Let me tell you a crime story this time…
The Telephone hooted loudly breaking the monotonous
noise of the cabin. A man on chair rose and picked up the phone after few
rings. The caller whispered something into his ear. The loud noise of the shaky
government ceiling fan was making it difficult for him to hear. But he managed.
The receiver quickly noted down an address.
The telephone that rang belonged to a police
station.
The whole police force of the station was brought
into disposal. The Inspector wanted to crack the case, catching the culprits
red handed. Though he knew the crime involved many high profile people, he didn't hesitate even once.
Soon they arrived at the place of crime as his spy
had informed. It was a five star hotel in a posh area. The whole team lead by
the inspector raided the room as was informed. It was a special suit on the top
floor.
In the raid, police found a less known film actress
in bed with a mighty business man. They were found wrapped up in a single
mattress in the dimly lit room with an adult movie running in the television
screen. During the search, police found an empty bottle of imported wine, few
different flavored condoms that included strawberry and vanilla prominently (police
later investigated that they have been imported too), a packet of chocolate
flavor cigars and few Adult movie disks.
Media made a huge cry out of it. They found high TRP
news after a long time. It was like a burger being served to a beggar. Arrest of
a glamour queen in prostitution is an incident that occurs once a while. They wanted to make the most out of it.
Then the
series of articles started flooding. All the social networking sites got
showered with the news.
“Heroine miss X found in flesh trade”,
“Glamour girl in prostitution”,
“Miss X’s journey from being a heroine to a whore”,
“The scandal
that busted many questions against the film industry”,
“What brought
her into the business of flesh, sexual demands or financial crisis?”…. Were
some of the headlines reported by most of the top notch media houses.
The reports were accompanied by some pictures of
Miss. X herself that flashed almost daily on our computer screen as soon as we
entered any social networking site. Some pictures were either so sensuous that
it evoked an urge in us to read the article out sexual temptation or either
displayed such an innocent face that it filled us in mystery and to unlock the
same we opened the link to read it. Some of us also imagined ourselves with
Miss. X on the same bed sharing some cozy moments reading those tantalizing
news. The pies on the cake were those enticing headlines.
We read, commented and shared them in huge number.
Those articles became viral online.
Few days passed… media houses earned in huge amount
and later the news faded. We got some other spicy reports to get involved and
forgot the heroine who was made a puppet to play with few days back.
It was that after some months another sex racket
involving a model was arrested that entertained us for few more days.
It’s usual.
But throughout this whole session we forgot to ask
an important question. Yes we forgot to ask them to mention the name of the mighty
businessman arrested in that raid too.
Yes we forgot to ask them to make headlines on the businessman
and others involved in the case like they have made for the girl.
“Businessman Mr. Y arrested in sex racket”
“Sex racket busted and names of many businessmen and
politicians came into light (names in detail in the report)”
“Libido or a bad sexual relationship with his wife,
what brought the businessman Y in search for sex outside?”
Yes we forgot to ask…..
(Story ends)
P.S
The above one is just a story, a fiction and has
nothing to do with any realty.
Recently Sweta Basu Prasad has been arrested red
handed of her involvement in prostitution. Yes, prostitution is a heinous crime
that our country prohibits to practice. So, it’s completely fair if she gets
punished under the court of law. No excuse of her, if it is her financial
instability or a downtrodden film career will be taken into account. She will
be punished as per law.
Let’s put this issue aside. Let our court of law,
the legal body of our constitution give the judgment.
Wait a second! I guess I have uttered something wrong. Yes, before the court will cater the judgment,
its media have given its own judgment. They have flooded all social networking
sites with articles depicting Sweta Basu Prasad involvement in prostitution,
her journey from national award winning heroine to being found as a culprit in
flesh trade. Suddenly, this lesser known heroine is brought into spot light by
our media the moment she was found in bed with someone else.
I don’t think even this much was written and shared
about her earlier on any portal when she had bagged the national award for her
acting skills. “National award, what a big deal it is? Prostitution?? Masala
hai boss”, Right media people?
Ok fine…then why not even a single media house came
up with a report naming the male counterpart arrested in the same raid.
“Isn’t he has committed a crime too? Or he is not a
public figure to name that will increase your number of readers? Or he wrapped
up your hands in bundle of notes?”
Another example of Yellow journalism is clearly
depicted in all the reports that flashed in front of us almost daily.
Let’s move to our Bollywood now. Rani mukherjee, who
few days back was talking a lot about women empowerment, justice and independence
of women while promoting her movie, “Mardani”, have opted to remain silent in
Sweta’s case. And almost all female
leads who cry out loud on women empowerment have decided to do the same.
Come on Amit, they will only open their mouth on
issues involving women if their movie is based on one of them. And there public
speech on anything is only for the promotion of their movie.
Now there are some voices against Sweta Basu Prasad
participating in Big boss. Come on, when the same big boss had place for a porn
star, why can’t she be allowed?
Anyways, reports concerning Sweta Basu Prasad will start vanishing from now onwards as
another big news have hit the market recently, the launch of new models by
Apple. So the media will run after it
now flooding all the Social networking sites with reports concerning the
technical details of these new mobile handsets and smart watch launched by the
biggest player in this field.
Anyways, let us forget it too. But let us promise
something this time. Next time when we will be reading any such article where
the dignity of a woman is raped in public whether she is culprit or not, don’t
forget to ask the name of the male counterpart involved in the same.
If media has written HER name in BOLD
letters, why HIS name is still kept
behind the veil???
