This is Vishnu Som, over Madhepura!
There are floods in Bihar again this year.. media have a lot to fill in the space they otherwise have for crime, religion or tv serials..
and ofcourse.. the reporters have brilliant piece to cameras as well… like Mr Vishnu Som of NDTV himself, one of the many reporters whom the government thought it essential to provide helicopters with to cover the tragedy..or rather to cover how well the government is functioning in distributing the relief.. after the tragedy…
so after exposing the helpless vcitims, not caring much about their dignity, who desperately want to catch those food packets etc, vishnu som goes.. ‘this is vishnu som from ndtv, over (stress on ‘over’ btw, ought to be noticed) the Madhepura region.. award winning indeed! .. perhaps he and many like him deserve a satnding ovation or something like that..?
The reason for floods in Bihar every year is the same, the embankments and the breaches in them.. while the government can think of nothing else but invest on further embanking the rivers there.. and then ofcourse.. they have Nepal to blame when the need be.. easy, isn’t it..
or form committees.. to study the progress made by several previous committees..
i wonder if any concerned authority have thought of speaking to the people who have been living there and long time back waited for these flood.. seems they have not.. coz they would prefer listening to the so called experts who have absolutely nothing to do with the life as is lived in these areas..
arshad rasool said,
October 15, 2008 at 8:27 am
but isn’t tis something news reporters are supposed to do? it’s part of their job.. and it’s part of life …
Looking at the larger picture of life, and all the bad things around us, this is nothing. May be you disagree. So you should.
arshad rasool said,
October 15, 2008 at 8:27 am
But, isn’t this something news reporters are supposed to do? it’s part of their job.. and it’s part of life …
Looking at the larger picture of life, and all the bad things around us, this is nothing. May be you disagree. So you should.
ant said,
October 15, 2008 at 11:09 am
Just in case you didn’t know, vishnu and his fellow reporters were posted in purnia for a week, and another week after that, to cover the entire evacuation, and post flood relief. if u noticed the entire series, you would have realised them concluding not enough was being done, from either sides, govt or NGO. be in bihar to know whats wrong. no point blaming ‘media’, thanks to the coverage at least some relief was possible, else it wud all go down the drain like every other year.