Last
night while having my dinner I saw a news, which is being continuously playing.
It was looking like a “marry go round”. Same video and same content was being
telecast again and again. It was looking like a baby is going to a toffee shop,
buy a toffee walk for a mile and then he realizes that he can buy more out of
money he has got and he goes back again. The process of showing news was not
shocking for me because now I got familiar of this circular route, it happens
when the content is not solid and you have to get the TRP of prime time. Poor
news channel. But the way things were being presented was actually a shock. The
news was comment of SRI SRI on naxalism and govt. schools. In actual words it
was flashing; “SRI SRI says: Govt. schools produces naxals”. This one line was
enough to create a tsunami for 30 minutes of prime time slots. At that point of
time I was remembering my “Thermal energy” paper examination where in one
question I was just knowing one sentence and the way I had been elaborated that
one sentence into a full fledge answer, typically like and engineering student.
The fashion was same but the difference was that this time no engineer was
doing that but a journalist was.
Let’s leave aside for a moment what SRI SRI has said. I
belong to a naxalite prone state. The state which is rich in natural resources
but extremely poor in political management, the state called “Jharkhand”.
People have heard of naxalism I actually have felt the heat of naxalism. I remember
when I was in class 9th and my very fast friend came to school with
shaved head, in between the bullying of him by the name “Takla” I came to know
that his grandfather has been shot by naxals at the place called “Jahanabad”.
And that day I first time heard the word “naxal” and “naxalism”. I was feeling
sad for my friend because he lost his grandfather. And after that day I atleast
noticed the word “naxalism” everyday in the newspaper which used to come at my
home. Everyday bloodshed, people dieing sometimes common man, sometimes naxals
and sometime the police. The process of dieing was same only the visiting card
of the dead body used to change.
Second incident, when I and my family members were going to
attend “barat” of my maternal uncle. The place called “Chatra”, a highly
naxalite area. My mom did not allow me and my father to go together for that
barat just because of the fear she was having. The fear of loosing son and
husband together. She was thinking that “If something will happen then at least
me or my father will survive”. It sounds scary! Right, yes it was. Somehow we
crossed that place in day time and reached safely and came back safely in day
time and the whole journey was full of conversation like, bomb, run and death.
We were the blessed one that we returned as it is; otherwise there life comes
with no guarantee.
I have many incidents to tell but it is immaterial to write
what has already happened. We saw a time when my Grandfather’s dead body was
lying on the top of an ambulance and we were being robbed. That was the effect
of naxalism. But my concern behind writing this blog is that; “If I am the
victim then I am the seer also”. The seer of reformations happened in my state.
Now things are not as worst as it was before. The same newspaper now published
the news of Naxalites surrendering and learning meditation and breathing
techniques. Out of all 7 visits to my hometown in last 3 years I have found
this news. The nights are less scary and days are more confident. And behind
all this there is only one man, SRI SRI. His way of handling the naxals and
people with bad habits is amazing. He only says “Where there is no love, no
belongingness, there is naxalism”, so he gave his loving hands to people and
makes them understand the value of love. His vision to spread love among the
people of that society cannot be expressed in words. And now if some news
channel is saying that SRI SRI speaks about naxalism and govt. school than it
is beyond my imagination. Even I also heard his exact statement about this
issue and it was nowhere closer to what he said. I did not find anything grey.
But things became grey when our so called responsible media twisted the fact.
This is for all media and media channels, “STOP DOING
PROSTITUTION OF FACTS”. If you do not have guts to write the truth than leave,
but stop selling sensational twisted facts. I know if you people could have
done a proper job than level of our country could have been different and much
better than what it is today.
"सत्यम परम धीमहि"
