VIOLENCE IN KARNATAKA

RECENTLY WE HEARD ABOUT SOME VIOLENCE IN THE STATE OF KARNATAKA BY RELIGIOUS FANATIC & FUNDAMENTALIST ON THE ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY A LOCAL NEWSPAPER WHICH CLAIMS THAT IT IS A TRANSLATED VERSION OF TASLEEMA NASREEN'S ARTICLE. IT IS SHAME FOR US THAT IN A DEMOCRATIC & SECULAR CONSTITIUN HOLDING COUNTRY THIS TYPE OF VIOLENCE COMES INTO THE SCENE & ONLY HANDFUL OF INTELLECTUAL USE TO CONDEMN IT WHOSE VOICE IS NOT HEARD IN THE SOCIETY. THIS NEEDS AN INTEROSPECTION OF OURSELF BECAUSE IF WE WANT TO DEVELOP OUR SOCIETY & COUNTRY IN A PROPER WAY & MAINTAIN OURSELF AS A SECULAR & DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY THEN PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THIS INCIDENT SHOULD BE DEALT WITH PROPER ACTIONS AS PER THE RULE OF LAW SAYS. ON THE OTHER HAND MEDIA EITHER IT IS PRINT OR ELECTRONIC SHOULD ALSO FOLLOW THE CODE OF CONDUCT BECAUSE TASLEEMA NASREEN HAS RAISED FINGERS THAT HER WRITINGS HAS BEEN MISUSED TO CREATE PUBLIC DISTURBANCES AND SHE HAD DENIED THAT SHE HAD NOT WRITTEN ANY ARTICLE FOR THAT NEWSPAPER . MEDIA SHOULD ALSO FOLLOW CODE OF CONDUCT SO THAT PEOPLE WHO NEED SOME GROUND TO RAISE AN ISSUE AND GO FOR AN IRRATIONAL PROTEST CANNOT USE MEDIA AS A HANDY TOOL FOR THE MISDEED THEY DO AFTER READING ARTICLES. RATHER THAN MEDIA SHOULD FOCUS ON CREATING AWARENESS AMONG THE PUBLIC ON THE CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES PREVAILING IN THE SOCIETY BY THROWING LIGHT ON THE POSITIVE ASPECTS OF THE ISSUE CONCERNED. AS THE FOURTH PILLAR OF THE INDAIN POLITICAL SYSTEM MEDIA CAN HELP A LOT IN STRENGTHENING THE DEMOCRACTIC & SECULAR VALUES ENSHRINED IN THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION.

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