e-shakti in Bihar

Call center to check corruption in NREGS

Villagers in Bihar will now be able to dial a toll free number and get information first hand on jobs available under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The government project called e-shakti is aimed at eliminating middlemen who have used the scheme to run a job racket.

Incredible India

And the winner is-

Interview: Shekhar Suman

(Published on mangalorean.com on June 27, 2009
Link: http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=broadcast&broadcastid=132016)

(Shekhar Suman is basically a bollywood actor a very well known figure of Indian Television. He has worked in more than 30 films and has done many hit TV serials like Dekh Bhai dekh, Reporter, Poll khol, Laughter Challenge. Few years ago he came out with his music album ‘Kuch Khab Aise’ in which he sang many stunning songs. Recently he turned towards politics. Now he has planned to direct a film. Manish Kumar talks with Shekhar suman.)


Few years ago you used to expose corrupt politicians in your show ‘Poll Khol’ and now you turned towards Politics? How the idea of becoming a politician came to your mind?
I never see myself as a politician. I am still an actor who wants to do social service, who want to serve the mankind, politics becomes a means of doing so. When one has a political standing, his plans could be well executed. Like I want to open a hospital and a film training centre in Bihar and if I have a good political standing I can execute my work well.

We have seen Shekhar Suman as an actor, singer, politician and now DIRECTION? Tell us something about this new role of your life?
Whenever I fulfill one dream I want to go for the other one. Direction was always my biggest dream. Director in reality is like a caption of a ship who directs the ship. The work of a director starts from the idea of the film and consists of handling editing, screenplay, music, dialogues and finally till promotion of the film. The work of a director is really very challenging. I have planned to take Adhyayaan in my film as actor and it will be a romantic story and I think by the end of this year we may release this film. We are now working on the script.

You have worked for almost 30 years in this film industry. How was your overall journey?
It was really a very interesting journey. I have seen a lot of ups and downs and I still feel the happiness of getting ‘Utsav’ which proved to be a good memorable film for me. For any actor his first film always has a sentimental corner. I feel lucky that I got the chance to work with Girish kannad, Shashi Kapoor and Rekha. I still feel lucky that I got the chance to work with many of the greatest stars of Bollywood like Madhuri Dixit, Juhi Chawla, Padmini Kolapuri, Dimple. On a whole the journey was really very exciting and thrilling.

Almost every artist has some initial struggling days. Share your experience with us?
I missed many things. You may encounter many actors who would say that they spent their night on Marine Drive or they used to sleep on railway platforms on particular bench and they feel proud and happy witnessing the bench. But I really missed all these. I had my sister in Mumbai so I never felt any difficulty. I used to get three meals per day and she was very caring.

We have heard that you were very naughty during your childhood. Tell us something about those days.
Childhood without naughty things has no meaning. I have done many silly things in my childhood days. I still remember, I used to climb on guava trees and many times I fell down of the tree. Once I inserted water in spite of petrol in my father’s vehicle and for that I was beaten badly. I also used to lock my cousins inside our car. During childhood many wicked ideas used to come in my mind. I really enjoyed playing Pitto, Aiyes-Pais (Hide and seek). I really enjoyed those days.

Nabbing Childhood from the Innocent

Mumbai: You might have visited several times to public places like railway stations, bus stations and other such public gatherings for many purposes and you also might have concentrated your focused to many aspects of these places, but have you ever pondered over the life of the people living there permanently and dependent totally on these public gatherings for their livelihood.



Such a scene can be easily witnessed in various stations of Mumbai, the heart of India so called as the city of dreams including Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT). This terminus has a wide range of helpless people and worse part of the fact is that many of them are children below the age of ten years.

At this station one can easily find small innocent kids engaged begging for their livelihood and to make the situation to seem more pathetic they are usually seen with their siblings who are less than one year in age. It is becoming the family business of these innocent kids who are actually in an age of getting primary education but are compelled to work like this in order to sustain themselves.

The story does not end here; there are also kids outside the stations who are engaged in selling pan masalas, cigarettes and other addictive drugs and the majority sellers are those who are either below the age of ten years or women to attract majority of the customers. It is really a matter of shame for the society that these groups of people are engaged in this type of business.

But here comes the moral and social responsibility of the society. Why the society is ignoring these groups. Why they are getting encouraged to do business? Do we have any responsibility towards them as humans?

