I was not knowing the name of Major Manish Pitambare until I read that mail. It made me think.
The body of Major Manish Pitambare, who was shot dead at Anantnag, was cremated with full military honors at Thane on Wednesday. This was the news on BBC that day. Manish Pitambare fought for us and he laid his life for our country, and instead of publishing this news our news channels were busy in something else.
Those so called "Sabse Tez" and "24x7" channels were paying there salutes to Sanjay Dutt by trying their best to prove his innocence. And to support their mission "No Bhai Sirf Munna", they were interviewing the great Salman Khan. Now the whole world knows what kind of person Salman is. To add to this, Amitabh Bachhan was remembering the relationships between Bachhan and Dutt family. And was proud enough to say that Sanjay is a good kid. He is like a elder brother to Abhishek. By the same time, Sanjay Dutt was ruling all news chammels. His love towards his daughter, his prayers in temples were shown in such a way as if he is the only person who cares for family, who looks after the children, who offers prayer, puja.
The worst thing is, there was not a single Indian news channel who was interested in Major's news. He killed Hijbul Mujahiddin's most wanted terrorist Sohel Faisal. Leading the operation he lost his life and other four were injured. We see it everyday. Celebrities, politician are always there in headlines. They even show some crap incident of someone trapped in main-hole and how he is been helped to come out of it. Our parliament discusses Greg Chappel's comments , Shahrukh Khan's KBC. When there are some riots, they even don't think of the consequences of the news which they are spreading.
One thing is clear, media is no more a formidable, unbiased pillar of democracy. Like everything else it is also sold .
I am proud of you Shahid Major Manish Pitambare.
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