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Communal violance and Media in India
2. "The Fascism will come to India, in the form of communalism,"
warned, Jawaharlal Nehru, first Indian Prime Minister.
•India is and was always first in incorporating various religions
into its Culture and traditions
•Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism collectively make 2.6 to
3 billion followers
•Hinduism and Buddhism 3rd and 4th largest religions respectively
in the world Today
•All religions in the world are practiced in India with considerable
number of followers
•India also has a long and vast history on Communal violence
3. Media and various acts
incorporated in constitution
Article 25 embodied in the Constitution the fundamental
guarantees of freedom of conscience, practice and propagation
of religion.
Article 28 freedom at religious instruction in certain
educational and cultural institutions
Article 28 and 50 the protection of the cultural and educational
rights of minorities
Article 19 (1) embodies the faith our constitution framers had
in the press of the country in promoting the above principles.
Press (Objectionable Matters) Act, 1951
Delivering of Books and Newspapers (Public Libraries) Act,
1954
Working Journalists (Conditions of Services) and
Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955
Newspaper (Price and Page) Act, 1956
Parliamentary Proceedings (Protection of Publications) Act,
1960.
4. Media as Stenographers
Innocent people framed and acquitted with the help of media
Dhaula Kuan encounter case
RTI enquiry
No Punishment for Officials
Mis - Interpretation of facts in records
5. History of Religious violence in
India
Communal violence in India is rarely spontaneous.
It is mostly engineered
Partition of British India (1947)
Karnataka Riots
Gujarat communal riots (1969)
Anti-Sikh Riots (1984)
Ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Hindus
Religious involvement in North-East India Militancy
Anti-Muslim violence
Anti-Christian violence
Anti-Hindu violence
6. Comparison between media reports
and ground reality during communal
violence
Assam Riots
Hyderabad Riots in 1990’s and 2010
Kandhamal Riots
8. Problems, short comings and
solutions for Indian Media
Political ownership
Lack of training
Excess of media houses and coverage
Less participation of Minorities in Journalism
Paid news
Theories from two sides have to be taken.
9. Conclusion
In a country like India with the kind of freedom the media
houses enjoy, media has to be independent, secular and
unbiased and because media is considered the 4th pillar of
democracy it has to play a major role in finding the culprits
behind caste and communal riots with the help of its
investigation teams and help the victims and the government in
serving Justice which is not the case with Indian media.