As a human beings we are in many aspects superior to many other animals so socially also prove the same. Why we encourage them to go ahead with begging and why don't we go for adopting one of them and give them a chance to prove themselves. There are still such people in this world who are interested to provide some of them the same living standard as enjoyed by others in the same society.

Nithish Kumar: The One Man Show

In the past few days when the general election 2009 was going on you must have seen a lot of fuss was going on the name of Nitish kumar but as a layman if you are not too much involved in the study of Indian politics have you ever pondered over that why suddenly there was a huge number of arguments were made on Nitish Kumar the contemporary chief minister of Bihar.

In the last three weeks you must have noticed that two of the major parties of India, congress and Bhartiya Janata party (BJP) were trying to attract him with many lucrative offers and favorable comments passed in appreciation of him. But I want to tell you there are different types of people in this country one who wants the ministerial powers irrespective of which party governs from the centre and the best example is Mr. Ram Vilas Paswan and there are some who are loyal to their allies like Nitish, he several time cleared the confusion of his alliance with BJP. He very clearly commented that he would never go with congress and in Bihar he has alliance with BJP and he would continue to support BJP in future also. But congress party members never left hope for giving him offers. Be it Manmaohan Singh or Rahul Gandhi they never left the chance to attract him.

And it was really shame for some of the media house who alleged that Nitish kumar is ready to support the government who would give Bihar special status if they come to power. This media house includes Deccan Herald and other. I had heard the comments passed by him on electronic media he told that he has nothing to take with the government he just wanted Bihar as a special state status.

Now I would like to point out why this was all about Mr. Nitish and not anyone else. First of all I would like to point out that it was due to the president rule in Bihar that a fair state election held in Bihar and and Nitish broke the consistent 15 years rule of RJD, the party led by Lalu Prasad Yadav. And then Bihar witnessed the development works of Nitish Kumar the imposition of ideas of him into practice. I am going to tell you all this because I have watched his administration very closely and felt and analyzed the difference.

Following were the points on which I have pointed out why is a one man show, a reflection of a development personality. I am mentioning 10 reasons why Nitish Kumar is an One man show.

1. Road Construction:

Once in a comment Lalu had said that I would make the roads of mine state (Bihar) as smooth as the cheeks of Hema Malini but it never happened rather it got worse. The emergence of Nitish kumar had given a new hope for the citizens of Bihar, and they saw the fulfillment of them with their own eyes. In a short period of time he ordered for the construction of roads of Bihar and in a few months I saw the drastic change of the face of Patna, the capital of Bihar. In between he cancelled the tender of Tantia construction, an esteemed construction company of the state saying that the quality of construction of roads were compromised and I personally saw the construction of these roads the two layered broad roads which seemed to me very strong and that construction was alleged to be compromise in quality it signified that the great quality he was planning and the remarks passed out by him was ‘Hum Garzu nahi hain’ (we are not fully dependent on them) and the basic problem of Bihar was wiped out by him.

2. Concept of Janta Darbaar;

You might have seen Anil Kapoor establishing letter box for the complaints to CM but Nitish was one step ahead. He urged to meet the common people face to face and thus introduced the concept of ‘Mukyamantri ka Janata Darbar’ which was later changed to ‘Janata ke darbar mein Mukyamantri’. I have seen several times the telecast of this darbar in the local news channel where he eliminated the problems of majority of the people so quickly and he was accompanied with a team to do so that included the DGP of the state and other high officials.

3. His Education:

Unlike the leaders of RJD like Lalu and Rabri, he is well educated has done his engineering from NIT (National Institute of technology) Patna and he has engineering degree so a well educated personality suitable for doing development in any state.

4. His Council Ministers’ team;
I don’t know that it is known to all or not but it was a tradition of Bihar that some council ministers of the state government of Bihar used to have some ministers on which judiciary case was going on named as ‘dagi neta/ bahubali neta’ in Bihar.
But the first work that Nitish did when he came to power was that he did not include any such person in his cabinet ministry who were claimed for any judiciary case thus signifying that the state government has fair politicians.

