Young India Shows Rays of Hope

I happened to see the recently on going on TV talent show of Zee TV called "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa: Little Champs" and believe me I think all of Indians should see the programme. Because I think more than the hype that the young Indians are forgetting the past and the western culture is catching up in India, it is a perfect answer to the people who think this way.

Watch the programme once and you would know how wonderfully these kids sing classical songs and give all the latkas and jhatkas of the musical world in all their vibrant voice.

I was dumbfound when I listened to all the little kids on the stage performing the best of their own voices, and it made me feel great also that we are not behind, and that these small kids hold a lot of hope for all the people of India and I think all Indians should not only see these programmes but also should encourage their own children to come forward and make a niche for themselves by adopting to our heritage and cultural beliefs.

Please see the programme once and then think over what I told you.

This programme, "TVS Sa Re Ga Ma Pa: Little Champs" is telecast every friday, saturday and sunday at 10:00 PM IST. on Zee TV. With a whopping prize money of 45 Lakhs for the winning participants this is sure going to creat some wave in the world of music.

Dr Jyoti Prasad Pattnaik,
MBBS, DMCH

Old versus New... Which is Better???

Now a days watching the TV has become more strenous then ever, but thanks to our age old Door Darshan which is still there, so what it presents some lustreless programmes, but they are clean and safe for all, the whole family of course.

Going throuhg the various news channels will sure leave an otherwise healthy man nervous and sick, and the presenters on the private news channels are also equally horrifying, if you might have seen some programmes like SASANI(STAR News) and CRIME FILE (Zee News). Once the anchor of the news programme Crime File was so hurt by the news or may be the liquour that he took before the programme half way through he fell down and a new anchor was called to complete the news progamme and yet I see the same shameless anchor every night on TV.
It is sad. And these channels proclaim that the things they show are of high standards???

Not long ago there were programmes on the national channel of Door Darshan, there were these news readers that I still remember even after a stint of more than two decades with the private news channels, Ved Prakash, Sarla Maheswari, and so many more. Why those people created a niche for themselves, but not these new once, of course we know a handful now like Rajat Sharma, for his Apki Adalat, Barkha Datt for her devilous acts on Kargil during war.

If we compare the age old Door Darsham and the New age news channels, I think the new channels have the capability to captivate the mass by showing what we have never seen on TV chat shows about Free Sex, Vague reports on sex and rape and extra marital affairs, and these are the things that people prefer now a days.

Are these your daily diet of viewrship???

Think and if yes then may god be with you...\

Are We Odias so Filthy?

Dear Friends
I am writing this after having a bitter experience on a popular chatting site online. And also I received some complaints from many people especially girls in the same chat room.
I am talking about REDIFFBOL and it so happened that I logged in to the Bol software and then chose to chat in the Bhubaneswar room and once inside the room, all I saw was filthy and unauthentic chatting mixed with bad words and irresponsible statements from so called chatters of Orissa. To put shame on this they are putting messages with bad words for the mothers and sisters of other chatters..
Are we still calling ourself a dedicated and sincere son and brothers, and are we still going to claim that we are a nice society???
I thought and came to this point that all the chatters in the chat room in Bhubaneswar room of Rediffbol are either schhol going kids or immature kids of newly joined college going ones. And many of them are from only Bhubaneswar who are using these methods to horrify the gentle chatters in the room and I sincerely hope this trend will stop, if at all we are going to portray ourself as a mature and nice society.
Think over and act now. If your kid is involved in spreading bad words keep an eye on his behaviour now.
May god bless us all.

Another Sad Story

This evening during the dinner I watched a news channel showing a yester year beauty queen and ramp model being forced to beg for eating her daily bread and butter in the streets of Delhi and when I watched her speak, she spoke so fluently in English and I wonder why she is behaving like a begar at all.

Jokes apart these models and star sort of things think once they are in limelight, will never return back to a normal life and when they face the reality probably many of them turn such things.

Assording to a senior colleague of mine (A Doctor), she has some mental problems, and that she also reiterates that during her hay days she used many illegal and lethal drugs to get a high and those drugs took their toll on this pretty thirty plus some Thing.

