Veteran journalist P. Sainath has said that the nation is in a crisis. And this crisis is not limited to just the rural area. It has become a national crisis at various areas such as agriculture, education, economy, job creation etc.
He was delivering the endowment lecture on the topic ‘Indian democracy at the post-liberalization and post-truth era’ at Media Manthan 2020 organized by the PG department of journalism and mass communication at St Aloysius College (Autonomous).
Mr Sainath said that the many policies adopted in the 90s led to India becoming unusually unequal. Referring to the speech Ambedkar had made at the Constituent Assembly while handing over the draft of the Constitution, Mr Sainath said, “Ambedkar had warned about the weakness of Indian democracy that liberty without equality allows the supremacy of a few over the multitude. Liberty, equality and fraternity must be kept together as we cannot have one without the other.”
Mr Sainath stated that the agrarian crisis was no longer about the loss of productivity, employment or about farmer suicide; it was a societal, civilizational crisis. Commenting on the lopsided policies such as cow-slaughter ban, he explained how cow slaughter ban had adversely affected many industries due to their interdependency. While Muslims who slaughtered cows were rendered helpless, the cattle traders who were mostly OBCs lost their earnings as the cattle prices crashed. An important industry like Kolhapur sandals industry in Maharashtra went bankrupt as a result of the cow slaughter ban in Maharashtra. He said the policymakers had no idea how the rural industries were interconnected. Demonetisation too devastated the rural economy as 98 percent of rural transactions happen through cash.
Mr Sainath also spoke about the crisis of inequality which affects the Dalits and the Adivasis far more than anyone else as 90 percent of the rural households take home less than Rs 10,000/- per month. “Women are yet another group whose labour is never counted in the gross domestic product. Women and girls globally do unpaid work which amounts to about 12.5 billion working hours per year. Monetarily speaking, this is worth 10.8 trillion dollars,” Mr Sainath added.
Speaking about the crisis of jobs Mr Sainath said that major companies were laying off employees just to create more profits for the investors and the adoption of artificial intelligence in the industry would further destroy millions of jobs.
Rector of St Aloysius College Institutions Fr Dionysius Vaz SJ, Principal Dr (Fr) Praveen Martis SJ, HOD of Journalism and Mass Communication department Dr (Fr) Melwyn Pinto SJ were present.
‘Veerappan and Vijay Mallya’s business models are interesting!’
Addressing the gathering during his endowment lecture on Friday, Mr Sainath made an interesting comment on the so called ‘revenue model’. “Whenever I visit IIMs and IITs for lectures on my PARI project, the students there ask me what my revenue model for my project is. I tell them that I do not have a revenue model. In fact, journalism does not begin with a revenue model. Gandhiji, Ambedkar, Bhagat Singh were all great journalists. But they did not have a revenue model,” Mr Sainath said.
On a lighter note, he said that the best revenue model that he liked was that of forest brigand Veerappan and liquor baron Vijay Mallya. “Veerappan ruled the forest for forty years and from the top ministers to the villagers he could dictate terms and liver royally. Similarly, Mallya’s revenue model was to steal the banks and run away abroad and live like a king,” Mr Sainath added.
Journalism is not and can never be a business. It is a calling, he opined. While newspaper can be a business, television can be a business, journalism per se cannot be reduced to a business. “Unfortunately today, journalists are recruited on a contract basis and they have no bargaining power; and there are no unions to fight for their cause. Hence, they are at the mercy of the corporate media houses for their survival and are made to write stories that cannot be called journalism,” Mr Sainath said.
Answering a question as to the pressures he faced as a journalist, he said that external pressures from the government or others could be very well handled. It is the internal pressures from once own media house that journalists find it difficult to manage.
The book written by one of the founders of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1946 is now being re-issued by a Mumbai-based right-wing trust.
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I'm a Christian Anglo-Saxon, and I find the idea of this book to be wonderful. For me, it is beautiful to envision Jesus kneeling down to worship Lord Shiva. It is not disrespectful to Jesus at all to believe this - it shows that he was a reverent and faithful believer. As a Christian, I can understand why the people who wrote the Bible might have wanted to cover up certain aspects of Jesus's life. I love the idea of Jesus and his followers uniting with the Indian people in a shared religious heritage.
its not fully acceptable but some of them are true in that book
To increase bjp vote banks they are trying to include Christians under their belt. Like they says jains, , buddist and sikhs are the part of Hindu religion. Which is totally wrong. No jains , budhist, Sikhs, worships Hindu gods.
Writer used to write stories for ram gopal verma. After the flop of RGV sholay remake version of Aag, writer lost his job and published books on jesus to earn money for his livelihood.
thank god he dint say bible was written by waalmiki.
If Savarkar's brother's thinking was so skewed, just imagine how skewed was Savarkar's thinking??? Bade mian tho bade mian, chotay mian subhanallah!!
