>>> TV--INDIAN channels particularly -is total waste of time and a( mostly)
>>> mental health hazard.>>> We should ban these forever.
Hi Mahanta da,
I beg to differ , infact news analysis and talk shows on current
affairs-sports-business are quite good.
an example here -
http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/52566/nandigram-matter-of-concern-not-shame.html
these kind of programs were not there until Private channels were allowed in
90s.
We have come a long way from the 80s dull n boring Doordarshan( govt mouth
piece) programs.
Anchors like Pronoy Roy, Karan Thapar, Burkha Dutt ,Shekhar Gupta are among
the very best in the world.
Yes, true not all 50 plus channels have same standard but atleast viewers in
India now have the choice to watch from so many of them.
Whether they are fair and balanced (example this gauhati flare up) ...it's
upto the viewers to decide and clearly these channels should have given more
air time to majority of Gauhati/Assam residents who didn't support this
mindless violence and that lady who was stripped and chased .
note - Print media has now reported some
Mamoni Goswami speaks to the victim :
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071128/asp/frontpage/story_8601981.asp
Beltola residents Cry for arrests of voyeurs:
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071128/asp/guwahati/story_8601391.asp
Assam singer/artists :
Words of comfort for victims
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071128/asp/guwahati/story_8600336.asp
take care ,
RD
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: assam@assamnet.org> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007
> 08:09:36 +0530> Subject: Re: [Assam] CNN-IBN- NDTV news report on Assam -
> 27th Nov'2007> > > TV--INDIAN channels particularly -is total waste of time
> and a( mostly) mental health hazard.> We should ban these forever.> mm> >
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: assam@assamnet.org> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007
> 10:17:32 -0500> Subject: [Assam] CNN-IBN- NDTV news report on Assam - 27th
> Nov'2007> > > NDTV video news report on todays Assam bandh->
> http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/videopod/default.aspx?id=19977> > also
> read this , Assam govt gags TV channels for showing torture--> >
> http://www.ibnlive.com/news/assam-gags-tv-channels-for-showing-tribal-torture/53130-3.html>
> > > great to have web TV access these days for folks like us living far away
> from home !> > > > > > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:21:34 -0800From: [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Assam] Mob strips woman protester in
> Guwahati - Times of India> Shame on Beltola residents who let it go to this
> extent!> > Read the report from the Telegraph and see for yourself who have
> taken over the streets of Guwahati, in this case the street vendors. Does
> that hold true for all of Guwahati? I hope that is not the case in Uzanbazar
> where I grew up.> I suspect this is how the sequence/chronology went:> The
> front line of the processionists got violent, damaged property all along and
> ran.> The business owners and their employees started revenge on the next
> batch of processionists that consisted of the non-violent weaker members
> including this woman.> The local residents and reinforcement of security
> forces got into action and controlled the street mob to bring an end to the
> fury.> > Unfortunately I felt many years ago this is how Guwahati will turn
> out to be due to uncontrolled growth. What can I say?> Dilip Deka>
> ===================================================> > > > > > FROM THE
> TELEGRAPH> Shame on Guwahati streets> > A STAFF REPORTER> > > > > > >
> Guwahati, Nov. 26: A young Adivasi woman ran down a Guwahati street naked,
> stripped by ethnic rioters, while leering city youths clicked away with their
> cellphone cameras.> As television today brought to Assam homes one more scene
> of Saturday’s street horror — when hundreds of tribals were attacked over a
> 3.5km stretch of the city — police arrested the woman’s three tormentors.>
> “The three had pounced on her like a pack of dogs and started stripping her.