5. The Sorrow of Bihar and its treatment;

Kosi river of Bihar is considered as the sorrow of Bihar as it does not have a fixed line of running. This lets to the emergence of floods several times in Bihar so did happen last year also. Lots of lives were gone due to this but Nitish with full effort tried his best to help them out. He tried to arrange all the facilities including food, shelter, medicines etc and again proved his duty toward the people.

6. Stretching the boundaries:
You might have heard about the successful chief minister of west Bengal who stretched his limitation boundary and wanted to be confined within that only same is the condition with Nitish Kumar. He has stretched his limitation boundary. I have heard a lot of interviews of Nitish Kumar, when he was asked if he wants to be the PM of India he replies very politely that he doesn’t think he is suitable for that. So he just wants to serve the nation as CM only I don’t know for how much time. But at least it is fine that whatever he is doing is best.

7. Secular Image:

The most prominent part is that he is secular by nature and choice as what one could expect foe a CM or PM. I have seen him several times celebrating Id with his Muslim friends and people. And hardly he has ever passed any communal speech and asked for votes during election campaign. His subject was only development and he assured that if development is being not witnessed by the state he would never come to seek votes from the people.

8. Invitation and encouragement to industrialists:
Other face of the Nitish led government was that he highly encouraged the entrepreneurs to establish their industry in their state and assured them on the security. He was seen many times with the industries persuading and encouraging them to establish their industries in Bihar.

9. IIT in Bihar :
When it was announced that government can build one Indian Institute of technology (IIT) in Bihar he generously gave 500 acres of land in Bihta (near Patna) for the establishment of the same.

10. The seen effect:
Now I would like to tell you the effect that I have felt overall and the major changes that are visible. Earlier there was a building named ‘Udyog Bavan’ near the historical Gabdhi Maidan in Bihar. Earlier it looked like an old government office very odd look and now if you see it will look like world trade centre wrapped from all sides with special element wall.


So the Outcome


So the outcome was clear it was predetermined by the different political party that Nitish has proved himself as a persona of development and the people of Bihar would give him majority of votes. So every one tried their best to attract him. Recently he was declared as the politician of the year by CNN-IBN public poll.


So this was all what I have watched and analyzed with this Nitish led government. I have a lots of hope with this government although oi know it is so difficult to trust any politician to such an extent that you predict that your every need of the state get fulfilled but it is said that umeed par duniay kayam hain, so hope is the only way, I can hope that Nitish will make Bihar a great place.

I am a great Singer

Surely initially reading these lines one may think that Mr.Manish is so proud of his singing talent but wait till the end of the story the story is entirely different from what it seems from the headlines. Actually through this post i would like to share one of my sweetest and funniest memories of my school life.
Actually i was in class four at the time in Varanasi based school and used to get thrilled by witnessing the students who used to sing group songs on the occasion of either republic day, Independence day or anything else. And even i also wanted to feel the same stardust and i never realized how bad i sing although till now i don't agree that i am a bad singer. So the real story goes like this.
One day in the prayer assembly our music teacher announced that who ever wants to participate in group singing could contact me. So i was so thrilled and predetermined to go for this wonderful opportunity and to prove the world that i am a good singer. So during the lunch time i went to meet our music teacher who was really an unpredictable man. I went and requested and expressed my desire to take part in that but he bombarded me with so many words because he didn't like that someone should disturb him during lunch time i was slightly depressed but my desire didnt die. Again after one hour i went to him and expressed again my desire but this time i was in group so it was normal meet and told me to wait and then he started taking test of vocal quality. he said to say something like ;Aaaaa' and after this the best thing
When my turn came i went and sung but he was not happy and seemed satisfied and told me that i could not sing as i dont have the quality of a good singer, at that time i was not depressed i thought i was not in a mood to sing well actually it was not me but the environment who was responsible for the rejection of mine talent. So again after one day i went to the man and expressed my desperate desire to sing on stage he was really impressed by me. And now can you predict what would have happened? I request the reader to predict the outcome before going ahead.
Ok you might have guessed the right outcome so actually then what happened ki he witnessing my great desire of performing me on stage gave me a chance but wait...... there were some conditions applied- i was not allowed to sing in the group i was supposed to stand only in the group moreover in the second row. And whenever the tune of the group song got out of tune during rehearsals he used to ask me if i was singing.
But it was not a same for me i was at least happy that i got the chance to broadcast myself in front of 3000 people that was the population of my school at that time and after performing on stage i was extremely happy.

