By D N Singh (Big news -Short takes)
“Continued violence in Manipur shamefully undermines India’s (Bharat) claim of strides in development ahead of G-20 “ Meitei diaspora to PMO. Urging PM to visit Manipur and meet affected people, ‘personally engage with CM Biren Singh.
State made a mistake in banning internet. Local media coverage skewed in favour of Meiteis: Editors’ Guild. And it also argues that the BJP state government painted the violence as an ethnic clash, while holding briefs for the majority i.e Meiteis. Why?
Then somehow, the SC protects the Editors’ Guild journalists from arrest by the Manipur police. Manipur cops have already registered a case against the Editors’s Guild of India for allegedly promoting enmity between different groups. Thank God
Criminalising journalism again, Manipur police files FIR against Editors’ Guild, The Press Club of India & the Womens’ Press Corps condemned the FIR.
And there we have reached the Moon (CH-3) and doing something around the Sun. But that need not have been played as a saga of stride and a propaganda of sort as it was done.
Then the G-20 summit: In The Indian Express a view is read that, India need to be “more modest” about it and nobody knows what outcome it gets in the midst of “escalating hypes”.
After all it is a routine Summit. Yet “India has the lowest income per capita (USD 2,085), largest number of poor (230 million) and a rank of 107 (out of 123) in the Global Hunger Index — among the several reasons for why India needs to be modest” says the article in The Indian Express.
“When the unemployment rate is 8.5 percent and the unemployment rate among 15-24 years-old youth is 24 percent, how could all Indians have become richer? When the bottom 50 percent of the population earns only 13 percent of the nation’s income and owns only 3 percent of the nation’s wealth, how could all Indians be rich? opines P Chidambaram of the Congress and so did official egencies.
