Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Branding a Country!

I was browsing news channels in this week, they are all filled by arguments and debating how to brand Australia as “Racist-Australia”.
This seems to me a media initiative to sensitize Indian public pulling three or four isolated incidents. I feel our media is reading to much on these incidents.
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I feel our media should play a constructive roll than provoking and sensitizing these issues, they are isolated incidents, we may have to get into root cause analysis and may be trying to correct the cultural misunderstanding than debating these incidents.
We need to put ourselves in an Australian's shoe and feel how these debates of half cooked experts hurt the positive and good Australian minds.
If baranding a country is motive our media, we may have to accept foreign media branding us as “Rapist-India”, Of course no Indian like to be called as Rapist.
The 20 year old German national’s molestation following the World Tourism Day (September 27th) has once again exposed the vulnerability of female tourists who are considered as easy targets by criminals. While the issue may be affecting the tourism industry’s revenues significantly, it has also brought out the fact that Indian policing has virtually collapsed.
Seven cases were reported in the first month of this year. A Swedish teenage was molested at a New Year's Eve party at Kochi in Kerala, while a number of tourists were also heckled. Three foreign women reported sexual harassment in Goa. Also in Goa, two British women claimed to have been sexually assaulted by the owner of a resort.
During the last few years several sexual attacks have also been reported in Rajasthan, a famous tourist destination also known as the jewel of Indian tourism. Just before Christmas, an American national was molested in Pushkar and a British journalist was raped in Udaipur. Earlier, a French woman was raped, also in Pushkar. In 2005 in Rajasthan, a German tourist was raped by an auto-rickshaw driver and his accomplice in Jodhpur. Today Rajasthan is being seen as the tourist-rape capital of India.
Crime statistics for 2006, released by the Home Ministry's National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), show that 18 women are victims of crime every hour. The number of rapes a day has increased nearly 700 per cent since 1971, when such cases were first recorded by the NCRB. The number has grown from 7 to 53 rape cases per day


This expert from Center of Social research should put our media back foot before we point finger(other four fingers are pointing to us) to fellow country men.

Hope some media friends are reading…