Press Council Of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju called upon journalist to play a seminal role in promoting scientific and rational ideas in society and raise the intellectual level of the masses by extricating them from the morass of superstition ,caste ism ,bigotry ,communal ism and feudal tendencies .,
Justice Katju flayed the penchant in a section of the media for non-issues - ostensibly to serve a business interest - at the expense of vital issues which affect 80 % of the people of the country facing poverty and unemployment .
”You have lost your sense of proportion .but this can not go for long .As your critic and well wisher ,I will bring you to the right path ” – Katju
Taking note on ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival ,Justice Katju said the level of participants in the event touted as a mega literacy carnival reminded him of Hindi Novel Chandrakanta Santati full of fairy-tales and useless anecdotes ,which he read in childhood .
The PCI chairman regretted that those claiming to be literatures had stooped the level of making indecent remarks on the stage and were justifying perversions .This was happening in the land which had produced illustrious writers and poets like Premchnadra ,Shart Chadnra Chattopadhyay ,Quazi Nazrul Isalm “
Justice Katju said while the nation was “sitting 0n volcano ,” the media was offering four kinds of opium to the masses in the shape of religious bigotry ,films ,cricket and falsehood .”The intent is clear to .Keep the people drugged so they not revolt against poverty and terrible mess created for them ”
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