There was a time when Indian journalists ruled the roost, colossuses of the likes of Kuldip Nayyar,Inder Malhotra,Dileep Padgaonkar,Praful Bidwai,M.J.Akbar,Rajan Bala,Chitra Subramaniam,N.Ram,R.Mohan,S.Gurumurthy,Tavleen Singh,Bachi Karkaria and others of their ilk strode the national stage in a manner befitting their rather exalted status, people or more specifically their devoted readers dedicatedly lapped up every word that poured out of their acerbis pens dipped in the ink of truth,morality,ethics and above all the dictum that the truth shall always triumph no matter what.
Sadly, Indian Journalism like many other professions and walks of life has fallen prey to the lure of mammon as the natural progression of father time has heralded a changing of the guard. The sacred guiding lights of personal integrity,morals,values and ethics have fallen by the wayside and reduced to the level of relics from the past and off late have even become objects of ridicule, every two bit journalist worth his/her salt is out to make a quick buck,grab every possible eyeball through any means fair or foul as long as it fattens their already burgeoning bank balances and to hell with outmoded dictums like Satyameva Jayate and Sachai Ki Taqaat.
The sensational leak of the Niira Radia tapes unmasked many an exalted journalist who donned the garb of crusaders for the cause of truth and fearless,favourless journalism as long as it suited them and served their best interests. Journalists of the eminence of a Vir Sanghvi and Barkha Dutt were exposed for the frauds, charlatans,self seeking power hungry favour seekers and brokers that they really are and while an apology was forthcoming from Vir sanghvi's side for his alleged misdeeds and committing the cardinal sin of betraying his dedicated readers and legions of followers,one is still awaiting a similar gesture from her royal highness,the self styled empress of Indian visual journalism, Barkha Dutt.
So much for the sins of omissions and comission of the high and mighty,their humbler counterparts hailing from downmarket climes and running weekly/fortnightly/monthly journals from within their backyards and nondescript business premises have not remained immune to the lure of the lucre and sold their souls for paltry sums like Rs.25,000-50,000/-curried favour from unscrupulous politicians and tom tommed their nefarious deeds and unsavoury acts whenever and wherever wads of currency notes,plots or then any other political favours were dished out to buy their saleable loyalties.
The uncrowned emperor of these dalaals,favour seekers,pimps,charlatans,frauds,two faced abject apologies for journalists is a gentleman(if one can call him that) by the name of N.A.Choudhry who claims to run a fortnightly paper for the last decade and a half.Yours truly came across this unscrupulous and highly self seeking apology for a journalist in the press room of the Vidhana Soudha way back in April 1994 and soon associated himself with this dalaal as he was taken in by his lofty sounding proclamations of wanting to change the world and set the Indian journalistic scene on fire through his pen and unimpeachable conduct.
Yours truly dedicated himself to the cause espoused by this two faced charlatan and fraud and soon immersed himself in the noble task of writing five-six articles for every edition of his fortnightly paper then christened Waiting News, while the infamous N.A.Choudhry kept himself busy with wheeling,dealing,seeking political favours,black mailing influential people with threats to expose their darker deeds and unseen faces and considerably enriched himself in the bargain through these reprehensible and heinous acts.
In the meanwhile,yours truly was accorded the golden opportunity of working of a premier Indian construction company in Libya and proceeded to accept this opportunity with due haste.Choudhry promised to get a an AC 2 tier seat and berth for yours truly through his good(?) offices and alleged contacts with the chairman of South Central railway and asked yours truly to reach the Bangalore city Railway station two and a half hours before the departure of Karnataka Express, to my horror and consternation the said Choudhry failed to materialise and his lofty promises ended up collapsing like the proverbial pack of cards as a result of which yours truly ended up enduring a truly horrific 42 hour long journey between Bangalore and New Delhi thanks to the machinations of his unscrupulous so called friend.
Yours truly also endured the ignominy,mental trauma and sheer agony of being ensoned within the precincts of the J.P.Nagar Police station as Choudhry entrusted yours truly with the onerous responsibility of delivering a letter meant for his then sworn enemy Puttaswamy Gowda the then Circle Inspector of J.P.Nagar and yours truly was only allowed to proceed after the timely intervention of the DCP Bangalore South. The same Choudhry also got a series of articles entitled Puttaswamy Gowda police ofiicer or pimp by yours truly exposing his numerous alleged and real misdeeds and then conveniently kissed and made up with him as and when their mutual interests were best served.
