I have been following the Mukarram's shootout case and the following day of the incident, there was a huge hulla hu at the Ulsoor police station when his family members visited the station to narrate their version of the incident. The entire media industry thronged the station, hitting, pushing abusing, actually forgetting that where and why they were at that place.
If reporters were trying to get a new and "Exclusive" angle for heir story, the Photographers just exhausted their batteries by freezing every possible moment. Not just the family members, but even the policemen were not spared....for example as the ACP of Ulsoor division, GB Manjunath entered the station, he was treated like a star as the photographers clicked every step of his.(he was just left to wave and give throw kisses in the air) I am sure, he would have never ever dreamt of such a welcome.
Now it was the time for the moment, and as the family came out of the Inspector's cabin, the media persons thronged at them and as the story had already gained national attention, media men of Hindi, English and Kannada were present in a huge number. Nothing less than "BHOOKE SHER" all of them tried to get the family's bit, without realising as how sensitive the issue was for the family. Especially, after all the papers had taken the headlines screaming "Mukarram was shot after the military men heard him speak in Urdu."
The reporters again began fighting and trying to decide whether the family's would speak in Kannada, or Hindi or in English first. While they were fighting among themselves with questions like, tell us what happened, batayi apka kya baat hua hai police ke saath, nimma bedikegalu yenu, what s your next step, blah blah blah....
one of the family members who fumed at this cried, Kannada be nahi Hindi be nahi, Urdu me baat kar ba... Mukarram Urdu me bath kiya to mar dale na.. Humko be marne do...
This is unfortunately what the minority community feels in this nation which proudly flaunts of having the highest number of spoken languages...But who is to be blamed for this, is it the minority's thinking or the majority's created situation and suspicion on smaller than the smallest incident, or the media which tries to make a statement without feeling the emotions?
Will there be any solution?
About Me
- Rakshita
- A 26 year old average Indian girl: the girl next door types. I have nothing extraordinary to differentiate me in the crowd but my job profile does grab some attention. Been an average student till my 12th and wished to be a Vet Doctor because I love the four legged more than the two legged, but the rat race took my toll. Did BSc in Biotechnology and managed to wear those Doctor’s coat, but tasted failure for the first time when flunked in Chemistry. Failure made me realize the mystery of my destiny and sowed a dream of journalism. A pointless journey saw its first point in journey and the dream sprouted as a crime reporter. After topping College kept jumping companies till I became a crime reporter (the blossomed dream). Destiny was kind and in Indian Express Bangalore, my dream bloomed and became a crime reporter within eight months of work. Three years later my name is counted among the few good crime reporters of Bangalore, which was a dream sown five years back. But ugly side of success has placed me where failure had placed me once. In a dream job but in search of a new dream, I write to be heard and to be told. I sow a dream eagerly wait to know what I would reap.
