Durga puja- it is an emotion to all the Bengalis. We have a local saying in our culture that Bengalis have 13 festivals in 12 months. And the biggest among them is Durga puja. The uniqueness of this festival is that we don't worship the goddess Durga! I mean yes we do, but this festival is much more than worshipping. To us, Durga is our own daughter, she is coming to her paternal house with her 4 children. We welcome them with all our hearts open. Preparation for the puja, shopping, planning etc. start almost two months prior from her arrival. The festival continues for almost 5 days and ends in ‘Dashami’ with bidding our beloved daughter with teary eyed good bye as she again starts her journey to her in-laws house. Durga puja symbolizes family union- spending time with the near and dear ones all together. We use to get a month long vacation in schools and colleges. So naturally like every 'traveloholic' Bengalis we use to plan tours keeping in mind that we must be presen...
India is said to be the largest democracy in the world. The fourth pillar of Democracy is press/media house. Weakening of media threatens democracy. It is high time that we speak about our national media.
The quality of journalism and news reporting are deteriorating everyday. Not only the news reported has become irrelevant in the bigger picture, but also it has become so biased and untruthful that one has to validate all the news through fact-checking sites.
We, as a society, are now at a cross road. Our annual GDP is drowning at the depth of Mariana trench whereas, unemployment is reaching the height of Mt Everest. Millions of people are being pushed to poverty, new active corona cases are reaching to several thousands each day, climate change is threatening our whole existence. But among all these things, most of the news agencies are interested in updating us about how Sushant Singh Rajput died, whether her girlfriend supplied him drugs or not, whether Virat, Anushka are expecting a boy or girl! It’s not my intention to state that these are not newsworthy or should not be reported. My point is to prioritize issues based on their impact. Right now, most of the news channels are focused on reporting their own politicized, biased narrative of the events surrounding Sushant’s death. Sushant was a bright young actor who was denied of a great future life. Whether that is due to depression or something else, needs to be investigated by proper authority- not by media houses who have their own biased opinion based on political and financial backings. Even then, these media houses should have taken the opportunity and responsibility to make people aware of the devastating effect of Depression, a parallel narrative coming out of the story. Instead all the efforts were spent upon something that will be taken care of by the concerned governing bodies.
They don't even know the manners and basic rules of a debate show. Yelling at each other and harassing people in the name of hosting a debate, seems to be the norm. Even in past, we have seen them provoking people by feeding wrong and biased news.This kind of event then becomes the cause of much anger and frustration to the public and destruction of many public and private properties. It's even more disgusting that this so called news media houses are getting good TRP even after being a total failure in doing their actual jobs. We really need to think about ourselves- about our taste of news reporting culture in our country because it's us who are watching them, it's us who are helping them spreading this bullshits. But no wonder this was inevitable. In a country where more than 30 percent people are illiterate and among the rest most are uneducated even if having a degree, what better do we expect. It's true that degree doesn't ensure proper education!
We, as a responsible citizen of our country should be watchful about what is fed to us. Everyone around has their own agenda pushing down our throats. It’s us that need to decide up to when we’ll tolerate and let them be.
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