Turn UP the Volume… please!
This advice is obviously misplaced.
Mr Journalist seems to have forgotten that this country has a strong religious sentiment. Religious leaders are capable of giving a new orientation to this religious sentiment.
If he is not aware that religion is a big power in the world, he is mistaken.. And unfortunately inexperienced.
The United Nations has recently included faith based initiatives in their programme.
They wanted religious leaders to come out of their barriers and take up projects related to HIV,AIDs and female foeticide.
Why do you think they were involved? It is because the masses listen to these representatives.They have an impact through their large followings and are the most effective to drive a cause!
Pitfalls have been recorded in every line.
Do we stop going to doctors, because of one medical scandal?
Do we stop hiring lawyers, because some of them lie?
Do we stop reading newspapers, because one journo is biased?:-)
Then why paint all spiritual and religious leaders with the same brush?
There is nothing wrong in talking about our culture. When you know that you come from a tradition that is based on the values of love, care, dignity and respect it makes you believe that you can build and live in a safe, happy society.
It is like telling a policeman, stop catching thieves.
Or telling a postman, stop delivering letters.
It is the job of spiritual and religious leaders to remind people the glory of the past-to inspire them and give hope for the future
Not just talk about bliss, but give practical advice that can be put to use in varied lifestyles.
They serve as an emotional and spiritual strength to the masses to face challenges that come their way.
I think these leaders should do just the opposite of what you stated-
They should not keep quiet.Their voices must be LOUDER and CLEARER!
They should address contemporary issues even more frequently.. because when they speak, it echos in the hearts of millions.
-RealityCheck
P.S. Do give us the chance to think for ourselves. It’s time to mature from being a ‘Generalist’ to a ‘Journalist’
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Yes, well said. One thing he should not have done: Assumed he was speaking on everyone’s behalf.
One thing he should’ve done: Followed his own advice.
Very well said. I guess the journalists need to also realize that they need to act responsibly or be sidelined.
When someone is a loudmouth in any gathering, s/he increasingly find people avoiding them or refuting their arguments. When no one does this, they take it as tacit affirmation of their point of view. One needs to realise that silence is not the way with such people. We need to stand up and clearly denounce such pen-weilding-terrorists.
I congratulate the author for such a well thought article.
thank you
inspires me to write more.
Rightly put. One thing is very clear. He dint seem to have ‘Edited’ his speech well…….. and he is an ‘Editor’
Wonder what is his focus..talking good or bad about women or bad about spiritual leaders. He ought to get his focus right(Meditation can help…u see a free of cost advice)
Wonder if he’ll get it….u have to actually stay silent and eyes closed for that. But there’s hope….after this article.
Dear Reality Check,
Ha ha.. generalist to journalist.. nice.
It is time journalists stop putting their foot in their mouth.. (and expect no one to notice!) great piece
thanks
Completely agree. Journalists at times are ignorant. This is a good way of educating them!
Hypocrisy is a common thing these days. Journalists support one line of thought if they feel the masses will get swayed temporarily. It doesn’t take more than a few minutes for them to change their mind for TRP’s.
Journos at times feel they can get away with anything. They thoroughly underestimate the average IQ of those watching them.
1. It was mighty presumptuous of him to speak on behalf of everyone.
2. By his own logic, he should have stuck to the topic on hand/his domain instead of dictating what others should & shouldn’t do.
3. Why protect his name behind a veil of anonymity? Stupidity needs to be exposed
SHUT UP… Poor Editor might be addressing his thoughts to “SHUT UP” but could not! Inner words manifest outside
The pen is mightier then the sword and one has to be very careful how it is used ,the journalist seem to forget that they have a heavy responsibilities on their shoulders
This is seriously hard-hitting and the generalization part stands out in particular.
Sorry for the long drawn reply
But I guess I have to do it to expose this Pseudo-Intellectua, having heard about what transpired the other day. The other panelists could have retorted in a worse measure which only proves that others can’t stoop to his level.
Media has been infinitely more damaging to India and concept of Indianness than any other entity. Paid news, Biased reportage, Manufactured news, surrogate ads, Breaking news culture, inaccurate/unverified news, negative reporting – name anything that could go wrong with the Media today and we have examples galore. Journos should first clean their house before they rant about our Spiritual Masters who today are the only hope for the Nation
Without naming him, it is anybody’s guess who this journo could be! LOL! In my humble opinion he is not even worth expending any ounce of our energy. But I thought I would add my 2-bits here to let people know what he and his background is. Googling with some phrases here would be enough to determine who it is
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Firstly, he was no “Editor” worth his salt. An over-rated journo who lost it big time even on the Media house he was editing & was gently nudged out by the promoters for his failures. He reminds me of a cuckoo, not only ugly but vile (you know how it cheats a crow) – he has betrayed his fellow journalists of the same media group, and one of them has even has even recorded it on his Memoirs. Insecurities Personified is his second name.