> All her pleas fell on deaf ears till they had stripped her naked. Only then
> did they let her go,” said a police officer quoting eyewitnesses to the mob
> retaliation to a violent Adivasi students’ march.> The woman sprinted away
> from a large group of jeering men and ran on in panic till somebody threw her
> a piece of clothing.> The sight left homemaker Ananya Baruah dumbfounded on
> her second-floor balcony at Beltola, the epicentre from where the rioting
> spilled over several localities.> “She was running like mad. Some people were
> clicking pictures with their cellphones. It was one of the worst crimes any
> civilised society could have committed. I felt so helpless just watching. The
> girl disappeared into one of the by-lanes.”> The victim was probably a
> participant in the armed Adivasi procession in demand of Scheduled Tribe
> status that had turned violent and damaged private and public property,
> including cars.> As the police began dispersing the tribals, angry local mobs
> chased down the stragglers among them. Adivasi men, women and children were
> dragged across streets and mercilessly beaten up with the police refusing to
> intervene. The violence left some 300 injured and a 12-year-old boy dead. >
> The ethnic conflict claimed a second life this morning. Santosh Kumar, 17,
> was dragged out of a vehicle on a highway for “defying” an Adivasi-enforced
> bandh that was yet to begin, and hacked to death.> Chief minister Tarun Gogoi
> announced the arrests of the trio who had stripped the woman and offered the
> victim Rs 1 lakh in compensation. Prasenjit Chakravarty, Sandip Chakdar and
> Ratul Barman were nabbed on the basis of video footage and eyewitness
> accounts.> Ratul, a waiter at Mahalaxmi Hotel in Beltola, is barely 18. The
> main accused is Prasenjit, 28, owner of Dainty Fast Food restaurant in the
> same locality. Sandip, 20, owns a paan shop near the hotel where Ratul
> works.> The charges against them range from outraging a woman’s modesty to
> attempt to murder. > Gogoi announced a judicial probe into the violence by
> the All Adivasi Students’ Association of Assam as well as the mob backlash.
> The state government has announced a compensation of Rs 3 lakh for the
> families of the dead.Ram Dhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > infact it did
> happen ..Please note - you may find this video content very very
> disturbing.Really shocked to see this happening in our Gauhati. CNN-IBN
> video-
> http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/53043/guwahati-residents-strip-beat-up-women-protestors.html>
> > > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:10:55 -0600From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]: [Assam] Mob strips woman protester in Guwahati - Times of India>
> This news, IF TRUE, is a darn shame, and if it is NOT, then we should all
> join hand in vehemently protesting to the TOI, and demand that the publish
> clarifications prominently and apologize to Assam & her people. > > > >
> --Ram> > > > Mob strips woman protester in Guwahati27 Nov 2007, 0001 hrs IST
> ,TNNSMS NEWS to 58888 for latest updates > > > > > > GUWAHATI: Like in most
> bandhs and protests, poor adivasi workers from the once lush tea gardens of
> Assam did dent business and damage some property as they marched through
> Guwahati to demand inclusion in the Scheduled Tribes list which will help
> them get easier access to education and jobs. But it was one adivasi woman
> who bore the brunt of the anger of local residents. She was attacked, her
> clothes were ripped off and a mob chased the naked woman along the streets.
> Ducking from prying eyes and TV cameras and terrified by screams of a mob
> chasing her, the woman ran until some other residents rescued her on Saturday
> and gave her clothes and cover both from the lathi-wielding police and the
> assailants. Two days later, after the protests spiralled as news of the
> attack on the woman got out, Assam's CM Tarun Gogoi said he was enraged by
> the crowd behaviour and police said three of the assailants had been
> arrested. He announced a Rs 1 lakh compensation for the woman, whose identity
> was not disclosed. "I am horrified by the incident. I cannot believe how
> people can be so inhuman and barbaric. Everybody seems to have lost their
> sense," said Gogoi on Monday. The CM also announced a judicial inquiry into
> Saturday's violence. Police said three men were picked up from their houses
> early Monday. They were identified as Prasenjit Chakravorty (28), owner of a
> fast food joint, Ratul Barman (18), a hotel waiter, and Sudip Chakdar (20), a
> pan shop owner. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief Sibu Soren, who has pitched in
> for Assam's adivasi migrants, said the incident demonstrated the racial
> hatred for tribals. "I have also led many agitations, but never had we
> targeted women. Adivasis across the country are always looked down upon and
> do not get the respect they deserve from people and the government as a
> whole," Soren said on Monday after visiting injured protesters. Former
> Jharkhand CM Babulal Marandi also waded in as the bandh took a tribal vs
> non-tribal hue. He flew into Guwahati Monday afternoon and went straight for
> a press conference with the main opposition party Assam Gana Parishad (AGP).
> "This is a conspiracy hatched by Congress government," he charged. Although
> Guwahati remained largely peaceful in the last phase of the 36-hour protest
> that began on Saturday, the stripping incident gave it a new impetus in many
> areas where the sponsors, the All Adivasi Students' Association of Assam, had
> clout. Sporadic violence was reported and bandh supporters attacked one
> vehicle at Karigaon in Kokrajhar district, killing one person and injuring
> two others. So far, at least six people have been killed in clashes between
> adivasi activists and local people. About 250 people have been injured in
> police action or clashes. > > Share life as it happens with the new Windows
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