Hi,
Following is a mail, my friend Satish sent me a few days back. I am posting it as it is. I have been wanting to write about the issues discussed below. But, for reasons I haven't done so. Thought, this to be a way to start. I do not know who the author, Preetham, of this mail.
Bhadri.
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Following is a mail, my friend Satish sent me a few days back. I am posting it as it is. I have been wanting to write about the issues discussed below. But, for reasons I haven't done so. Thought, this to be a way to start. I do not know who the author, Preetham, of this mail.
Bhadri.
________________________
Dear friends,
It is shocking that these days Kannda print media is going crazy. Sorry to say that editors start writing their pens filled with emotions and prejudice. Recently Vijaya Karnataka (VK) and hosa digantha carried a picture on Page 1 claiming it as proof to prove that Kadidal Shamanna is a naxal sympathiser (of course these papers do not attribute any difference between a naxal and a naxal sympathiser!). shockingly it was a photo taken years before when Thunga Ulisi horata was at its peak. Many, including U.R.Ananthmurthy (URA) took part in the protest rallies. In that file photo Shamanna is in a public meeting organised in a village in Malenadu. But the Vijaya Karnataka caption claims it to be a Naxal meet!
Anyone with little common sense would disapprove this claim. No banned out-fit holds its meeting in public that too with the sound system in place.
Moreover, the photograph was taken long back when there was no sign of Naxal movement in Karnataka. Then, what makes these papers carry it? Did they lack common sense or do they have taken readers for granted! This is utterly unmaking of journalism.
Those who have figured as naxal sympathisers (as listed by the GoK) may have sympathy for the causes for which the Naxals are fighting. But none of them are comfortable with the means adopted by Naxals. Nobody can comment that naxals are fighting for their welfare. If so, why should they hide in forest facing difficult to get food in heavy rains?
Think over it and don't foget non-violence is the strongest weapon, nothing can match it.
- Preetham
It is shocking that these days Kannda print media is going crazy. Sorry to say that editors start writing their pens filled with emotions and prejudice. Recently Vijaya Karnataka (VK) and hosa digantha carried a picture on Page 1 claiming it as proof to prove that Kadidal Shamanna is a naxal sympathiser (of course these papers do not attribute any difference between a naxal and a naxal sympathiser!). shockingly it was a photo taken years before when Thunga Ulisi horata was at its peak. Many, including U.R.Ananthmurthy (URA) took part in the protest rallies. In that file photo Shamanna is in a public meeting organised in a village in Malenadu. But the Vijaya Karnataka caption claims it to be a Naxal meet!
Anyone with little common sense would disapprove this claim. No banned out-fit holds its meeting in public that too with the sound system in place.
Moreover, the photograph was taken long back when there was no sign of Naxal movement in Karnataka. Then, what makes these papers carry it? Did they lack common sense or do they have taken readers for granted! This is utterly unmaking of journalism.
Those who have figured as naxal sympathisers (as listed by the GoK) may have sympathy for the causes for which the Naxals are fighting. But none of them are comfortable with the means adopted by Naxals. Nobody can comment that naxals are fighting for their welfare. If so, why should they hide in forest facing difficult to get food in heavy rains?
Think over it and don't foget non-violence is the strongest weapon, nothing can match it.
- Preetham
3 comments:
dear satish
i fully agree with your argument about the way Vijaya Karnataka
behaving. Take the case of URA on Avarana- with no time it tried to
pass judgement on him. Similar case with the Naxalites- one of the
problems with our fellow journalist is that they have not been able to
demarcate Maoist who support the violence and the other who follow
the parliamentary path- they need to be trained in theory as well as
ideology.This is apparent if we read Pratap sinhas articles- in vijaya
karnataka.
Our media foussed much on two personalities- Kadidal and Chenni-
however forgetting the fact that the subalterns who have been enlisted
are not actually supporters of Naxalism rather activist of civil
society.
muzaffar assadi
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Dr.Muzaffar Assadi
Chairman and Professor
Dept. of Studies in Political Science
University of Mysore
Manasagangotri
Mysore-570 006
Karnataka, india
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