Orphic Exposure

"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, certainly, without freedom, it will never be anything but bad." -Albert Camus Truth. Once, it was a reason Indian media existed. The reason why ink flowed onto paper, the reason voices echoed the air. Truth was sacred. It was dangerous. It was what turned revolutions into history. And now? Now, truth is whatever they say it is. I recently watched “The Sabarmati Report” and it led me to ponder onto the status of Indian media in this free country. Nevertheless, I think I have witnessed the transformation of Indian media through this film —not gradual, not subtle, but ruthless. I feel like this was not a decline; it was an erosion, a slow and silent replacement of substance with spectacle, of facts with fabrication. I gave seen what happens when the watchdog of democracy is trained not to bark, but to obey. If not one can always remember Joseph Goebbels , the Minister of Propaganda, and the person responsible for widespread o...

Central Reserved Police Force Do you know what it means to be forgotten? To fight, to bleed, to sacrifice everything —yet to be treated as if you are invisible? I may not know it but a fellow CRPF jawan surely does, they live it every single day. You see, when people think of valour, of sacrifice, of men standing tall against enemies, they think of the Army. They think of the BSF, patrolling the borders, watching the enemy eye to eye. They call them heroes. Shower them with medals, respect, and recognition. But I want to ask, what of the CRPF? The ones who fight within the country, in the jungles, in the streets, in the shadows, where no one cares to look? You know, sometimes I wonder—do people even know who they are? I don’t think so. To tell a long story short, it is the force that is called in a crisis and forgotten the moment it’s over. The force that has suffered more, bled more, and yet remains in the shadows. I was near Lok Kalyan Marg last month (Its where the Prime Ministe...

                               Raj Shamani right now.. I gained some time today, by doing all the necessary routine that I am obliged to; be it attending my coaching classes, courses, or doing my language lessons, researching here and there (and the remaining fodder that everyone adds up while summarizing their day). So, I sat idle for a while, ruminating, listening to Lata didi actually, then I thought of journaling but I could not (HELP, I HAVE RUN OUT OF PROMPTS NOW!). So, naturally, I opened my laptop and scrolled through my footnotes, when I developed the desire to write into a matter that has recently ignited fervent discussions across our nation—the controversy surrounding the YouTube show ”India’s Got Latent” (an idea similar to the show “Kill Tony”) and some guy who calls himself as “BeerBiceps”, who owns a podcast too, called “The Ranveer Show.” First of all, it’s so fantastic that a YouTube show...