The world is such a messed up place.... I was watching the news today and I should say I was surprised and intrigued. The channel in concern is the one and only the over hyped, the gruesome ... "AAJ TAK”.... true they show the news items as they are, true that they show even the most brutal and merciless and in somecases the most useless items without any sense of fear, according to them , but without any sense of ethics, according to me. I mean, what do I care if a father killed a daughter in some remote village in north India and the people there decided to retaliate and mobbed the police there? Why should I care about what’s happening to a jadugar baba or a tantri, again in some remote village somewhere, when there are so many other burning issues going on here? Why on purpose underplay the crucial things going on in this country and instead over hype the stupid 'masaledaar' news items? Just to sell their news channel? how do you justify a half an hour discussion on the pooja path being conducted for an out of form batsman in our team, when there are bomb blasts going on in the south and there are threats of communal violence breaking out ? Instead of trying to restore calm in such places by spreading some nice social message all they are bothered about is making they channel more saleable.
But in spite of the above shortcomings I must admit, I indeed was smiling to myself after the news clips today. First there was a report of some hotel owner being killed and the village people stoned the police vans that came there. What followed was absolutely unjustified display of arrogance and indiscipline. The police then in retaliation took to the streets and lathi charged the village people, old men, women, youngsters all of them were mercilessly pulled out of their houses and beaten up, and all of this was shown on TV to a nation of more than a billion people. But you can bet that after a week or some they will find some other such shocking incident and this will be forgotten. I just had one thought in mind then that such helpless people are being mercilessly beaten up, who gives these so called civic servants the right to do this? Before you begin to echo the same sentiments let me tell you about the second piece of news that was being broadcast. In Meerut, there was a strike going on in a college, and students were down on the college breaking the property and beating up the police who tried to interfere, the reason? Here comes, a second year student from the college while appearing for his exams had carried a revolver into the exam hall. The exam and the copying began and when the teacher tried to stop this particular pupil from cheating he was promptly threatened with the revolver. The teacher then complained about this issue to the principal and who in turn, it seems took action against the student. What happened ahead was no only shocking but was also a blatant example of the fact that the world is going to the dogs, forgive my use of words but how else do you explain the fact that after the student was reprimanded, he called up some of his other friends and most of the college students and not long after that the whole college was up in a strike. Window panes and doors and benches were smashed, police was brought to the scene. All this for what? For supposedly retaliating against a teacher who wanted the students to pass the exam on their own merit rather than cheat. The exam was forgotten. God knows whether it would be held again if at all?
After this I agreed, there are no good guys or bad guys, its all about power and arrogance. It’s not important whose is right or wrong, all that matters is who is more powerful? I couldn't help but smile at the diversity that you can find in this world, even in the forms of injustice being meted out.........