Wednesday, September 1, 2010

The word “Indian Origin” and Patriot media

We often see in news headlines that "Indian origin guy/gal did this/that".  When we use the word "Indian origin" as first to word of headline what are we emphasizing here?  Someone did something great, or a guy whose ancestors (or maybe guy himself once upon a time in history) belonged to India has done something.  Actually there is nothing wrong in news content. But when we see these kind of things over and over as the first two words of headlines repeated everywhere, we may also tend to infer a meaning that an Indian origin guy who is/was not in general as competent as some counterparts  people of the world has finally achieved something. Now we should show the world that people of Indian origin are also capable of doing something great.  Are you not also implying your country's past or present as suppressed, underdeveloped, needy by flashing it over and over?  

Yeah, there is no harm in feeding people with complete information, but news also modulates the thinking of people especially by the portion emphasized in it. So we have option of mentioning it in the news content. By doing this you may be hurting the  guy in question as if the reason behind his discovery is Indian origin(which may be true statistically but here we are talking something different). Also it’s true that directly or indirectly there may be people from other country involved in that project.  

Yeah, India is rising and news media wants to shout and get attention about it. But there is need to take mature and balanced approach in this globalized world if you are media. You may be read by other part of world also.

This is similar to the approach which media has taken on Indian cricket team.  Only difference being that is they don’t get account of failures in the quest which is actually not needed in these cases.
In most cases, when a guy is of Indian origin, this fact itself describes the incapability India in keeping him Indian. And you are sort of giving credit to his origin.





If this continues, there is a chance that the world “Indian origin” will become a subject of mockery in few parts of world. Given the case that hard working quality (is it actually inherent quality?)   of Indians has already become a joke among many more things associated with Indians. But there are few comments made in Nation which can't be taken just as joke. Especially in this scenario they leaks some bitter truth.  What do you think?

3 comments:

redemption ain't dat easy said...

Indian origin word has been always used to tell that Indians have been doing what has been always considered as forte of other nations.

and to be frank... the patriot media always shows what they want us to see... not what we want to see....

so you may as well read somewhere that there was a maharaja who was Indian and met hitler... and that his progeny is now being considered as belonging to Indian origin.....

but you may very well miss the fact that the so called INDIAN ORIGIN soldiers deployed in iraq never get the recognisition of being of INDIAN ORIGIN..

you may have heard of blue ocean strategy... the patriot media is just doing that......

and if u still have doubts.... then look at sports players who are being treated as role models saying that they are of Indian origin.... but the players who are Indians... as of today... never get any recognisition...

told u na bhai... it is just blue ocean strategy of our patriot media...

turn bbc or cnn to see...no &&^&^ origin guy or babe gets meintioned... only the news is there....

the word indian origin is coined so that we can sit back and say... ok.... some Indians are making us proud.... yeah... u know.. there was a Maharaja who met hitler...

uff... he was indian and not of indian origin....

accha.... father was INdian... and beta is of INdian origin....

told u na bhai... blue ocean strategy....

redemption ain't dat easy said...

and if u can make the gadget that i requested you to ....

thanks in advance

redemption ain't dat easy said...

oye... just read what salman khan said...

again patriot media and blue ocean strategy...

that pakistan govt was not involved and it was just hyped because elite people were involved..

you are writing good stuff.. keep it up