Media watch: People become sensitive on Media "atrocities"

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ನಿರಂಜನ ವಾನಳ್ಳಿ ಯವರ ಬರಹ, ಕೃಪೆ : ಉದಯವಾಣಿ

Those living in glass houses... pic: http://www.sanjevani.com/

ಮಲ್ಪೆಯ ಯುವ ನೇತಾರ ಪ್ರಮೋದ್ ಮಧ್ವರಾಜರ ಅಣ್ಣನ ಹೆಂಡತಿ ಮೋನಿಕ ಹಾಗೂ ಅವರ ಮಗು jahaz ಅಪಾರ್ಟ್ಮೆಂಟ್ ನಿಂದ ಹಾರಿ (ಯಾ ದೂಡಿ) ದ ಪ್ರಕರಣ ಏಕೆ ಸಿ ಬಿ ಐ enquiry ಮಾಡಿಸಲಿಲ್ಲ? ಮಲ್ಪೆಯ ಯುವ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ಸ್ ನಾಯಕರು ಇತರರ ಮನೆಯ ದೋಸೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತೂತು ಹುಡುಕುವ ಮೊದಲು ತಮ್ಮ ಮನೆಯ ಕಾವಲಿಯ ತೂತು ನೋಡಲಿ... ಚುನಾವಣೆಯ ಹೀನಾಯ ಸೋಲಿನ ನಂತರವೂ ನೀಚ ಮಟ್ಟದ ರಾಜಕೀಯ ಏಕೆ?

(news source: Udayavani)

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Details of a forgotten episode:

Manorama’s daughter-in-law, grandson jump to death
Mangalore, September 3: Monica Raj (30), daughter-in-law of former Karnataka Minister Manorama Madhwaraj, and her nine-year-old son Jahaz allegedly committed suicide here on Sunday.Police said Monica and her son jumped from the eighth floor of their apartment in Attavar locality under Pandeshwar police station limits. While Monica died on the spot her son died in hospital. The reason for the alleged suicide is not known.Monica was the wife of Prasad Madhwaraj, businessman and son of Manorama Madhwaraj, presently chairperson of the Karnataka Tourism Development Corporation

(SOURCE: http://www.konkandaiz.com/LN_0409manorama.html)

ಸಾವಿನಲ್ಲೂ ರಾಜಕೀಯ ಮಾಡುವ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ಸ್...Political mileage out of personal tragedy? Updated24.06.2008

ಮಲ್ಪೆಯ ಯುವ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ಸ್ ನಾಯಕರು ಇತರರ ಮನೆಯ ದೋಸೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತೂತು ಹುಡುಕುವ ಮೊದಲು ತಮ್ಮ ಮನೆಯ ಕಾವಲಿಯ ತೂತು ನೋಡಲಿ ...ಮುಂದೆ ಓದಿ ...

(ಸುದ್ದಿ:ಉದಯವಾಣಿ)

(cartoons courtesy: Harini/ http://www.daijworld.com/)

Oscar/ Poojari/ Pramod...all are in the race to take political mileage out of a personal tragedy...(when they have other things like price rise, LPG shortage, terrorism, chinese invasion in Sikkim to worry about)

God save our country from such leaders...

(one of them says...one who can not keep his house in order...what can he do for constituency...they have conviniently forgotten that, when their government was ruling they could not protect their own leaders- Indira Gandhi/ Rajiv Gandhi!)

read more in...

http://www.gulfkannadiga.com/news-9608.html

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More bloggers/ readers have written about politicization of a personal tragedy...read on...

