Indian Opinion

Mukesh Devrari Let’s go to the cremation ground. That can also be a place to learn about the culture. The holy city of Haridwar in India is considered as one of the most auspices places in the Hindu religion. It is believed that the soul directly goes to heaven if the last rites are conducted in Haridwar on the banks of Ganges. Once you go there, it is a drastically different experience? Dogs and filth are all around and the river is far from clean. If it is a rainy season, then small rivulets which open directly in the Ganges carry all the known and unknown filth human beings generate on a daily basis. Apart from that one can also see dogs searching for pieces of bones from the remains of a cremated corpse.   Now there are few things, which need discussion, attention and perhaps questioning also. Somehow as people reach the crematory ground, the first thing they are told is to purchase wood piles to burn the corpse. That does not come cheap keeping in m...

Mukesh Devrari  Transnational media ownership means ownership of media assets by global corporate houses around the world. The word 'transnational' can easily be easily replaced with the term multinational. In other words, when a multinational company owns media companies around the globe that company can be described as a transnational media organization. There are plenty of such organizations, but most vilified among all is owned by Rupert Murdoch.  The nature of media is very different. As you all know media is a plural form of the medium. Production of films, TV serials, drama, theatre and other wings of the cultural industry are also owned by western media companies. Here, the meaning of the word transnational can be extended. Not necessarily western media companies own assets in the third world countries. They create their work in the west and sell it around the world.   It has long been a complaint against western media companies that wherever they g...