The question is long and more than explanatory. No, we weren’t trying to be provocative. It was a genuine, honest sentiment. Presenting Das ka Dum with Dr Bhaskar Das. Read on…
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Q. It would be unfair on our readers if we were not to seek your wisdom on the media events of last week, and it would be unfair on you to ask a question on an event of the last week given the realities of life. Please advise what I should do.
A. Enquiries/ curiosities are route to advancement of knowledge. Now, what constitutes knowledge, is a million-dollar question. What is knowledge to you or to a reader may not be considered as knowledge to others. Is the Kamala Harris-Pence debate more relevant or the reason for California fire, or why so few people died in Covid-19 in New Zealand? Closer home, should we celebrate the Kanta Prasad story? Or, when a film in Netflix named Social Dilemma highlights the harmful effects of social meda, a Baba ka Dhaba story shows the power of the same media. But most of us have a subliminal schradenfreude syndrome and hence we tend to get interested in stories that have possibilities of debatable POV, and can have corrosive social climate. Why pander to that? As a content generator, I believe in maintaining my freedom to reach… while questioning is a freedom of speech that a reader or you have. So it is about responsibility and ability to focus on issues that concern humanity at large. I am not commenting on relative importance of issues, but it’s my choice where I focus to expand the vistas of my knowledge.