I don’t agree Spirituality and Spiritualism in India has seen any pitfalls, definitely not in the sense the other professions have been compared. Spirituality & Religion has always the very basis of our culture and existence. However, if at all there has been pitfalls, sorry, this journo is not the person to sit in judgement. Remember he is the famous guy who quoted “he holds second most important job in India” and yet Spiritual leaders beating him on Popularity and Influence graphs became indigestible. Hence this journo views spiritual leaders with a jaundiced eye (Green with Envy eyes) simply because he knows he cannot dream of even influencing such a huge population despite having afforded an opportunity to drive the destiny of the largest media house. For the sake of brevity let me also add that the other ventures (reward of sycophancy) have become a comical episodes in annals of our history and every act thereafter has been moronery of highest order.
He should have been told that then prevailing (despicable) practice of sati, was a way our “culture” protected women from “vulture” like this journo. Illogical to bring Sati in a discourse addressing Delhi Gangrape.
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@Suresh
I stand by your view that such silly insignificant editors must be shown their place. They use media more as a weapon to bide their own lack of tolerance. It is easy to walk this path of deceit.. But sadly it goes against the very basis of true authentic journalism..
There is only one way to define this statement- #fail
These are the people who with their muscle power of other fellow bought-out journos, keep living in a world of hypocrisy. They feel going against things means you are neutral.
This is the biggest bias in fact!Wake up India ..
I liked this very much..amazing.
Sri Sri keeps reiterating that the Media is one of the pillars of society. Unfortunately this so called editor’s rant only showcases his ignorance and bias. While the spirit of wanting to change the world is great and strongly encouraged, it needs to be rooted in a strong foundation of open-ness to be really effective else they will remain as pillars… of dust – a nuisance and nothing else. I again take recourse to Sri Sri’s maxim of “Broaden your vision and deepen your roots” – imagine how much this ‘editor’ would have benefited if he had only opened his ears and mind!
This is one of the comment in firstpost on viswaroopam.
Felt like sharing:
Yeh hai India meri jaan! Asauddin brothers can make hate speeches at
public rallies, make a video of it and distribute it to public but when a
filmmaker makes a movie with a patriotic or anti terroristic theme, the
movie gets shunned before its release.
This is the same India where
it took the police over a fortnight to translate Akbaruddin’s ‘urdu’
speech before taking action against him but Vishwaroopam was banned a
day before its release!
This is an India where Asauddin can
scare the p*ssies in the parliament with ‘muslim radicalization’ which
goes unchecked but when the idiotic-can’t-keep-his-mouth-shut Gadkari talks about the I-T officials, he is expected to apologize to them.
This is the India where if someone criticizes ‘My name is Khan’, the
whole film fraternity gets together to ‘save’ secularism but not a
single whimper is heard in favour of Vishwaroopam.
This is the India where MF Hussain’s pornography is art while Anurag Kashyap’s Black friday is banned without a release.
This is the India where a Jagadish Tytler and Kamal Nath walk free
while the media makes a small scale industry of Modi bashing where, the
more you bash, the better is the Padma award.
This is the India of Mahatma Gandhi’s dreams and ass-pirations.
This is the India where the history taught to children is distorted to maintain peace.
This is the India where English words like Secularism, Fundamentalists, right-wing gain new meanings.
This is the India where RSS is communal while MIM is secular.
This is the India where Pakistani terrorists wreak havoc in Mumbai while congress blamed it on the ‘Safforn terror’.
Well, what can we say? All we can do is sit in front of our computers
and virtually attack the wrong doers with quick strokes of keyboard
while more and more atrocities will be committed blatantly.
Mera Bharat Mahaan!
This is very surprising that Journalist can be so loose in their comment.
They should definitely research abt India’s great religious & cultural richness, which was first hit by the British to ensure we Indian start demeaning ourselves Even post Independent India is still doing. Intellect doing this is quite disturbing.
Here are some facts… Will suggest Mr. Journalist must read it before being short sighted and judgmental….
“The English attempted to divide and conquer India, to ruin the Vedic Aryan civilization, and to demean Indian culture, even to the point of trying to make its own people hate everything that is Indian. This is explained in World-Wide Hindu Culture (pp.165-6) by Dr. S. Venu Gopalacharya. “
http://www.stephen-knapp.com/uncovering_the_truth_about_India%27s_history.htm
I am grateful for the day I met my Guru and His words are an inspiration and guiding light for me and this post echoes the voices of many when it says that Spiritual Leaders should speak out LOUDER & CLEARER. For many those words are the difference between life and death,between despair and elation and between mediocrity and excellence!!
Exactly what i was saying. thank you
Very well said…. Now it’s the time for the voice of non violence to rise….!!!! n ya as it is mentioned in the post “LOUDER N CLEARER”….!!!!!
the 1st article iv read in which the comments also mean alot…