The villainous Choudhry was also afflicted by the roving eye and Road Romeo syndromes and hounded out of his so called business premises in full view of quite a few residents of Shamanna Garden J.P.Nagar Vth phase by the very two people, a Mussulmani garment exporter and a Bengali retired gazetted officer who supposedly were his closest confidantes and friends in J.P.Nagar on alleged charges of casting a covetous eye and making lewd advances on the lady's daughter and elderly gentleman's daughter in law where were his espoused causes,ethics,morals,and impeccable standards of integrity at the time.
The entries into the journal or accounts ledger of this satanic manifestation of a journalist continued unabated,
he sttoped so low as exploiting the sheer helplessness of a grandmother unable to cope with the youthful vigour of her ward and grandson and shamelessly exploited the gullibility of both the grandmother and innocence and trusting nature of the grandson Viswanath to his benefit, the villainous Choudhryn used Viswanath unabashedly as his personal errand boy for well over two years in the presence of yours truly again without rendering any monetary remuneration in return and always placated him with false promises of getting him some job or the other in the software field as the boy was on his way to completing a three year specialised course in computer applications from Brilliant Computers and also usurped undisclosed sums of money of from the parents of laggards who floundered badly in their qualifying exams and thereby failed to land an admission into one of Bangalore's elite colleges.He claimed to use his good offices with the authorities in Vijaya College and get the laggards admitted while pocketing undisclosed sums of money from the hapless parents and greatly inflating his already burgeoning bank balance in the process.
One can go on and on talking about this fraud,pimp,charlatan and two faced self seeking and self obsessed abject apology for a journalist and his katha of unsavoury dealings and nefarious misdeeds,but the fact of the matter is that sixteen (16) years and 118 articles later,yours truly is still awaiting the first RUPEE for favours rendered to this self styled editor who is woefully incapable of penning a single word himself and wholly dependent on the Press Information Bureau and gullible fools like yours truly for running his so called fortnightly News Age Herald.
Do please feel free to contact me if you personally know or know about the misdeeds and sins of omission and comission of such frauds and charlatans so thjat we can umask them and highlight their misdeeds in full public view and through this god send medium.
SUNDEEP CHOPRA.
Sadly, Indian Journalism like many other professions and walks of life has fallen prey to the lure of mammon as the natural progression of father time has heralded a changing of the guard. The sacred guiding lights of personal integrity,morals,values and ethics have fallen by the wayside and reduced to the level of relics from the past and off late have even become objects of ridicule, every two bit journalist worth his/her salt is out to make a quick buck,grab every possible eyeball through any means fair or foul as long as it fattens their already burgeoning bank balances and to hell with outmoded dictums like Satyameva Jayate and Sachai Ki Taqaat.
The sensational leak of the Niira Radia tapes unmasked many an exalted journalist who donned the garb of crusaders for the cause of truth and fearless,favourless journalism as long as it suited them and served their best interests. Journalists of the eminence of a Vir Sanghvi and Barkha Dutt were exposed for the frauds, charlatans,self seeking power hungry favour seekers and brokers that they really are and while an apology was forthcoming from Vir sanghvi's side for his alleged misdeeds and committing the cardinal sin of betraying his dedicated readers and legions of followers,one is still awaiting a similar gesture from her royal highness,the self styled empress of Indian visual journalism, Barkha Dutt.
So much for the sins of omissions and comission of the high and mighty,their humbler counterparts hailing from downmarket climes and running weekly/fortnightly/monthly journals from within their backyards and nondescript business premises have not remained immune to the lure of the lucre and sold their souls for paltry sums like Rs.25,000-50,000/-curried favour from unscrupulous politicians and tom tommed their nefarious deeds and unsavoury acts whenever and wherever wads of currency notes,plots or then any other political favours were dished out to buy their saleable loyalties.
