The months from April to June are described as silly season for news. Summer vacations, politicians jaunting abroad, and journalists feeling the heat, where is the story, the refrain from most editors. Summer of 2007, though has been anything but... Read The Article
For one, India never had a silly season, this was more from Yes Minister . Indian politicians will take to the streets no matter what - even if they are on the wrong side of the law if their opponents can be embarassed or if they can make a point. Also , as Rajdeep Sardesai says "Hammam mein sab nange hain" . That is something we all know and accept and dont care about .
( Posted: Sunday , July 15, 2007 at 08:43 )
Ramachandra
A very good presentation of facts and an eyeopener. A fair scrutiny of Media reporting in all its forms gives raise to the question, is the media sincere in their duty? The answer can be a YES if media limits its responsibility to reporting the facts and events only. Otherwise they seem to have forgotton that they form a pillor of our democracy and have the responsibility towards the people and have to bring out full truths. They were more happy to score points and exhibit personal excellence. They have failed to present the voice of moderates, intellectuals, and statesmen. To make it worse they have given undue importance and time to politicians in all their presentations to make the debates more controversial/unpalatable than meaningful. It is the press who have the maximum freedom in our democracy and so the maximum responsibility. Foremost of all, have they reddemed the faith and trust the people have put in the press? The answer is a definite NO. It is time they should bring out the history of our democracy, the position of the spirit of our constitution, what was intended and what was achived. Will they do it?
( Posted: Sunday , July 15, 2007 at 07:54 )
Yashodhan
A nice post indeed. Although you might want to check for the grammatical mistakes, such as no punctuation in the second paragraph and numerous others spread throughout the article, before you post anything in the future. This is not something one would expect from a national news channel.
( Posted: Sunday , July 15, 2007 at 00:50 )
Susheel
" modi susupected of some foul play?" Is this reporter serious? Gujarat was a state sponsored porgrom, a carnage orchestrated by the Modi Govt. Obviously the pro BJP stance of this articles and others written by the same individual is evident.
( Posted: Saturday , July 14, 2007 at 23:37 )
Pranab Prakhar
Mate Bhupendra, I loved the topic but you lost me with the narration. I was expecting this article for once will let our Journos to start thinking about why they do bloated story and copy-paste stories. Indian Journos lack research and publicity and image on telly is all they want, rather than research for their story. Learn what Fox,Sky,Beebs,Time do. Instead of booby,sun burned hunks on tv, who at times do not even know what question they want to ask, go and first improve depth of knowledge. Unless all tv channels learn to have full fledged Research department, stories will be shabby. If Barkha does not know what it feels like switching on sungun in a bunker on the frontline is like and goes on to boast about accolades, and does not have guts to accept the gross mis-conduct, such stories will always be without quality works.Again publicity hungry. Bhupendra, you began with NDTV with lot of promise, but now it seems gas is no more to challenge as a true journo.
Image related journalism is ok but it has to have substance, otherwise even a porno like image will become headline.
Print Journos are caught on syndrome, 'leader decides the rule', in this case TOI. But that is not going to work, story angle and target audience is important, which i think our Indian media mostly fails to look.Copying international stories in video/print is not going to work as they lack direction and a cheap journo work is doing international story as it is presumed viewer/readers do not have quality update/background of the story and will digest what is dished out to them. But that is not true, Indian around the world have started to travel around and are well read and realize the crap in the story. Our PM once told at Pranoy Roy's Award ceremony, lets have International Indian channels. The only inference that was drawn out of PM's call was to get footprint in other continents rather than quality field based reporters around the world to target over quality billion Indian audience.
( Posted: Saturday , July 14, 2007 at 21:37 )
ken
how many states are in India?
how many CM's are in India?
I only see things about Narendra Modi. He is the only CM in India. Please write about other CM in india from other state.
( Posted: Saturday , July 14, 2007 at 19:32 )
Aju
Nive post, beautiful language. But nothing new came out of it. Substitute the names and the same could have been said before the 2003 elections.
( Posted: Saturday , July 14, 2007 at 13:04 )
Mahesh
Your last para is sufficient enough to explain this political turmoil is just a passing phase of truly great democratic nation. All those pseudo seculars and the fanatics will bow down to the true might of democratic process. I am sure it will happen sooner than later.All the democratic nations have gone through this during their infancy and 60 years is "no time" in history.
( Posted: Saturday , July 14, 2007 at 12:53 )
rashmi
A very nice piece written with Bhupendra's typical flair
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