Combatant of the Fourth-Estate

Everyone has some, or the other kind of, Potential. It’s just a matter of time for the potential to be recognized by a person, first, and the people, later. But life has introduced to me, in my countless voyages, to several personalities who never valued their potential. Though blessed and are geniuses and because they dressed shabbily people often confused them with paranoids. It’s only when journalists like us feature them is that such people begin to get some recognition. But you can’t write just anything about anyone and anywhere. And because you cannot I preferred to create this platform, of GSB GENIUS (http://gsbgenius.wordpress.com) to portray those talents which among GSBs, in particular, often go unnoticed. The ones like my distinguished friend and colleague Deepak Kamath.

Deepak Kamath has been my predecessor as well as my mentor at Aseemaa. For years he has brought over hundreds of issues of the magazine at a time when Internet wasn’t available and DTP still undeveloped and ‘Intellectualism’ in Karnataka (India) wasn’t still a fashionable word. But against all odds he setup and brought Aseemaa to where it is today. People often consider me to be the ‘man who made Aseemaa’, lucky me, but it wouldn’t have been anything without him.

The unrealized siege of Capitalism

There is no need for an elaborate justification to say that ‘Money’ rules not just our lives but also our Institutions and other social framework, in totality. This is the hallmark of Capitalism. Capitalism, that which became very persevering theme after the World War II and grew to be an even major objective, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is what ruling us today.

But how good is Capitalism? No doubt it gives a great lifestyle, lots of opportunities for growth and all that. But have we ever spent time to realize its constraints? I bet – never. Why? That’s because capitalism hardly gives you any chance to think about zilch, but riches.

Never give up… come what may!

By U. Mahesh Prabhu

When I was young, that point in time when I didn’t even understood ‘L’ of Life, I was conveyed by many of my friends, relatives and members of my family that I was ‘good for nothing’. ‘I don’t know what you would be in life Mahesh.’ was what they said to me repeatedly. That did, of course, cause resentment and unrest in my consciousness. I knew I wasn’t made for being nothing. But, what was I supposed to be? I never knew. I was befuddled, in totality.

If at a given point of time I decided I wanted to be an Engineer, bit later I would prefer to be a doctor, later solider and then even a spy, perhaps. But you can’t be all at a time. Or can you? Certainly not! But that fire in me, which was completely untamed, was smoldering my mind and spirit.

‘To be anything in life, you need to have a good brains’ I was definite. More bizarre as it was many hypnotized me that ‘good brains show up in good marks’ and hence ‘no good marks would simply mean lack of intellect’ that which leads to ‘doom’.

Is the decline of fourth-estate here and happening?

Distinguished Editor and Author of our times M J Akbar is removed from the Editorship of ‘The Asian Age’ and ‘Deccan Chronicle’.

First it was the abrupt removal of M V Kamath from the Chairman of Prasar Bharati and now its turn of M J Akbar. MJ who has been for the past 15 years been identified among the most admired journalist-editor has been booted out from the Editorship of ‘The Asian Age’ and ‘Deccan Chronicle’. As per some confirmed sources UPA Chairperson Ms. Sonia Gandhi is said to be behind the scenes.

Two of the India’s legendary journalists cum editors are being humiliated, though indirectly, by the Congress led UPA government and yet our own journalist friends don’t seem to be interested in reporting this to the public. ‘That’s not news’ is what they said to me when I informed and sought their support towards taking up the matter on their respective mediums. Well, what then is news? I need someone to help me understand.