The Journalistic community just got richer by a new word "Jarnailism" after Jarnail Singh"s "Shoe Gate " episode.All the news channels and newspaper worth their salt or should I say worth their shoe had it covered from tip to toe,was it worth it ,its a different question.
Who is to blame ,the journo who threw the shoes or the minister who wanted to shoo away from the uncomfortable question?
The debate on the above subject shall go on for time immemorial ,and if the government has taken 25 years to come to the conclusion on sikh carnage and still counting who says there is a future for this country.
With election round the corner Love and Hate speeches are flying thick and fast,while going thro the Times of india I came across a beautiful article by my favourite columnist Jug suraiya and the way he has presented the Love and Hate relationship is worth pondering over
I've decided to paste below the relevant portion of his column for you .I've loved it and I hope you'll cherish it as well.
"What is the source of this power that hate has over us? Hate is born out of fear; that which we fear is that which we hate: people who belong to a religion different from ours, or who belong to a different country, or who speak a different language. The hated Other helps us identify ourselves as a caste, or a community, or a nation, or as speakers of a particular language or believers in a specific ideology or faith-system. Hate seems to be based on an inbuilt defence mechanism that promotes self-preservation. Compared to the reverse magnetism of hate, love appears to be a weak and flaccid force. For all the exhortations of sages and saints through the ages to love our fellow human beings, love doesn't bind us together anywhere near as strongly as hate does. Try as we might, most of us can manage to love only a very few people in our lives: our family, maybe a few friends. Love is a strictly rationed commodity. Hate, on the other hand, is like an inexhaustible supply of renewable energy. We can hate large numbers of people: people who belong to different religions, or have a different colour of skin, or who vote for a different political party. All human organisations religions, nations, communities, political parties use the inverse gravitation of hate in order to cohere together. A family or a nation can have many internal bickerings and quarrels which no amount of love of family or love of nation can overcome. But the moment a feared, and therefore hated, neighbour attacks, the family or the nation sticks together in a newfound self-protective solidarity, spawned not by love but by its reverse. Perhaps the cruellest paradox of the power of hate is religion. All religions begin by teaching universal love; all religions to some extent or other end up preaching and practising hatred and intolerance of those who belong to other sects. Take away hate and you take away 90 per cent of religion. And the 10 per cent left would be like the khichri for the soul dished out by Deepak Chopra. So let's not blame Varun Gandhi for spreading hate. Hate spreads pretty well by itself with very little help from us. And will continue to do so, till we figure why it is that we love to hate each other. "
Happy reading ,long live Jug suraiya
Who is to blame ,the journo who threw the shoes or the minister who wanted to shoo away from the uncomfortable question?
The debate on the above subject shall go on for time immemorial ,and if the government has taken 25 years to come to the conclusion on sikh carnage and still counting who says there is a future for this country.
With election round the corner Love and Hate speeches are flying thick and fast,while going thro the Times of india I came across a beautiful article by my favourite columnist Jug suraiya and the way he has presented the Love and Hate relationship is worth pondering over
I've decided to paste below the relevant portion of his column for you .I've loved it and I hope you'll cherish it as well.
"What is the source of this power that hate has over us? Hate is born out of fear; that which we fear is that which we hate: people who belong to a religion different from ours, or who belong to a different country, or who speak a different language. The hated Other helps us identify ourselves as a caste, or a community, or a nation, or as speakers of a particular language or believers in a specific ideology or faith-system. Hate seems to be based on an inbuilt defence mechanism that promotes self-preservation. Compared to the reverse magnetism of hate, love appears to be a weak and flaccid force. For all the exhortations of sages and saints through the ages to love our fellow human beings, love doesn't bind us together anywhere near as strongly as hate does. Try as we might, most of us can manage to love only a very few people in our lives: our family, maybe a few friends. Love is a strictly rationed commodity. Hate, on the other hand, is like an inexhaustible supply of renewable energy. We can hate large numbers of people: people who belong to different religions, or have a different colour of skin, or who vote for a different political party. All human organisations religions, nations, communities, political parties use the inverse gravitation of hate in order to cohere together. A family or a nation can have many internal bickerings and quarrels which no amount of love of family or love of nation can overcome. But the moment a feared, and therefore hated, neighbour attacks, the family or the nation sticks together in a newfound self-protective solidarity, spawned not by love but by its reverse. Perhaps the cruellest paradox of the power of hate is religion. All religions begin by teaching universal love; all religions to some extent or other end up preaching and practising hatred and intolerance of those who belong to other sects. Take away hate and you take away 90 per cent of religion. And the 10 per cent left would be like the khichri for the soul dished out by Deepak Chopra. So let's not blame Varun Gandhi for spreading hate. Hate spreads pretty well by itself with very little help from us. And will continue to do so, till we figure why it is that we love to hate each other. "
Happy reading ,long live Jug suraiya
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