Described by Experts

chemical. In these conditions how can India boast of its development? Still the last man carries the night soil on his head for his living. Will this not be sufficient to know the real status of the majority? Why is the media unconcerned about all this? The experts said till a Brahmin carried the night soil on his head he would never know any pain of the poor. They said we should make them carry the night soil on their head, as equality; for they say equality is lost if reservation is given and even if one of them is denied an opportunity in their caste it is not equality. So if the nation is to apply equality in everything it is high time they should be forced to carry night soil on their head. Thus the print media carried out such stupid arguments against reservation with no relevance to any equality and their writings only showed their haste, fear and insecurity for they know their identity which is in a waning state would be lost if reservation is given to OBC said the experts, that is why none of their reply to these articles was published! The other attributes are already analysed in chapters two and three of this book.

4.2 The Present Functioning of the Media as Described by the Experts

The description given by an heterogeneous set of experts, many well educated have given the following short comings of the media.

1.Media by all standards have lost its media ethics 2.No psychologically trained or balanced person runs the media 3.Media is used for complete profit and for the development and propaganda of only a particular community 4.No distribution of power in any media (Daily news papers,

T.V, etc) among all castes and religion. 5.Projection of Hindutva by inculcating in the young minds superstition and vulgarities.

6.Irresponsible way of display of stills advertisements etc; which will pollute and disturb the minds of the youth in their adulthood. 7.Media unconcerned about the welfare of the nation. 8.Anti reservation stand is exhibited at each stage. 9.No respect for people representatives only talks of court and law which is basically the barbaric laws of Manu. 10.No concern shown about rural poor or about their welfare. 11.They are so selfish and fear of losing their power due to reservation in this fear the media has lost its reasoning. 12.Media has failed to project the true statistics, the percentage of upper caste faculties in IITs, IIMs and AIIMS 13.Media unconcerned of the poor rural OBC/SC/ST youth and their problems. 14.Media has failed to project the corruptions of Venugopal but has disproportionably projected as if Dr. Anbumani was holding office of benefit that is purely caste based. 15.Media even now projects only their (Brahmins) problems or about a Hollywood or Bollywood in their day to day life and is least concerned about the social issues of poor or needy (for money is their main criteria not improvement or development or upliftment of the majority). 16.Why is not media giving the list of industrialists and the caste they belong to in India, who own half of India’s wealth? 17.Media’s lack of social concern. 18.No evidence is given to prove that merit will suffer but continue to project merit will be lost due to reservation. 19.Lack of business expertise to think how their propaganda does not take into account the social issues related to reservations. 20.Media does not give a complete projection to the scandalous life of the swamiji but only projects the govt. actions as if the govt has erred by taking action against swamiji, which amounts to anti national activities. 21. When govt did not accept the NKC views that issue was blown up out of proportion by the media and they made a big fuss and resigned from it. This act is again an act of anti nation as it was clearly, caste based support.

22.The media is more preoccupied with development of business rather than the business of productive activity that contribute to the development of the nation as a whole. 23.The media is very much concerned over a particular communities welfare and is practically blind about the even the basic needs of the majority but at every step talk of reservation as a means which will stunt the nations progress. 24.The media has not talked about the commercialisation of knowledge that has to be first settled but on the other hand harping on reservations. If access to good education is not available to majority then how can they talk of equality?

This point is totally missed by the media to give any form of exposure. 25.The media has failed the project the weakness of the NKC, which has taken stand against reservations forgetting about the majority, but on the other hand thought of making education accessible by regulation of fees which is a major bundler by the so called elite members of NKC. 26.Has the media ever projected about the child labor which is at its peak or only among the non Brahmins with any care?

Rarely the news about it that too when forced by some association or when the daily has no news to tell they would put some scanty news about child labour. Even the T.V media has drastically failed to bring to notice about this. 27.The media is unconcerned about the adults, that is, especially youth when it projects murders done by students.

It is a pity to note that a murder of students which was carried out in A.P was given such coverage in the leading dailies that with in a month a similar type of murder was carried out in the daylight in the city college campus in the staircase by a student. First who is morally responsible for this? the media, the daily and the journalist who carried out this news are to be punished. So the media has behaved not in keeping with the interest of the nation. 28.Did the media ever provide to the public about the percentage of highly placed Brahmins and upper castes in the lucrative jobs viz; like professor, associate professor, directors, V.C., chairman etc; both in the industrial and educational fields?

29.Has the media ever worried about the unimaginable difference between the rural poor and rich? Should not this be the first concern of the media? Should not experts like economists, socio scientists write in the dailies about this social issue? 30.What are the steps taken by the media to propagate the school dropouts who are mainly from the OBC/SC/ST? 31.Why did not the media(both TV and dailies write articles to educate the school dropout’s parents about the importance of education). 32.Why mandal name is dragged? How many negative articles about V.P Singh have appeared who has been the victim of

Brahman’s arrogance? He became a martyr by relinquishing the position? 33.Has the media ever professed the public to leave the notion of caste/Varna inculcated in the laws Manu to make the nation for advancing towards development.

