Showing posts with label churumuri. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 11, 2009

What is your opinion on this?


ತನ್ನ ಸೆಲ್ ಫೋನ್ ಅನ್ನು ತಾನೆ ಉತ್ತರಿಸುವ ಡಾ ವಿ ಎಸ್ಆಚಾರ್ಯ ಅವರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಹೀಗೆ ಬರೆದರೆ ಏನು ಹೇಳಬೇಕು?

Friday, October 3, 2008

ವಿದ್ಯುತ್ ಏಕೆ ಬೇಕು?

ವಿದ್ಯುತ್ ದೀಪಗಳಿಂದ ಜಗ ಜಗಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಮೈಸೂರು! (ಚಿತ್ರ KPN/Churumuri)

ಇದೇ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ನಾವು ಚಿಂತಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ವಿಚಾರ:
ಪರಿಸರದ ಹೆಸರಲ್ಲಿ, ಜನರ ಪುನರ್ವಸತಿಯಂತಹ ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮ ವಿಚಾರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಅನಾವಶ್ಯಕ ವಿರೋಧ/ ಭಯ ಹುಟ್ಟಿಸಿ, ವಿದ್ಯುತ್ಉತ್ಪಾದನಾ ಘಟಕಗಳನ್ನು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಆರಂಬಿಸದಂತೆ ಒಂದು ವ್ಯವಸ್ತಿತ ಲಾಬಿ ಕಾರ್ಯಾಚರಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆ! ಈಗ ಕೆಲಸಆರಂಭವಾಗಿರುವಲ್ಲಿ ಕೂಡ ಪದೇ ಪದೇ ಅದೇ ತಡೆ ಓಡ್ದಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಈ ಕೆಲಸದಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ವಘೋಷಿತ ಪರಿಸರ ತಜ್ಞರು/ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಿಗಳು , ವಿದೇಶಿ ಹಣ ಪಡೆದು ಕಾರ್ಯಾಚರಿಸುವ ಏನ್ ಜಿ ಓ ಗಳು ಕೈ ಜೋಡಿಸಿವೆ! ವಿದ್ಯುತ್ ಶಕ್ತಿ ಎಲ್ಲ ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಮೂಲ ಶಕ್ತಿ. ಸಣ್ಣಕೈಗಾರಿಕೆಗಳು ಪರಿಸರ ಸ್ನೇಹಿ. ಕರಾವಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮತ್ಸ್ಯ ಉದ್ಯಮಕ್ಕೂ ವಿದ್ಯುತ್ ಬೇಕು.(ಐಸ್ ಪ್ಲಾಂಟ್ , ಶೀತಲೀಕರಣಕ್ಕೆ). ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತಕರ್ನಾಟಕ /ಕರಾವಳಿ ಪ್ರದೇಶ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ದಿ ಆಗುವುದನ್ನು ಸಹಿಸದ ಲಾಬಿಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಜನ ಎಚ್ಚೆತ್ತರೆ, ಅಭಿವೃದ್ದಿ ಸಾದ್ಯ.

Related post
http://drvsacharya.blogspot.com/2008/07/blog-post_16.html

Friday, July 25, 2008

Our response to terrorism

Terrorists/ anti social elements don't require sophisticated weapons or even successful execution of their plots to cause panic, fuel media frenzy, and effect massive deployment of law enforcement - well beyond the location of their attack. This has been the case in many terrorist events over the past years, especially in those places where terrorism is not a daily occurrence.

