Thanks to your Kindness

The News coming to us these days is mostly negative and heart blowing. The most unfortunate one is the “Palghar” incident. Don’t know who was wrong there, but definitely the end result was not pertinent. Most of us must have seen the video of the incident; it definitely had popped off the heart of many of us. The other aspect of it has led us to think who we are? Are we actually a civilized society? Are we respecting everyone? How can we go and take the law in our own hands to punish someone without knowing their offence? A rumor of abductors has come to the village for kidnapping the kids. Which spared amongst the villagers of Palghar and such an inhumane incident took place.

And now there are set of people who are giving this inhumane act a communal angle, few of them have their own latent agenda through which they just want to blame someone. Few want the resignation of the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. How many of us actually thinking on the humane angle? I doubt very few, because most of us are still seeing this as an incident of “wrong time, wrong place”. Of course it was a wrong place and no one who has died ever thought of this could also be a possibility of moving your location at night.

Our country which has a glorious past in which guest has always been considered as a God and God has arrived to your place and if the guest is a holy man its like icing on the cake. But then we hear such an incident which has shaken us so badly, it will take some time to recover from it.  Are we giving thoughts on the real culprit? Many theories are floating on social and electronic media regarding the incident. There is one thing which we are experiencing quite a lot since emergence of so many digital medium to express you these days has made the life of masses very difficult. The fake news industry is prospering in India since very long. Few of us must be remembering a lot of these incidents since very long but here I would like to give an example of the early years of 2000s, a rumor floated about SRKs death and we believed it-it has spread within hours from North to south and to all corners of the country. People have started giving their condolences as well. And SRK has to appear himself to tell I am all right. That was an era of no social media rather we were still in the early stages of our digital revolution, even then the fake news has made such a strong impact on the society that we all believed it blindly and we did not bother for the authentication of the news. This Fake news industry is the greatest weapon to create a battle amongst the society. And digital mediums or social media has become the armory to the fake news industry.

Who creates the fake news? Is this an individual effort or set of people or some organization is working for the benefit of few people/organization? Yes, there are different objectives to be achieved according to the place time and target. At present they all are coming out victorious sometime in the name of religion, cast and creed and sometime politically motivated. Whatever the goal is, end of the day it is the common man who is suffering and “Palghar” is the latest example of the innocent lives being sacrificed. 

Why Mob Lynching takes place? – At times it takes place in the name of religion, for the political agendas setting, marketing gimmick - you name it and we have a reason for it. Fake news industry is always working for it. I want to know in Palghar case who is the beneficiary - of course now we know who the sufferers are. The Sadhus who died there and afterwards the Villagers who will be facing the aftereffects and law will punish accordingly but the originator who ignited this event will never be trapped. And this is frustrating.  I wish we could nab those real culprits because of whom three innocent lives/ were lost and many more will lose in future.

Are we seriously wants to nab down the real culprits or there is no way through which we can catch them? Imagine these kinds of unruly miss happenings taking place to unstable the internal security of the country. As we all know that we are going through pandemic called COVID 19. And we are still struggling to find out its remedy. Of course we’ll come out of this victorious but simultaneously we have to deal with another fake news pandemic which is killing the innocent people.  

Another theory floating these days where the political “Pandits” are believing that there is a possibility of purposely instigating this incident - ever since the lockdown has taken place in India we are looking for blameworthy and thereafter we have started getting the news in which the media has targeting the Muslims for spreading the virus. Tabligi Jamat incident and the attack on the medical staff afterwards has given India a very bad reputation amongst the Muslim counterpart countries especially the Middle-eastern one’s with whom the present government has made lot of effort to stabilized the relations. Becayse now a days majority of Indians are not behaving appropriately with Muslims especialy in the lower middle class society of India which consist of a larger population of the country. And this news is crossing borders as well. This definitely has given bad publicity to the present government.  It will jeopardize the relation between the two countries. Because of this- the possibility leads to the persecution of Hindu community by the Hindus itself will balance the situation. There are so many conspiracy theories are going on and gaining publicity end of the day no one will ever come to know the truth behind it, but of course the life will move on and we’ll say “Thanks to your kindness, the world has become warmer place”