INDIAN MEDIA AND 'GOD MEN' !
Apparently both print and electronic media is maintaining a love and a hate relationship with 'god men'.Media ,especially T.V.channels provide prime time to spread ignorance through self proclaimed 'god men' and 'god women', who have the money to buy the prime time or get sponsored for it.Just switch on the TV set in India in the morning and the only thing you would find is 'god men',astrologers,spiritualists providing so called expertise on the world problems and individual concerns.All of them,having established that larger than life status,are omniscient and omnipotent with divya drishti [super natural perception] and offer solutions to their gullible and credulous followers for all possible problems.They provide code of conduct also on daily basis.
This relationship between media and 'god men' is detrimental to the overall progress of the country,supremacy of reason and for strengthening scientific temper.Today media is a powerful tool to build knowledge,spirit of inquiry and help young minds cultivate a habit of critical thinking which subjects metaphysical assumptions of inherited traditions to a scientific challenge .On the contrary,media is promoting superstitions,ignorance and obscurantism.Instead of implementing 'magical remedies and objectionable advertisement act' and other relevant legal remedies,today Indian state directly or indirectly has become instrument for spreading ignorance and blind faith.It is state which has authorized various 'god men' and their religious empires to start their own channels and media houses for spreading religious canard and trash.As the world is progressing,media has greater outreach and if misused,it will be detrimental to the meaningful and purposeful development of the Indian state in general and of the Indian society in particular.
Apparently both print and electronic media is maintaining a love and a hate relationship with 'god men'.Media ,especially T.V.channels provide prime time to spread ignorance through self proclaimed 'god men' and 'god women', who have the money to buy the prime time or get sponsored for it.Just switch on the TV set in India in the morning and the only thing you would find is 'god men',astrologers,spiritualists providing so called expertise on the world problems and individual concerns.All of them,having established that larger than life status,are omniscient and omnipotent with divya drishti [super natural perception] and offer solutions to their gullible and credulous followers for all possible problems.They provide code of conduct also on daily basis.
This relationship between media and 'god men' is detrimental to the overall progress of the country,supremacy of reason and for strengthening scientific temper.Today media is a powerful tool to build knowledge,spirit of inquiry and help young minds cultivate a habit of critical thinking which subjects metaphysical assumptions of inherited traditions to a scientific challenge .On the contrary,media is promoting superstitions,ignorance and obscurantism.Instead of implementing 'magical remedies and objectionable advertisement act' and other relevant legal remedies,today Indian state directly or indirectly has become instrument for spreading ignorance and blind faith.It is state which has authorized various 'god men' and their religious empires to start their own channels and media houses for spreading religious canard and trash.As the world is progressing,media has greater outreach and if misused,it will be detrimental to the meaningful and purposeful development of the Indian state in general and of the Indian society in particular.
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