The media has been discourteous and criminal in manner, while reporting communal clashes. Their prime aim is to prove hurriedly their secular credentials and the rule of secular reporting is to blindly sympathise with the minorities.

The rationale behind this code is obviously to contain further spread of communal mayhem. Let the real facts come to the fore - who started the trouble, who killed whom and who were the maximum victims - but not right away.


But in practice what our print and electronic media is espousing as a culture of journalism, is diatonically an opposite trail to this tenet.

The media has been discourteous and criminal in manner, while reporting communal clashes. Their prime aim is to prove hurriedly their secular credentials disregarding the human rights.


Today, the mainstream media and the political parties are taking advantage of the inhuman communal killings for their own benefits.


The concept and rule of secular reporting of our media as has been in the past is to blindly sympathise with the minorities, and oppose anything that is Hindu or even remotely ’Hindu’. Unfortunately, this trend has been going on since independence.


Once having set this rule in motion, it is obvious that when a communal carnage is on, no matter how long it lasts - an hour or a full day or days - it will never enter into the picture, till the time the ’minority community’ is targeted. What I wonder most is, aren’t Hindus humans? Don’t the Hindus deserve humane treatment? If a couple of Hindu labourers are stabbed and left on the road, are they not humans?


If our own media is biased and inflates the passions, what else can the real honest true secular Indians do, except watch the drama haplessly?


This is what has been happening very precisely in India since independence.


This is what also happened in Andhra Pradesh after the Bhimsa and Vatoli carnage.


A family of six was burnt alive in the midnight on October 12 around 2:30 am at Vatoli. A group of unknown goons set fire to the house while the innocent family comprising of an aged couple, their daughter and her three children were all burnt alive, before they could realise what was happening to them. It was such a ghastly inhuman act; we should be ashamed of it. We are day by day sinking into a ruthless inhuman sump. Justice for the sake of justice, the culprits should be booked early and the trial should be on fast court and the punishment should be only death.


Political reaction is more heartless!


This incident occurred on October 12 during early hours in Vatoli, few kilometres from Bhainsa Mandal. Just then, Bhainsa witnessed a communal carnage.


There is absolutely no clue about the persons who indulged in this ghastly act
There is no evidence, which suggests that this incident has any emotional connection with the communal carnage that occurred a few kilometres away from Bhainsa.


The political parties had only entered at this stage and started issuing routine stale statements condemning the incident.


The Communist Party- Marxists (CPI – M), sitting in Kolkata then issued a statement blaming the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) for the crime even without visiting the site of crime or having any evidence to link it with the RSS.


The Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) president and Member of Parliament (MP) Asaduddin Owaisi had openly castigated Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the crime.


Can a responsible legislator like Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, or political parties like the CPM or Communist Party of India (CPI) etc, jump to conclusion within a few hours of the incident and blame RSS or BJP, while the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) would take months together to nab the culprits and identify their affiliations if at all with any?


One wonders how these political outfits start blaming a particular political party or an organisations for the crime or killings, that too within a few minutes or hours?


Just two days before this incident, a few Hindus were brutally killed and a number of shops belonging to the Hindus were burnt and looted. At this juncture, except MIM and BJP, none of the political parties either felt the necessity to visit and pacify the situation nor did they consider the Hindus as humans to deserve a sympathetic solace. But they entered only after the Vatoli incident.


This is the routine practice of our political parties anywhere in India after a communal clash.


The popular private TV news channels covered the incident elaborately and very openly.


But they did not cover the communal clashes that occurred just two days before the Vatoli carnage.


Such a biased reporting is causing unimaginable damage to the whole society.


First of all, it angers the minority deeply and it helps to develop hatred towards the majority community.


Secondly, if such a biased reaction of the media and politicians is allowed to thrive, tensions between communities would increase.


If the report reads as - “a particular community started pelting stones from a place of worship on another community and a few youths was stabbed to death and shops were burnt,” and if no political party ( except BJP) condemns the incident, then it can be construed that Muslims had the upper hand.


If the situation is otherwise, then obviously the media would come out with full details of the victims.


Unless our media and political parties give up such biases, the future of India is bleak.