Her name was Geetanjali and she shared the ramp with the likes of Sushmita Sen, Malaika Arora etc. Well another sad but a story worth being listened and watched and learnt before another celebrity is seen on the streets begging his bread and butter.

Dr Jyoti Prasad Pattnaik, MBBS, DMCH

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Times have not changed...

Wayback in the sixties and seventies life was just as simple as it could be, and comparing to the things that are happening now, it was apparently a very cool time then.
I am depicting a story of a struggler, who in those days of alluring city life, as was depicted in most hindi movies and Odia Movies came to a small time town to begin his career, and as it always happened, he was not the only one waiting for a job. Somehow due to his skills of management and personal relations, he got an appointment in one office with a monthly remuneration of only 30 Rupees. With ailing parents and three elders sisters and a younger brother, he was forced to send half of his earning to the village where his family lived.
At Rs 15 per month a hotel in this small time town provided two time meals to a person with occassional non-veg items thrown in. The life seemed not much improvement despite all his care and getting an extra buck in hand was also not possible as he was a novice and was not in such a place to accept money from people for small things as it happens now.
It was a story told to all in many a movies from time immemorial.
COming to the present, this is a guy who completed his degree in medicine from one college in India and thought of making it big in overseas fields and so joined the bandwagon to go to the US of America. But fate had something else in his hand and he eventually landed up in UK. With a first class degree he was hopeful of making it big there too. Not alone though as the agent who sent him also sent another handful of surgeons.
With a meagre sum of pounds in hand these people started their day, in a weeks time most of them were bankrupt and were only wandering from here to there in search of a good job, by the end of the second week, they were ready to take up any odd job. Finally this guy was embarashed and wanted to go back to where he belonged but the thing is, he did not have enough cash in hand to buy a ticket to home and situations became so worse that one evening he was left with nothing in hand and he could not even make a call back home.
Back home in India his family was frantically trying to get to know the whereabouts of this fellow. His mother had a mild heart attack and his father suffered severe depression. His only sister was crying all the time.
In UK the situation was even worse, in an alien country without the address of a person, this fellow was moving from places to places in search of a job. Then he got some respite when he came to know that in some Gurudwara (Punjabi Temple) food is being distributed for free, and this fellow started visiting all those places in a rotation, remembering how he did rotation duties in his small time town medical college hospitals.
In some three weeks of getting missed, his family finally approached the embassy and were asked to deposit the details of their son. In a weeks time he was found roaming on the streets of UK in search of job and was sent back to India, with the help of agencies, who took a fee of some one lakh and more from his parents for doing this job.
He is now happy back home and is doing his job as a medical officer with the government and earns a handsome 15 thousand bucks every month and not to mention those hudreds of extra that he earns every day from his practice at home.
Now this is not a secluded story, it is a reality that many of my friends faced, who went abroad for a better life and were mentally depressed. With strict laws enforcing non-employment on out siders now getting a job in an alien country is not possible. So friends, are you thinking of shifting your base to UK or USA, then please first get hold of someone who is there and who can assure you that, come what may he will support you. Then go.

A Very serious Injustice this is...

This Afternoon when I was having my lunch and was watching the TV I was shocked to see the news item splashed across almost all news channels showing the thrashing of a young boy, by a irate mob for apparently stealing a golden chain from a woman. The news was not so big, but the visuals that these channel people showed made me shivere with fear. Even though I am not a dacoit nor anything like that, but when faced with such an incident, as it was being splashed, none of the public present there were coming forward to help the guy, not even the women present there were asking for mercy of the small time chain snatcher.

What are we becoming, is it only because the story happened in Bihar??? Or is it same across the country.

On a normal day, I don;t get enough time to see the TV and discuss the things with someone, but on a holiday I prefer to take my lunch in a bit relaxed manner, but I must admit after watching the news, I could no more swallow the special dish that my wife prepared for me.

How can we people be so rude, so inhuman, so nonsense????

Can you slap someone because he did something wrong? According to the law, no one has the right to slap not even touch the culprit, and surprising but true even the police has got no authority to touch the victim, unless otherwise there is a situation, which may warrant using force. How can a normal human being behave so inhumanly.

