Today I noticed that there is no mention of country wide candle light protests happening in many cities protesting against killing of Journalist Gauri Lankesh. Not a single mention in times of india.
This is not the first time, this paper has omitted news like this. We know TV channels are not unbiased. But we expect at least newspapers to give us correct, complete and unbiased news. Sadly that is not happening.
And people who have the courage to give honest news are being shot down. In front of their own houses.
Watching the news yesterday, I was thinking of shouting "beke beku nyaya beku". Then I realized people are actually doing this protest. Not just in Bangalore, but also in Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad and other cities.
TV channels are smart. They wait for the story to develop. Then they apply their own filters depending on which party they are learning towards. Then show this un-unbiased news with so much conviction we feel bad for doubting them.
But there is still hope for our "nation". The amount of protests happening all around the country shows us that at least common people are not intimidated by the overt and covert efforts to silence the dissidence.
As many are saying "they may have murdered one Gauri. But many more Gauris will come out and at one point of time, justice may prevail".
Amen.
But coming back to Gauri Lankesh, I had not read her paper so far. So I googled and found on line version. You may want to have a look at the paper here.
Note: The newspaper is in Kannada.
Comments
Post a Comment