When we react broadly to a narrow event, we are reacting just as the terrorists would hope...
Let's stop a moment to rethink our response, because that's where the terrorists thrive:
Five different communities respond and are influenced, each in its own way, by a terrorist attack:
·The Terrorists - whose agenda is to create maximum physical damage, financial disruption and overall panic.
·The Public - genuinely terrorized by the event, wants the government to do everything possible to stop the terrorist, no holds barred.
·Politicians and Public Officials - are pressured to make a response that usually involves a lot of spending, and putting in place hasty strategies.
·Law enforcement and security professionals - attentive to the will of the public they protect, spare no resources or effort to catch the terrorists.
·The Media – who let's face it, sometimes benefit from and even effect news coverage that is dramatic- thus providing publicity for an event...precisely what the terrorists want!
The common denominator in the response of these five sectors is that they are fused with emotion. That emotion detracts from our ability to respond with a logical, strategic and appropriate campaign. After all, we play to the hands of the terrorists by reacting in an exaggerated way, and by introducing measures and procedures that are excessive in relation to the actual terrorist problem at hand. Combined, these five agendas produce a general response that is too often out of proportion with the actual event that stimulated the response in the first place.
Typical "Dry Run" event by terrorists:
Serial bombings using low intensity explosives> Explosions> Study the following through the eyes of the Media: Efficacy of timer devices, Reaction of the public, Response of the Police/ Bomb Squad, Watch the equipment/ techniques used by security forces/ bomb squad, Check the response of Relief activities...And then plan for the real attacks with the help of these inputs! (please note that the organizers of these blasts will study all these in the comforts of thier hideout, thanks to the live coverage from various angles by the Media)
A few things are important to bear in mind as we try to define a logical and effective reaction. Each of the five communities has a role to play here.
·The Media have the responsibility for accurately and objectively reporting a terrorist event, as exaggeration would only serve to increase the terrorist effect.
·Law enforcement must remain both sensitive and sensible, in other words, not letting their emotions cloud their judgment when investigating terrorism or protecting the public from it.
·Politicians are responsible for not leveraging terrorist attacks as a platform for pushing other agendas or justifying irrational expenditures. They should also refrain from making hasty comments/ statements which might hamper investigations. They should also avoid useless exercises like visiting the victims of terror attacks in the hospital/ visiting the dead, which will not only hamper the medical management but also burdens the local administration and the police – who otherwise should be involved in relief measures/ investigations. (It is a well known fact that, the terrorists target hospitals for secondary attack, as they know that victims of primary attack would be rushed to hospitals along with curious onlookers/ security agencies/ politicians and media!)
· The Public has the responsibility to look at terrorist events in perspective,
and has an important role in balancing the response of the media, law enforcement and politicians, by trying to learn as much as they can about terrorist methods of operation, to understand what the real threat is to them, and identify the appropriate measures to stop them. Ignorance of these methods reduces the public's ability to act as a check and balance to the policies and activities of the other sectors who represent and serve them. Public should also minimize use of cellular network at the time of such terror attacks to prevent network jam (remember that by doing so, you may save lot of lives!)
· If all of us (media, public, law enforcement) were to temper our reaction and response to terrorist events, we would lessen our attractiveness as a terrorist target and reduce the overall impact of the attack.
(this is the full text of the keynote address delivered by Dr VSAcharya at the state level meet on “Modern terrorism, efficiency of criminal justice system and role of civil society” at Barkur on 5th June 2008...)






Recap on recent bomb blasts : IISc Bangalore December, 2005 ;March 12, 1993: Mumbai :thirteen bomb explosions resulted in up to 250 civilian fatalities and 700 injuries. April 14, 2006: Twin blasts took place in Delhi"s Jama Masjid injuring at least 13 people on Friday evening at around 1730 hrs IST. September 8, 2006: 31 killed, 297 injured in Friday"s twin bomb blast in Malegaon. November 23, 2007: Multiple blasts in Faizabad, Varanasi, Lucknow within five minutes of each other killing at least 12 people in Uttar Pradesh.May 18, 2007: Eleven people were killed and more than 50 others injured in a bomb explosion inside Mecca Mosque located near the historic Charminar in Hyderabad.

Report any suspicious activity-object to the nearest police station- Remember that all blasts occuring on Fridays need not be terrorist attacks- they may be the acts of your neighbourhood anti social elements!/ Do not unncessarily visit the blast sites- there can be a second attack/ Do not hamper the work of police-investigating agencies- you may hamper relief operations/ Do not spread rumours/ Do not make unnecessary phone calls- you may crowd the network and cause inconvinience to the needy/ Be prepared to donate blood-enroll with local voluntary organizations/ Have faith in administration- Together We Can Curb Terrorism!
Have Indians become insensitive to acts of terror? Analysis on the usual sequence of events following a terror attack: "Any time now, the State government will blame central intelligence agencies for not alerting them. The Centre, in turn, will blame some unpronounceable outfit whose benefactors are across the border. By primetime, the Prime Minister (depending on the toll obviously) will make a macho statement something to the effect of “We will not cow down to terror”. The Union home minister, whose very sentence-construction sends terrorists scurrying for cover, will pronounce that “such incidents will not deter the government from pursuing its policy of dealing with terrorists in a resolute manner.”
Tomorrow morning, the Congress which is in the opposition in Karnataka will blame the BJP, which is in power, for being interested in anything but governance. The BJP in turn will blame the Congress for revoking POTA and making this a soft-state. Editor types will stand up and say it is time for “moderates” to speak out. And just when the TV guys were rubbing their hands in glee that something finally had happened to keep them busy over the next 36 hours, bam, the toll is just two. How do they fill “We, the People” and “Big Fight” and “Weekend Edition” this weekend? Some compensation to the dead, wounded will be declared...."
...excerpt from
http://churumuri.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/civilian-security-is-a-joke-and-the-joke-is-on-you/
Karnataka Police won`t blame any organization, till investigations are complete: http://www.gulfkannadiga.com/news-11489.html
Rehearsal/ Dry Run? opines Raman, Central Intelligence in...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072501191_2.html?hpid=moreheadlines

