Media today....

All migrants shall be grateful to Sachin Tendulkar for his comments on secular Mumbai. At least somebody gave a shout. I myself being a maharashtrian have been living with my family in Madhya Pradesh. It might surprise you but we do not even know our initial place in Maharashtra, we have been living here for ages.

For a moment, lets consider Raj Thackeray has a point to make and ignore the FACT of this being a political gimmick, shall all Marathis go back to Maharashtra and start all over again? That would certainly be a foolish thing to do. But here I am not going to make any comments on how to make India secular and what does our constitution says, we have our media doing a good job on that. I want to highlight couple of points which are ignored by our media in run for TRP or lack of coverage:

• Maharashtra being a lucrative place for job seekers and Mumbai being the commercial capital of India, its in limelight. What about other metros? Like Chennai, local people do not talk to you if you do not speak Tamil why is this basic point ignored and not highlighted by media when the basic rights of every Indian are concerned?


• Why railways examination notice was not given in local language newspaper too when the expectation from candidate is not to know necessarily any national or international language. I suspect a big ghotala here.


• When you say Mumbai belongs to everyone why not Delhi, Ahemdabad, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore or Kolkata???


• In Tamilnadu, Hindi and English or any other language for that matter is highly discouraged while we shall respect all cultures and languages, why this point is never highlighted by media?


• There has been debate over Hindi being the national language of India. Nearly all states of India will accept this but not South. This issue neither resolved nor heard on any media channel !!! I promise a national language can help a nation like India grow much better.


• What about the incidents in which people are thrown out of their reserved berth in trains, if they decline to adjust with bullying people in Bihar and UP


• How about the resolution of criminal cases taking place in rural areas of India which are covered by media initially but run out of our TV screen once viewers start loosing interest due to delay in justice or they add masala to it


• Exploitation of general public by Traffic Police on regular basis, I mean if some rule is broken by someone, he is charged Rs. 50/- without a reciept which goes in thulla's pocket but if somebody want to go through the procedure he is made to pay Rs. 500/- well in that case who will follow procedures, no sting operations for this (may be price of selling these videos back is less)


• Media highlighted criticism of Tharoor for using Twitter. I was expecting a huge support to be given to him. He is reaching faster to us than many other prominent government officials.


• What happened to Kasab? It's been one year.

Enough for now. This criticism is for English Indian New Channels. Hindi channels like India TV, Aaj Tak or Samay where a politician loosing his dog, Kaal kankal or Vardat can be the prime time shows, are hopeless. Almost everyone would agree we have hardly any value adding Hindi news channels.

Coming back to English new channels, I request them to focus on key issues of India rather than following Salman-Katreena or Saifeena as they call it. Following Indian Cricket team is okay, but would not be of much help to them. I really appreciate them for reaching people with the help of Facebook or Twitter, but the actual content is still missing.