Towards a Sustainable State (Dharma Rajya)

We live in a knowledge age and naturally media plays or are expected to play an important role in conveying or propagating any idea, business or ideology. Whether today’s media plays such a constructive role or not is not the subject of this article, but the fact remains that media is indeed an important vehicle today. India being such an all-encompassing culture, we have such a diversity of languages flourishing happily along-side each other and since each of our regional languages have a sizeable number of speakers (in many cases numbers are comparable to speakers of European languages), it would be interesting to discuss how the media in one such language is performing. So let’s see where the Marathi media is headed towards. Readers and viewers of other regional language media could easily draw interesting parallels from this discussion. Lokmanya Tilak was one of the pioneers of Marathi mass media with his firebrand daily – Kesari. He had successfully ignited the spark for freedom a...

You get down from the bus and start walking down a narrow winding path to reach the place where you are going to spend a very exciting night in the company of some exotic beauties! As you take careful steps on the path less traveled, sweet fragrances of jungle flowers welcome you. Soothing evening breezes blowing gently down the mountain slopes bring great relief to your weary mind and body. The melodious song of a magpie robin brings a smile on your face and the hauntingly beautiful “miao” of our national bird refreshes you like mint. You are in Mumbai! And the beauties that you can expect to entice you tonight include panthers, deer, jackals and wild cats!! Sounds contradictory, isn’t it? Not exactly. If this is what greets you after alighting from a bus in Mumbai, then you are in the famed Borivli National Park in the northern part of the city. Recently the state forest department conducted the annual wildlife census in the forests of Maharashtra and the nature lover inside me woke ...