Today media is considered as fourth pillar of democracy, but the freedom of media is still restricted to certain things, while as we have seen the two faces of media, one is totally propagating the news in different manner which is totally false, other a little part of media is not fearing and is giving the real sense of news, but unfortunately they are being threatened or something else happens with them.
Kamran Yousuf a photojournalist, who was arrested by NIA last week, while as Gauri Lankesh was a senior journalist-Activist and was murdered by unknown assailants last week.
The tale of Kamran is he is a fearless and a brave photojournalist from votile south Kashmir of Pulwama district, he was working with greater Kashmir a daily newspaper from Srinagar but unfortunately GK disowned him, as he was picked by NIA (National Investigation Agency) on September 5, which labelled him as stonepelter. After his arrest no organisation for which he was working issued a single statement, which provoked the people on social media to rise questions and most of them were seen angry over the organisations which disowned him. Somehow after ten days the Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) issued a statement for the release of Kamran. It took ten days for KEG to show there statement, question is what were they doing which took them ten days to issue a statement. The number one as per circulation of the GK newspaper is which disowned him had in past posted a story in which they clearly wrote, “Cops thrash GK lensman” on 04 March 2017 dated, which they recently edited, as “Cops thrash photojournalist in Pulwama”, after all now they deleted the link, when you will go through the Google to find it and when you enter into the link which is disabled now.
A fearless and a brave photojournalist was doing his job by taking pictures of funerals of Armed Rebels, civilian, rallies of mainstream and off stream as well as was his job. According to his friends he was the first from south Kashmir to report from any incident happening in south Kashmir and the first to reach the spot, a passionate journalist is behind bars now as he was arrested by NIA, and was remanded to 10-day NIA custody by a court in Delhi. Even his family doesn’t know where to go for the meet of there family member. NIA didn’t issued any reason for the arrest of a photojournalist Kamran, is labelling a person as stonepelter and arresting him by NIA a setup of democracy, “no,the answer is big no”, if anything had why didn’t you let a local police station did it.
There only goal is to make fear in the minds of Kashmiri’s that is there policy to control the disputed part. But they are living in fool’s world by theses tactics no one is going to change his mind in Kashmir, if you really want that the minds of Kashmiri’s could change is to address the basic issues and a long lasting solution to kashmir issue. Arresting people, Hurriyat leaders and photojournalist is not solution.
Gauri Lankash a senior journalist and an Activist and also a brave lady was known for his journalistic work. She was not sacred of anyone and was writing boldly. She was killed ‘on September 5, by unknown assailants’ outside his house in Bangaloru, as she was not sacred of anyone and most of the people call her and says she was critic of BJP-RSS. In India according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 41 reporters have been killed in India since 1992, nearly all in small towns or conflict zones like Kashmir.
To end this brave and bold lady into silent mode assailants used bullets. The message is clearly visible that an atmosphere of fear is going to be created in India where no one will speak and criticize the ruling party.
For her the bullets silenced the brave Gauri, the three of the bullets pierced Gauri’s head, neck, and chest, resulting in her death at the scene.
Assassination of Gauri Lankesh silanced the fearless voice but gave birth to many new Gauri’s.
Author is Student Activist and can be reached at younusrashid786@gmail.com
