Monday, October 02, 2006

Some thoughts on Gandhigiri and media

Today is Mahatma Gandhi's birthday and many newspapers are flooded with articles and news on relevance of Gandhi and Gandhigiri in today's world.

That forced me to think how relevant is Gandhi in journalism. Well, I don't claim to be an expert on Gandhi; in fact I am not. But a few thoughts of Gandhi I feel are very relevant to media today. Gandhi said,
"Be the change you want to see in others."
This is something the new generation journalists should practice. Very often they are seen shouting from roof tops about what is wrong with something. They even go to the extent of writing about the ideal situation. But they say nothing about how to reach that ideal state.

What I am trying to say is that media agencies and journalists proclaim themselves to be change agents and mirror of society; but very few of them try to bring about the change in themselves and their writings that will facilitate the change process they desire to see.

As far as we, the media watchdogs, are concerned, we will follow the essence of Satyagraha as explained by Mahatma Gandhi in his own words,
"Truth (Satya) implies love, and firmness (agraha) engenders and therefore serves as a synonym for force....the Force which is born of Truth and love or non-violence."
May be Munnabhai is right when he says that Gandhigiri may be relevant even today if you bother to relate it with your problems.

Junta's opinion?

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