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Friday, December 30, 2011

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Silly Sibal thinks He is Smartest Guy
Jittery Un-Popular Alliance is Censoring Internet
 
    Can the Government of India order Google, Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, YouTube, Yahoo and other foreign Internet companies to censor the emails and block access to the blogs of all the people who are strongly critical of the wrong policies of the United Progressive Alliance regime that is ruling India?
 
    The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon had stated in his message on the UN Human Rights Day, "Governments must not block access to the Internet and various forms of social media as a way to prevent criticism and public debate." The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has also criticized the countries that are trying to curb the freedom of their citizens on the Internet.
 
    Responding to criticism over the UPA Government's decision to curb the free expression of views on the Internet, the hypocritical Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal  told a TV channel, "Whatever I have said in the press or during the interview does not amount to restriction or regulation. It is evolving a consensus that is acceptable to media ... It is not my intent ever to interfere with social media in whatsoever form." He further said, "I wanted them (Internet companies) to form their own guidelines by their own standards. The intent from the government is that we want them to take the action."
 
    On 15 December 2011, Kapil Sibal met the representatives of Internet companies like Google and Facebook to discuss the guidelines. Why does the Government of India (GOI) want Google, Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, YouTube, Yahoo and other foreign Internet companies to censor the emails and close down the blogs of people who are against the regime of United Progressive Alliance in India?
 
    It is true that many nasty Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) are boldly writing some of the most offensive and obscene details about the real or imaginary lives of Indian leaders belonging mainly to the Congress party and its allies. The boldest NRIs are fearlessly writing extremely offensive articles because they are living in foreign countries and are beyond the reach of Indian laws. The Government of India has no power to block or censor the contents of emails and blogs of NRIs just as it is doing in the case of Internet users living in India.
 
    So the UPA Government wants Google, Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, YouTube, Yahoo and other foreign Internet companies to do their dirty work of blocking the emails and closing down the blogs of Internet users that are offensive and obscene.
 
GOI Servers are Used for Cyber Attacks
 
    According to the reports in Indian newspapers published at different times, the UPA regime has been accusing some foreign agencies of using the servers of the Indian Government to target the computer networks of India and other countries. The Government of India has falsely blamed the foreign agencies of hacking the servers of the National Informatics Center (NIC) regularly and using its servers to launch cyber attacks on the computer networks of India, China and other countries. Even though it has blamed the foreign agencies for the cyber attacks, it is absolutely clear that the GOI has failed to prevent such attacks, which have been launched by the servers of NIC belonging to GOI.
 
    The real culprit is the GOI itself, which is spying on the millions of Internet users in India. The GOI is wrongly blaming the foreign agencies for the dirty work of spying and hacking that is being done by its own secret agents and spying teams. We must accept the stark fact that there is regular hacking of telephones and computers of millions of people in India by the agencies secretly appointed by the UPA regime to spy on a large number of Indians.
 
    For providing security to the country, there is a legitimate reason for the GOI to hack the telephones and computers used by the Naxalites and other terrorist outfits, but should the GOI use that reason as an excuse to spy on millions of Indian citizens who are critics of the UPA regime?
 
Kapil Sibal's Tablets can Become a Curse
 
    Introduced by the Government of India as the Low-Cost Access Devices, the Aakash tablets were launched by Kapil Sibal on 5 October 2011, and were distributed by him to some students. The price of an Aakash Tablet has been kept dirt cheap at Rs.2250, but it will cost only Rs.1125 for students.
The GOI will bear 50% of the cost and a student will be able to buy it for Rs.1125 only.
 
    A bogus claim has been made by Kapil Sibal that a student will be able to access online streaming of the subjects of his course and web-based research dealing with higher education. We should know that the access to the Internet is too costly in India, as it is absolutely undependable. There is no guarantee that the Indian Government's Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd servers can provide an efficient and dependable Internet connectivity.
 
    Among the subscribers of BSNL, there are many desperate students and other youngsters who have often failed to send their urgent emails even after trying for a number of times. They suffer from sleeplessness, headaches, depression and suicidal tendencies. Suicides by the students and the unemployed persons may have increased due to the extremely inefficient services of BSNL.
 
    In the near future, Kapil Sibal's Aakash tablets can cause extreme depression among students and other young persons for being unable connect to the Internet for any urgent work. Students may not receive email messages in time, which call them for interviews for admissions to colleges and universities. Young persons may fail to send applications on time while applying for jobs. Many persons can also lose their jobs for being unable to send urgent messages to their employers. Some desperate students and other young persons may break Kapil Sibal's Aakash tablets and swallow the toxic pieces of his tablets for committing suicide. 
 
    The BSNL is known to provide only the most inefficient and the slowest Internet services that are fit for the bullock-cart age. The BSNL services are the most useless in the world. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd should be renamed as Bailgaadee Sevaa Nigam Ltd (Bullockcart Services Nigam Ltd)  or the Backward Services of Naalaayak Log.
 
Massive Fraud by BSNL
 
    In India, every time one's computer dials the number of the Internet Service Provider, but fails to connect to the Internet, the total number of telephone calls increase, which adds to the charges in the telephone bill.
 
    Like the massive scam of 2G Spectrum allocation, this is another big fraud, which is going on for many years to cheat the Internet subscribers of India. According to my rough estimate, the Internet subscribers are made to pay a massive amount of about Rs.10,000 to Rs.20,000 crore extra every year to the BSNL for the dropped calls due to the failure of connectivity on the Internet. The Internet subscribers are being cheated on a massive scale, as they are forced to make these huge payments to the BSNL in spite of failure to connect to the Internet.
 
