[Assam] symbol of cruelty
Chan Mahanta
cmahanta at charter.net
Mon Jan 21 08:42:17 PST 2008
Have we NOT been aware of these kind of activities going on for
decades? Didn't we know that rhinos are shot down with shotgun
pellets and left to die in horrible agony. Didn't we know that they
are trapped in pits with bamboo spikes lining the pits to impale
these animals and let them die in horrible pain?
Did we need this picture to finally awaken us to animal cruelty.
Or did we need the body of the FCI official Ram lying in a pool of
blood across the newspapers to tell us about the tragedy ?
Or images of freshly killed 'suspected insurgents', strung up on
bamboo poles taken away by the police in UNIFORM?
If it did, then something is terribly wrong with our own
sensitivities, isn't it?
The truth is that our sensitivities have long been buried, if they
were there at all.
A civilization is not marked by its ability to disperse shock value.
It is marked by its ability to get the message across and stay with
it, without the blood and gore, without trampling on the
sensitivities of the victims' kin or their admirers.
And I repeat: Subtlety, thy name is not desi!
At 9:37 PM +0530 1/21/08, Manoj Das wrote:
>but for these journalists we would never have seen such a horrific
>picture and symbol of mens' greed. journalists should show what we
>are. i dare to differ.
>
>-manoj
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>On 1/21/08, Dilip/Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> You are absolutely correct. Sensitivity is lacking when the newspapers
>> publish not only the picture of a suffering animal but also pictures of dead
>> people lying on the street killed by the police or the militants. Several
>> months ago, I was shocked by photographs of the FCI official's dead body
>> lying in a pool of blood, and had a nightmare.
>> Is it shock therapy and does it work?
>> Dilip
>>
>> Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
>> > >But in this
>> >case, maybe, just maybe, it will wake up the Govt, and others who seem
>> >hell-bent to capture the limelight at the first opportunity.
>>
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>> *** Limelight is absolutely a misnomer. It demonstrates an utter lack
>> of sensitivity to blood and gore, a cultural void, which is not
>> unexpected from the most violent society on earth: India.
>>
>> I am glad it was a front page story. However it could have been dealt
>> with a bit of maturity that could be expected from civilized society.
>>
>> Perhaps my expectation is misplaced.
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>> At 8:02 AM -0600 1/21/08, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
>> >C'da,
>> >
>> >In India this journalistic discretion is absolutely different.
>> >Maybe Indian news media is going thru a phase, and such standards be
>> damned.
>> >
>> >Some examples:
>> >The Beltola incident - many newspapers & TV were not ashamed to show a
>> naked
>> >woman running around.
>> >
>> >In the tiger attack in the Guwahati Zoo, last month, it seems a number of
>> TV
>> >channels showed live footage. There was only one newspaper (The Hindu)
>> which
>> >said 'after a discussion with the editors', it was decided to publish only
>> a
>> >black & white photo, not color'.
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>> >And now this gory & sickening photo of the unfortunate rhino. But in this
>> >case, maybe, just maybe, it will wake up the Govt, and others who seem
>> >hell-bent to capture the limelight at the first opportunity.
>> >
>> >--Ram
>> >
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>> >On 1/21/08, Chan Mahanta wrote:
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>> >> I have never seen a newspaper with a modicum of journalistic
>> >> discretion publish something like this horrific picture on their
>> >> front page.
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>> >> >Oh my Country!!!
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>> >> *** Indeed!
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>> >> At 6:02 PM +0530 1/21/08, mc mahant wrote:
>> >> >Manoj,
>> >> >When I opened the Tribune in the morning- I thought-the beast/s who
>> >> >did that needed to be castrated. Later on --more rational thoughts
>> >> >came. To teach every citizen/human how vivisection needs to be
>> >> >practised onto ones near and dear ones first.
>> >> >And more thoughts ----
> > >> >I never opened the paper again .
>> >> >Oh my Country!!!
>> >> >Oh for the Indian Rupee!
>> >> >M'da> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:58:22 +0530> From:
>> >> >dasmk2k at gmail.com> To: assam at assamnet.org> Subject: [Assam] symbol
>> >> >of cruelty> > http://www.assamtribune.com/jan2108/Photo.html> >
>> >> >heart cries out to this wounded rhino at kaziranga national park.> >
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