My Trip to Kudlu Falls n Agumbe

It was really becoming very boring to stay at home during these study breaks. So I went for a tour to Kudlu falls 60Kms. from Manipal. I went along with seniors of 3rd year of our college that comprised 6 guys and 2 gals. But it was not as simple as it seems to be. Actually initially no one planned to go for the Kudlu Falls, initially it was planned that we would go to Someswer forest for a trekking and after walking for 2 hours it was expected that we would meet with a fall named as Abbe falls, it went entirely unexpected. With full enthusiasm all of the group members took bus for the forest which is near Agumbe ghats. We reached there and after taking coconut water and other essential things we went for the forest but almost after 30 minute some of the group members got frightened as the path to the fall was not known to anyone and it was very scary full of dry leaves and hardly any footmarks, it seemed that no one passed from these forest for a long time. And even a lot of paths were witnessed by the group which was really very confusing so finally what happened after almost 30 minutes of our commencement of the journey the group members decided to return back but I really did not want to return back but due to majority vote we returned back finally.


Plan to go to Kudlu Falls
After returning from the forest it was decided that we would go to Kudlu falls and thus for this a Maruti Omni was booked and we moved for the falls that no one earlier had seen. And from here our actual journey started. The path to the falls was really interesting and pleasant to human eyes full of natural beauty. But after reaching to our final designation we had to walk almost 2 Kms that too in altitude, 2 Kms in a mountain and we did but we were just going high and high but the final designation was not coming and we were losing hope if it would actually come or not but after a long period of struggle it finally came and then we really enjoyed a lot.

The Beauty of the fall
The fall was really very attractive the water of the fall was coming from the middle of two huge high mountains; it was my first time that I witnessed a fall. The water inside was very very cold but our whole toil that put for climbing the forest was recharged and there we really enjoyed to the maximum. After taking bath there and enjoying in the water we left the place and our other destination was Agumbe falls.

Sun Set Point Agumbe:
After moving out of the falls we went for Sun Set Point agumbe and that was I think the best place I have seen in my entire life. It was at a very high altitude; from there I could see the clouds below the mountains that usually look above the mountains in the sky. We were feeling as we were in the sky and the earth is below and there we took a lot of pics and enjoyed so many delicacies there. So this was all for our trip to these places.

Interview: Rithisha Padmanabh

(Rithisha Padmanabh, was the second runner up of Voice of India, a musical reality show that used to come in a private entertainment channel few months ago, has her roots in Putter. Once facilitated by former President of India A.P.J.Abul Kalam in 2005 and has earned so many prestigious awards. She has sung in more than 25 Kannada films and has given voice to some Kannada serials. She is currently pursuing her engineering studies from Bangalore; she shares her experiences of the show.)

(Published in City Herald, a Saturday supplement of Deccan Herald, Bangalore)

What changes ‘Voice of India’ has brought to your life?
Well, after Voice of India, there are more people who know me and of course it has increased the opportunities I was getting in the field of film music/light music. Also I met so many celebrities and musically super talented people during my times with the voice of India team and hence I got to learn more musically. However Hindustani classical music is what I truly will pursue with full efforts along with all this.

How was your experience performing in front of the judges that included Sukhwinder Singh, Ismail Darbar and Monty Sharma who are well known figures of Bollywood.
It was really a great experience. I guess I became a smarter person too after this experience; I got a small idea of how things work.
Have you ever expected this kind of fame and position in your life?
Well not only dreamt of this, I even expected to be in the position I am now. Because I always wanted to compete on a national basis I did that during my national Balshree award stint too and here too and this involved the support of the audience and I feel proud to say that through this I gained many well-wishers who supported me a lot.

Have you taken any professional training in singing?
I started learning light music from Smt. Malati Sharma at the age of four and even I started getting training in Carnatic music at the same age under Smt Nagalakshmi till eight. When I was seven I started learning Hindustani classical music from Smt. Geetha G Hedge and still pursue under her since ten years.

How much support you got from your family and friends?
Well they supported me throughout the journey and immense support from family and few friends especially Vinitra. I am so grateful to them.

What is ‘music’ for you?
It’s my passion and once I am done with my studies may be just a computer engineering degree or maybe I might want to study further four years down the lane. Music will be what it wants to truly pursue. I simply can’t live without music.

