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Re: GP Editorial: Destroying Society
Posted by: "rakesh kandwal" rakeshkandwal@yahoo.com
Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:05 pm (PDT)
Gent ,
The present issue is the existing enviorenment where non is happy and due to which every one looking for each others fault rather than finding positivity in negitivity .
Coming back to ABVP incident no hwere in the comminication I could find any one who did some analysis for the cause . Rather we had tried to add our own colour to the issue but someone need to go to the depth of the cause which is not today but so many years of exploitationof the weak in our sysyem . Thus we have these vilence which gets immediately noticed by media and it serves as instant coffee and problem is still rotting day by day .
We had a channel and a news paper who was doing creating & analytical coverage of issue with followup mechanisum which continued for years together till the time action points got implementd . But they also lost interest because its hard work and no one intereseted to watch / read such news . Tahts the mainissue -- no one interested -- no time ... all want quick entertainment .. no creativity ...
Most of the media whether print or TV or Radio following the above concept so that they can increaese TRP and who cares for the content , social responsibility . Every thing become commercial . Thats why hardly few watch Doordarson or listen to all India radio . How many of us promote these government media which have update on various developmental projects , educational , agriculture , health , economics , history etc and how many of us tell our children or friend to go and watch these informative channels probabaly 1% . Thats why the whole enviorenment is of quick fix and not long term thus ...
Lets journalist contribute more positivily which offcourse thay are doing but due to fast changing technology and life the responsibility increased .
I am little off the track but hope hit the point i wanted to to .
Thanks & regards .
Rakesh
--- On Sat, 8/9/08, Sunil Dutt kainthola <kainthola@gmail.com > wrote:
From: Sunil Dutt kainthola <kainthola@gmail.com >
Subject: Re: [uttarakhand] GP Editorial: Destroying Society
To: uttarakhand@yahoogroups. com
Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 4:04 PM
The editorial says 'Getting out of this mess requires a veritable 'yagna' in which all issues have to be consigned to the fire of the constitutional spirit.' However I would prefer to call it as a de-weeding exercise. The actualization of Uttarakhandi dream depends on this!
Sunil Kainthola
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Rajiv Rawat <rajiv@yorku. ca> wrote:
/The recent outrageous behaviour of ABVP-affiliated students at Garhwal
and Kumaon Universities who ransacked their respective administrative
offices has brought to the fore the growing lawlessness and impunity
which the ruling party's outfits are imposing on the state. The ABVP in
this case are acting as stormtroopers for the government as it runs into
tough opposition to its higher education policy that attempts to
politicize the university administration with a direct attack on
academic freedom. The Garhwal Post writes about this troubling trend in
the following hard hitting editorial. While I don't always agree with
the Garhwal Post Editorial line, they are right to point out the tawdry
collapse of civility in Uttarakhand's politics, and the uses and abuses
of the current government, which amazingly eclipse all previous records.
/
Lead Editorial
Garhwal Post
<http://garhwalpost. com/leftnewsdeta il.aspx?id= 427;&nt=Editorial>,
August 6, 2008
Anybody who has been confronted in the middle of the night by drunken
cops, with their identification tags off, knows how difficult it is to
deal with the situation. One can counter miscreants with maximum force
and 'extreme prejudice' in such a situation, but one's hands are bound
when it comes to dealing with men in uniform.
Such is the authority and majesty of the uniform. However, in India,
there is so much of corruption and such political misuse of the police
force that the average citizen holds the cop in complete contempt. The
cop is considered just someone who has to be got past; the most
convenient way being exercise of influence or by greasing the palm.
Politicians rise to power not through convincing argument but by a
constant process of challenging the police force on various morchas.
When the politician does come to power, the natural instinct remains
that of hostility. Having braved the cop's arrogance and lathi blows,
the politician wants payback and on the street.
The payback is in the way of the cop saluting the passing car, for which
he has provided VIP passage by inconveniencing the ordinary people. For
the small-town politician, in particular, this is the ultimate, the goal
of all that he has striven for. Imagine his frustration and anger when,
instead of providing him right of way, a cop actually reprimands him for
breaking traffic rules. The rage is overpowering - the humiliation is
all the greater because it is public.
Civilised behaviour in India's fluid society is just a thin veneer over
centuries of competition based on caste, community and class complexes.
Individuals do not even know why they react to situations in a certain
fashion. Getting out of this mess requires a veritable 'yagna' in which
all issues have to be consigned to the fire of the constitutional
spirit. Leaders and officials must emerge from a process that develops
their nobility of character. No amount of rules and regulations can
ensure the proper behaviour of politicians or provide courage of
conviction to the uniformed man.
There have been incidents ever since the BJP came to power in the state
that have exposed the inner psychology of the party cadre. No matter how
much benefit of doubt one gives them - after all they have sought votes
in the name of Ram - their behaviour increasingly shows they want to
enjoy an unbridled, feudal kind of power; to be just like the Congress
was over the past so many years. Sadly, lacking the sophistication of
the average Congressman, they are not being able to enjoy the 'fruits'
of power very successfully. Be it exploitation of women, use of
discretionary power to gather lucre or, peacock like, displaying
feathers of office, they are doing it very badly indeed. As a result,
there are scenes almost every other day of a vulgar use of petty power.
It may be said that they have the power, and it is being able to do all
these things successfully that counts. Manhandle a traffic cop and then
have him suspended at the hands of spineless senior officials - thus
come out looking powerful. How much the system has been damaged, how
weak the civilisational structure has been rendered doesn't matter. One
doesn't expect to be around when the barbarians come with their bombs
and single-mindedness. The system will have become so weak and fractured
that capability to stand up to the Jehadis and Maoists will be
non-existent. Ordinary people should worry because those who have ripped
them off will have long gone to live in ordered societies in foreign lands.
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