Ashim Writes

The contribution of Media  in the downfall of India is unparalleled. Start of the last decade, India as a country was growing at 8.48% annual GDP. We saw some huge corruption cases and India media was hell bent to expose any corruption case by the government or the affiliates of people in the govt. They were doing sting operations, exposing scams like Vadra Deal, CWG, Coal, grilling politicians and helping people take the right decision when the elections were due. By the time the then current govt ended it's tenure, we were growing at 7.41% annual GDP. Narendra Modi won with a whopping majority and at the same time the world started to show a decline in global oil index making it profitable for countries who import oil from Middle East. India had this new energy with the new govt and investments were pouring in. GDP saw a positive hit and we reached almost the place we were 6 years ago. One fine evening came a bizarre, Ill planned, stupid and unnecessary ...

"India Wants to Know" . "This is my show" . " Krantikari , Bahut Krantikari " . " Sawal to hum puchenge hi" . These lines are so deeply rooted in our minds that we don't need to think twice before we could say the name of the TV anchor who uses these. I am no journalist. I am no scientist either but I know if I jump off a building, I will go down because of the gravity. Sometimes common sense is what you need to understand and decide what is right and what is wrong. I remember when Indira Gandhi died, the  anchor who read this news couldn't stop from breaking herself up in the live TV. May be that was the first time an anchor went against the set rules of Journalism that states "Do not include your personal views/emotions. Present the news as it is". In Today's rat race of TRP, anchors sensationalize a small thing to the next level and force the public to think about it over and over again. The TV screens are dazzled an...