What are your future plans?
Firstly I want to complete my engineering with good marks. And I might want to study further but definitely music being the most important part of my life I will definitely consider it as a fulltime career option or part time. But I am open to any musical offers I will work on music simultaneously with my studies as I have always been doing and will manage both well. Well I have got some offers and I am working on a few projects but since nothing is completely done or confirmed I don’t think I should disclose.

What advice you would like to give for the aspirants of such musical reality shows?
They are really good opportunities to project you talent and learn a lot musically one advice is don’t have a really serious dream of wanting to go on a reality show and make it big or something like that because one the reality shows might come down on frequency now and the advantage of the reality show would be that you are a known face and talent is known but the struggle is no easies even for the winner and if you want to make a mark you have to work really hard by yourself.

Now you are doing engineering, how do you keep balance between your studies and singing?
Well I don’t know how I balance exactly. But I have been doing it all these years so it’s nothing new to me. But I have to be a little patient as I have more on my plate than others but it’s not too difficult. I don’t have any fixed time table or anything as such. I just follow my heart and sing when I want to and study when I feel like that. By God's grace I have balanced both together very well till now and I hope to do so in the future.

General Elections-09

Deviating From the Main Issue


General elections -09 seems to be the most unpredicted elections since the freedom of India and with the advantage current in means of media communication these elections are getting more and more complex and frankly speaking this elections are deviating from their main focal point where they were supposed to focus.

Contemporary India is suffering from mammoth and challenging problems of poverty, unemployment, infrastructure, job cuts and price rise but not a single political party is focusing on these issues and hardly giving any importance to the basic problems of the common people.

These days the political parties are trying there best to fit to the supposed new government. Some are forming ‘third front’ some are trying to form fourth one. Not a single politician seems to be concern on the basic problems which were supposed to be their main importance.

In spite of focusing on basic requirements of the common people the prominent political parties are picking holes in the pockets of the opposition leaders. They are focusing on counting the faults in political members or often try to make the shortcomings of opposition party counted. A war of allegations and personal uncivilized comments has started.

Recently Gujrat Chief Minister Narendra Modi started the playing the game of Budiya/Gudiya with Priyanka Gandhi. The young BJP member Varun Gandhi on whom the whole country expected to be a rational politician recently passed harsh comments against Muslims. Laloo Prasad Yadav recently called BJP leader Sushma Swaraj ‘Putna’ (Demon) and the worst face of politics got revealed when famous bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt in a rally in UP said that he was beaten badly and given 3rd degree treatment because according to him his mother was Muslim. This is the same man who was under trial for helping the terrorist for the Mumbai Blasts and almost after 16 years he is remembering these things to take the sympathy from the minorities of the state.

These things are really same for the country who claims to be the largest democracy of the world. These days the politicians are getting more and more communally motivated just for the vote bank politicians.

But the question that there politicians should answer is where are the issue for which they were supposed to get vote. For what they are expecting vote from the country. No discussion has been carried out on development, poverty, price rise, recession then what is the issue? This election is totally deviated from the point. One can only expect that the voters vote rationally irrespective of the caste, religion and other factors of the concerned politicians.

My First Internship

The Pioneer-Ranchi


After joining my college to pursue my graduation degree in Journalism and Mass Communication which was entirely my decision, that was of course against the will of my parents, I was determined to do my best in the college. I was ready to toil hard in every aspect in order to prove to my parents that I was cent per cent right and make them feel proud. So I was planning to utilize the semester breaks in the right manner and I don’t think for any mass communication student anything would be better than doing internship during their summer holidays.

After reaching my home town, I was really enthusiastic and thrilled for the internship work. But a bad face of this media industry was yet to be reveled. Almost for 14 days I tried in all media houses of Patna. But didn’t get in any of them. But I was amazed with the reactions of ‘Hindustan Times’ and ‘Times of India’, I thought they could give me the opportunity as they were having adequate resources and even ‘Radio Mirchi’ hanged me for a long time. So in whole, searching for internship on my own was a bitter experience in Patna. But finally I managed to get it in ‘I-next’, a tabloid newspaper costing just Re.1, but it was not a renowned newspaper moreover it was in Hindi and I didn’t know typing in Hindi but my mindset to join that so that I could do at least something. But destiny plays a crucial role in life. The same day my elder sister living in Ranchi told me that she had some contact in an English newspaper ‘The Pioneer’ and thus I left for Ranchi to do my internship there which was even not sure.

