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I remember when I was a kid, one guy called Rajiv Goswami set himself ablaze to protest against V.P. Singh's implementation of the Mandal Commission recommendations. That was headline in all news papers in 1990 I guess. Only three policemen came to help where all other reporters and media people were busy clicking & scribbling for next day’s newspaper.

22 years later, in Guwahati one girl was molested in public just for ‘fun’, the passer by folks also joined the ‘fun’ and duo from local news channel keep filming it. The video got viral in net and three of those twenty molesters were arrested by public. The HD quality video finally helped to nab some rascals. The govt praised itself saying they nabbed few of them, so was police. The woman commission flew from Delhi did some photo-shots and meetings. But have we ever though how low the media had came down?

Police suspecting that TV journalist might have orchestrated the molestation of the girl by instigating the mob as the prime accused is reported to be his friend. They could record it but couldn't try to save her? How low we can go  ? What if it was anyone known to someone there? Wouldn’t he fight then?

Not sure how many eyes it would open as we have common tendency to say it won’t happen to me, but I seriously want something to happen those people who think like this. 
(I didn't want to add to her humiliation by adding one more picture here )

Around same time Gehana Vashisht did a photo-shoot wearing our national flag as lower with bikini. The photos appeared in a famous magazine which agitated many people as obviously sentiments of a few people were hurt. An irate crowd corners her at Lokhandwala, and starts pelting stones at her car, cracking the rear windshield. The model herself was lightly injured because of it.

I thought this is the end of the story and she would have realised she shouldn’t have done so, but what made me stunt that she later in her defense said that the photo-shoot was personal use and was taken while she was out with her friends . What I couldn’t figure out how someone can say like personally I can do such things. No surprise one more Poonam Pandey in making. WTF, a soldier die for the tiranga and one model shamelessly use it as swimshoot and M***F***s like & share those pics in Facebook and other sites.

The fourth story is of our famous Yuvraj Singh, in some channel and news papers he was quoted as hero, survivor of death. Yes indeed he had a bad time, but what heroism here? In India more than a million people die because of cancer each year, don’t they want to live? Boss, everyone can’t get themselves treated at Boston Cancer Institute. Yuvraj Singh could afford, so he did. We made Dhoni the 2^nd richest player, Sachin have a Ferrari and we hope the unprivileged soccer and wrestling players to get medals in Olympics. The same proactive media never show them on TV except time of Olympics which can made its TRPs high.

One guy fights for the ‘general’ people for something that was very bad for our country, one helpless girl gets molested and same time one shameless model comes to media to clarify that she didn’t do anything wrong by making the tiranga her swimsuit, it was for her private use. Yuvraj Singh again become a national hero defeating the death and few more Jawan's bodies arrive their home from border. Few people light candles in memories of their loved one but they never make a news . 

We have come long way since 1990, but again it seems nothing has changed. We never realised that With great power comes great responsibility.