Sunday, July 20, 2008

ವಾರದ ಮಾತು : ಶ್ರೀ ವಿದ್ಯಾ ಪ್ರಸನ್ನ ತೀರ್ಥರು

"ವಿಷಯಾತ್ಮಕ ಪ್ರಪಂಚವನ್ನು ಕಾಣುವ ನೆಪದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾನವನ ಅಂತರಂಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಡಗಿರುವ ಕ್ರೌರ್ಯ ಕುಚೇತನವನ್ನು ಜಾಗೃತಿಗೊಳಿಸುವುದನ್ನು ತ್ಯಜಿಸಬೇಕು. ಪ್ರಶಾಂತ ವಾರ್ತೆಗಳನ್ನು, ಸತ್‌ದೃಶ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಕಾಣುವ ತವಕ ಮಾನವರಲ್ಲಿ ಉದ್ದೀಪನಗೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕಾದರೆ ಮಾಧ್ಯಮಗಳು ಬಹು ಮುಖ್ಯವಾದ ಪಾತ್ರವನ್ನ ವಹಿಸಬೇಕಾಗುತ್ತದೆ"
Sri Sri Sri Vidyaprasannateertha Swamiji asked the media to shift their concentration from crime news to peace-related news. "Currently the media is mainly concentrating on various sensational news and illustrations carried by the section of media is more of brutality, crime happenings than the balanced news. It is owing to this kind media, today a family cannot sit and watch the television together," he lamented.
"Media does a lot of good work, but also we see bad content in it. Media should not sensationalize personal life of individual at any cost and at any point of time"
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Rumours turned into "News"?

One e mail prank(link at the end of the post) = 10 "investigative reports"= 100 storiesRumours = News... Unconfirmed /baseless reports dished out as "News"
Infallible Indian journalists have been spooked by a delightful Da Vinci Code style hoax played on them. see how convincing the "news" is with supporting graphics!

(sad part: none of them published clarification!- exception being Kannada prabha/ The Hindu )
read more on this hoax...http://churumuri.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/for-indian-journos-april-1-comes-10-months-early/
See how they made fun of cops based on this "news" http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Bangalore/Cops_stunned_over_Nazi_mans_capture/articleshow/3178643.cms
On Sunday, almost every newspaper reported the arrest of Johann Bach, an 88-year-old Nazi war criminal, in the jungles of Khanapur, close to Goa, on Saturday.
A classified advertisement inserted by the “Waffen SS” fugitive to sell an 18th century piano was supposed to have led Perus Narkp detectives to the “senior adjutant” who reportedly had a role in the “extermination” of 12,000 Jews at the Marsha Tikash Whanaab concentration camp in East Berlin.
Bangalore based newspapers went to town with the news:
# “Hitler’s stormtrooper held in Karnataka,” headlined Deccan Herald.
# “World War II criminal arrested?” asked The Hindu
# “Cops stunned over Nazi man’s arrest,” said The Times of India
# “Antique piano ad leads police to Nazi colonel near Belgaum,” said the New Indian Express.
On Monday, the up-country papers went a step further.
# “Traced to Goa, Nazi war criminal tried to enter Karnataka, arrested on way and flown to Berlin,” said The Indian Express, Delhi
# “Goa piano ‘thief’ found to be Nazi war fugitive,” said The Telegraph, Calcutta, with a helpful graphic (above) of the flight of the Nazi criminal.
Wanted by Interpol, octagenarian Bach, it was reported, had escaped the Nuremberg trials and evaded justice for over half a century. On the German government’s “Most wanted list” since the end of WW II, he had spent time in Argentina, Bulgaria, Yemen and Canada.
Apparently, the Israeli media had reported his sighting in Calungute, Goa. But V.S. Acharya, Karnataka’s home minister, denied any knowledge. Hemant Nimbalkar, Belgaum superintendent of police, said he was unaware of the incident.
But the papers said Bach had been picked up by detectives of Perus Narkp who are part of the German chancellor’s “Core” team in collaboration with Indian intelligence.
Anil Budur Lulla of The Telegraph “exclusively” reported that “Berlin also had information from Tel Aviv that an old German had bragged about overseeing the genocide of Jews to an Israeli tourist couple in Goa during a rave party a few months ago.”
Deccan Herald quoted a press released issued by “Perus Narkp”. Times of India said the press note was circulated by email.
The Telegraph, quoting “sources”, said that “after further investigations in Goa, proceedings would begin to take Bach to Germany, with whom India signed an extradition treaty in 2004.” Deccan Herald said he would “be facing trial at the International Court of Justice at The Hague.”
And on and on it went.
Well, it turns out, it was all a super prank, obviously played by someone with some taste in western classical music.

