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Deccan Herald » City » Detailed Story
OASIS
Bring the smile back!
By Amrit Sadhana

This happy message was given by our president Dr Kalam, known for his original and creative speeches,  while recently talking to the media in New Delhi.

His request to the journalists was to get the cartoons back on the front page so that the readers start their day with a smile. A happy beginning could spill happiness over the rest of the day.

Dr Kalam said further, “Success stories and positive news should be highlighted and the media should act as a motivator for people, particularly those hailing from rural areas. When atrocities, problems or mis-governance are reported, efforts also may be made in larger public interest to provide positive direction for improvement."

This message from the great positive thinker is similar to what Osho has been saying all the time implementing in his works too. It is a less known fact that way back in the sixties Osho was a sub editor of a Hindi newspaper in Jabalpur.

He used to work in the night and put creative events on the front page and threw political news on the back page. He wanted the readers to feel that this world is full of beauty and goodness so that they trust life and trust themselves.

Once owners of a big group of papers had visited Osho and they sincerely sought his views on healthy journalism.

"By healthy journalism, I mean journalism which nourishes the whole personality of man -- his body, his mind, his soul -- journalism whose whole concern is to create a better humanity, not just to report what is happening.

Journalism should not be just a news medium, it should also be great literature -- then it is healthy. Even yesterday's newspaper should remain of some worth, so that even today it can be read.

It should not be so momentary. But if you are only a news medium then naturally, once the day has passed, the news is old. You should make something that never becomes old, and always remains new.

That's what great literature is. Dostoevsky's novels, or those of Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, or Turgenev, Rabindranath Tagore ... they will remain significant as long as humanity remains, and as fresh as ever.

Something in your journalism should have that quality, and that quality can be introduced. You can have space for news, but that should be secondary.

And somebody commits suicide -- what is the point of reporting it? "Bring the essential in. You have poets, you have painters, you have writers, you have spiritual giants -- you can introduce all of them. "Let us hope that the powerful fourth estate rises up to the expectations of great thinkers.

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