I watched as a young man of about the same age came forward and started using his own means to slap and then kick and then using his belt on the poor guy on face, back and every where. I almost cried and anyone on my place would do that. How could man be so inhuman.

The story did not end there, and as soon as the police has reached the culprit was tied to the back of the bike and this happy looking police officer did not hesitate to drag this man to the nearest police station. Is is justice???

Don't you think we should be offering help to this fellow??? Or at least we can say we are not happy the way the people as well as the police behaved??? The complete story with visuals can be seen Here.

Are we HUMAN??? Ask Yourself...

It is half Past two in the afternoon and it is the Famous M G Road of Bangaluru. The business is as usual and the market is not so crowded as most of the citizens of the city are either in their sophisticated office rooms or at home, with a handful of tourists and an equal number of street vendors, trying to sell their paraphernalia around the environment of the place is more than cool, as it would aptly be said in the new age lingo.

Not far from me is standing a youngman in his early twenties and frantically trying to ask some people with a paper in hand. May be he is lost or is left behind by his group of friends and so he may have been there for sometime asking for some address and it happened too. When I went near him, he approached me too and I obliged with a smile telling I am a tourist too.

After I left that lamp post where that guy was standing a few steps ahead I heard a shrill cry and when I returned back I saw there were two guys of the same age giving good blows to the guy while two other girls are standing still. Before I could understand what has happened and go back to his help more people jumped in and in no time this guy was mobbed by a crowd of about twenty some youth from no where. He was crying for help. Security guards of different shopping centers and police man on duty in the same yard remained silent watchers. When I approached one policeman, he faigned ignorance and when I said, the thing is happening in front of him only, he said, "Don't get into these matters, you are a tourist, go and enjoy your time around."

After about half an hour and the guy being badly and brutally beaten, with his dress torn into pieces and left with some bones broken the crowd was pushed back by one police vehicle. The guy was rescued and was forwarded to the nearest clinic and there the police took his verdict, Surprisingly though he said he is from Bangaluru only and it so happened that, because he was ignorant of the streets and lanes he was asking for the route to go to his place and in this he asked the same thing to the girls and the guys, probably their friends jumped in saying that he harrashed their girlfriends, and started beating him and other too joined them.

Ironically, there was nothing so bad about it, except that the guy was beaten like anything, and the guy is but a sample, it can be anyone, you, me or someone from our family. Can you slap your brother, sister? How can you be so inhuman and beat up a person who simply asked you for an address???

This is not a solitary incidence, there are thousands of such incidences that occur every day in India, and the repeatation of such an incidence occured in Bhagalpur in Bihar, yesterday, when an irritated mob ransacked the existence of a man by beating him brutally and then giving him inhuman torture by not only slapping or kicking, but by beating with leather belts and then tying him behind the bike of a police officer, who did not hesitate to drag him to the police station?

Are we listening? Are we human? Ask your self.

The complete story and visuals in still pictures and videos can be seen here.

Dr Jyoti Prasad Pattnaik, MBBS, DMCH
Editor "Aahwaan"
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Don't send hatred against Womenhood

This evening I received a small poem from one of the regular contributors of the Magazine Aahwaan and even thought he had tried his best to make it seem good to the eyes as well as to the ears, yet lacked in providing justice to half of our readers, which constitute only women.

I personally don't encourage hatred against anyone through our magazine and even though we receive many articles every months for publication in the magazine, we edit them and make them suitable for all to read.

Though the contributor who send the poem to me is a well known person to me and i knew him since the beginning of the magazine, yet on couple of occassions I have dissuaded him from posting articles in the magazine for being derrogatory and providing hatred messages to the masses. This time on womenhood.

On a day as auspicious as RAKSHA BANDHAN and being a son of a woman, a brother of thousand sisters and husband of my wife, How could I promote this in the magazine and hence i wrote back politely and rather strongly and sent this message to him not to be so arrogant and be polite and this message goes to all the readers and contributors of aahwaan, that in no case be hatred against any person living or dead, may be promoted through the magazine.

Have a good day.

Dr Jyoti Prasad Pattnaik, MBBS, DMCH
Editor, Aahwaan
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