to keep
quiet.
We Biharis might think ourselves as
Indians but other Indians treat
themselves as our colonial masters.
Till we develop as another reader
called it 'Bihari Subnationalism",
things are not going to change. -
Sanjay Kumar, Massachusetts, USA -
Pramod Tiwary - Mar. 24, 2008
* Source: Wall Street Journal:
12/27/2007 -
UNTOUCHABLE
Brutal Attack in India Shows
How Caste System Lives On
By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV
December 27, 2007; Page A1
KHAIRLANJI, India -- Not long ago,
the Bhotmange family was a showcase
of how Dalits, the former
"untouchables" at the bottom of
India's caste ladder, are improving
their lot amid the nation's economic
boom.
Forgoing his ancestral occupation of
handling rotting cow carcasses,
Bhaiyalal Bhotmange set up a tiny
wheat and rice farm in this village.
The income enabled him to buy a
cellphone and educate his three
children. His 17-year-old daughter
learned English, a rarity here. A
son studied computers and enrolled
at a local college. "I knew that
only through education can we uplift
our status," Mr. Bhotmange says.
"This was my dream."
Last year, the dream ended. A mob of
higher-caste neighbors, angered by
the family's refusal to accept their
destiny as the lowliest of the low,
attacked their home. Mr. Bhotmange's
wife and children were dragged out
and murdered, their bodies dumped in
a canal. Mr. Bhotmange, who had
managed to flee, is now a refugee in
a nearby city, afraid to venture
into Khairlanji.
The killings and their fallout show
how the rising aspirations of
India's most downtrodden can
exacerbate age-old social tensions.
A prolonged economic boom has
improved the lot of millions of the
nation's poorest, including Dalits.
Still, despite a ban on "untouchability"
and decades of affirmative-action
aid to Dalits, the rigid
stratification imposed by the Hindu
caste system is proving resistant to
change, sometimes violently so. .... |