    For a number of years, my emails are being deliberately delayed or blocked by BSNL, which is denying me access to the Internet. Sometimes, I am not able to connect to the Internet for a whole day or two days even after trying for a number of times during the day and night, which spoils my sleep and health.
 
    The information on lakhs of suicides by the students, unemployed youths, farmers, retail traders and others are sought to be kept secret by deliberately denying access to the Internet and by blocking the blogs that give details of such suicides. Most of the newspapers and TV channels are bribed by payments in various ways by the UPA regime to make them keep such information unknown to the readers and viewers. 
 
 
    Whenever Prime Minister Manmohan Singh goes abroad for any important international meetings, I have noticed that BSNL's Sancharnet internet services are deliberately blocked to the ordinary subscribers. The email and netsurfing are completely blocked by BSNL for one or two days. Connectivity to the Internet becomes zero for the ordinary subscribers of BSNL.
 
Most Beautiful Sikh of the World
 
    As the access to email and netsurfing are completely blocked by the BSNL for ordinary subscribers for one or two days, whenever Manmohan Singh is abroad, many bored Internet users are forced to watch TV to see the round face of the world's most beautiful Sikh called Sardar Manmohan Singh. His round face is lengthened by his blue turban whose top is shaped like the world's highest peak of Mount Everest to make him look taller than the leaders he meets.
 
    On TV channels, this most beautiful Sardar is shown giving lectures to the world's top leaders on his most famous Fakonomics. Even during the recession of 2008-2009, India supposedly had a growth of 7% to 8% in its Gross Domestic Product. So why is such a high growth in GDP called as recession? I can never understand such a tall claim of this greatest economic miracle performed by Manmohan Singh, with the help of P. Chidambaram and Pranab Mukherjee, during the recession of 2008-2009. Nobody else has ever performed such a great miracle anywhere in the world at any time in history.
 
    For the extremely corrupt UPA ministers and MPs, Sardar Manmohan Singh is the most beautiful Sikh in the world because he allows them to loot India for making unlimited amounts of money by using all the corrupt methods they can think of.
 
Manmohan Singh is Tallest God of Corruption
 
    The top of the blue-colored turban of Manmohan Singh is always raised very high to a point that has the shape like the peak of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. Sardar Manmohan Singh wants all the people of India to believe that he is the greatest Sikh ever born, who has been carrying a massive burden on his head for many years like the weight of Mount Everest. 
 
    There is an apparent increase of 4 to 5 inches in the height of Sardar Manmohan Singh due to his turban. Just by having his turban top shaped like the peak of Mount Everest, can he succeed in making himself the tallest personality? Is he pretending to bear the heavy weight, like that of Mount Everest, on his head by having his turban top shaped like the peak of Everest?
 
    I have also wondered how Manmohan Singh can walk so fast, but now I have realized that he may be wearing high-heeled shoes with elevators, or false  heels hidden in the shoes, that increase the "length" of his legs. The increased "length" of his legs can allow him to take longer steps and thus help him to walk faster. There is also an increase of 5 to 6 inches in his "height" due to the high heels and false heels.
 
    The total increase in the apparent height of Sardar Manmohan Singh due to the raised point of his turban top and the high heels of his shoes can be about 10 or 11 inches. The bogus height of Sardar Manmohan Singh is like his absolutely bombastic claims about the high growth of 8% to 9% per annum in India's Gross Domestic Product.
 
    Manmohan Singh is being worshipped by all the those crooked and corrupt Ministers, MPs, MLAs, industrialists, businessmen, bankers, bureaucrats, and their relatives and cronies, who are allowed to loot the common people of India on the most massive scale in the whole period of Indian history after the Independence.
 
    Manmohan Singh has truly become the Tallest God of Corruption who can tolerate any amount of corruption because that is the only way he can remain the Prime Minister of India till the end of his life. 
 
UPA now means Un-Popular Alliance
 
    The UPA Government wants most of the land and other national assets to belong to foreigners, NRIs, rich industrialists, corrupt political leaders, bankers and bureaucrats. That is why there is a big campaign for the unlimited Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Direct Interference in all the fields in India. The idea about protecting the common man's interests is just a big farce. Many assets of India have already been mortgaged or secretly pledged to the foreign investors.
 
    The Un-Popular Alliance Government of Manmohan Singh wants all such secrets about the most massive fraud of the world to be kept hidden from the common people of India. So Silly Sibal wants to block access to the Internet, as he wants the majority of Indians to remain ignorant about their bleak future, when they will be reduced to the position of servants and slaves in their own country who will be working for foreigners, NRIs, rich industrialists and corrupt politicians, bankers and bureaucrats. It is part of the ruthless conspiracy to destroy the businesses of about 5 crore shop-owners and retail traders by forcing them to part with all their assets to foreigners, NRIs, rich industrialists and corrupt politicians, bankers and bureaucrats.
 
    Many politicians, bureaucrats and their relatives and cronies are benaamee shareholders and partners in banks, theaters, hotels, hospitals, schools, colleges, private universities, electricity companies, telecommunications industry, construction companies, road transport, shipping, airlines, import and export business, shopping centers and malls, sugar mills, monopolistic industries like iron and coal mines, cement, oil wells, and wholesale trade in many other commodities. It is not surprising that the corrupt politicians and bureaucrats now want to completely eliminate even the small competitors like retail traders by demanding FDI in multi-brand retail business, in which they will be benaamee investors or secret partners. The corrupt politicians and bureaucrats want to have an absolute monopolistic or total control over the whole of the Indian economy.
 
    Why have many thousand farmers as well as retail traders committed suicide in India?
 
