SPS Rathore gives it back..this time to the Media !

I, like many others have been following the Ruchika Girhotra case on TV. Like it does to all things the Television media perhaps stepped on the gas a little too much.

Today, SPS Rathore - the former Haryana DGP who supposedly got away easily after abetting Ruchika to suicide shot back at the media. The legality of the case aside, I was thrilled to hear Rathore's remark to the preying media and wanted to record it here:

“The day you can satisfy me that you are the constitutional power to decide on these judicial matters I will speak”

I sympathize with this observation that the media in India -itself victimized by the TRP race - is overstepping a little too often. Its time perhaps the media learns a lesson or two and understands its role as the watchdog of the constitutional systems. What say??? 

Waking up, are we ?

I sometimes get the feeling that we in India are living in very important times. Not just because of our new found place as an emerging global power. More because of the way we are evolving as a society! As a society that can think, speak, discuss, debate and decide. Two major happenings of the recent past stand testimony.

• Article 377 - The fact that there was enough gut among us to discuss this on Live TV in a supposedly conservative society itself so amazes me. I would not vouch for the quality of the debate that often happens on TV but I though few NDTV debates were pretty fair and can form an important instrument in framing public opinion.
• Jaswant Singh's book on Jinnah and partition - I am particularly happy for the nation-wide debate the book will stir (or has already stirred, perhaps!). That someone, after Advani's Jinnah episode, will have the gumption to touch a soft subject like the partition and thereby kick-start a debate underscores the fact that our society is emerging into a truly pluralistic one. Not a pluralism that is defined by the multitudes of religions and cultures that exist here -facets that are more imposed on us than chosen, but a pluralism that is defined by our ideas and views that evolve with our experience and learning.

What say???