A newspaper is a printed periodical whose purpose is to deliver news and other information in an up-to-date, factual manner. Though the news section only brings the facts, the facts can be interpreted in the editorial columns of newspapers.
Newspapers are supposed to provide views which are unbiased. Most of the newspapers in India try to balance their views. When it comes to religious views I believe most of the newspapers are secular. However there is one publication “The Hindu”, which has the habit of providing news and views which does not support the secular principles.
“The Hindu” claims to be secular in outlook. However, I find the articles are totally biased. Today when I read the article about MF Husain being given the citizenship of Qatar on the front page I was surprised. I wanted to check whether the same importance for this is given in other national papers. A quick check revealed none of them cared about this news item. However in Hindu, there were many articles about this apart from the front page article. The articles described this event as a national shame. I was wondering what is there in it to be considered as a national shame. There were many articles which carried views of various artists and film personalities toeing the line of “The Hindu”.
M F Husain is just an artist who derives pleasure in painting nude pictures of hindu goddess. Some people wonder how painting nude pictures of hindu god can be considered artistic. Lets not delve into that topic. Let us assume that it’s artistic. I am not sure why he does not try to paint Mother Mary in such a way? Why does he not try painting the picture of Prophet (leave alone nude pictures of him). I would have accepted that he has artistic tendencies if he had been impartial to any religion. However he has not done that. Had he painted the picture of prophet he would have been killed by the same country which has granted citizenship now.
I used to admire “The Hindu” for the quality of their English. However, the articles fail to impress me. I am sure if they continue to publish pseudo secular views; sooner or later the publication would have to find out a place in some other country where it can start it operations, just like the person whom they support.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
MNIK review
Last week started with huge expectations for the SRK fans and the movie goers. MNIK generated more publicity, thanks to shiv sena, who managed to help SRK indirectly by providing the much needed publicity.
I have not watched an SRK movie on the very first day. On watching the trailers of the movie I thought the movie would have some substance. The ratings provided by Times and other websites for the movie, fired us with enthusiasm. So we booked the tickets for the first day.
When you have huge expectations even an average performance could look dud. MNIK is not an exception. Right from the beginning I could not connect to the film. SRK has tried to act really well, as a person suffering from Asperger's syndrome. But there seems to be no connection to the character, the plot and the disease.
Karan Johar seems to be a confused man. He has taken a very heavy topic i.e muslim’s being treated as a terrorist in US. However, there seems to be no strong scenes to portray that they are treated badly. Most of the incidents portrayed in the film were silly. Seems he expected Kajol to create the magic which DDLJ had cast on the audience. But there is no such magic.
In fact there are a lot of irrelevant scenes in the movie, such as SRK shouting that he is not a terrorist during the visit of US president, helping kid in Georgia, Sam (Kajol’s kid) dying in the movie etc. No one was able to connect to the scenes or appreciate its relevance in the film.
When I heard that there was controversy over releasing the film in Mumbai, I thought SRK would not need or use such publicity. But after watching the movie, I guess shiv sena has a great role to play in providing publicity for that movie, without which it could have run out of theatres by now.
I have not watched an SRK movie on the very first day. On watching the trailers of the movie I thought the movie would have some substance. The ratings provided by Times and other websites for the movie, fired us with enthusiasm. So we booked the tickets for the first day.
When you have huge expectations even an average performance could look dud. MNIK is not an exception. Right from the beginning I could not connect to the film. SRK has tried to act really well, as a person suffering from Asperger's syndrome. But there seems to be no connection to the character, the plot and the disease.
Karan Johar seems to be a confused man. He has taken a very heavy topic i.e muslim’s being treated as a terrorist in US. However, there seems to be no strong scenes to portray that they are treated badly. Most of the incidents portrayed in the film were silly. Seems he expected Kajol to create the magic which DDLJ had cast on the audience. But there is no such magic.
In fact there are a lot of irrelevant scenes in the movie, such as SRK shouting that he is not a terrorist during the visit of US president, helping kid in Georgia, Sam (Kajol’s kid) dying in the movie etc. No one was able to connect to the scenes or appreciate its relevance in the film.
When I heard that there was controversy over releasing the film in Mumbai, I thought SRK would not need or use such publicity. But after watching the movie, I guess shiv sena has a great role to play in providing publicity for that movie, without which it could have run out of theatres by now.
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