The uncrowned emperor of these dalaals,favour seekers,pimps,charlatans,frauds,two faced abject apologies for journalists is a gentleman(if one can call him that) by the name of N.A.Choudhry who claims to run a fortnightly paper for the last decade and a half.Yours truly came across this unscrupulous and highly self seeking apology for a journalist in the press room of the Vidhana Soudha way back in April 1994 and soon associated himself with this dalaal as he was taken in by his lofty sounding proclamations of wanting to change the world and set the Indian journalistic scene on fire through his pen and unimpeachable conduct.
Yours truly dedicated himself to the cause espoused by this two faced charlatan and fraud and soon immersed himself in the noble task of writing five-six articles for every edition of his fortnightly paper then christened Waiting News, while the infamous N.A.Choudhry kept himself busy with wheeling,dealing,seeking political favours,black mailing influential people with threats to expose their darker deeds and unseen faces and considerably enriched himself in the bargain through these reprehensible and heinous acts.
In the meanwhile,yours truly was accorded the golden opportunity of working of a premier Indian construction company in Libya and proceeded to accept this opportunity with due haste.Choudhry promised to get a an AC 2 tier seat and berth for yours truly through his good(?) offices and alleged contacts with the chairman of South Central railway and asked yours truly to reach the Bangalore city Railway station two and a half hours before the departure of Karnataka Express, to my horror and consternation the said Choudhry failed to materialise and his lofty promises ended up collapsing like the proverbial pack of cards as a result of which yours truly ended up enduring a truly horrific 42 hour long journey between Bangalore and New Delhi thanks to the machinations of his unscrupulous so called friend.
Yours truly also endured the ignominy,mental trauma and sheer agony of being ensoned within the precincts of the J.P.Nagar Police station as Choudhry entrusted yours truly with the onerous responsibility of delivering a letter meant for his then sworn enemy Puttaswamy Gowda the then Circle Inspector of J.P.Nagar and yours truly was only allowed to proceed after the timely intervention of the DCP Bangalore South. The same Choudhry also got a series of articles entitled Puttaswamy Gowda police ofiicer or pimp by yours truly exposing his numerous alleged and real misdeeds and then conveniently kissed and made up with him as and when their mutual interests were best served.
The villainous Choudhry was also afflicted by the roving eye and Road Romeo syndromes and hounded out of his so called business premises in full view of quite a few residents of Shamanna Garden J.P.Nagar Vth phase by the very two people, a Mussulmani garment exporter and a Bengali retired gazetted officer who supposedly were his closest confidantes and friends in J.P.Nagar on alleged charges of casting a covetous eye and making lewd advances on the lady's daughter and elderly gentleman's daughter in law where were his espoused causes,ethics,morals,and impeccable standards of integrity at the time.
The entries into the journal or accounts ledger of this satanic manifestation of a journalist continued unabated,
he sttoped so low as exploiting the sheer helplessness of a grandmother unable to cope with the youthful vigour of her ward and grandson and shamelessly exploited the gullibility of both the grandmother and innocence and trusting nature of the grandson Viswanath to his benefit, the villainous Choudhryn used Viswanath unabashedly as his personal errand boy for well over two years in the presence of yours truly again without rendering any monetary remuneration in return and always placated him with false promises of getting him some job or the other in the software field as the boy was on his way to completing a three year specialised course in computer applications from Brilliant Computers and also usurped undisclosed sums of money of from the parents of laggards who floundered badly in their qualifying exams and thereby failed to land an admission into one of Bangalore's elite colleges.He claimed to use his good offices with the authorities in Vijaya College and get the laggards admitted while pocketing undisclosed sums of money from the hapless parents and greatly inflating his already burgeoning bank balance in the process.
One can go on and on talking about this fraud,pimp,charlatan and two faced self seeking and self obsessed abject apology for a journalist and his katha of unsavoury dealings and nefarious misdeeds,but the fact of the matter is that sixteen (16) years and 118 articles later,yours truly is still awaiting the first RUPEE for favours rendered to this self styled editor who is woefully incapable of penning a single word himself and wholly dependent on the Press Information Bureau and gullible fools like yours truly for running his so called fortnightly News Age Herald.
Do please feel free to contact me if you personally know or know about the misdeeds and sins of omission and comission of such frauds and charlatans so thjat we can umask them and highlight their misdeeds in full public view and through this god send medium.
SUNDEEP CHOPRA.
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