Dear BABARAO
Kindly give your Script to Sanjay Lila Bansali (SLB).so that he can Make a Comedy Film base on your Script.We will recommend SLB to introduce Subramania Swami as the HERO of this Movie.
Stop playing with the feeling of Christian And Muslim Who respect Jesus Christ.It wont suite for your (RSS) Stupid Idiology.I thought some one will be there among you will certain amount of So called Common sense But where ???? All Same.
GROW UP DUDE
Yes, this is correct. Everyone in the world are Hindus as Hinduis is the only true religion. All the countries around the world were ruled by Hindu kings. white house was vishnu temple, israel knesste was Ram Mandir, Vatican was sita mandir, Bejing was capital of Shiva, tokyo was rest room of Lakshmi, Australia was ruled over by vishnu, Africa was governed by Krishna. Veer Sarkar fore father was ambassador of all the gods and he was travelling in the air without plane.
Really it was good joke... cant stop laughing...he should be awarded with Nobel Prize.... God Bless him ...
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Please don't release that book and cause one more imbalance in the community.Tired of seeing killing people in the name of 'GOD' - GOD is just a Invisible Power, nothing else other than this ,we have given him different forms and name and to relieve our mind from stress and to share thoughts n desire we created a god.Once you purge something from mind you will feel relieved.
#NoWarKnowPeace
we are in the Lent season only i can say is
\Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing\""
all the jokes in book is good and the best one is Jesus was Tamilian and his complexion was dark.....OHH brothers jesus was very fair and lovely prophet of islam.
why all chaddi leaders at last becomes mad ?
ha......ha....
Tomorrow he will say Washington was a hindu land and White house was Shiva temple.....and Obama was a Tamil Brahmin....
Please book a seat for him in Kankanady..........ha...ha...
Whatever, ultimately he proved that Brahmins were Non veg eaters, especially beef & pork. And even they can consume alcohol.
Now Subramanya swamy may link his family tree to Jesus christ.
BED TIME STORIES......
loughing of the day from RSS yeak yeak yeak
The RSS creatures spreading their wings to the community of Christians and provoking them. These unknown writers RSS have free time for frictions and fabricate. Earlier they were targeting Tajmahal as Tej Mahal, built by RSS king Tej singh. Kutub Minar built by their RSS king Shaktisena so on. And they are spreading romours that the black stone at Haram, Makkah, as Shiva Linga etc.
They have plans to rewrite the history of India for their needs, in many schools run by them are teaching hate history of India, that's the reason they are in collusion with HRD ministry do innovations.
Damm it RSS.
HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA........
Help I can't stop, I think i will go to hospital, My stomach is getting pain.
HAA HAA HAA............................................HAA HAA
This book is the ultimate proof irreparable idiocy/ stupidity of RSS.
Secondly, how the publishers and printers printed it ?
This community will never improve nor succeed, they continue battling until their stupid community remain at large.
We all respect many Hindus, most of them are indeed good.
but this disproportionate venomous creatures spoiling names of good Hindus.
Indeed Hinduism has become a culture, not a religion.
Jusus Peace be upon him was Jewish, he was born in Palestine,
He has no relation whatsoever with man made religion the Hinduism. He was not Tamil, nor Brahmin,
He was miraculously born without father to his mother the Maryam may God be pleased with all of these. He was against wrong belief of plural God. Hinduism has highest number of Gods than its followers. Where as worshipping plural God is totally against true religions of God like Islam and Christianity.
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Jesus is one of the mightiest Prophets sent by ALLAH to the face of the earth. If any Muslim does not believe in Jesus pbuh then he is not a MUSLIM.
QURAN explain on all prophetS of God:
Say (O Muslim) \We believe in ALLAH and that which has been sent down to us and that which has been sent down to Abraham, Ismail, Ishaque, Jacob, and to Al-Asbat and that which has been given to Moses and JESUS and that which has been given to the prophets from their LORD. We make no DISTINCTION between any of them and to him we have Submitted (in ISLAM) (Quran - chapter 2 : 136)
The devils which is also a creation of ALLAH will try to claim thru LIES and DECEPTION... But ALLAH says never fear the devils and seek help from HIM. Devils are smart in LIES and Cheddis are following his agenda. which will take them together to HELL which will be eternal...
Those who support such ideology of destruction should learn about ALLAH and his creation the Shaitan from the jinns who has been FOOLING people who are far from the TRUTH>"
RSS PLEASE GIVE US BASE FOR HINDU RELIGION .,...
Hahahaha...many more things to come till Modi in throne, my dear christian brothers don't get exited. All nuts and bolts of sanghis are removed...HAHHAHHAAH
Hellow Christian bhai Wake up and Answer them...........................
how u came to know now. good u came from rss university?
Jesus is not a GOD not Hindu but He is Messenger of Allah
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