Treading Towards Tommorow's India, Halt to see Today's.

We Indians are looking forward to 2020, with a vision to be one of the superpower . Its good to be motivated , but are we really putting our efforts to achieve this milestone.

Yesterday I watched movie “ Rann” which fantastically displayed the Battle of TRP’s among the media channels. How effective is Media, that it can lead to Dismissal of Govt. Rightly said , that media is one of the pillars of Democracy. So, there is no doubt that Media has enough to do in conduct of the Machinery called Democracy.

Actually speaking what i have observed that, there is deterioration in our own mind sets. It is we who have changed ourselves in last two decades. The same is case with the media, it started reflecting our own mind set. They started broadcasting what we wanted to hear, what we wanted to watch. When we talk about Media, it also includes other broadcasted form like Movies , serials, reality shows and many more. So, when we started deviating from our roots of our cultural originality, media reflected the same by showing so called reality shows , objectionable TV shows , say roadies or splitsvilla etc. Family serials highlights only family problems, complications of Relationships. They don’t like to show the bonding and family values of our country.

Gone are those days when we used to watch the tv shows like Udaan , samandar , sword of Tipu sultaan, Bharat ki khoj, Malgudi Days, Param vir chakra and many more . These TV shows were fine package of motivation , inspiration and knowledge. These shows inspired a lot to generations . Actually at that time there was very fine balance between Media and Education. Children used to go through about the Lessons of Rani Lakshmibai, Maharana Pratap, Gandhi ji and many more. But the Things have changed now, these days channels are showing Reality shows , I don’t understand what’s real in the reality shows when everything is performed in front of camera and all scripts and gestures are pre defined. But they are highly appreciated by the people.

The school children now find their lessons very boring in the environment where media is showing many practical things “how to go on a date with a girl”. Actually it started very earlier just site an example, all of us have calendar in our home, earlier Gandhiji, Bhagat Singh or subhash Chandra bose finds their place in the calendars. But now models ,film stars find their places on calendar. When a growing child looks on that calendar’s Gandhi or Bose he or she enquired about them and when told by family about his great contribution to country , the child also motivated to become Gandhi or Bose. Today News channels finds Mika and rakhi savant case more significant than covering the counter insurgencies areas in J & K. See its all about, how you can sell yourself and so, is the case with media.

Last month when i was coming to vadodara, i interacted with some first year students of a reputed educational institutions. It was totally stunning when i came to know that students are not aware about the national anthem and national song. They have no idea about the Judicial and political system of country. Country becomes great by its great citizens. Nation’s best resource are the human resource. Japan is an excellent example. So, these indication are not in the favour of health of a World’s largest democracy. Its time when there is sudden rise in demand of new states on the basis of Language and sentiments, where country is already facing problems like Naxalism, Maoist,Terrorism, poverty , corruption and many more, the responsibility of our generation and upcoming generation is much more demanding.

So, with the country facing some serious problems and our cultural, traditional and family values are also on stake by Media, on what basis we are claiming to become the super power by 2020. Media and press have to respond in sensible manner for sound functioning of Democracy, which is very complex machinery. There is no doubt in our capability , but only thing is that we have to put all that in shape because we can’t achieve the best by deviating from our roots.