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It is the electronic media that India must thank for the success of
the Anna movement. And yes, it sure was democratic."

Our governments time and again have been most corrupt and
demonocratic! But in all these respects, the current government takes
the cake! The biggest of scams have surfaced under this leadership.
And its not big because times have changed. Even inflation accounted
for these are gigantic scams which only show that the people in power
are corrupt and greedy like never before. Thus 2010 can safely be
called the year of unparalleled and historical corruption. The year of
shame, on which media- specially the electronic media- had a field
year, ended up making a lot of people from the civil society very
vocal.
Amongst them were some people with honest background and spotless
record of serving this nation and having a great following in this
country. People like Kiran bedi, arvind kejriwal and the grand old man
of Indias now famous India against corruption movement-Anna

Hazare. They decided that enough was enough with governments lip
service. It was time for the honest man to show his powers and if
necessary arm twist the government a little. They came out on the
streets. And Anna took to fasting. Fasting to get a peoples bill
introduced which will give people and their representatives the power
to prosecute the corrupt in the government and bureaucracy! On a
normal day a man fasting at jantar mantar wouldn't bother many. But it
was not a normal day. It was after a year of corruption being exposed
one after the other- and a huge role in that too had been played by
the much often criticized electronic media of India. Yes, with the need to
sustain themselves in the 24 X 7 format they often show eye ball grabbing
programmes but that does not mean they do not show real news when there
is any. The Indian electronic media is full of people and TV hosts who want
to see a real change in this country’s economic and political system and a
majority of them are in hindi and other regional channels. For eye balls as
well as genuine frustration with corruption the electronic media had seen to
it over the entire year that every Indian was not just aware of the corruption
but had also seen stammering representatives of the current government
unable to defend
the very straight forward and Scathing attack of the new age Indian TV
which is no more ruled by one pranoy Roy but tens of mini pranoy Roys
who are exceptional in their
own ways and often connect more with the common man and not just the
elite.
In this day and time, when Anna took to fasting, a different breed of
people-more awakened and more angry than ever before-came out in
hundreds first and thousands soon to support this man. The entire show
was again covered very well by TV and propagated around the country.
In contrast to Anna my heart does go out for irom sharmila , the lady
who has been fasting for ten long years without any success and the
government turning a blind eye to her existence. On any other day Anna
could ve also spent a few years fasting with the government not
budging a bit. Who after all cares if 4k people come together and
demonstrate. A good lathi charge, an arrest of the leaders including
Anna and a few

Hours later all over. But in the new India , under the scathing eye
and leadership of electronic media more than Anna all this was not
possible. on the contrary with every given hour masses only increased.
And the government - given its horrible track record in recent times
in terms of corruption- had no other choice but to budge and accept
Annas demands to avoid the possibility of a much larger scale
uprising.
At the end, its true that Anna led from the front and was ready to put
his life at stake. Its true that for every movement you need a leader
with credibility. But the fact is that real support of this leader did
not come from the few men who went to jantar mantar.. It came from the
much criticized news rooms of Indias electronic media. Which didn't
care about their party alliances but came out all supporting the
movement. And anything that makes the elected representatives of
India- the

Politicians budge is democratic. Every time governments across the

world have taken their people for a ride a peoples movement has taken
shape. And in modern days it gets huge support by the online media in
developed countries, but in Indias case that being ridiculously
insignificant it was the electronic media showing the way all through.

Every peoples movement that shakes up the government is most

democratic because it shows the general feelings amongst the masses.
Calling it undemocratic smacks of jealousies, allegiance to status quo
and ulterior motives. Masses can't be brought out on the streets-that
too without payment- with any frivolous reason. The fact is the
government is surely elected by the masses.. But when the same masses
see that it is taking it for a ride it has its democratic right to
protest and apply pressure. And anyone who leads that movement needn't
be an elected

Representative. Gandhi was not an elected representative of the Indian

masses when he was leading india’s freedom struggle. Thus, the leaders is
and can be the one around whom the masses rally. And just being elected is
not the proof of being democratic. In our country a host of criminals get
elected through shady ways by
manipulating our system. Just because they are elected and Anna is not
doesn make them the pillars of democracy in India. I want to sum up by
saying the movement had the peoples support from all over India and it
was hugely democratic. And finally its a success of not just Anna but
our country's electronic media. They might be taking a u turn right
now due to various pressures but the fact is they can't be kept silent
forever. Everytime the government goes wrong, the electronic media is
today there to awaken the people more than individual leaders. Of
course we need the right kind of individual leaders to snatch such
opportunities and bring the people together. Despite governments after
attempts to discredit the

People associated with the movement and change public opinion the fact
is that the Anna movement is just the beginning of many such movements
to come till we have true democracy in this country. And everytime it
is successful, the electronic media will play a huge role. Not just
because they are greedy for eyeballs but also because they are
committed to a better India and are becoming more and more fearless by
the day, ably supported by the online community.