On the other hand all forms of superstitions and other irrational practices are imposed through the media very regularly in an insidious way poisoning the society! 34.Why the pro reservation protests held through out the nation was never reported by the media them as they have reported in an exaggerated scale the anti reservation protests? Should not the media act justly for both if it has some concern for the real development of the nation majority of the people. 35.The media is not acting in the justifiable way when the same photos of striking medical students against reservation was many times put, in T.V channels and also by the B.B.C (for world wide publicity) on the contrary pro reservation protests were never properly covered or never covered by them. 36.No empirical evidence that reservation will harm accumulation of knowledge proved by any commission scientifically in this Technical age. 37.Media’s immature way of expressing the concern of the upper caste has only made one understand their anti reservation lobby. 38.Media by its activities has shown least social concern and utter selfishness of the Brahmins.

39.The media has proved beyond doubt its failure to understand the Indian Society for the brahmins have proved to be outsiders and have not become one with the natives. 40.Media has severed as an opponent to provisions to ensure equal opportunity to weaker sections. 41.Media has failed to understand that it does not have a mandate or authority to comment on the time tested policy of reservation, but on the other hand it has indulged in false propaganda. 42.The media has so contemplated with the NKC to express its opinion on reservations the day when the results for civil services exam were announced. This shows how biased the media is functioning. 43.Media from the day of its existence failed to expose the poverty of people for the people who die of starvation are only from backward castes/ST/SC. 44.Media has miserably failed to give any space or propaganda about the unemployed/bonded labours for they are mainly and only form backward classes and SC/ST. 45.The media has now also failed to provide any form of coverage to educationally deficient for this class is also from the OBC/SC/ST but has multifold times magnified and given false propaganda against reservations. 46.Media is trying to confuse the majority of the people between the two terms backward castes and backward classes, when the very father of our constitution Dr.

Ambedkar himself has very clearly stated in the constituted assembly that the word classes means castes. The media is now projecting as if there was confusion on the terms

‘castes’ and “classes” in the very constitution. The media is unable to get any support against reservation so lives in trivialities and trying to create organized confusion. 47.Why is the not media projecting the legal untouchability and educational untouchability? 48.Why is the media not giving any proper and true exposure to the life of scavenger and give a proper propaganda in these 3000 year? Not even a single Brahmin has served as a scavenger and carried the night soil on head!

49.Why has the media failed to express about the majority for whom the life challenge is getting a meal a day not even a square meal? How can they raise high through a system of challenge? Why is the media, which is to be highly concerned and sensitive to the issues so blind of their problems? The only answer is, caste based selfishness as the media is mainly dominated by upper castes! 50.Why has media not taken any step to ban caste by birth? and start to profess there is no caste or ban castes. If caste is not present naturally the very word reservation based on caste becomes a meaningless term! 51.Why has media never openly criticised the laws of Manu?

What does this imply? But on the other hand the revolutionary Periyar is portrayed as most of the media in a unfriendly way! 52.Dr. Ramadoss has condemned the T.V media as well as the print media for trying to project a wrong message to public by blowing up out of proportion the anti reservation protests and for hiding all protests of pro reservation! Media has failed to act justly but acts based on caste! 53.All these acts of media has annulled the possibility of any healthy discussion on reservation.

Observations given by various categories of people on media

The media in India is dominated by the upper caste Brahmins and Banyas. The worst part of the functioning of the media is that they function in such an atrocious manner that only news in favour of them are published and given coverage beyond need and normality. This abnormal and noxious functioning of the media has resulted in the risk of the non Brahmins and minorities for their abilities and their normal need is totally suppressed. This was very glaringly seen in the reservations policy. The media only projected the anti reservation protests that too carried out by a very small set (two or three) of women medicos. The photo was repeated several times in the news and by leading news papers where as the pro reservation rally or

protest or conference or seminar carried out did not even figure out in two or three lines in leading dailies and the T.V media. Of recent times after Periyar this has revoked and evoked a lot of controversies and faithlessness in media in the minds of non Brahmins. For only the rich upper caste alone can give the representation of his feelings through media. It has become impossible for non Brahmins to express their thoughts through media however great or powerful they may be. Under these problematic conditions we feel it essential to discuss the flaws of media. During our discussions some of the views expressed by majority of the four categories are included.

1.Almost all the non Brahmin students be it doctors or lawyers or engineers or other professionals very sadly said none of their pro reservation protests was ever given in the media be it T.V or otherwise, even the media run by the non

Brahmins which just was very neutral to both pro and anti reservation protests with a few exception. 2.The Brahmin students were very much satisfied for their anti reservation protests were not only given due importance but the same protests were repeatedly published in dailies and also aired several times even in foreign T.V. Just they gave lot of publicity to project the anti reservation protests so as to create a blown up or exaggerated view. Infact some of the Brahmin students proudly commented “we are the darling of the media so even if we sit for few minutes with placards we will be given a lot of coverage”. This was not just a sweeping statement, by a student but a very true fact about the functioning of the media. The media tried to create a wave that reservation was ruining the meritorious and infact it could not influence the majority. 3.Some of the non Brahmin educationalists said that several of their articles written to the leading dailies and other magazines which was pro reservation was never published infact not even acknowledged in several cases which were in response to the articles against reservations written by some fanatic Brahmins some of whom were industrialists, doctors and educationalists. This sort of media’s bias or preferential stand is questionable against any norm of the