New Delhi: The Indian Media came under sharp attack at a function here for becoming the part of Saffron propaganda against religious minorities in the country. Delivering the Ninth Mafoozur Rehman Memorial Lecture on ‘Media’s Role in National Integration’, noted journalist Shish Narain Singh said media is not carrying out its duties objectively as it has been creating mistrust among the religious communities by its partisan reporting. “Media’s bias role has pushed the Muslim minority on the receiving end that is dangerous for the unity and integrity of the country”. Mentioning the forced conversion event in Agra organized by an RSS affiliated offshoot, Narain Singh said it was a big fraud played with the nation.
Continuing his speech, Narain Singh has alleged that media has become biased and dishonest that will have serious repercussions on the social fabric of the country. He said media tried to defame Muslims by using the ruse of terrorism but slain honest police officer Hemant Karkare had exposed real face behind terrorism in the country. “Karkare showed mirror to the media which run a negative campaign against Muslims on the pretext of terror strikes”. Referring to Hindu holy text Bhagvad Gita, he said even the Hindu holy book urged for speaking truth and fact. Urging the people to raise their voice against media’s bias role, Narain Singh has warned that if they do not stand against the media, it will put the country’s unity and integrity on peril. He said journalist fraternity should imbibe traits of truthfulness and frankness and expose the bias of media in the larger interest of the country.
In his presidential remarks, former head of the Urdu Department, Prof Abdul Haq said even epic Ramayana also talked of communal harmony and urged its followers to maintain cordial relations with other faiths. Lauding Shesh Narain Singh for his courage of journalism, he said the hallmark of true and fearless journalists is that they always raised their voice against oppression and injustices. While conducting the proceedings, senior journalist Suhel Anjum pointed that the media has become totally bias as it hardly provides contrary view on any issue. He also urged the community for self-introspection as why they have been at receiving hand in media.
The lecture organized by the Urdu Development Organization and the United Muslims of India on the occasion of Ashfaqullah and Ram Prasad Bismal’s Martyrdom Day at Ghalib Academy here. In his introductory remarks, convener of the programme Dr Syed Ahmad Khan said both the freedom fighters laid their life for the protection of the country’s unity and integrity. “We should a lesson from their sacrifices and build an atmosphere in the country wherein all religious groups may live in complete harmony”, he added. He also threw light on the life of late journalist Mafoozur Rehman saying he was a fearless and self-less journalist of the yore and never succumbed to any pressure or allurement. The annual memorial lecture in his name is a humble tribute to Mafoozur Rehman sb who died in penury some nine years back, Dr Syed said.
Dear MM readers, I am really at a loss whom to believe? Did you guys read the following:
Modi’s Idea of India – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/…/pankaj-mishra-nirandra-m…The New York Times
Modi’s Idea of India. By PANKAJ MISHRA OCT. 24, 2014. Inside … India, V.S. Naipaul declared in 1976, is “a wounded civilization,” whose obvious political and …
Missing: december
Articles by Pankaj Mishra – Bloomberg View
http://www.bloombergview.com/contributors/pankaj-mishra
Pankaj Mishra, a Bloomberg View columnist, is the author of “From the Ruins of Empire: … Born in northern India, Mishra attended college in Allahabad and Delhi. He contributes to the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the Guardian … A fellow of Britain’s Royal Society of Literature, he divides his time between …
Missing: december
Pankaj Mishra, Latest News Pankaj Mishra – Firstpost
http://www.firstpost.com/tag/pankaj-mishra
The First Post
Pankaj Mishra’s incredible India Where’s he getting his skewed ideas? … What makes a NYT always choose writers like Pankaj Mishra, who seem to have … Will Narendra Modi as PM be able to deliver the high expectations built around him?
Pankaj Mishra has Lost the Plot | Schroedinger’s Cat
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Oct 28, 2014 – Shorter Mishra, India is worse than ISIS and also Russia and … Before Mr. Modi there has been only one time when a Bharatiya … in New York, last month, more than 19,000 people cheered Mr. Modi’s … gene108 | October 28, 2014 at 12:28 pm …. December 2014 (1); November 2014 (2); October 2014 (7) …
postcolonial reaction « Peter Levine
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Two recent articles by Pankaj Mishra put very different valences on the same fundamental story. In “Modi’s Idea of India” (The New York Times, Oct 24), Mishra… … Posted on November 3, 2014 by Peter …. December 2014 · November 2014 · October 2014 · September 2014 · August 2014 · July 2014 · June 2014 · May 2014 …
In which Pankaj Mishra defends racists | IndiaFacts
http://www.indiafacts.co.in/pankaj-mishra-defends-racists/
Oct 2, 2014 – A response to Pankaj Mishra’s Livemint piece. … Without wasting much time, let’s get directly to Mishra’s key points: In 2005, Narendra Modi, then the chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat, was prevented by a State Department …. Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 14 December- 21 December 2014.
