Death of a photojournalist

Recently a photojournalist died while trying to take picture of water train, he was attempting a high angle shot when he got electrocuted. While the high end squatter saturated media take higher moral grounds in the comforts of studios and columns, as they negotiate, arbitrate and bond in characteristic dexterity of words, ofcourse for the sake of nation, there are people who are underpaid, exploited and neglected. They are also part of media. Meanwhile mainstream media infotainment includes some amazingly third rate media controllers, stupidity of celebrities, the movie cheapskates (indeed they also have intense gaze on US entertainers and little degrading bits they offer is seen as high art) and the amazingly mediocre cricketers. When asked to circumnavigate the world, Karthikeyan went about it earnestly while wily Ganesha took a round of God Shiva and Parvathi. The interpretation being parents are the world. The latch is on the cleverness, wiliness significant part of narration while anger/celestial curse constant backdrop of godly affairs (compare this with compassionate Jataka tales). The squatter degradation is obvious, hence positioned as interpreters, the arthaarth leeway, is a licence to include any nonsense and assert their disgusting ways in elaboration. While amazingly despicable elders are sought to be equated to gods and asked to follow, that therefore seals, or will complicate, any dissent to these ethical deviances that forms culture. This therefore acquires religious values that percolates as family traditions and hence contribute to the putrefication of society. The muck has centuries of making. The humble Pavlovian creatures of habit. Back to the story, like wily Ganesha, media too covers the world by taking the round of lawyers, politicians, mediocre actors/movies as art while stupid game cricket as sports…as these frogs croaks in the well and define, redefine the world they also wonder why such wonderful world is being ignored by international community. So while people get ready to defecate along the railway tracks and wherever the squatter saturated columnist defecate in queen’s english (please Word NO CAPs FOR queen’s q, no way) and pat each other for unheard nuances and turn of sentences. As they consolidate the degradations and seek cosmopolitan ways. 

The vulgar sight of wallowing in money reminds of maggots feasting on fatty carcass. Money is reduced to muck while some pedal all day to earn few hundreds in crowded cities. No wonder people are so religious and superstitious, while the elite section too are aware how precarious their claim is hence this miracle seeking camaraderie. Having least of talent they even disseminate their personal secrets and whatnots to salivating media as news, while the so called media  -a clever business venture no doubt, degrades itself to get its share in the raining fortune, sometime they snarl that is referred to as debate. The kind of money they make by misusing and manipulating, what is referred to as branding in higher echelons of decadence, is absurd. When scrutinised this is nothing but unethical and serious moral breach that is constantly gnawing into the fabric of decent ways. There is a serious gap between talent and earning, so much gap that talent becomes abstract as they end up doing anything from dancing to singing to acting to playing cricket (probably the only game around that gives hope to even the worst of sportsperson, there are ofcourse commentators and columnist who will pack and elevate this crudeness into olympian levels of subtlety) as they hog in limelight for whatever reason and with desultory ease multiply their money. Some have even monopolised the definition of talent and are redefining it to the lowest possible denominators. That may look enticing for common folks, and give feeling of hope, but these are strongly walled.  And yes those outsiders who do get in don’t try to reform or be ethical but join the loot, indeed compete as vicious insiders to grab as much the easy picks as possible. These lewd exaggerations must be severely taxed as these are nothing but unearned income based on manipulation they use business jargons but this is an open loot by louts. Will they severely tax these unearned incomes?

I was reading an article by another photojournalist (Anand Shankar) and is quite revealing… 

    

The media loves to call itself the watchdog. But it utterly neglects basic practices that other industries rigorously follow as a routine. In my almost eight years in the media, not a single supervisor of mine (or the human resources department, since that is the fashion now) ever did a programme on occupational safety.

I remember the year was 2006, I was being sent on an official assignment (junket) to Malaysia. The logistics of the assignment was being paid for by a sponsor. I enquired whether they did the travel insurance for journalists too. When the reply was negative, I knew that the insurance had to be done. I went ahead and purchased it myself.

