Saturday, December 19, 2009
रणेन्द्र का उपन्यास- ग्लोबल गांव के देवता
विष्णु राजगढ़िया
भारतीय ज्ञानपीठ ने इसी महीने रणेंद्र का उपन्यास प्रकाशित किया है- ग्लोबल गांव के देवता। सिंगूर, लालगढ़, सलवा जुड़ुम और आपरेशन ग्रीन हंट के इस दौर में यह उपन्यास आधुनिक भारत में जनजातियों के लिए उत्पन्न अस्तित्व-मात्र के संकट के साथ ही जनप्रतिरोध की विविध धाराओं के उदय एवं उनकी जटिलताओं की सांकेतिक रूपों में महत्वपूर्ण प्रस्तुति करता है। ग्लोबल देवताओं को खनिज की भूख है और उनकी भूख मिटाने के लिए जनजातियों को जमीन से बेदखल करना जरूरी है। भारत सरकार को भी जनजातियों से ज्यादा जरूरी भेड़िये को बचाना है। आदिवासियों के विस्थापन और इसके खिलाफ शांतिपूर्ण विरोध से लेकर हिंसक प्रतिरोध तक की स्थितियों को सामने लाने के लिए रणेन्द्र ने असुर जनजाति को केंद्र में रखा है। आग और धातु की खोज करने वाली] धातु को पिघलाकर उसे आकार देने वाली कारीगर असुर जाति को मानव सभ्यता के विकासक्रम में हाशिये पर धकेल दिये जाने और अब अंततः पूरी तरह विस्थापित करके अस्तित्व ही मिटा डालने की साजिश इस उपन्यास में सामने आती है।
इस उपन्यास के लिए भाई रणेन्द्र को बधाई। आप भी उन्हें 094313-91171 नंबर पर बधाई दे सकते हैं।
Thursday, November 19, 2009
http://www.petitiononline.com/rtibihar/petition.html
Monday, November 16, 2009
Please sign two Online Petition to Save RTI
- Petition for Transparent Selection of CIC
- Petiotion against Amendment in RTI Act
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
A milestone : Nandini Sahai in Seminar on RTI
on dias- Mr. AA Khan, VC, Ranchi University, Mr. T. Nandkumar, Senior IAS, Mr. Raghuvar Das, Minister for Finance and Urban Development, Mr. Mukhtiyar Singh, Senior IAS
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The Seminar was organised by Vishnu Rajgadia, on behalf of Prabhat Khabar
Nandini Sahai joined as the Director & Chief Executive of The International Centre, Goa (ICG) last week. She is the fourth, as well as the first woman Director of the International Centre, Goa. Her vision is to make ICG into a completely holistic place of international standards, where ideational as well as other activities take place in a world class ambience.
Nandini Sahai has been a distinguished development journalist with more than 30 years of experience having started her career with the Press Institute of India. For her, journalism was not a profession but a passion and a powerful tool for social development.
She founded MICCI (Media Information and Communication Centre of India) with the support of some like-minded academicians, bureaucrats, media and communication experts, and was also the Country Manager of AMIC-India, a subsidiary of AMIC (Asian Media and Information Centre), a Singapore-based International NGO working in media related issues.
She is one of the leading Right to Information (RTI) advocates having organized a number of public hearings, seminars and workshops for the RTI movement in India & Sri Lanka and has also worked closely with Magsaysay Award winner Aruna Roy. She was also the member of the Select Committee in formulating the RTI Act for the Delhi Government. Her two advocacy workshops, one on 'Contempt of Court' where Truth was made as defence and another on the 'Broadcasting Bill' where the Government stalled the Bill and formed the NBA (National Broadcasting Association) to formulate the Content Code, have been path breaking.
She has also worked closely on a number of issues relating to Media, Social Development, Disaster Management, Rural Journalism and the Judiciary, with international organisations such as UNESCO, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) - India, (AIBD) (Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development, Malaysia), the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) on issues of Torture and Human Rights. She has organised several seminars with senior media persons from India and South Asia on issues of media and public interest in South Asia. She is widely travelled and has also addressed a seminar in Stanford University, USA, on the benefits of Community Radio.
Her family consists of her two children who are working in Delhi. In her free time she likes to read and listen to music.
Thanks and regards,
Arjun Halarnkar
Programme Manager
The International Centre, Goa
Goa University Road, Dona Paula, Goa 403004
INDIA Tel: +91 832 2452805-10 Fax: +91 832 2452812 Cell: +91 9765404391
www.goadialogues.com
Monday, October 5, 2009
You are cordially invited to attend Regional Seminar on
Converting Electoral Democracy into Participatory Democracy: Role of RTI
Organised by
Media Information and Communication Centre of India (MICCI), Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES),
and Jharkhand RTI Forum
10-12 October 2009, at 9.30 am, Hotel Chinar, Main Road, Ranchi
50 Citizens of Jharkhand will also be Honoured with RTI Citizen Award during the Seminar
RSVP
Dr. Vishnu Rajgadia, State Chapter Head, MICCI
Balram, Presidnt, Jharkhand RTI Forum
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
http://www.citizen-news.org/
A growing outrage is palpable from the civil society against the abuse of media's credibility to arrest Chhatradhar Mahto, the leader of Lalgarh movement in West Bengal, India.The West Bengal police and authorities disguised as a fake media representative and with the assistance of a local media personnel, managed to reach Chhatradhar Mahto. Mahto was arrested then.
