Media Culture

London. One day, I was listening to a programme on BBC London’s Hindi service. At the end of the programme, some letters were read out. One such letter was from a person based in Mauritius. In his letter, he complained that they broadcasted news from Hindi-speaking areas and that even though there were many Hindi-speaking people in Mauritius, they never gave any news of that country. The BBC announcer laughed, and replying to the sender of the letter, said, ‘Media is the name of reporting bad news. In your country, there is only good news, and for the media, good news is no news.’ It is against the system of Nature that there be only evil in the world and nothing else. The fact of the matter is that, in line with the system of Nature, in this world, if there is 1% evil, then, at the very same time, directly or indirectly, 99% good also exists. But the media never gives information to people about the fact that the evils that it reports are just 1% of the entire society and not the whole of it. Prior to 1947, almost all the newspapers in the subcontinent would highlight only negative aspects of the British. The positive aspects of the British administration rarely found a place in their columns. And so, many people began to hate the British. Likewise, before 1947, newspapers that were influenced by the