I happened to watch yesterday's news hour debate by Arnab Goswami #ProPakDoveSilent. Just hours after it there has been a huge propaganda moving around in social media. Coincidentally or not yesterday was Kargil Vijay Diwas, a day we should have celebrated but disappointingly the same issue had somehow caught zenith agreements and disagreements on this day. Ever since the inception of riots in Kashmir (in 2016 ), media (not social) have played a pivotal role in discerning the situation to citizens away from Kashmir. And how the media had done this was the issue.
Riots are not a new issue in Kashmir but this time there was immense interference from Pakistan trying to pour fuel to fire. The protagonist is Burhan Wani an acclaimed member of Hizbul Mujahideen. There has been quite a lot swinging around him. He had actually taken centre stage just after his death. Omar Abdullah had said the same thing public , I feel the same thing as Arnab said yesterday he being a public figure and also having a direct influence on the people of Kashmir he has the moral responsibility not to make remarks which will harm the peace in any manner. Nevertheless to say, as people away from Kashmir we would visualise this comment from Omar as being supporting the publicity of anti national. Secondly, there has been some unnecessary and baseless hype put forward by some of the prominent print media in the country. As put yesterday by Maj Gen G D Bakshi , the media had reported something around two lakh attendance for Wani's funeral but according to defence drones sent to the area there were something around twelve to fourteen thousand people in the area. So why this mockery by the media? . This question was stumbled upon during the debate and to which Arnab had remarked that they carry the Indian passport and what kind of journalism they are doing. To this the argument of Arnab being a pseudo nationalist has grown stronger . I don't personally think so simply because he his presiding a debate in a national television what can you earn showing patriotism in it. When journalists are trying to find fault with the government and receiving applause.
I would also like to remember all those journalists that when people don't have anything to find wrong of the ruling government it's not that you try hard finding going in for educational qualification of people representatives like Kejriwal did. Pseudo nationalism or rather pretending to be loyal to the country . Why should a leading journalist be pseudo national when his contemporaries are relating the unrelatable and being applauded? . I don't think Arnab is foolish enough to do so.
Also I had come across the comment made by Barkha Dutt in her FB page on Arnab as feeling ashamed to have come from the same industry as him. And she too trying to relate it something to the ruling party. I know there has been lot going between Barkha and Arnab but this time you're mistaken Barkha. Simply because he hadn't referred it to you ,oh then you might be speaking on behalf of the journalist community but are you trying to prove the Indian Army wrong , G D Bakshi wrong. Also I had heard of arguments in the debate where one of them told I feel pity for people becoming terrorists, which I must say is pseudo liberalism simply because when you empathise for a terrorist like Wani you are questioning the credibility of the people who stay day and night for the sake of our protection, The Indian Army.
When you have people like Major Arya in the panel who are more closer than anyone into the situation and are putting in facts and you come out blaming the army for killing children and women who happen to have been deliberately placed before the Indian bunker to take advantage of the consideration the army gives to them . In our country the tragedy is this , we hear daily of Burhan Wani when we were supposed to tell our children of the great heroes of the Kargil War.
Tailpiece: Apparently Pakistan has been somehow been able to peep into our matters despite people protesting immensely in their country for constitutional rights. Acchi neighbour hai!!