But I was in for a shock when I asked my employer, a grand old newspaper from South India, for a refund of the policy amount, since I was travelling on duty representing the organisation. My employer refused to pay the insurance for its own employee, a paltry Rs 700. What is the employee supposed to do if taken ill or in an accident abroad?

Grand old newspaper from South India?...aha and which one could that be? Despicable. I gather it is a sinking ship. Debauched tirupathi and intense camaraderie worth tonnes of ill-gotten gold should produce long traditions of miracles!  

Inheritors of a "refined and ancient civilisation"

We must stop comparing it to the Delhi gang rape because the similarities exist in their horrific death and not in the lives lead. We must acknowledge that our motivation at the comparison is to drag the Kerala woman’s life into a setting that we are comfortable in – urban, upper caste – and not confront the realities of caste violence across India…Instead of the comparisons, the victims will be better served if we started acknowledging the vicious effects of caste and start working against it; if we see that recent violence against Dalit people has come on the bodies of people trying to assert themselves and breaking free of caste shackles: a law student, a nursing student, a bright school student, a PhD student; if we admit caste is present everywhere in our lives.

It is rare to find these kind of lines in squatter saturated ‘bania’ promoted shubh laab ventures that posits as media. With god’s grace the technologies keep innovating and fall on their lap (minor miracles) to further promote their primitive ways and reach. Meanwhile the people who have morphed their primitiveness in social indices so as to be referred to as progressive are being questioned. Kerala is a putrefication that Indians will meet on the way –with rising literacy and income, as they progress negotiating market enlightenment with cruder culture and depraved traditions. These will get intense everytime they showcase their humble ways and simple nature. Some rue on memories of matriarchy! Matriarchy my foot. In an overwhelmingly primitive society (that left even Vivekananda baffled) these are earnest hallucination of grandeur, property transfer has much cunning reasons some may give impression of matriarchy. Clearly the socalled matriarchy followed all the primitiveness of patriarchy, nothing remotely enlightening as is being posited. This blogger has maintained that cunning elite women have been positioning themselves by exaggerating gender matters to usurp advantage, and have been making attempts to impress West by playing victim while the reality being they are firmly hinged to primitive world and are active participant of the structure that nurtures and thrives on misery. Indeed a just society will be based on gender equality. While the pertinent question here is the victim’s name can be revealed because poor people, that too the most marginalised and traditionally brutalised, are not expected to have privacy? The law is not meant to be applied in these cases, by the prejudiced police and disgraceful media. That caste is major pattern in these despicable shows is sought to be censored.

Meanwhile Pavan Verma, who has carefully calibrated his career on upward trajectory (nothing wrong in the arena of market driven ecstasy, as also it is a justification on ordained self, but when it is meant to assert the mainstream narrations and pander to power then we know the clever fellow is aiming big. Urdu connection with muslim elite gives him serious gravy points, and claims of much sought feudal refinity) is ruing the trolls. Trolls are generally aimed at the powerful by the mass (atleast the one who can use Net and can understand English, the numbers of which are increasing exponentially), there maybe some excesses but it is nothing compared to the nepotistic and irresponsible elite. Get used to it Vermaji, if you can vouch for freedom of expression for the market media (and whatever is served as infotainment) then you should have no problem with trolls. To be able to abuse is part of free expression, indeed that probably is only viable option of marginalised/powerless, and yes nothing is sacred. Not the least religion, this relentless march of ‘sentiment being hurt’ is curtailing the freedom. Blasphemy has no place in free world, you cannot freeze anything in timespace. The reason why enlightened societies/people should be worried of primitiveness encroaching in the name of religious expressions that seeks to bring in discriminations and prejudices in the name of faith. This blogger will not prefer provocation of faith for the sake of freedom, but if it is discriminatory and reduces the space then it will be resisted. Patronising Britain has always got it wrong, muslim london mayor (indeed his lack of decency towards Corbyn points to serious hedonistic tilt, that seem to define some who use muslim card as liberal) doesn’t help the case, they nurture and export the vilest kind of people. Worst of religious ways living in harmony is a truce not tolerance, and a degradation that constantly eats into ethical core. The result is never positive. It’s like inmates of jail, enforced and indeed menace to freedom. Societies don’t become syncretic in degradation, it is like Indianisation that will see harmonious thriving mediocrity, numbed to all kinds of nonsense and exploited in the name of faith. It doesn’t pass the scrutiny of logic and enlightened understanding. Religion seems to be having a free run and severely degrading all that is valued in free world. Verma claims, after much mainstream chicanery of greatness, to be “inheritors of a refined and ancient civilisation”. This is the kind of garbage that is being fed for too long now, and many have made career by acquiescing to these in well-orchestrated debauched connection that very effortlessly reinforces camaraderie. Thankfully internet has given voice to people, and yes these vicious responses are only tip of ever increasing iceberg. The reason why political/social/media elite are viciously targeted.