Modi’s Idea of India by PANKAJ MISHRA | richardaquilone
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Oct 24, 2014 – By PANKAJ MISHRA Hindu nationalists are vengeful nativists who recoil from … 2014 at 12:00AM from NYT Opinion http://ift.tt/1xgQnvw via IFTTT.
ISIS, New York Times & their Converted Warriors – Forces of …
http://www.cinemarasik.com/2014/…/isis-new-york-times-their-converted-warr...
Oct 25, 2014 – Pankaj Mishra was not merely writing about Forster in his NYT article, he was unmasking his own feelings. … “Mr. Modi doesn’t seem to know that India’s reputation as a “golden bird” … Yes, he wrote it this week on October 24, 2014. … December 2012 · November 2012 · October 2012 · September 2012 …
How Bollywood mirrors and mould Modi’s new India …
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The Malay Mail
Nov 24, 2014 – NOVEMBER 24 — More than 20 years ago I travelled across India for a book on the fresh … Last updated Saturday, December 20, 2014 03:55pm … How Bollywood mirrors and mould Modi’s new India — Pankaj Mishra …. NYT Video: Jade’s deadly journey — An untold story of drugs and death (11:38) …
Is Modi weakening? | India legal
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6 days ago – Nonetheless, writers like Pankaj Mishra still believe that Modi … which are quintessentially anti-West: He wrote recently in The New York Times:.
What is your take on Pankaj, NYTimes, other equally prestigious media (UK)? I would like to hear. Thanks.
To check, I read diligently one of the NYT articles written by Pankaj (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/opinion/pankaj-mishra-nirandra-modis-idea-of-india.html) and citing very liberally Mr. Naipaul, many Ivy League (Harvard, among them) graduates, mostly PhDs, some of whom after making mega bucks, not necessarily education-based thinking, broad-mindedness, strategic approach, among other universal ethics for success in the world, based on empirical research data, validated by other independent researchers, have returned to India or chose to be hybrid, neither expat nor 100% India-based. To confide in you, among some from that class, fortuitously, I can count my humble self as their former class mates, friends, acquaintances, contemporaries, and the list continues. For example, very, very high-level bureaucrats in the foreign/finance/governorship were my contemporaries from late 1950s and early 1960s. I pursued academic line, obtaining two doctoral degrees from Russia and America, three masters, two from America, and one from Patna, Bihar, India, and I have no regrets for not following them or competing with them. Still, I kept remaining informed about them indirectly through press or other common friends, one of whom bluntly told me, “you did wise by leaving India”. To cut a long story short, let me share with you, that from among this select group, except one whose name sounded closer to mine than theirs, formally joined BJP and rose as high as they could. Presently, most of expats who visit India for personal reasons, are of the opinion, that majority from this elite, moneyed class, with clout and muscles, are BJPers, their sympathizers, financiers, supporters. Finally, they made NM their PM. The missing alphabet, most likely, filled for Om! Shanti Om! (no offense or sarcasm implied at all). In sum, they all agree with Pankaj, Naipaul, NYTimes op-ed writers, not at all with those who are objecting, and would like to punch me. In all my comments, I have maintained my position that for the past 67 years, low-caste poor Hindus, non-Brahmins, Dalits, Muslims, and other minorities have suffered under “hindutva”, albeit not under the umbrella of…..but so-called “sloganeers” of “secular state”, and “secularism”. I don’t think that they ever cared to check how the Indian constitution defines it. Unless we accept the ground reality of India, there won’t be much change for better. There may be some more foolish H-M riots, and to the dismay of some, the Muslim minority will come out better than before. Do you know why?
BJP won in Jharkhand also … yipieeeee
when u guys r loosing then its biased … where the FCUK where u wen congress was winning ?
Dear Ankit in my school for every one muslim minority i e christian sikh parsi etc there were thirty hindu hound breathing over our neck We dare not even play with them b/c if god forbid we won we would get thrashed for winning So Ankit you dont think you ever won the game in school but your opponents were too threatened scared and hated you for illegitimate superamacy