>>And I repeat: Subtlety, thy name is not desi! http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/12/27/world/asia/20071227_BHUTTO_FEATURE.html#section1
>>Have we NOT been aware of these kind of activities going on for decades? Didn't we know that rhinos are shot down with shotgun >>pellets and left to die in horrible agony. Didn't we know that they are trapped in pits with bamboo spikes lining the pits to impale >>these animals and let them die in horrible pain? Did we need this picture to finally awaken us to animal cruelty. >>Or did we need the body of the FCI official Ram lying in a pool of blood across the newspapers to tell us about the tragedy ? >>Or images of freshly killed 'suspected insurgents', strung up on bamboo poles taken away by the police in UNIFORM? >>If it did, then something is terribly wrong with our own sensitivities, isn't it? >>The truth is that our sensitivities have long been buried, if they were there at all. >>A civilization is not marked by its ability to disperse shock value. >>It is marked by its ability to get the message across and stay with >>it, without the blood and gore, without trampling on the >>sensitivities of the victims' kin or their admirers. >>And I repeat: Subtlety, thy name is not desi! At 9:37 PM +0530 1/21/08, Manoj Das wrote: >but for these journalists we would never have seen such a horrific >picture and symbol of mens' greed. journalists should show what we >are. i dare to differ. > >-manoj > >On 1/21/08, Dilip/Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com> wrote: >> You are absolutely correct. Sensitivity is lacking when the newspapers >> publish not only the picture of a suffering animal but also pictures of dead >> people lying on the street killed by the police or the militants. Several >> months ago, I was shocked by photographs of the FCI official's dead body >> lying in a pool of blood, and had a nightmare. >> Is it shock therapy and does it work? >> Dilip >> >> Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote: >> > >But in this >> >case, maybe, just maybe, it will wake up the Govt, and others who seem >> >hell-bent to capture the limelight at the first opportunity. >> >> >> *** Limelight is absolutely a misnomer. It demonstrates an utter lack >> of sensitivity to blood and gore, a cultural void, which is not >> unexpected from the most violent society on earth: India. >> >> I am glad it was a front page story. However it could have been dealt >> with a bit of maturity that could be expected from civilized society. >> >> Perhaps my expectation is misplaced. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> At 8:02 AM -0600 1/21/08, Ram Sarangapani wrote: >> >C'da, >> > >> >In India this journalistic discretion is absolutely different. >> >Maybe Indian news media is going thru a phase, and such standards be >> damned. >> > >> >Some examples: >> >The Beltola incident - many newspapers & TV were not ashamed to show a >> naked >> >woman running around. >> > >> >In the tiger attack in the Guwahati Zoo, last month, it seems a number of >> TV >> >channels showed live footage. There was only one newspaper (The Hindu) >> which >> >said 'after a discussion with the editors', it was decided to publish only >> a >> >black & white photo, not color'. >> > >> >And now this gory & sickening photo of the unfortunate rhino. But in this >> >case, maybe, just maybe, it will wake up the Govt, and others who seem >> >hell-bent to capture the limelight at the first opportunity. >> > >> >--Ram >> > >> > >> >On 1/21/08, Chan Mahanta wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> I have never seen a newspaper with a modicum of journalistic >> >> discretion publish something like this horrific picture on their >> >> front page. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >Oh my Country!!! >> >> >> >> *** Indeed! >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> At 6:02 PM +0530 1/21/08, mc mahant wrote: >> >> >Manoj, >> >> >When I opened the Tribune in the morning- I thought-the beast/s who >> >> >did that needed to be castrated. Later on --more rational thoughts >> >> >came. To teach every citizen/human how vivisection needs to be >> >> >practised onto ones near and dear ones first. >> >> >And more thoughts ---- > > >> >I never opened the paper again . >> >> >Oh my Country!!! >> >> >Oh for the Indian Rupee! >> >> >M'da> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:58:22 +0530> From: >> >> >dasmk2k at gmail.com> To: assam at assamnet.org> Subject: [Assam] symbol >> >> >of cruelty> > http://www.assamtribune.com/jan2108/Photo.html> > >> >> >heart cries out to this wounded rhino at kaziranga national park.> > >> >> >-manoj> _______________________________________________> assam >> >> >mailing list> assam at assamnet.org> >> >> >http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org >> >> >_________________________________________________________________ >> >> >Tried the new MSN Messenger? It's cool! 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