Dr Vishnu Rajgadia, Secretary of Jharkhand RTI Forum and a noted social activist, took the initiative with support from National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) leaders to begin a signature petition campaign demanding the Prime Minister of India to intervene and stop this trend which is jeopardising the credibility of media in India. Citizens have mobilized individuals to sign a petition against the misuse of media's credibility in West Bengal to arrest Mahto.
The signature petition got hundreds of signatures from citizens in a short span of time (signature petition is online here). Prominent among those include the Magsaysay Awardee (2002) Dr Sandeep Pandey, noted Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activist and adviser to Supreme Court Commissioner on Right to Food Arundhati Dhuru, filmmaker Anand Patwardhan,
"The West Bangal police has misused the credibility of media to arrest a leader of Lalgarh movement, Chhatradhar Mahto on 26 September 2009. This is very objectionable as it is a misuse of the credibility and good name of the media. This is also an encroachment in the autonomy of Media" says Dr Vishnu Rajgadia.
"This will create various problems for the journalists including the threat of their life during reporting in any so-called disturbed area. Therefore, we request you all to consider signing the online petition to protest the misuse by West Bengal police and to support a law to prevent such possibilities" further adds Dr Rajgadia, who began the petition on behalf of several human rights organizations.
It poses serious questions on the way police is functioning in a democratic country. Draconian laws like the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and other such Acts which are rule of the law in other states like Chhattisgarh, have only caused seemingly irreparable damage to social democratic fabric. When media used disguise to conduct sting operations, the authorities took them to task and hardly any concrete action has come out of the evidence collected thereby in public interest. However authorities shamelessly have used the disguise of media and put media's credibility at risk in West Bengal.
"In a democratic country like India, each and every institution has its own duties as well as each of them have been provided certain space, authority and liberty to execute their responsibility. No institution has any right to encroach the autonomy of other institution" says the petition.
"The media persons are visiting in various remote areas including "Disturbed" fields and they also have to meet with various people including any accused person to collect news and to expose various socio-political-economic conflicts of the society. The media has a credit to keep its sources secret and to not harm somebody during their news gathering process" further states the petition.
"Therefore, the act of West Bengal Government through its CID and Police is totally unethical and unjust. It has created a big threat to the media persons especially for them who are visiting to various remote areas of so-called insurgency. Now, every body will suspect the identity of even the genuine media persons putting them at grave risk" says the petition.
The petition also demands a law in place to prevent any such abuse of media in future. Hope effective measures to safeguard media from any such misuse in future get in place as soon as possible.
[To sign the petition, click here or go to: http://www.petitiononline.com/wbmisuse/petition.html
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Misuse of Media's Credibility by Bengal Police
The West Bangal police has miused the credibility of media to arrest a leader of Lalgarh movement, Chhatradhar Mahto on 26-09-2009. This is very objectionable as it is a misuse of the credibility and good name of the media. This is also an encroachment in the autonomy of Media. This will create various problems for the journalists including the threat of their life during reporting in any so-called disturbed area.
Therefore, we request you all to consider signing the online petition to protest the misuse by West Bengal police and to support a law to prevent such possibilities.
To sign-the-signature petition campaign, please click here -
http://www.petitiononline.com/wbmisuse/petition.html
Sincerely,
Dr. Vishnu Rajgadia (Secretary)
Balram (President)
Jharkhand RTI Forum
Full story in HINDI
Full Story in English
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Trust in news media has reached a new low, with record numbers of Americans saying reporting is inaccurate, biased and shaped by special interests. In this survey, 1,506 people were interviewed in July by the Pew Research Center.
On crucial measures of credibility, faith in news media eroded from the 1980s to the ’90s, then held fairly steady for several years, according to Pew surveys that have asked some of the same questions for more than two decades. But in the two years since the last survey, those views became markedly more negative.
In this year’s survey, 63 percent of respondents said news articles were often inaccurate and only 29 percent said the media generally “get the facts straight” — the worst marks Pew has recorded — compared with 53 percent and 39 percent in 2007.
Seventy-four percent said news organizations favored one side or another in reporting on political and social issues, and the same percentage said the media were often influenced by powerful interests. Those, too, are the worst marks recorded in Pew surveys.
