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Indian Express: Rajiv Gandhi, Goenka, Shorey, Gurumurthy, episode of 1987-88
I vividly remember those days of Ramnath Goenka , Gurumurthy and Shorey leading frontal attack on Rajiv Gandhi using Amitabh/ Ajitabh, Ambanis and even then president Jail Singh through their columns in Indian Express. This assault from one media house was so incessant for almost two years on daily basis that Rajiv was almost politically drowned. Past 35 years of socio- political upheaval we see could easily find its genesis in that so called everyday journalistic revelations from those gentlemen during that period. They rattled the polity.
Few years later these same persons openly admitted of having particular party affiliations, when they found it convenient to reveal and enjoyed the rewards too.
When Jail Singh episode was catapulted on the pages of IE, the newspaper copies were used to be distributed free at Churchgate crossing where lakhs of office workers used to cross over on way to Nariman Point and Cuff Parade, something underlining the intent behind the campaign.
मुझे वे दिन अच्छे से याद हैं जब रामनाथ गोयनका, गुरुमूर्ति और शौरी ने Indian Express में अपने कॉलम के जरिए अमिताभ/अजिताभ, अंबानी और यहां तक कि तत्कालीन राष्ट्रपति ज़ैल सिंह का इस्तेमाल करते हुए राजीव गांधी पर सीधा हमला बोला था। एक मीडिया हाउस का यह हमला लगभग दो साल तक रोजाना इतना लगातार हुआ कि राजीव लगभग राजनीतिक रूप से डूब गए। पिछले 35 वर्षों में हम जो सामाजिक-राजनीतिक उथल-पुथल देखते हैं, उसकी उत्पत्ति उस अवधि के दौरान उन सज्जनों के तथाकथित रोजमर्रा के पत्रकारीय खुलासों में आसानी से पाई जा सकती है। उन्होंने राजनीति को सदा के लिए झकझोर कर रख दिया। कुछ वर्षों बाद इन सज्जनों ने खुले तौर पर किसी विशेष पार्टी से जुड़े होने की बात स्वीकार की, जब उन्हें इसका खुलासा करना सुविधाजनक लगा। जब ज़ैल सिंह प्रकरण IE के पन्नों पर छाया हुआ था, तो अखबार को चर्चगेट क्रॉसिंग पर मुफ्त में वितरित किया जाता था, जहां लाखों कार्यालय कर्मचारी नरीमन प्वाइंट और कफ परेड की ओर रास्ता पार करते थे, जो अभियान के पीछे के इरादे को रेखांकित करता था।
News reporters from India at Israel - Hamas war zone
The most important training a journalist must learn to possess is the neutrality particularly when reporting from a conflict zone where only NEWS should outflow not their running commentary colored with personal biases and instinctual national or ethical prejudices.
Our global stature
We could not have afforded to hand over Sri Lanka to China or pushed it under US hegemony or turn it into another Diego Garcia at our very doorstep. Sending IPKF to Lanka or the Maldiv operations were necessary to establish semblance of our control over Indian Ocean in our neighbourhood. Those were not just right steps but powerful demonstration of rising Indian importance in the region never seen even after those day.
Radio Jhootistan
Radio Jhootistan the satirical skit on All India Radio mocking Pakistani propaganda during '71 was hit among us children. Against tense blackouts in evenings and scary briefings in schools by army jawans , Radio Jhootistaan was perfect get away. We siblings and friends used to enjoy it and gossip about the Pakistani defeats and had also jingles made for Bhoto which we used to sing loudly. I vividly recall my father pasting carbon papers brought from office on window panes to block any light going out in night during blackouts. There were several trenches made near our locality for safety. When Pakistani attack happened on 3rd December children out of curiosity ran to higher places to see the night sparks in air.
Violence by Hamas
This goriness raises the deja vu of continued violence such perpetrators have been inflicting mercilessly on innocent lives particularly against women and children world over. This is not the first of similar heinous crime against some woman, we have seen even people admitting having committed similar acts on camera earlier elsewhere. And the religion has nothing to do with this hatred as we can find them hiding behind garb of different faiths. In fact they first abandon their own faith than dye their hearts with vile immorality before committing such crimes.
Israel and Hamas
The actions of both Israel and Hamas against each other should be considered a threat to global peace and the pace of its development.
While one derives legitimacy from being a formally recognized state, the other is still an illegitimate militia whose brazen violence knows no bounds. However, both also fully recognize each other's formal enemy status.
The human atrocities they both commit on innocents of their region and the uncalled for hardship their actions cause to other countries and the people around the world should be considered crimes against humanity, which the world collectively needs to deal with sternly. It is their wounds that other people have to bear.
What we are seeing in Gaza, Israel, West bank is result of continued mutual political intransigence, communal hatred and above all, stubborn indifference towards global peace. These should be good enough reasons for the rest of the world to rise up and pay serious attention to work collectively towards an implementable and enforceable parmanent solution to this conflict. The genesis of this problem, though irrevocably settled now, also lies in some collective decision enforced decades back from outside only, so might it work for resolving the present crises too permanently. People are tired.
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जहां एक को औपचारिक रूप से मान्यता प्राप्त राज्य होने से वैधता प्राप्त है, वहीं दूसरा अभी भी एक नाजायज मिलिशिया है जिसकी निर्लज्ज हिंसा की कोई सीमा नहीं है। हालाँकि, दोनों एक-दूसरे की औपचारिक दुश्मन की स्थिति को भी पूरी तरह से पहचानते हैं।
दोनों अपने क्षेत्र के निर्दोष लोगों पर जो मानवीय अत्याचार करते हैं और उनके कार्यों से अन्य देशों और दुनिया भर के लोगों को जो अनावश्यक कठिनाई होती है, उसे मानवता के खिलाफ अपराध माना जाना चाहिए, जिससे दुनिया को सामूहिक रूप से सख्ती से निपटने की जरूरत है। ये उनके घाव हैं जो दूसरे लोगों को झेलने पड़ते हैं।
उनकी आपसी राजनीतिक हठधर्मिता, एक-दूसरे के प्रति सांप्रदायिक नफरत और वैश्विक शांति के प्रति जिद्दी उदासीनता बाकी दुनिया के लिए इस संघर्ष के कार्यान्वयन योग्य समाधान की दिशा में गंभीरता से ध्यान देने और सामूहिक रूप से काम करने के लिए पर्याप्त कारण होना चाहिए। संघर्ष की उत्पत्ति भी दशकों पहले बाहर से लागू किए गए कुछ निर्णयों का परिणाम है, हालांकि वह अब एक स्थापित वास्तविकता है, संयुक्त राष्ट्र के माध्यम से सामूहिक रूप से वर्तमान समस्या के लिए वैसे ही समाधान को लागू करना मुश्किल नहीं होना चाहिए। लोग थक गये हैं।