    The Un-Popular Alliance Government is bluffing that it is against the middlemen who inflate the prices of consumer goods. Actually, the political leaders and bureaucrats are the worst and most ruthless middlemen who are responsible for all the restrictions, which cause artificial shortages, rise in prices of all commodities, black-marketing and the payment of huge bribes to them. The massive amounts of black money received by the political leaders and bureaucrats are kept in foreign bank accounts, which are used for purchasing assets abroad and benaamee properties in India.
 
    The retail traders are prevented by the corrupt politicians and bureaucrats to deal directly with the farmers to enable them to reduce the retail prices of essential commodities, which is possible by eliminating many of the middlemen. In direct dealings, the retail traders can pay higher prices to the farmers, but there are various obstacles created by the corrupt politicians and bureaucrats to restrict the free movement of agricultural commodities.
 
    The main culprits are not the retail traders for the payment of lower prices to the farmers, but the political middlemen, bureaucrats and their associated gangsters, who won't allow any direct dealings between the retail traders and farmers. The political middlemen and bureaucrats are known to first extort their shares of the loot before they allow the other middlemen to transport commodities from one place to another.
 
    The highly corrupt politicians and bureaucrats are absolutely against the consolidation of the retail traders at the local level, but they welcome massive FDI in retail business that helps to create monopolies under foreign companies. The foreign companies will definitely have many benaamee partners and secret investors, which can provide massive amounts of black money belonging to the Indian politicians and bureaucrats. It is clear that the secret funds of the extremely corrupt Indian politicians and bureaucrats in Swiss banks, and other tax havens, will be invested in the form of FDI in retail trade in India.
 
    Why don't the newspapers accept FDI in the newspaper industry when they are boldly supporting the Un-Popular Alliance Government of Manmohan Singh on the issue of FDI in retail business? Why do these same newspaper editors and publishers start trembling when they hear about FDI in the newspaper establishments of India? Why do these big boasters who support FDI in other sectors don't want competition from the foreigners in the print media? They are among the biggest hypocritical cowards who are just pretending to be very brave. 
 
UPA's Farce on Lokpaal Law
 
    The Un-Popular Alliance Government wants to enact a strong Lokpaal Law, or rather the Rokpaal Law, which it will use only for arresting the Opposition leaders and whistle-blowers like Sudheendra Kulkarni, Subramanian Swaamy, Annaa Hazaare, Baabaa Raamdev, etc. By arresting the Opposition leaders and whistle-blowers, the Un-Popular Alliance Government will be stopping them from exposing all the acts of corruption and the other crimes committed by the Un-Popular Alliance.
 
    The UPA Government has already initiated steps to use all means to block criticism of the Un-Popular Alliance on the Internet. As already stated above, the UPA Government has asked the Internet companies to block the emails and close down the blogs of Internet users who are strongly against the UPA regime. 
 
    The Un-Popular Alliance Government will not arrest any of its corrupt ministers, MPs, MLAs and, especially, the top Congress leaders. There is just a total farce going on over the issue of corruption and the Lokpaal Bill, which has also being dubbed as Joke Paal Bill by the critics of the Un-Popular Alliance. The people of India are not all fools who can be fooled all the time by the totally bogus claims, which are being made by the Un-Popular Alliance Government on the issue of the Lokpaal Bill.
 
    Annaa Hazaare and Baabaa Raamdev want a type of Thhokpaal Bill, which can be used for shooting or hanging mercilessly all the corrupt leaders, ministers, MPs, MLAs, bureaucrats, industrialists, businessmen and their associates.
 
 
   Ashok  T. Jaisinghani.
 
           

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Request
Will some cartoonist draw a picture of Sardar Manmohan Singh
in which he wears a large turban with a very high pointed top
and in which he also wears shoes with very high heels?
 

 
 
 



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Fwd: Today's Exclusives - Lokpal sunk. So what, the Force is with us



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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

MRI battlelines emerge in court 6 reserve ammo, state to stress on time lag

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111221/jsp/frontpage/story_14908990.jsp

AMRI battlelines emerge in court 
6 reserve ammo, state to stress on time lag

Calcutta, Dec. 20: The contours of the legal battle on the AMRI tragedy have begun to crystallise with the defence keeping its powder dry for possible use in a higher court and the prosecution playing on the fear of evidence-tampering to keep the accused in custody.

The Alipore court today declined the bail petitions of the six AMRI directors and extended their stay in police lock-up till December 23, which means they will be completing the regulation 14-day custody period.

Six of the seven directors — S. K. Todi, 69, Ravi Todi,42, Prashant Goenka, 38, Manish Goenka, 37, R.S. Goenka, 65, and Dayanand Agarwal, 64, — were produced in the court this afternoon and the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chowdhury Hefazat Karim, pronounced his judgment in the evening.

The fate of R.S. Agarwal, 67, the other arrested director who is undergoing treatment at SSKM Hospital, will be decided tomorrow after the court examines medical reports prepared by a team of doctors at the state-run hospital.

Ten lawyers appeared separately for the accused. Their main arguments revolved around the following points:

As directors, the accused cannot be held responsible for any mechanical faults that may have resulted in a tragedy

The directors cannot be charged with Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC. They may be accused of negligence, which comes under Section 304A (death due to negligence). Section 304A is a lighter charge that helped reduce the punishment of the Uphaar accused. (See Metro)

All the accused are responsible persons in society and they will not leave the city

They have already spent 10 days in police custody and the police had enough time to interrogate them

They were not present at the spot at the time of the incident and they didn't do anything that led to the fire.

However, the defence did not make any reference to the detailed guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court for granting bail, following which many of those accused in the 2G scandal were allowed to leave jail, pending trial.

The Supreme Court had said personal liberty should be deprived only in the most extraordinary of circumstances, basing the guidelines on the habeas corpus principle of "safeguarding individual freedom".