Analysis on : http://blogs.reuters.com/india/2008/06/30/indian-newspapers-fall-for-baroque-nazi-war-criminal-hoax/

Stories that are too good to check , in The Hindu http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/01/stories/2008070152221100.htm

See the text of origial email sent to media: (based on this text, creative writers spun stories in various newspapers) http://goadourada.blogspot.com/2008/06/attn-german-special-police-arrest-nazi.html

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾರಾಂಶ : http://www.gulfkannadiga.com/news-10106.html

Thursday, June 19, 2008

TV Yalli Hoda Maana...


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In spite of all the outrage on speculative writing in the media, some newspapers/ websites/ visual media continue to write/ air rumours, write articles in bad taste. One such example is a cartoon in Prajavani today. It criticizes the honourable CM of a state. Sick minds in blogging world too fall prey to the recent trend...and reproduce it in their blogs...if the media does it for TRP, bloggers do it for Hits...and ultimately revenue from ads...We do not want to publish the abovementioned cartoon, but click the link to see what we are referring to...

http://churumuri.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/home-is-where-the-chief-ministers-heart-is/#comments
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A NARAYANA ANALYSES THE NEWSREPORTS RELATED TO PADMAPRIYA EPISODE...
(COURTESY: http://churumuri.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/how-media-went-overboard-in-padmapriya-case/ )
# “He has got an MA in sociology but what has he chosen to do?” questioned a headline in the Manipal edition of Udayavani, referring to Atul Rao, the aide of Udupi MLA Raghupati Bhat, even when no one knew the facts behind his role in her death.
And Udayavani wrote as if it was an established case of ‘Kidnap’ even after home minister V.S. Acharya’s own admission that it was a ‘half-kidnap’ case. He is yet to clarify what that ‘half’ really is. What was Udayavani’s source or motive in pronouncing prematurely that it was a case of kidnap?
# A Kannada Prabha report summarily suggested that it was a murder. On what basis?
#Vijaya Karnataka’s reporter questioned Padmapriya’s decision to discard “a life in which she had wealth and prestige”. “Idella bekitte (was all this required?)” he asks. How did the reporter know that the woman was happy in her marriage?
# The Hindu, of all the newspapers, found it fit to publish every word that Padmapriya’s mother uttered while grieving in front of her young daughter’s body, that too with the wrong translation from Tulu. These are the words every bereaved parent in such a situation would utter. Should they be published verbatim? Et tu, Hindu?
# Deccan Herald and Praja Vani are sister publications produced in the same building but while the English paper said Atul was an engineering diploma holder who resigned from his government job and did civil contracts, the Kannada paper report said Atul did his MA, continued in his government job and did contracts in his wife’s name. (However, it is also a fact the best matter-of-fact reports were filed by the Delhi bureau of these two newspapers.)
# All Kannada newspapers in their esteemed judgment started addressing Atul in the singular from day one while the police still maintained that he was only a witness and not an accused.
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RELATED ARTICLE: Role of Politicians and Media in Padmapriya Tragedy, Posted on June 16th, 2008, by naavi in All News, India News
READ LINK: http://www.bloggernews.net/116264
"Police need a thorough training in handling media relations.. how to keep the paparazies (News vultures) at bay without derailing their investigations and embarrassing their bosses…It is time for action for media training of the Police."
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Also read a Tulu Writeup...
http://mangalorean.com/kannada/ksangama.php?kid=592&ltype=KSangama