Manoj Raghuvanshi, TV Anchor and Producer,
I feel 'Secularist media' will either learn to behave it self, by realizing its mistakes, or it might get persuaded to modify its negativity.
I feel 'Secularist media' will either learn to behave it self, by realizing its mistakes, or it might get persuaded to modify its negativity.Raghuvanshi has been a television journalist for about 25 years. He started his career in year 1978 hosting youth programmes.- 'Yuv Manch' and 'Yuv Jan' on Doordarshan. He also hosted, 'Newstrack', which was India's first video news magazine. He is also a documentary film maker.
He received Nachiketa Award, in year 2000. He has won many other awards too including 'Delhi Ratna,' Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award.
In past, he has hosted a number of programmes, including 'India's Most Wanted' and 'Aap Ki Adalat.'
Q. On research done while making a programme Well, we try to do as comprehensive and as extensive research as possible, the more research you do better are your perspectives.
Q. On the programmes in progress Right now, I am doing only one regular weekly programme called 'Khula Manch.' Until recently, I was doing a programme called 'Hum Hajir Hai,' for Doordarshan. I am not restricting myself to either a language, or a particular genre of programmes or a particular channel.
Q. On the attributes of the programmes One thing that I keep in mind while doing a programme, is that it must offer some value to the viewer. Another factor is that the topic should be of concern to the people. If there are law and order disturbances, then they are affected, if they harbor terrorists in their settlements, then their lives will be affected. If they start asking for a separate homeland then their lives will be affected. Also, problems like conversion, religious conversion, these are issues, which hurt me and they hurt the people and they are relevant to their lives. So, I try to cover them.
Q. On the factors leading towards the secularist attitude It's a very unfortunate situation. Although a very large section of our media is nationalist, a very large section of our media is fair minded, honest, expressive. Then there is a section of media, which is secularist, which has certain ingredients, which make them secularist. One of them is ignorance, not knowing what the problem is. Then there is fear. Then there is something which is called 'Bhedchaal' in Hindi. This is happening due to some secularists, who are now in the leading positions in the media. Then there is temptation somebody has offered something, either money or some gift in kind. He gets persuaded to a certain line, which is a secularist line. Then there are some people who suffer from an inferiority complex. They feel that whatever is nationalist is something to look down upon. Whatever belongs to their religion, whatever belongs to their culture, whatever belongs to their nation is something to look down upon. And what should be looked with respect is things which are western. These are also the people who get easily sucked into the secularist vortex. And in the last category come people who are deliberately anti-national, they hate your country, they want to support your enemies and they want to hurt the nation. And it is these people who must be corrected first.
Q. On the Indian print media Our media houses are the houses that are owned by nationalists, owned by people who are patriotic and it is their money. And it is their money and their institutions, which are being used to subvert his own aspirations.
Q. On the coming of news channels The market will be very competitive, and I have doubts that all the news channels will survive. In this competition, the viewers will have the opportunity, to examine all the various shades of opinion. We will be going to a stage when the system would have more channels than it can afford financially as well as in terms of viewer time and interest
Q. On new genres likely to emerge in the television arena In my opinion, one genre that would emerge is investigative journalism. At the moment there is almost no investigative journalism in television. Then, health is another area that I feel would develop because it is something that has begin to concern people. Definitely there will be more programmes about the problems that the nation is facing today, which have been brushed under the carpet by a large section of the powerful media. Issues like terrorism, issues like illegal immigration of Bangladeshis, issues like religious conversion. On the contrary, justification has been offered in favor of Jihad, in favor of religious conversion, in favor of illegal Bangladeshi's. I am sure this trend will be reversed. I feel this section of 'Secularist media' will either learn to behave it self, by realizing its mistakes, or it might get persuaded to modify its negativity. As beyond a point the people will not tolerate something, which hurts them. So, another trend that you will see, hopefully, is that the secularist dimension of the media will automatically get revised, and this secularist attitude will be replaced more and more by the nationalist attitude.
Q. On the question whether print media is becoming real issues to the surface No, that is the problem. When I say there are these secularists who are in position of power, although the number of these secularists is very low. But they hold positions of power and the kind of viewpoint they are presenting is the secularist viewpoint. And when you try to deal with real issues they object, they raise obstacles.
Q. On the programmes in progress Right now, I am doing only one regular weekly programme called 'Khula Manch.' Until recently, I was doing a programme called 'Hum Hajir Hai,' for Doordarshan. I am not restricting myself to either a language, or a particular genre of programmes or a particular channel.
Q. On the attributes of the programmes One thing that I keep in mind while doing a programme, is that it must offer some value to the viewer. Another factor is that the topic should be of concern to the people. If there are law and order disturbances, then they are affected, if they harbor terrorists in their settlements, then their lives will be affected. If they start asking for a separate homeland then their lives will be affected. Also, problems like conversion, religious conversion, these are issues, which hurt me and they hurt the people and they are relevant to their lives. So, I try to cover them.
Q. On the factors leading towards the secularist attitude It's a very unfortunate situation. Although a very large section of our media is nationalist, a very large section of our media is fair minded, honest, expressive. Then there is a section of media, which is secularist, which has certain ingredients, which make them secularist. One of them is ignorance, not knowing what the problem is. Then there is fear. Then there is something which is called 'Bhedchaal' in Hindi. This is happening due to some secularists, who are now in the leading positions in the media. Then there is temptation somebody has offered something, either money or some gift in kind. He gets persuaded to a certain line, which is a secularist line. Then there are some people who suffer from an inferiority complex. They feel that whatever is nationalist is something to look down upon. Whatever belongs to their religion, whatever belongs to their culture, whatever belongs to their nation is something to look down upon. And what should be looked with respect is things which are western. These are also the people who get easily sucked into the secularist vortex. And in the last category come people who are deliberately anti-national, they hate your country, they want to support your enemies and they want to hurt the nation. And it is these people who must be corrected first.
Q. On the Indian print media Our media houses are the houses that are owned by nationalists, owned by people who are patriotic and it is their money. And it is their money and their institutions, which are being used to subvert his own aspirations.
Q. On the coming of news channels The market will be very competitive, and I have doubts that all the news channels will survive. In this competition, the viewers will have the opportunity, to examine all the various shades of opinion. We will be going to a stage when the system would have more channels than it can afford financially as well as in terms of viewer time and interest
Q. On new genres likely to emerge in the television arena In my opinion, one genre that would emerge is investigative journalism. At the moment there is almost no investigative journalism in television. Then, health is another area that I feel would develop because it is something that has begin to concern people. Definitely there will be more programmes about the problems that the nation is facing today, which have been brushed under the carpet by a large section of the powerful media. Issues like terrorism, issues like illegal immigration of Bangladeshis, issues like religious conversion. On the contrary, justification has been offered in favor of Jihad, in favor of religious conversion, in favor of illegal Bangladeshi's. I am sure this trend will be reversed. I feel this section of 'Secularist media' will either learn to behave it self, by realizing its mistakes, or it might get persuaded to modify its negativity. As beyond a point the people will not tolerate something, which hurts them. So, another trend that you will see, hopefully, is that the secularist dimension of the media will automatically get revised, and this secularist attitude will be replaced more and more by the nationalist attitude.
Q. On the question whether print media is becoming real issues to the surface No, that is the problem. When I say there are these secularists who are in position of power, although the number of these secularists is very low. But they hold positions of power and the kind of viewpoint they are presenting is the secularist viewpoint. And when you try to deal with real issues they object, they raise obstacles.
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