Although the AMRI defence team did not raise this wider issue today, it referred to another factor the Supreme Court had mentioned.

"The trial of the case seems to be in the hands of the media…. Law should not be guided by public sentiment," said Amitava Ganguli, who represented S.K. Todi, his son Ravi and Dayanand Agarwal.

The Supreme Court had said that bail cannot be denied merely because of the sentiments of the community against the accused.

However, given the mood in Bengal after the death of at least 91 persons in the hospital fire, the defence appeared to be keeping its firepower in reserve and instead focused on nitty-gritty.

The defence team largely focused on how the FIR mentioned mechanical details such as defunct sprinklers and smoke detectors but chose to slap a graver charge (Section 304) that presumes knowledge of the event (in this case the fire).

"The directors cannot be held responsible and slapped with Section 304 if some equipment are defunct," said Ashok Mukherjee, the lawyer representing R.S. Goenka.

Perhaps to project a picture of unity, the lawyers did not draw a distinction between the roles of their clients. Although the six are directors of AMRI, not all were directly tied to the operations at the Dhakuria unit.

"They may be holding their best ammunition for their arguments in the higher courts. Probably, they are aware that given the mood of the people, no court will grant them bail at this point," said a senior lawyer.

The directors are free to approach a higher court as the lower court has already refused their bail plea twice.

But some of the lawyers representing the accused said that they were not in a position to take up the matter with a higher court for immediate relief.

"The forthcoming Christmas vacations in the Supreme Court and Calcutta High Court are the main hindrance. Vacation benches may not grant bail and may refer the cases to regular benches. So, we have no option but to wait for the higher courts to reopen after the vacation," said Atanu Roy Chowdhury, the advocate-on-record for the six accused. The Supreme Court and high court will reopen on January 2.

However, the lawyers defending the accused said they would again move bail petitions on Friday. If bail is not granted after 14-day police custody, the accused are usually sent to jails, where conditions are less inhospitable than that in a lock-up.

The prosecution, led by lawyer and Trinamul MP Kalyan Banerjee, stressed that the accused should be in custody to prevent them from tampering with evidence — a key factor that the Supreme Court suggested could be considered while deciding on bail.

"As the owners of the hospital, they are the custodians and they are liable for any untoward incident there. The investigation against the accused is not yet complete and so we need four more days. It is important to take them to the spot, which we could not fearing a law-and-order problem," Banerjee said.

Sources in Calcutta police told The Telegraph that they would continue to oppose the bail petition and pray for judicial custody which can extend up to 90 days — the ceiling for filing the chargesheet.

The police are also expected to anchor their case on the allegation that all the accused knew about the fire two hours before the fire brigade was alerted. The alleged time gap could become the fulcrum on which the prosecution's case will rest.

The police are also pinning hopes on speedy proceedings so that trial could be wrapped up at the earliest; if possible within 90 days itself — an ambitious deadline — so that the question of bail does not arise after the judicial custody period.


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गरीबी, बेरोजगारी, स्‍वास्‍थ्‍य जैसी वास्‍तविक खबरें मीडिया से गायब हैं : काटजू

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प्रेस काउंसिल ऑफ इंडिया के नवनियुक्‍त चेयरमैन जस्टिस एम काटजू बीते दस अक्‍टूबर को मीडिया से मुलाकात की थी. इस दौरान उन्‍हों ने मीडियाकर्मियों से चौथे खम्‍भे के बारे में ढेर सारी बातें कीं. कई सुझाव दिए, कई बातें रखी, मीडियाकर्मियों की बातें भी सुनीं. जस्टिस काटजू ने पत्रकारों की जिम्‍मेदारी पर भी काफी कुछ सुझाव दिए, विचार रखे. इन्‍हीं सुझावों-विचारों को 'द हिंदू' ने अपने यहां प्रकाशित किया है.

उसी से साभार लेकर जस्टिस काटजू का वक्‍तव्‍य यहां प्रकाशित किया जा रहा है.

Justice Katju interacts with mediapersons

Friends,

I wish to thank you all for accepting my invitation for this get together and for coming here.

As you know, I have only recently become the Chairman of the Press Council of India. It is a new job for me as I was earlier in the legal world for 40 years, 20 years as a lawyer and 20 years as a Judge.

Now, that I have come into your world I need your guidance, advice and suggestions so that I may be able to perform my duties properly.

I have arranged this get together of media people because I think that the time has now come in this country when some introspection is required by the media. Many people, not only those in authority but even ordinary people, have started saying that the media has become irresponsible, wayward and needs to be reined in.

Only a couple of days back I read in the newspapers that the Union Government has issued some regulations regarding licences for news channels, about which there was a lot of reaction.

Under the Constitution of India freedom of the media is part of the freedom of speech guaranteed by Article 19 (1) (a) of the Constitution. However, no freedom can be absolute, and reasonable restrictions can be placed on them. One of the basic tasks of the media is to provide truthful and objective information to the people which will enable them to form rational opinions, which is a sine qua non in a democracy. But is the Indian media performing this role properly?

I may only mention certain defects in the functioning of the Indian media today:

(i)The media often twist facts. In this connection, I would like to give an example.

I sat for several months with Hon'ble Mrs. Justice Gyan Sudha Misra in a Bench of the Supreme Court. One day, a leading English newspaper of the country published on its front page a photograph of Hon'ble Justice Misra with the caption "Supreme Court Judge says that her daughters are liabilities".

This was a totally distorted and fallacious news and that too published in the front page of a leading English newspaper.

