The uninformed informer

The fantastic ability of our Mainstream Media to elevate incongruent events into the public narrative is almost hypnotic to those who bow to the hashtag as the harbinger of righteousness. There is an event, there is news and then there is the hashtag opinion which you can subscribe to and finally there is your own opinion - which could arise from a number of factors like education, learning, emotion, understanding or even stupidity. The Event It is actually what happened. It usually has two persons or groups and if there was a stray animal nearby it's incidental species determines it's role in the event. To actually know what happened in the event either you have to be a part of the event as one of the parties, or an eyewitness at the site or make the effort to travel to the location and meet everyone concerned. Now usually this is nowhere near your neighbourhood, nor your city nor a state you have probably ever visited before. And you are not likely to take the trouble to g

Congratulations Major Leetul Gogoi. I wish i knew you and could shake your hands or maybe have a drink together. You hit them where it hurt the most without firing a single bullet or blow. You upheld democracy, saving the lives of polling officials, the J&K police and the ITBP who sent an SOS call to survive imminent manslaughter from a mob of 900 stone pelters. Their own forces could have come in numbers and helped with a violent dispersal of the mob using rubber bullets, or pellets or tear-gas or anything else at their disposal to ensure the safety of their fellow policemen. But then again, why would their employers even care about 9 policemen and do anything to jeopardise their benefits from the riches of the 7th pay commission. And so the Army was called in and you and your team had the enviable honour of responding to the situation. Of course the OG had every right to tell the Khakis to sort it out themselves and could have stood back and watched like the Khakis usuall