Few days before, I was watching ‘Face the Nation’ on CNN-IBN and their
topic for discussion was ‘Is Greed the driving force of new India.’ They came
up with such discussion from latest IPL spot-fixing scam. Fall of Sreesanth’s
career is one big example of pure greed.
‘Greed is good.’
If not, why we feel happy
seeing an Ad of recent Samsung Galaxy S4; why we admire the person who drives
Audi/ BMW and why wearing Being Human t-shirts makes us feel proud. Because, we
are one product of “product-debased”
lifestyles, that we lead and how we have all lost a sense of the self. And when
you lose yourself you tend to start making money from wrong means.
But tell me one thing, why our inner
conscience doesn’t hurt when we do corruption. We never feel bad giving bribes
to Government officials. Is our conscience dead or we had stop giving damn to
it. It’s the fact that we have enclosed ourselves in our tiny apartments with
things that supposedly give us pleasure which signifies that how we have
started living our lives by letting others judge us and they’re judgement
dictate our actions. And, we don’t want to think above it.
Our life has been cluttered by the “need-creation” of companies and how
this has culminated in a moral degradation of the society we live in. Switch-on
your TV, you will find only Negativity around you. “Negative, srif Nagative hi bikta hai yaha” –one dialogue of movie
Rockstar, seems to be correct. Daily soups are showing misery of newly married
couple, News channels showing Rape, Scam, Corruption, betrayal, inflation, Falling
Economy, etc and our Hindi Cinemas are showing crime as a legitimate path of
getting rich in glamorised way.
From where, the society will get its
motivation? When we try to generate moral from Lord Ram, Krishna, Mahatma
Gandhi, we end up thinking - gone are days where people thinks good about
others. This doesn’t mean that only bad is happening around us. If the women
are getting raped, somewhere there’s also one single-mother who is becoming an
IAS officer. There’s also some person who is working for social cause or making
some rural innovations like Bio-fuel Stoves. Don’t they deserve some media
attention? Why not propagate about such people and make them our celebrity.
We are in a society
that is on the verge of boiling, we need a specific media where we can showcase good things happening
around us; there’s only one initiative taken by CNN-IBN in their program ‘India
Positive’ where they talks about
positivity and accomplishments of people in our society. We need to know such
stories more to make us strong and motivated.
In present state, I consider media as only
simple mean to moralize, not customized.