The correct facts were that Supreme Court Judges have to disclose their assets and liabilities. Against the liabilities column Justice Misra wrote 'two daughters to be married'. Strictly speaking it was not necessary to mention this because liabilities means legal liabilities e.g. housing loan, car loan, etc. However, the intention of Justice Misra was obviously to say that she had to spend a lot of money in her daughters' future marriage. She has three daughters (no son) only one of whom has been married and two are yet to be married. Justice Misra never said nor intended to say that her daughters were liabilities, and the news published was totally false and defamatory with the obvious intention of creating a sensation.

This publication was of tremendous embarrassment and grief not only to Justice Misra but also to members of her family. Did the publisher of this news items ever think how much pain and embarrassment it would cause to Justice Misra and her family? Obviously not. All that the publisher of that news sought was to create a sensation by twisting the correct facts.

Even if Justice Misra had made a mistake in writing " two daughters to be married" against the column of liabilities, should the media have cashed in on this mistake and totally distorted it without realizing how much pain it was causing to some people? I ask the media people assembled here today to themselves introspect and seek the answer.

(ii)The issue of paid news has become prominent of late. In the 2009 elections, it was a scandal. How to stop this vicious practice needs to be discussed among us. Incidentally, in compliance with the order of the Chief Information Commissioner dated 19.9.2011, we have placed the 71-page report of the Committee consisting of Shri Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Mr. Sreenivas Reddy on our website www.presscouncil.nic.in with the disclaimer that the Press Council had rejected this report in its meeting held on 26.4.2010.

(iii)The media often portrays non issues as real issues while the real issues are sidelined. The real issues in the country are economic, that is the terrible economic conditions in which 80% of our people are living, the poverty, unemployment, lack of housing and medical care etc. Instead of addressing these real issues, the media often tries to divert the attention of the people to non-issues, such as that the wife of a film actor has become pregnant, whether that lady will give birth to a single child or to twins etc. Are these the real issues facing the nation?

In the Lakme India Fashion Week event, there were 512 accredited journalists covering the event in which models were displaying cotton garments, while the men and women who grew that cotton were killing themselves at a distance of an hour's flight from Nagpur in the Vidharbha region. Nobody told that story except one or two journalists, locally.

Is this a responsible way for the Indian media to function? Should the media turn a Nelson's eye to the harsh economic realities facing over 75 per cent of our people, and concentrate on some 'Potemkin villages' where all is glamour and show biz? Are not the Indian media behaving much like Queen Marie Antoinette, who said that if the people had no bread, they should eat cake.

No doubt, sometimes the media mentions farmers' suicides, the rise in the price of essential commodities, and so on, but such coverage is at most 5 to 10 per cent of the total. The bulk of the coverage goes to showing the life of film stars, pop music, fashion parades, cricket and astrology.

(iv)Bomb blasts have taken place near the Delhi High Court, in Bombay, Bangalore etc. Within a few hours of such bomb blasts many T V channels started showing news item that Indian Mujahidin or Jaish-e-Mohammed or Harkatul-jihad-e-islam have sent e-mails or SMS claiming responsibility. The names of such alleged organizations will always be Muslim names. Now an e-mail can be sent by any mischievous person, but by showing this on TV channels and next day in the newspapers the tendency is to brand all Muslims in the country as terrorists and bomb throwers.

The truth is that 99% people of all communities, whether Hindu, Muslim, Christian or Sikh and of whatever caste or region are good. But the manner in which such news is shown on TV screens and published in the newspapers tend to create the impression that all Muslims are terrorists, and evil, which is totally false. The person who sends such e-mails or SMS obviously wants to create hatred between Hindu and Muslims, which is the old British divide and rule policy continuing even today. Should the media, wittingly or unwittingly, become part of this policy of divide and rule?

I have only referred to some of the defects in the Indian media. No doubt there are defects not only in the media but in other institutions also e.g. the judiciary, bureaucracy etc. but all of us must try to remove these defects.

There are two ways of removing these defects in the media. One is the democratic way, that is by discussions, consultations and persuasion, which is the method I prefer. The other way is by using harsh measures against the media e.g. by imposing heavy fines on the defaulters, stopping Government advertisements for them, suspending their licence etc.

In my opinion, in a democracy, we should first try the first method for rectifying the defects, namely the democratic method. It is for this purpose that I have decided to have regular get togethers with the media, including the electronic media, so that we can all introspect and ourselves find out ways and means of rectifying the defects in the media, rather than this being done by some government authority or external agency.

For this purpose, I propose to have such get togethers, like the one as we are having today, every two or three months, in which we will discuss issues relating to the media and try to think how we can improve the performance of the media so that it may win the respect and confidence of the people of the country.

Such meetings will not be formal meetings of the Press Council of India but only informal get togethers. No doubt, the electronic media is not under the Press Council of India Act, but surely there is nothing wrong in discussing matters relating to media with them also. After all, the ultimate purpose of the print media and the electronic media is the same, and journalistic ethics apply to both.

No doubt, if the media proves incorrigible, harsh measures may be required, but in my opinion that should be resorted to only as a last resort and in extreme situations. Ordinarily, we should first try to resolve the issues by discussion, consultation and self-regulation. That is the approach which should be ordinarily first tried in a democracy. I, therefore, respectfully request the Union Government to kindly defer implementation of its recent decision regarding the news channel license, so that we can ourselves discuss the issue thoroughly and ourselves take corrective measures in this connection.

Till now the function of the Press Council was only adjudication. I intend to make the Press Council an instrument of mediation in addition, which is in my opinion the democratic approach. For this purpose, I need the help and co-operation and advice of all of you.

Presently, India is passing through a transitional period in its history, the transition being from feudal agricultural society to modern industrial society. This is a very painful and agonizing period in history. If you have read the history of Europe from the 16{+t}{+h} to the 19{+t}{+h} Centuries, which was the transitional period there, you will find that this period was accompanied by tremendous turbulence, turmoil, wars, revolutions, social churning, chaos, intellectual ferment etc. It was only after going through this fire that modern society emerged in Europe. Presently, India is going through this fire. We are going through a very painful period in our history, which I think will last for another 20 years or so before modern industrial society emerges in India.