http://avirules.blogspot.com/2008/06/politics-encroaching-personal-life-in.html

2008/06/24
Politics encroaching personal life in Udupi
ಇ೦ದು ಮು೦ಜಾನೆ ನನ್ನ ಗಣಕ ಯ೦ತ್ರದಲ್ಲ ಮೂಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾದುಕುಳಿತ೦ತಹಾ forwarded e Mail ಒ೦ದನ್ನು ತೆರೆದು ನೋಡಿದಾಗ ಅದು ಶ್ರಿಯುತ ರಘುಪತಿ ಭಟ್ಟರ ಮನದಾಳದ ನುಡಿಗಳು. ದುಃಖದ ಮಡುವಿನಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಅವರ ನುಡಿಗಳು ನಿಜಕ್ಕು ಮನಕರಗಿಸುವ೦ತಹದ್ದು. ಇದರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ನನ್ನದೊ೦ದು ಸಣ್ಣ ಅನಿಸಿಕೆ.
ಕೊನೆಗೂ ಮೌನ ಮುರಿದ ಉಡುಪಿ ಶಾಶಕರು ತಮ್ಮ ಮನದಾಳದ ನೋವನ್ನು ತೆರೆದೇ ಬಿಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಾರೆ, ನಿಜವಾದ ಮಾತನ್ನೇ ಆಡಿದ್ಧಾರೆ. ತು೦ಬ ದಿನಗಳಿ೦ದ ಮುದುಡಿಕೊ೦ಡಿದ್ಧ ಮೌನ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದೆ. ಸದಾ ಜನರ ಸೇವೆಯಲ್ಲೇ ನಿರತರಾಗಿದ್ಧ ಇವರಿಗೆ ನಿಜಕ್ಕೂ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಗಳ ಸುಳ್ಳು gossip ಗಳು, ಮಿತ್ರ ಪಕ್ಷಗಳ ಮನನೋಯಿಸುವ೦ತಹ ಧರಣಿಗಳು, ಹರತಾಳಗಳು, ಬಾಯಿಗೆ ತೋಚಿದ೦ತ, ಮನಸ್ಸಿಗೇ ಬ೦ದ೦ತೆ ಬರೆಯುವ, ಬುದ್ದಿವ೦ತ ಉದುಪಿ ಜನರ ಆಲೋಚನೆಗಳನ್ನು ಬುಡಮೇಲಾಗಿಸುವ ಕೆಲವೊ೦ದು ಅನಾಮಧೇಯ ಹಣಭಕ್ಷಕ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಗಳ ಶೋಚನೀಯ ಬರಹಗಳು ಉಡುಪಿ ಜನತೆಗೂ ಸೇರಿದ೦ತೆ ಶಾಶಕರಿಗೂ ನಿಜಕ್ಕೂ ಬೇಸರ ತ೦ದಿರಬೇಕು. ಈ ಓ೦ದು ದುಃ ಖದ ಮಡುವಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಳುಗಿರುವ ಶಾಶಕರಿಗೆ ಆತ್ಮ ಸ್ಥಿರತೆಯನ್ನ, ಧೈರ್ಯವನ್ನ ನಿಡುವ ಬದಲಾಗಿ, ತಮ್ಮ ಮನೆಯ ದೋಸೆಯಲ್ಲೂ ತೂತಿದೆ ಏ೦ಬುದನ್ನೇ ತಿಳಿಯದ ಕೆಲವು ಮಿತ್ರಪಕ್ಷಗಳ ನಾಯಕರು ಹರತಾಳ, ಧರಣಿಯನ್ನು ಆರ೦ಭಿಸಿದ್ದು ನಿಜಕ್ಕೂ ಒ೦ದು ಶೋಚನೀಯ ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆ.
ಈ ಏಲ್ಲಾ ಕ್ಶುಲ್ಲಕ ವಿಚಾರಗಳನ್ನು ಬಿಟ್ಟು, ಬಹುಶಃ ಇತರ ಪಕ್ಷಗಳು ಜನರ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಮೂಲಭೂತ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳಾದ ಬೆಲೆ ಏರಿಕೆ, ವಿದ್ಯುತ್ , ನೀರು, ರಸ್ತೆ, ನಿರುದ್ಯೋಗ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳತ್ತ ಕಿ೦ಚಿತ್ ಗಮನಹರಿಸಿದ್ದರೂ ಜನರ ವಿಶ್ವಾಸವನ್ನು, ಬೆ೦ಬಲವನ್ನು ಗಳಿಸುವುದರಲ್ಲಿ ಏರಡು ಮಾತಿರಲಿಕ್ಕಿಲ್ಲ. ಅದೆಲ್ಲ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಗಾಯದ ಮೇಲೆ ಬರೆ ಏಳೆಯುವ ಕಟುಕ ರಾಜಕೀಯ ಉದುಪಿಯ ಜನರಿಗೆ ಸಭ್ಯವೇ?
ಹಿ೦ದು ಮು೦ದು ನೋಡದೆ ವಯುಕ್ತಿಕ ವಿಚಾರದಲ್ಲಿ ಮನಬ೦ದತೆ ಮಾತನಾಡುವುದು ನಿಜಕ್ಕೂ ತಪ್ಪು, ಇದು ಓ೦ದು ಸ೦ಪೂರ್ಣ ವಯುಕ್ತಿಕ ವಿಷಯ, ನಿಜವೆ೦ದರೆ ಈವರೆಗೇ ಯಾರಿ೦ದಲೂ ಅಭಿವ್ರದ್ಧಿಯನ್ನು ಕಾಣದ ಶ್ರಿ ಕೃಸ್ಣನ ನೆಲೆಯಾಗಿರುವ ಉಡುಪಿಯ ಸರ್ವತೋಮುಖ ಏಳಿಗೆಗ ಶ್ರೀಯುತ ರಘುಪತಿ ಭಟ್ಟರೇ ಕಾರಣ ಏ೦ದು ಉದುಪಿಯ ಜನರು ಮರೆಯಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವೇ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಸಾಧನೆಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಅಲ್ಪವೂ ಜ್ನಾನವಿಲ್ಲದೆ, ಬೇರೆಯವರ ಸಾಧನೆಯ ಬಗ್ಗ್ಗೆಹೊಟ್ಟೆ ಕಿಚನಿ೦ದ ಉರಿಯುತ್ತಾ ವಯುಕ್ತಿಕ ವಿಚಾರಕ್ಕೆ ರಾಜಕೀಯ ರೂಪವನ್ನು ಕೊಡುವ ಹೊಲಸು ರಾಜಕೀಯ ಉದುಪಿಯ ಸರ್ವ ಜನತೆಗೆ ಬೇಸರ ತ೦ದದ್ದ೦ತೂ ಅಕ್ಷರಶಃ ನಿಜ.
ಪ್ರೀತಿಯ ಮಡದಿಯ ಅಗಲಿಕೆಯ ದುಃಖವನ್ನು ಸಹಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಶಕ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ಭಗವ೦ತನು ಶ್ರೀಯುತರಿಗೆ ದಯಪಾಲಿಸಲಿ....
ಅವಿನಾಶ್, ಉಡುಪಿ