Meanwhile Raghuram Rajan has come out with a gem “It is because money has no odour, because it is the great equaliser, that so many people across history have been able to acquire resources and invested them to make the world we live in…Rather than prohibiting the use of money and wealth, let us think about increasing society’s tolerance for its use.”. There was a study done on careers with high level of psychopathic behaviour. CEOs, lawyers and mediapersons were on the top of the list, that includes everyone of Indian socio-political elite spectrum, then there are people who exist in buffer zone like market driven NGOs, writers, sellers…with potential to be successful CEOs err psychopaths. When someone at IIT shifts towards IIM that is a clear indication of psychopathic intentions, Rajan like any well-meaning ignorant economist is beyond redemption. Now the question here is will capitalist torchbearer Rajan play his sickular liberal card effectively and enthuse the camaraderie that pseudo commies Kasthuri&Sons desperately crave. All eyes on golden lords of tirupathi, only gods can understand these murky devious world, or atleast the squatters for god sake and matrimony!!  

Brutal murders are extreme but persistent realities of the traditionally marginalised sections ie dalit (this reference can only be used in context to discrimination any other attempt should be quelled, as it is clever attempt by the elite to normalise and gain credibility tethered to their primitive realities, also an attempt to liken it with Blacks in US so as to equate these degradations and gain as patronisers and conscience keeper) but there are brutal discriminations all the way along. It’s a ruthless society that tries to cover itself in high sounding nonsenses of ‘culture’ that Vermaji spews, and now ‘unity in diversity’ crap. Meanwhile market has taken the baton from the realities of primitiveness and very viciously trying to fit it into modernity. The technology and talent subservient to selling and buying, the exploitation and exploitative mindset incentivised.

There was a video circulating in media of a youngster being tied to the window of train bogie, that could have quite easily got him killed, and brutally beaten. The reason being his father drank water from their bottle, and yes they knew each other. Obviously you don't become community by staying together, Kasthuri&Sons will vouch for that. Why would anyone have such brutal response to something as innocuous as sharing water? Media will not explain these and they need not we Indians know it, westerners may do sudharshan kriya for world peace and turn a blind eye on the primitive realities that defines this society in meditative silence.

The brutal realities of caste will not vanish away, water being elemental part of squatter ensconced puke purity that is taught as part inheritors of a “refined and ancient civilisation” (Vermaji). That the ‘demographic dividends’ had problem with sharing water with elderly man, and in turn nearly killed his son, shows deeper malaise in society.  And yes they could have thrashed or broken bones, that banal act would never be reported. It is this impunity (as also presence of camera) that exhibits the audacity of depravity so common place in this land of mahatamas and pundits. The one that is justified and celebrated by the mediocre Indian elite, and here the fellow goes moist over trolls. If someone asks how to caricaturise Indian elite, I would put them as a hybrid of Trump and Kim (North Korea). Everything about them can be found here, the despicable in modern, the high sounding nonsense in ordained reality, the hereditary mediocrity in money and scientific achievements (read nuclear/missiles) in buffoonery. The scenario that entitled create as they dispense patronage.