The media too must help society in going through this transitional period as quickly as possible, and by reducing the pain. This, it can do by attacking feudal ideas e.g. casteism and communalism and promoting modern scientific ideas.

Before I conclude, I once again repeat my appeal to the Indian Government through the Prime Minister to release Dr. Khalil Chisty who is in Ajmer Jail. He is 80 years old and has not very long to live. He was an eminent virologist in Karachi Medical College and was a Ph.D from Edinburgh University. He is a heart patient and has many other ailments also. He is unable to walk. In the name of humanity I appeal to the Indian Government to release him and allow him to get back to home in Karachi to his wife and daughter who live there. The Pakistan Government honoured my appeal and released Gopal Das from a Pakistani Jail. I am sad that the Indian Government has not yet honoured my appeal made several months ago to the Hon'ble Prime Minister, the Hon'ble Home Minister, and His Excellency the Governor of Rajasthan. In my opinion, the prestige of our country will be increased if Dr. Chisty is released, whereas if he dies in jail, we will be disgraced.

I now wish all of you to give your views. Courtesy : The Hindu

खबरची भगतदाजूयू नहीं रहे।

खबरची भगतदाजूयू  नहीं रहे।


पलाश विश्वास

आज रात को ही कर्नाटक के लिए रवाना होना है। पखवाड़ेभर बाद कोलकाता लौचना होगा। सो, सुबह से सविता ने बाजार से राशन पानी सब्जी वगैरह, और मुंबईप्रवासी बेटे टुसुमहाराज के लिए कुछ सामान ले आने का तगादा लगा रखा था। पर नेट पर मनैं बिजी था। बाजार के लिए सविता साड़ी पहनकर तैयार हो गई तभी फिल्मकार राजीव का फोन आ गया। अपना दफ्तर हावड़ा के डोमजूर चला गया और कोलकाता से संपर्क लगभग टूट ही गया? रोजानो नोयडावालों की तरह बसयात्रा ट्राफिक जाम और कोहरा से निबटने में राजीव से अरसे से बात नहीं हुई। वह बीमार है, खबर मिली थी, पर देखने जाना संभव नहीं, इसलिए फोन पर भी खबर नहीं ली।


राजीव ने छूटते ही खबर दाग दी, नैनीताल से राजीव लोचन साह का फोन आया है, भगतदाज्यू नहीं रहे। ऐसा झटका देकर न्यूज ब्रेक करना भगतदाज्यू का अपना स्टाइल था। लगबग तीन साल  से घर जाना नहीं हुआ। नैनीताल आखिरी बार कब गये याद नहीं। पर जब भी नैनीताल जाना हुआ, गिरदा शेखर मिले न मिले भगतदा और महेशदाज्यू, हरिया दाढ़ी ओर पवन राकेश से मुलाकात जरूर होती रही। गिरदा तो पहाड़ में और पहाड़ के पार अपने गीतों के साथ हुड़का लेकर धूम मचाते रहते थे। समाचार इन्हीं लोगों के बूते निकलता रहा है।

आपातकाल के दिनों में हममें से दैनिक पर्वतीय के महेश दाज्यू और भगतदा सबसे शांत रहे। कोलकाता में अब सर्दी पड़ने लगी है। कोहरा भी घना है। कल सुबह फलकनामा पकड़नी है तो आज रात को ही हावड़ा स्टेशन पर कोहरा टालने के लिए डेरा डालना है। सत्तर के दशक में कोहरा, बारिश या हिमपात का , भूस्खलन या बाढ़ का हम लोगों पर कोई असर ही नहीं था। १९७८ में भागीरथी बाढ़ कवर करने गये गिरदा ओर शेखर तो उनके लौचते न लौचते मैं गंगोत्री की ओर कूच कर गया एकदम अनजान इलाके में। यह हिमम्त उस दौर की खासियत है जब सुरक्षित दड़बे में शुतुरमुर्ग की जिंदगी जीने के बजाय हम जंगल में या पहाड़ में शीत लहर के बीच वर्षा पानी में पत्थरों या माटी के ढेले पर आराम से सर रखकर सो लिया करते थे।

नैनीताल समाचार टीम में शेखर बेहद दृढ़ता से अपनी बात कहने और मनवाने में माहिर थे। गिरदा का अपना स्टाइल था। हरुआ और महे?शदाज्यू इस झंझट में पड़ते न थे, क्या करना है , सिर्फ यह तय करके बताना था। हल्ला करने का जिम्मा मेरे और गिरदा का थी। पर इन सबके बीत जंगलात के कर्मचारी भगतदाज्यू ने बहुत मजबूती से अपनी जगह बनाई।

समाचार में आशलकुशल कालम का मौजूदा स्वरूप पहले दिन से जस का तस है. यह भगतदाज्यी की फसल है और खबरची तो वे थे ही।

शुरुआती झटके में गिरदा पर जो लिखना हो गया, अब शेखर के बार बार तकाजा के बाद भी लिखा नहीं जाता। इसी कारण से बाबा नागार्जुन और ?शलभ श्री राम सिंह या गोरख पांडे पर बाद में मुझसे लि?खा नहीं गया। अपनों के गुजर जाने के बाद ?फिर बीते हुए जमाने को याद करना वाकई बेहद यंत्रणादायक होता है।
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एक किताब बदलाव के लिये

