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Media circus

While the nation got gripped with the who dunnit in the Aarushi murder case, TRP of every other programme went down. Every minute there was a new update on the channels. It's been more than a month after Arushi’s murder but the culprits are still free. At this point of time, TSI’s cover story made a hitting read. Quite disappointingly, sadly and surprisingly, none of the media channels focused on other poor people, who died on the very same date. Every day a new discovery, facts and findings are made about the murder by the media, police etc. and are not leaving a single chance to sensitise the issue, but none talked about other murders. Why we just couldn’t be unbiased, giving equal footage to other cases as well? Nothing can be said about the end of this murder mystery but one thing clearly surfaced and that is the ugly voyeurism of Indian media houses.

Anilesh Kumar
Patna Kashmir issue

It has been the same story all over again, but with new facts on surface as was reflected in the cover “Will Kashmir revert back to the situation of 1989” (TSI July 14), it was a question worth pondering about and deserves a lot of praise. The conflict in Kashmir, which erupted into near civil war in 1990, emerged out of a fifty-year political struggle for control of the territory. Both India and Pakistan claim control of Kashmir. However, since the early 1950s, India's attempts to control the state fuelled resentment among the state's Muslim political leaders, and ultimately led to the emergence of Muslim militant groups committed to fighting for independence. The Cental government’s failure to understand that the decline in violence and a boom in tourism have made it compulsory to address the larger issues of justice to heal the festering wounds of last 18 years had its repercussions and it was nothing but destined. The recent happenings do nothing but reveal the new face of terrorism that’s emerging in Kashmir and it needs to be controlled to save the paradise.

Archana Gupta
Guwahati Deep thought

The editorial on the global oil crisis made lot of sense and logic. The silence of the US in the entire matter (when it holds a few of largest unused oil reserves) is the most unacceptable part. US, which has created mayhem in the world for oil, can’t just keep quiet, after all OPEC could have taken corrective actions on the interference of US, and that could have brought about more uniformity in the global economic environment. US definitely has some selfish interest in this case, else why won’t it take some serious action? As the editor has said, “Looking at the manner things are shaping up, it just cannot be ruled out that possibly the US and the other parts of the developed world have a definite interest in the increasing oil price.” His analysis on the entire price rise is worth giving a deep thought.

Raghunath Prasad
Jaipur