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Mr Raghupathi Bhats letter to the editor, Vijaya Karnataka (click to read)

Raghupathi Bhats open letter ...English version in...http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=48122&n_tit=I%20am%20Pained%20to%20See%20My%20Wife%27s%20Death%20Making%20Headlines%20%2D%20Ragupathi%20Bhat

19.06.2008: Opposition Provoked Events...

PEOPLE WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OF POLITICS, SHOULD NOT WRITE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR...EDITOR WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OF POLITICS SHOULD NOT EDIT THE NEWSPAPER! here is a classic case, some disgrunted soul, writes something and the editor of a "reputed" daily publishes it without checking...

HERE ARE SOME FACTS...
1. VSA was elected to Assembly from Udupi in 1983 - not right to say he was never elected directly.
2. Central Home Minister Shivaraj Patil is an upper house member (Rajya Sabha)
3. It is not even two weeks - how did the writer decide so quickly that he can't handle it? Just because some opposition party leader or a TV channel said so?
4. DID THIS READER WRITE SIMILAR LETTERS, WHEN DR RAJ WAS ABDUCTED? OR WHEN NAGAPPA, MLA WAS KILLED?
5. WAS THE EDITOR OF PRAJAVANI SLEEPING WHEN HE PUBLISHED THIS LETTER?
THIS EXPOSES THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE OF OUR MEDIA!
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Photo courtesy: Janardan Kodavoor
Read an Interview with the Times Of India
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Cops can't be everywhere: Acharya
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Bangalore: It has been a troublesome time for home minister V S
Acharya. Before he could recover from the police firing during the
farmer unrest over fertilizer scarcity, he had to handle the
Padmapriya suicide mystery. A person respected for his integrity and
capability, there's a perception that he did not deal with the two
vexatious issues firmly.

Excerpts from an interview
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Are you satisfied in the manner in which the farmers' fury over
fertilizers scarcity was handled?

Within 24 hours, we were able to bring the situation under
control. Chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and I went to see the injured
and later we went to New Delhi to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
We have done everything possible to go to the root cause of the
problem. Of course, the provocation came from the opposition parties.
Now, the situation is under control. In two days, the fertilizer quota
for June will arrive. A judicial inquiry has been ordered into the
police firing. The opposition parties can stage dharnas because it is
their democratic right. What more do you want?