By नैनीताल समाचार on July 16, 2011
उत्तराखंड राज्य के गठन में पत्रकारों की एक बड़ी भूमिका थी। इस भूभाग की समस्याओं को उजागर करने के साथ ही एक पृथक राज्य के औचित्य को सिद्ध कर में पत्रकारों ने डट कर काम किया। यही नहीं, उस दौर में हुई रिपोर्टिंग ने आन्दोलनरत जनता का मनोबल बनाये रखा। इन दस-ग्यारह सालों में स्थितियाँ [...]
Posted in राज्य प्राप्ति आन्दोलन, विविध | Tagged book release, book review, shankar singh bhatia,uttarakhand ke sulagatey sawal, uttarakhand state movement | Leave a response

शराब के खिलाफ महिलायें

By मयंक पांडे on June 1, 2011
उत्तराखंड में शराब के खिलाफ महिलाओं की लड़ाई अनवरत जारी है। दशकों पहले दीपा देवी ने शराब की जिस दुकान को आग लगाई थी, वह अभी तक जल ही रही है। दीपा बाद में शराब के खिलाफ लड़ने वाली टिंचरी माई के नाम से मशहूर हुई। महान क्रांतिकारी श्रीदेव सुमन की माता तारा देवी से [...]
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युवाओं ने जीवित रखा गैरसैंण का मुद्दा

By नैनीताल समाचार on December 28, 2010
प्रवीण कुमार भट्ट इस पखवाड़े उत्तराखंड राज्य के गठन को दस साल पूरे हो जायेंगे। एक दशक के इस सफर में कई बुनियादी और बड़े सवाल पीछे छूट गये हैं जिनका हल खोजा जाना अभी बाकी है। इन्हीं में से एक सवाल उत्तराखंड की असली राजधानी का भी है। पृथक राज्य की लड़ाई के साथ [...]
Posted in जन आन्दोलन, राज्य प्राप्ति आन्दोलन | Tagged apna uttarakhand dot com, gairsain, gairsain capital movement, merapahad, merapahad dot com, narendra singh negi | Leave a response

हाँ, दस साल हो गये हैं राज्य बने

By नैनीताल समाचार on December 24, 2010
दस साल! दस साल का होने जा रहा है उत्तराखंड इस 9 नवम्बर को। एक बच्चा बचपन पार कर किशोरावस्था में प्रवेश कर रहा है। एक समाज के लिये कितना महत्वपूर्ण पड़ाव है यह ? लेकिन कहीं कोई उत्साह है क्या ? 9 नवम्बर आयेगा….राज्य का स्थापना दिवस। सब कुछ उसी कर्मकांड की तरह होगा। [...]
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निशंक सरकार गैरसैंण में बनायेगी सचिवालय ?

By पुरुषोत्तम असनोड़ा on June 28, 2010
तेरहवें वित्त आयोग द्वारा उत्तराखंड की विधानसभा हेतु 88 करोड़ रुपया स्वीकृत किये जाने के बाद गैरसैंण में विधानसभा भवन बनाये जाने की माँग जोर पकड़ रही है। हालाँकि काँग्रेस में सांसद सतपाल महाराज के अलावा कोई बड़ा नेता इस माँग से नहीं जुड़ सका है। भाजपा ने तो इस मुद्दे पर पूरी तरह मौन [...]
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नदी अभियान की समीक्षा

By नैनीताल समाचार on January 9, 2010
प्रस्तुति : बसंत पांडे 'नदी बचाओ अभियान' के दो वर्ष पूरे होने पर एक समीक्षात्मक बैठक 22 दिसम्बर 09 को कौसानी के लक्ष्मी आश्रम में सम्पन्न हुई। वक्ताओं ने कहा कि जिस प्रकार चिपको आन्दोलन ने पेड़ों के प्रति चेतना पैदा की, उसी प्रकार नदी बचाओ अभियान ने पानी व नदी के प्रति जागृति पैदा [...]
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2010 'नदियों को मुक्त करो वर्ष' होगा

By नैनीताल समाचार on November 21, 2009
प्रस्तुति : ओम प्रकाश भट्ट देश भर के गांधीवादी व पर्यावरण कार्यकर्ताओं ने नदियों के प्रवाह को उनके प्राकृतिक परिवेश में बनाये रखने का संकल्प लिया। नदियों की पवित्रता तथा पावनता को बनाये रखने व नदियों से पलने वाले लोगों के जीवन को बचाने के लिए पूरे देष में संघर्ष की रणनीति बनायी। यह तय [...]
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गैरसैंण को लेकर सरगर्मी तेज

By पंकज शर्मा on September 22, 2009
गैरसैंण को स्थाई राजधानी बनाने की माँग को लेकर उत्तराखण्ड आन्दोलनकारियों का एक दिवसीय सम्मेलन सितम्बर को श्रीनगर में बृहद् स्तर पर आयोजित किया गया। 'गैरसैंण राजधानी बनाओ संयुक्त समिति' के तत्वावधान में पहाड़ के दूरदराज से आये आन्दोलनकारियों ने एक स्वर में कहा कि राजधानी अगर बनेगी तो गैरसैंण में। कार्यक्रम में उत्तराखण्ड लोक [...]
Posted in गैरसैण राजधानी आन्दोलन, जन आन्दोलन, विविध | Tagged capital shifting, delhi to gairsain,gairsain, kamla panta, nagendra jaguri, narendra singh negi, pushpa chauhan, shamsher bisht | 1 Response