Negative opinions grew since 2007 among both major parties, but significantly more so among Democrats. The percentage of Democrats calling the media inaccurate rose to 59, from 43; the percentage who said the media took sides rose to 67, from 54. Read More
Sunday, September 13, 2009
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लेकिन जब हम अधूरे सच या झूठ बोलनेवालों की शक्ति का असर ज्यादा होता हुआ पाते हैं तो माथा ठनकता है कि ऐसा क्यों हो रहा है.
पता चलता है कि सच बोलने से ही काम नहीं चलेगा.
अगर हम चाहते हैं कि सच को ज्यादा लोग सच समझें भी और सच को समझकर उसके अनुसार आचरण भी करें, तो सच के व्यापक प्रचार के साधनों का इस्तेमाल भी करना पड़ेगा.......
(लेकिन) पता चलता है कि प्रचार के साधन उनके पास ज्यादा हैं, जिन्हें आधे सच का प्रचार करना है....
--रघुवीर सहाय
......वह सत्य क्या है? इस सत्य का कोई मकसद- उसकी कोई दिशा होती है या नहीं? उसका समाज के विकास में और इस विकास के रथ को आगे बढ़ानेवाली सामाजिक शक्तियों के उत्थान में कोई योगदान है या नहीं?
सत्य के दायरे में सामाजिक आलोचना की कोई जगह है या नहीं? और अगर इसके लिए जगह है तो आदमी को विचारवान बनाने में उसकी कोई भूमिका होगी या नहीं???
--महेश्वर
स्मिता और डिसूजा के सच की दुनिया
विष्णु राजगढ़िया
कोई खुद अपना सच सार्वजनिक करना चाहता है। इसमें दूसरों को कोई आपत्ति नहीं। फिलहाल तो अपन ऑल्विन डिसूजा और स्मिता मथाई के लिए चिंतित हैं कि सच का सामना के बाद उनकी दुनिया क्या होगी।
पहले एपिसोड में स्मिता मथाई ने सच का सामना किया। यह मध्यवर्गीय शिक्षिका को अपना घर चलाने के लिए डिब्बाबंद भोजन की भी आपूर्ति करनी पड़ती है। पति शराबी जो ठहरा। एपिसोड में पति महोदय के सामने स्मिता मथाई मानती है कि सिर्फ बच्चों के कारण वह पति के साथ है। यहां तक कि वह अपने पति की हत्या करने और उसे धोखा देने तक की सोचती है।
अगला सवाल था- अगर आपके पति को पता नहीं चले तो क्या आप किसी गैर-मर्द के साथ हमबिस्तर होंगी? स्मिता मथाई का जवाब था- नहीं। लेकिन पोलिग्राफ मशीन कहती है कि स्मिता मथाई झूठ बोल रही है। इस वक्त तक पांच लाख रुपये कमा चुकी स्मिता मथाई को खाली हाथ लौटना पड़ा।
पांचवें एपिसोड में ऑल्विन डिसूजा ने अपने सारे पाप कबूल लिये। अपनी मां, बहन, सास और पत्नी के सामने। चोरी-छिपे लेडिज टॉयलेट में घुसने और काम के बहाने दोस्तों के साथ मौज-मस्ती करने की बात उसने गर्व के साथ स्वीकारी। उसने माना कि अगर बीबी को पता नहीं चले तो वह किसी अन्य लड़की के साथ शारीरिक संबंध बना सकता है, लेकिन अगर बीबी धोखा देगी तो बर्दाश्त नहीं। वह पत्नी के साथ अंतरंग पलों में दूसरी के सपने भी देखता है। वह जोरू का गुलाम है। वह सोचता है कि उसकी बीबी कोई और होती।
सामने बैठी पत्नी उर्वशी ने हर सच के 'सच होने पर खुशी से तालियां बजायीं। ऑल्विन डिसूजा ने सारा सच मुसकुराते हुए स्वीकारा। लेकिन उसने यह नहीं माना कि क्रूज शिप में नौकरी के दौरान यात्री के सामान चुराये। पोलिग्राफ मशीन ने इसे डिसूजा का झूठ माना। उस वक्त तक जीते हुए दस लाख गंवाकर वह खाली हाथ लौटा।
स्मिता ने पति और ऑल्विन ने पत्नी के सामने ऐसी बातें मानीं जो शेष जीवन में जहर घोल सकती हैं। लेकिन प्रतियोगी और परिजन, सब सहज प्रसन्न्ता के साथ तालियां बजा रहे थे। दरअसल उन्हें एक करोड़ रुपये दिख रहे थे। सच कबूलने के इतने पैसे मिलें तो सब पाप माफ। लेकिन खाली हाथ लौटे प्रतियोगी के पाप को कौन अपनायेगा? स्मिता ने तो मान लिया कि वह ग्राहकों को बासी खाना परोसती है। कौन लेगा उससे टिफिन? कार्यस्थल पर यात्री का सामान चुराने वाले के लिए भला किस कंपनी में जगह? चोरी का कोई पुराना केस भी खुल जाये तो क्या कहना!
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They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
-James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982
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