Did the police machinery fail to anticipate the full extent of the
farmers' anger?
There are 224 assembly constituencies, 176 taluks and 20,000 odd
villages. Can anybody expect the police to be posted in all these
places? In situations where the police can anticipate trouble, we are
prepared to handle it.

Why were there contradictory statements by the police on the Padmapriya case?
Investigation is on. But the important part is that the entire
incident stretched from June 11 to June 15. Once we got to know
Padmapriya's whereabouts, within 24 hours we traced her in New Delhi.
Unfortunately, she had committed suicide.

There's a perception that your statements on the Padmapriya case are
more as her husband Raghupathi Bhat's friend than a home minister...?
I am not the spokesperson of the home department, but only a home
minister. My speaking as a friend of Bhat does not arise at all. In my
political career of four decades, nobody can point a finger at me. I
am only sorry that we could not bring her back alive.
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Another interivew with TOI:
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CBI won't probe suicide'
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Udupi: Home minister V S Acharya has reiterated that the Karnataka
police are competent enough to take up the Padmapriya case, and there
is no need for it to be handed over to the CBI.
He told reporters here on Wednesday that the case of BJP MLA
Raghupathi Bhat's wife,who was found dead in a New Delhi flat on Sunday, will be handled by
the police, with ADGP (law and order) A R Infant heading the team.
When the home minister was specifically asked if Infant would continue
to head the team, he said it was up to the DGP to decide such
assignments.
Acharya was here to open the district incharge minister's office at
the DC's office premises. He said the office was open to the public.
"If need be, more officials will be posted to take care of work," he
said.
Acharya said he had represented the chief minister at the recent
meeting of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers in
Delhi, called by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. There, he had urged
the PM to make sure that the issue price does not vary from state to
state, in the wake of the increasing price of petroleum products.
Acharya said he had brought to the Prime Minister's notice that
Karnataka would lose a lot of revenue because of the increase, and
requested that the Centre bear 50% of the expenses.

No Need for CBI probe: Karnataka Police are doing a good job

No CBI probe in Padmapriya death case: Karnataka Home Minister
Udupi (PTI): Karnataka Home Minister V S Acharya on wednesday refused to give in to the Opposition demand of asking the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the death of Padmapriya who was recently found dead in a Delhi apartment.

"As the state police is investigating, no question arises on handing over the case to the CBI", the minister told reporters here. "I have given a free hand to the state police to investigate and take all necesary steps in the case."

Detailed investigation reports are awaited from New Delhi, Bangalore and Udupi. The State Government will take a decision on the issue only after going through all these reports, he said.

The state police is yet to receive the post-mortem report, said Acharya.

Padmapriya, wife of BJP MLA Raghupaty Bhat, was found dead in an apartment in New Delhi on June 15 after she was reported missing from Udupi since June 10.

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also read
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1171995
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200806181757.htm
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Government did not mislead public: Acharya
http://www.thehindu.com/2008/06/18/stories/2008061853780400.htm
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Special Correspondent

Bangalore: Home Minister V.S. Acharya on Tuesday denied that the Government had misled the public on the events leading up to the death of Padmapriya Bhat, wife of M. Raghupati Bhat, MLA. The Government had no reason to cover up the case, he asserted.
Dr. Acharya told presspersons here that he and Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa had spoken with a sense of responsibility, and the police did their best to find her.
An investigation into the case was going on, he said, and he did not want to make further comments.
Asked whether the police would book any case against Atul Rao, who is alleged to have played a key role in the whole episode, the Minister said that if he had committed any offence, whatever provisions of law were applicable would apply to him.
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IS CBI PROBE, THE ANSWER? WHAT IS THEIR TRACK RECORD?
Just because opposition demands CBI probe all and sundry suddenly want CBI probe!
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High-profile cases: CBI has a poor track record, 29 May 2007, 0105 hrs IST, Abhinav Garg,TNN
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/High-profile_cases_CBI_has_a_poor_track_record/rssarticleshow/2081474.cms
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The CBI’s 20-year investigation in the Bofors case is littered with tales of failure. Telegraph, Kolkata
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060118/asp/nation/story_5734536.asp
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