हाँ..हाँ रे आन्दोलनकारी….. क्यों गई तेरी मति मारी

By शंम्भू राणा on February 15, 2009
उत्तराखंड के पूर्व आंदोलनकारी इन दिनों फिर आंदोलित हैं। यह खबर सुखद हो सकती थी बशर्ते कि आंदोलनकारी उस राज्य के व्यापक हितों की बात करते जो उनके संघर्ष की एवज में हमें मिला। जो राज्य फटी पायजामा पहनने वाले आम आदमी के लिये माँगा था, नौकरशाहों, दलालों और हूटर बजाकर आतंकित करने वाले तथाकथित [...]
Posted in राज्य प्राप्ति आन्दोलन, विशेषांक, होली अंक | Tagged uttarakhand state movement, हास्य-व्यंग्य | Leave a response

अब राग रंग को तबाह करने वाली सत्यानाशी शराब के खिलाफ ग्रामीण

By महेश जोशी on February 15, 2009
'दारू और दवा, इसी की चल रही है हवा'….'घर में शादी हो या जागर, रंग में भंग कर देता है शराबी आकर'. …जैसे नारों व गीतों के माध्यम से क्षेत्रीय संगठनों ने बसौली स्थित शराब की दुकानों के विरोध में आन्दोलन का विगुल फूँक दिया है। विभिन्न महिला मंगल दलों, महिला समूहों से जुड़ी महिलाओं [...]
Posted in जन आन्दोलन, नशा नहीं रोजगार दो, विशेषांक, होली अंक | Tagged uttarakhand people's movement,women movement, नशा नहीं रोजगार दो | Leave a response

ताजा अंकअलविदा बीबीसी… उँगलियाँ तो फिर भी तलाशेंगी तुझे

लेखक : शंम्भू राणा
'यार चन्दन' से शुरू होती थीं उनकी भावभीनी चिठ्ठियाँ
लेखक : नैनीताल समाचारबाँके लाल कंसल: एक शताब्दी तक फैला इतिहास
लेखक : डाँ. अजय रावत
खत्तेवासियों के नारों से गूँजा हल्द्वानी का आकाश
लेखक : नैनीताल समाचार'लहरों के राजहंस' का मंचन
लेखक : नैनीताल समाचारसम्पादकीय : क्या यह चुनाव की तैयारी है?
लेखक : राजीव लोचन साह
चिट्ठी पत्री : भाषा, बोली या आंचलिक भाषा?
लेखक : नैनीताल समाचार

हरेला अंक-2010हरेले के तिनड़े के साथ बधाई

By रोहित जोशी on July 23, 2010
Category: विशेषांक, हरेला-अंक
अपनी माटी से ताउम्र जुड़े रहे उमेशदा
By नैनीताल समाचार on August 9, 2010
Category: विशेषांक, हरेला-अंकमुम्बई का हिल स्टेशन 'माथेरान' और नैनीताल
By रमदा on August 9, 2010
Category: विविध, विशेषांक, हरेला-अंकश्रीनगर के लिये अभिशाप बन कर आई है जल विद्युत परियोजना
By नैनीताल समाचार on August 8, 2010
Category: उर्जा, विशेषांक, हरेला-अंक
जयदीप लघु उद्योग
By प्रदीप तिवारी on August 9, 2010
Category: विविधएक प्रखर व प्रतिभाशाली पत्रकार के जीवन की अतिंम यात्रा
By राजीव लोचन साह on July 29, 2010
Category: विशेषांक, हरेला-अंकभारी बजट के बावजूद प्यासे हैं गाँव
By जगमोहन रौतेला on August 1, 2010
Category: जल, विशेषांक, हरेला-अंक
याद रहेंगे पत्तीदास
By प्रेम पंचोली on August 9, 2010
Category: विशेषांक, श्रद्धांजली, हरेला-अंकहेम पाण्डे: सच के लिए मरने का उसे अफसोस नहीं हुआ होगा
By प्रभात उप्रेती on July 28, 2010
Category: विशेषांक, हरेला-अंकस्वतंत्रता आन्दोलन से जुड़ा रहा भीमताल का हरेला मेला
By नैनीताल समाचार on August 9, 2010
Category: विविध, विशेषांक, हरेला-अंक

होली अंक -2010

नहीं भुलाया जा सकता चन्द्रसिंह शाही का योगदान
By नैनीताल समाचार on March 5, 2010
Category: व्यक्तित्व, संस्मरणकटाल्डी खनन प्रकरण: खनन माफियाओं के साथ न्यायपालिका से भी संघर्ष
By विजय जड़धारी on March 5, 2010
Category: विविधस्पष्ट दिशा के अभाव में बद्तर होते राज्य के हालात
By संजीव भगत on March 5, 2010
Category: विविध''तब के आई.सी.एस. साइकिल पर जाते थे या फिर इक्के पर''
By कमल जोशी on March 5, 2010
Category: विविधनदियों को सुरंगों में डालकर उत्तराखण्ड को सूखा प्रदेश बनाने की तैयारी
By हरीश चन्द्र चंदोला on March 5, 2010
Category: उर्जा, जल, विविधउत्तराखंड में माओवाद या माओवाद का भूत ? !!
By नैनीताल समाचार on March 5, 2010
Category: सम्पादकीय'कैंपेन फार ज्यूडिशियल एकांउटेबिलिटी एण्ड रिफार्म्स' का तीसरा राष्ट्रीय अधिवेशन
By नैनीताल समाचार on March 5, 2010
Category: विविधशराब माफिया व प्रशासन के खिलाफ उग्र आन्दोलन की तैयारी
By महेश जोशी on March 5, 2010
Category: विविधनियम विरुद्ध करवाए गए सरमोली-जैंती वन पंचायत चुनाव
By कैलाश चन्द्र पपनै on March 5, 2010
Category: विविधनैनीताल को बचाने के लिये जबर्दस्त संकल्प की जरूरत है
By उमेश तिवारी 'विस्वास on March 5, 2010
Category: विविध

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