Comments on: An evening in Noida

By: AlexM

AlexM — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:22:50 +0000

Your blog is interesting!

Keep up the good work!

By: Kapil

Kapil — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:09:27 +0000

A nice sensitive blog entry. One can rant and rave for all it is worth, the media will not change its spots. Perhaps it is time that victims went on the attack. I wonder if someone uses a camera to make a video of such attacks by the media. The victim should casually ask some of the attackers which network of paper they represent with the question and the answer recorded in the video. This might enable the victim to approach a court for relief and compensation.

A quote from the Deccan Herald: “In a judgment with far-reaching consequences, the Supreme Court has said that accident victims should also be paid compensation for the loss of “matrimonial prospects” and “future treatments” if they are permanently crippled.

“The principles governing a claim petition for assessing the damages in case of bodily injury suffered is that while awarding the compensation, the tribunal should consider all relevant factors so as to enable the victim in such a position as if he had not sustained any injury,’’ said the judgment pronounced by a bench of Justices S B Sinha and L S Panta, while directing the authorities to keep Rs 2,00,000 in a fixed deposit in the name of victim Sapna” Unquote.

Loss of reputation and mental piece should also qualify for compensation. A few such cases and things might get better.

Meanwhile enjoy the NOIDA skyline and next time try Bageshwari,a raga even sweeter than Jayjawanti.

By: meena

meena — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:02:24 +0000

I agree completely the media and cops have really reached amazing levels of insensitivity. Infact i just cant watch news channels anymore, i wonder what it will take for everyone to be humane again. Even the print media has begun to give space to items which really dont need to be glorified, for eg, the murder of Neeraj Grover.
You know the pix actually looks a bit like Mumbai’s Marine Drive, quite amazing!

By: gC.

gC. — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:33:23 +0000

The Indian media, the way I see it, is not too different from the skyline described by Mala. It has a beautiful halo around it, but what’s happening inside is not even close to the beauty of the skyline.
The guardians of media, like the guardians of Noida cannot care less about their duties. Both are busy stuffing their pockets.
I have been fortunate/ unfortunate to work with the electronic media from close quarters, and what I saw was not too pleasant. Compassion is certainly not an agenda, and most of them work with a common goal to somehow crack the flawed system of TRPs.
For us, we may be stuck with the 4Cs (Crime, Cricket, Cinema and Chudail) of Indian media for a long time to come.

By: Naval

Naval — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:52:30 +0000

Yes. NOIDA does have a skyline. The only thing they don’t seem to have a civilized governance. The NOIDA police are a bunch of goonda’s who can never relate to the Talwar family or understand the mechanics and relationships between people like that.

I saw the seige at the Talwar residence on TV last night and it was utterly disgusting. Why the heck does the media have to hound victims and police like that. And what was the outcome — nothing. Not an iota of news coming forth except the frustration of Dinesh Talwar.

Did you watch the program of Barkha Dutt where they discussed the media’s role in this case? A whole lot of talk, justifications and accusations but no conclusion.

But. Let us pause and admire NOIDA’s skyline.