Ananda Bazar Patrika is targetting the well off group of the society nowadays. They keep publishing news items palatable to the taste of these type of people only. This class of people always have more than enough money to spend it at places like inox and other multiplexes and shopping malls...they are those class of people who think money can buy everything. Anandabazar is representing them nowadays. So, it's natural they will upheld the money spinning ventures of obnoxiously rich people by destroying fertile lands and buldozing the life and livelyhood of thousands of not so rich people. Again they have the mind set of those people who spend their week-end at 'Tantra' and other night clubs...and have 'liberal' views about homosexuality, free sex and other products from the dustbin of west. They are now instigating the younger generation for wearing revealing dresses and joining the bandwagaon of free sex. All the news paper and magazines of ABP group are harping on this tone by publishing semi-naked pictures of models/actresses and glorifying the life of whores of screen and tv.
However, before spitting further venom I must confess the fact that I have been reading Anandabazar, Desh and Anandamela since the days I first learnt to read. This newspaper and the aforesaid periodicals have great impact in moulding my intellect, conscience and abitlity of reasoning. Anadamela was my one of the best buddies on those golden days of my childhood. I got the first taste of ‘forbidden’ literature in the pages of Desh in my boyhood...and my day can't begin without Anandabazar since then. ABP taught us how to keep our head high , spine erect and keep the mind without fear....Those were the good old days. Now they have changed completely and become devils advocate. They are trying to feed us that rising graph of sensex is synonymous with economic progress of our country and make us believe that this jobless growth of economy @ 9 – 10% will take care of all our miseries. In short, they become the trumpeter of neo-liberal economic policy.If you are an avid reader of this newspaper, you must have noticed that they often hail the economic power of affluent portion of the populace of our country, whose size is almost equal to the population of any developed European nations. …they seem to concentrate on this class of nouveaus riches and let the others left in the lurch. They are trying to draw away our attention from reality by using glitz and glamour and show of skin in the pages of their news paper and by promoting prom and mall culture borrowed from western societies (read dustbin of the west!). So, it’s natural..there will be more pictures of scantily clad women and bare bodied men in the coming days for the sake of selling their paper as number of their readers is dwindling fast. An evil is always an evil, no matter how gorgeously it’s dressed.
Same thing applies to ABP and The Telegraph…and it seems that more people are realising this with every passing day.There were no news of peoples resistance at Singur and Nandigram in the pages of this paper during the most tumultuous period of atrocities committed by Police and cadres pretending as if nothing was happening and churning out false propaganda of CM and ruling party about acquisition of fertile land. During this period they indulged in gossiping about marriage of Abhisek and Aiswariya . Of late they went after holding book fair at the Maidan on the pretext of pollution. Last week they gave wide coverage to the killing of Ravinder Kaur Luthra, wife of some non-bengali businessman …who won Rs 3,00,000 at some ‘kity’ party….and kept on discussing about the menace of keeping full time servant/maid as if it’s a burning problem! How many household can afford to keep full time attendants?! Picture of the smiling killer appeared in the pages of The Telegraph. A sizable portion of the front page was devoted to this news item for two days! I failed to comprehend the importance of this news item….although my knowledge is limited and I don’t know what a ‘kity’ party is!
“ Jakhan Iswar ke chherhe manush takar pujo kore, jor jar muluk tar manush ei neeti grahan kare, sabal , durbaler upar utpirhan chalay ….takhan bujhbe kaliyug jatil o bhayabaha rup dharan korechhe” - Swami Vivekananda (Source : Smritir Aloy Swami Vivekanada, Page : 350). …and that’s why it seems to me ABP is the vanguard of evil.
However, before spitting further venom I must confess the fact that I have been reading Anandabazar, Desh and Anandamela since the days I first learnt to read. This newspaper and the aforesaid periodicals have great impact in moulding my intellect, conscience and abitlity of reasoning. Anadamela was my one of the best buddies on those golden days of my childhood. I got the first taste of ‘forbidden’ literature in the pages of Desh in my boyhood...and my day can't begin without Anandabazar since then. ABP taught us how to keep our head high , spine erect and keep the mind without fear....Those were the good old days. Now they have changed completely and become devils advocate. They are trying to feed us that rising graph of sensex is synonymous with economic progress of our country and make us believe that this jobless growth of economy @ 9 – 10% will take care of all our miseries. In short, they become the trumpeter of neo-liberal economic policy.If you are an avid reader of this newspaper, you must have noticed that they often hail the economic power of affluent portion of the populace of our country, whose size is almost equal to the population of any developed European nations. …they seem to concentrate on this class of nouveaus riches and let the others left in the lurch. They are trying to draw away our attention from reality by using glitz and glamour and show of skin in the pages of their news paper and by promoting prom and mall culture borrowed from western societies (read dustbin of the west!). So, it’s natural..there will be more pictures of scantily clad women and bare bodied men in the coming days for the sake of selling their paper as number of their readers is dwindling fast. An evil is always an evil, no matter how gorgeously it’s dressed.
Same thing applies to ABP and The Telegraph…and it seems that more people are realising this with every passing day.There were no news of peoples resistance at Singur and Nandigram in the pages of this paper during the most tumultuous period of atrocities committed by Police and cadres pretending as if nothing was happening and churning out false propaganda of CM and ruling party about acquisition of fertile land. During this period they indulged in gossiping about marriage of Abhisek and Aiswariya . Of late they went after holding book fair at the Maidan on the pretext of pollution. Last week they gave wide coverage to the killing of Ravinder Kaur Luthra, wife of some non-bengali businessman …who won Rs 3,00,000 at some ‘kity’ party….and kept on discussing about the menace of keeping full time servant/maid as if it’s a burning problem! How many household can afford to keep full time attendants?! Picture of the smiling killer appeared in the pages of The Telegraph. A sizable portion of the front page was devoted to this news item for two days! I failed to comprehend the importance of this news item….although my knowledge is limited and I don’t know what a ‘kity’ party is!
“ Jakhan Iswar ke chherhe manush takar pujo kore, jor jar muluk tar manush ei neeti grahan kare, sabal , durbaler upar utpirhan chalay ….takhan bujhbe kaliyug jatil o bhayabaha rup dharan korechhe” - Swami Vivekananda (Source : Smritir Aloy Swami Vivekanada, Page : 350). …and that’s why it seems to me ABP is the vanguard of evil.
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