DATE: 14 Sept 2021

NAME: YOGITHA KHANDELWAL

REG NO: 21SJCCB273

ENGLISH
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 Table of Contents

RAVISH KUMAR ..................................................... 3

THE RATIONALE BEHIND THE CHOICE: ........... 3
HARTOSH SINGH BAL ........................................... 4
UNDERSTANDING AND COMPARISON: ............ 4
REFERENCES: .......................................................... 5
RAVISH KUMAR
Ravish Kumar is an Indian journalist, author and
media personality. He is the Senior Executive
Editor of NDTV India.
Prime Time, Hum Log, Ravish Ki Report and Des
Ki Baat are some of the programmes he hosts.
He has been honoured with various awards
including “RAMON MAGSAYSAY” in 2019 for
being voice of voiceless. He is two times recipient
of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism
Award in the year 2017 and 2013. The list
continues with Gauri Lankesh Award for
Journalism.
His style of news reading is witty, informative and thought provoking. He addresses about
issues common people are facing.

THE RATIONALE BEHIND THE CHOICE:

According to me his kind of journalism is OBJECTIVE.
Ravish Kumar is one such journalist who criticises whatever the government is in power.
Whether it’s BJP or Congress. Everyone thinks he is anti-Modi journalist, but that’s not true.
He even criticized Indian National Congress (INC) when it was in power, before 2014,
exposing their government failure. Now he criticizes BJP government because he thinks there
are many flaws in this government too. He has also received death threats in the past for his
journalism.
Sometimes Ravish Kumar gives too much publicity to negative things, ignoring positive
things. He should balance between negative and positive otherwise, it spreads negativity in
society. I do not find him biased at all.
 HARTOSH SINGH BAL is the
political editor of The Caravan magazine. He was
the political editor of OPEN magazine and is
adjunct faculty member at Jindal School of
Journalism & Communication.
In 2013, Bal was controversially fired from his
position of political editor of OPEN magazine. In
an interview the magazine's proprietor, Sanjiv
Goenka, had told that Bal's views, expressed in his
writings and in television appearances, were
resulting in him "making a lot of... political
enemies."
He has co-written a novel called A Certain
Ambiguity which won the 2007 Association of American Publishers award for the best
intellectual book in mathematics. His second book--"Waters close over us"—is part-
travelogue.

UNDERSTANDING AND COMPARISON:

According Hartosh Singh Bal the state of press freedom in India at the moment has
been going from bad to worse for a while. He thinks ever since Modi took over in 2014,
there’s been a deliberate attempt to subvert the whole independence of the media, and dissent
has been strictly controlled.

He says we have have 9 o’clock [prime time] news shows dedicated to journalists, who are
called anti-nationals, traitors and left-wing extremists simply because they are critical of the
government. So, this government has basically managed the media by either making it
ineffective or questioning its very purpose through other media which are more amenable to
what [government] want.
In an interview with India Ink, Mr. Bal said “Look, there is a great lack of transparency in
what happens within the media. I can speculate about what has happened; I know I have done
a certain series of articles. They were well received. I have not received any feedback from
within the publication that anything I have done was problematic. Then I hear I should leave
the organization. My editor says he opposes the decision. My publisher says he opposes the
decision. What happened can best be answered by the management of this group.
 The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture And The
Nation is non-fiction book written by Ravish Kumar on
India's democracy. He addresses about issues common
people are facing.
He talks about unemployment and problems of youth. At
times he talks about Art, culture, social issues, pollution,
etc. He criticises government and it's policies.
At times, the words of Kumar may sound pessimistic or
skeptical or you can term them a result of frustration,
but, in fact, the wholesome impact of it is positive. It
ignites the sparks of hope, solidarity, and compassion.
It is a promise from one of the most important voices in
India today… a promise which is a resolution too.
According to me, Hartosh Singh Bal and Ravish Kumar
have quite similar views about Journalism in India. They are fearlessly outspoken and
speaks/writes the truth as they know and have experienced it.

The media’s job is to ask for accountability from the elected representatives. but the media
itself is constituted which is one of our huge problems that in India intellectual and financial
control over discourse and money is still very much restricted to 6-7% of the population.
One may not agree with them entirely, but one cannot deny them the right and freedom to
speak the truth. Dissent is the vital sign of a healthy democracy.

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER IS BECOMING DIFFICULT!!

REFERENCES:
How the media becomes an arm of the government (caravanmagazine.in)
Review: Democracy and Debate in the Time of 'IT Cell' (thewire.in)
https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/the-free-voice-on-democracy-culture-and-
the-nation-review-looking-through-glass/article234
Q&A: Senior Indian journalist Hartosh Singh Bal | Media News | Al Jazeera
Interview | Hartosh Singh Bal, Sacked Unlawfully, Recounts His Legal Journey (thewire.in)
A Conversation With: Former Political Editor of Open Magazine Hartosh Singh Bal - The
New York Times (nytimes.com)