We need to be vigilant of those who wear garb of 'self stamped pillars of democracy, nation and social way of life they think is their religion' because it is they who find more opportunities to throw tantrums based on self declared emancipation from all social norms and controls, even if caught nakedly misguiding.
I remember a newspaper in eighties used to be distributed 'free' at Churchgate to hundreds of commuters crossing over to Asiatic side only to flame trouble with juicy news about tiff between then PM and the President. The end of parliamentary democracy was being pictured. For years ( not just days or weeks - 2-3 years ) it featured every day on front page news articles about its version of corruption at high places (a business house and PM were in the center). All these. news from very 'eminent award winning independent' senior journalist/editor and equally 'respected' finance scribe. The hot news, followed for years, could never be proven. However the same journalists (?) officially later revealed themselves to had been prominent members of a beneficiary political party...!!
So much for independence of media !!
( Years old draft was left unpublished)
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