Thursday, October 18, 2007

Gujarat's future and Indian media's woes

Biased is one word that can describe Indian media perfectly. Looks like all of them are getting paid by the UPA sarkar at the center. Pankaj Vohra of HT goes to the extent of writing "BJP may have some slim chances in the forthcoming elections", IBNLive writes " Will Gujarat atone for the sins of the past".

Indian media has proved to be ignorant on two accounts, one is numbers and the other is judging people. Why is that your so called secular yard stick being applied only to the majority Hindus, why don't you question congress as to why they have an alliance with MIM in Hyderabad. The Hindu voter has always been an tolerant one, but if you go overboard he will punish you and this is what is happening. All their pre poll predictions are horribly wrong.

This election is going to be the worst defeat congress has ever faced in gujarat. While the media just predicts the opposite, in 2 months we all will know who is right. While no one talks about godhra, the manuvadi media will highlight post godhra every day. Dharm does not say that, if some fanatics burn your people, you stay quiet in your house. This is the modern definition of secularism for this media in india, but i am afraid, that the people of gujarat and slowly people all over the country dont seem to agree with this definition of secularism which has different yardsticks for the majority and minority. Mahabharat is again so very great and has a perfect instance to illustrate this:

Draupadi comes to the kurukshetra and Arjun is surprised to see her there. He says " Panchali, Ranbhoomi mein tumhara kya kaam hai". Draupadi says: " Mein kunti putr bheem ko yeh kast nahi dena chahthi hoon ki woh dushhasan ka lahu upablavya tak le aaya, aur us lahu ke bina tho mere khesh kule hi rehjayenge, aurphir jhesth kunti putr yudhistir koi teek thodi hai,kya pata unka man kab badal jaye aur woh tum logon se kahe, ki dharm shama hai aur shama hi dharm"

This translated reads:

Arjun: Draupadi, What are you doing in the battlefield?
Draupadi: I don't want to give Bheem (son of Kunti), the trouble of bringing dushhasan's blood all the way to upablavya, and my hair will remain untied without that blodd,moreover who knows about your elder brother (eldest son of Kunti) yudhistir, he might tell you all that dharm is forgiveness and forgiveness is dharm"

Then here is the stellar line that is valid against this media from the shastragni os that yuga-----------" Mein Dharm kis is paribasha aur tum logon ki beech tab tak khadi rahoongi jab tak mere yeh khesh band na hojate"

I will stand between you and this pseudo secular definition of dharm until my hair gets tied up again.

Now gujarat did not commit any sin for it to atone, it only reacted to what was inflicted on it. Gujarat and slowly the rest of India will stand between this so called pseudo secularism until justice is served to the majority.