Free Talk

Barkha Dutt was not a role model for me, but of course Vir Sanghvi has been since his Sunday/Blitz days. I had chanced to express my comments about their articles (Blitz, Sunday, Hindustan Times, NDTV etc) earlier. I always respect the journalists in a democracy, because they are the real people who can stand with the common people when all the other institutions pathetically cave in. Corruption is sky-rocketing in India. Every citizen is well aware of it. In a recently published book review (The God Market…), writer Meera Nanda unravels how religions are exploited by the so called Gurus and Swamis for the corruption in the Corporate. Even the spirituality has become an indispensable stuff of lucrative businesses in India, what else can be spared from corruption? Where does a common man then depend on? A common man can afford to buy a news paper or flick the remote control of an electronic media to get the truth. In that context, an iota of lopsided or biased views from the dedicated journalists cannot be tolerated by a common man.