My 1st encounter with Anupam Sheshank
After the ‘Mission Search Internship’ in Patna, I had learnt that without any contact you can’t have internship, so I used that in ‘Pioneer Ranchi’. There I was introduced for the 1st time to our chief of bureau, Anupam Sheshank, 1st he went through my resume and felt happy that I was from Patna and to test whether I was able to do the internship he gave me a story to do that was ‘Reliance Buy 2 get 3 free’. And told me to submit the story by 4pm the same day and it was almost 12 noon. I went to the market but didn’t find anything like that so I went for feature writing on the same. After looking on my story I think he was impressed, but I was still in dilemma whether I had got the internship or not as he didn’t give any clear signal or said anything regarding that. There after he told me to make briefs but meanwhile he asked if I knew what briefs were I replied in negative then he explained me what are briefs and how to make it, it was a simple task for me to read every press release that used to come from different places and make a brief news out of that. Finally he edited the briefs in front of me in a supersonic speed then I came to know what editing really means. To clear the dilemma whether I have got the internship or not I asked him when I should come tomorrow. He replied the time and assigned me the works. It was clear for me that I had got that. The next day with fresh energy and enthusiasm I went for the office.


My first day in News Room
From the first day I was predetermined that I had to prove myself and really worked hard to do that. On the first day as under my assigned work I noted down all the hits and miss and when the story list was getting prepared I reveled that and on the first day of my internship I got appreciation from our chief photographer ‘Malay Da’ that I had done good job. Of course I was so happy and same day ‘Vijay Deo Jha’ the chief reporter also praised me for making good briefs. I was of course extremely happy that I had gained the confidence on the first day itself. From the first day I started joining for two stories per day like other reporters and was happy.

My first by-line story
I didn’t know that I could get by-lines like other regular reporters but Vijay sir advised me to go for by-lines and cleared that I is the only earning for the interns. The story for which I got the first by-line was the coverage of the tour of Yaswant Sinha, former finance minister of India. I witnessed all the things and I reported next day I saw my first By-line story on the top of Ranchi special page and was so delighted. And with the same energy went for several other stories and got almost 10 by-lines in 15 days internship. And the most important thing when our sub-editor ‘Mausmi Banerjeee’ read my first by-line story her quote was ‘Wah Manish tum to acha likhta hain’, getting complement from her was really great as she always used to screw all reporters.

The Airtel-Media Cup
This internship was also made great hit of my life because I played for ‘Pioneer Ranchi team’ in the Airtel Media Cup, a series dedicated for the journalists of different media house of Ranchi. I was delighted because it was my dream to play with pride with the team jersey, pads, gloves, helmets and all other stuffs which makes the cricketer look attractive. Other reason was that I got the track suit from Airtel for playing the game free of cost and was satisfied because at least some thing I got during my internship besides the certificate and by-lines.

Friends I made there
The employees of the office be it the reporters, chief, sub editor or receptionist all were very friendly and supportive. Even almost everybody was under 20-40 age group. There I met and made very good friends, well wishers and my advisors that started with our crime reporter Deepak, the sweet innocent Richa , my favorite Shilpi Di (Dhoni Special Correspondent) who really cared a lot during my internship like her own younger brother and still cares and guides me. Love you Di., Vijay Sir, my guide and information centre for news, Mukesh Bhiaiya who was always had a keen interest in Manipal cheeks got well mixed with me, our sarcastic special sub editor ‘Mausmi ma’m and above all our chief of bureau Anupam Sheshank under whom I really learned a lot and who compelled me to work hard and I want to give special thanks to him for giving me the freedom, liberty and guidance.

The mistake I did and the effect
Getting scolded from Anupam sir when someone does wrong was a ritual in the office and everyone was habituated to that but not me. I was for the first time working in any office moreover I was a student intern. I didn’t expect that I could get something like that. Actually what happened I thought of doing a story on ‘security on new year’. I talked to the SP of the police and all concerned people and wrote a story but I was not reaching 300 words which was a standard report size and even the story looks good and heavy with this amount of words so what I did I created a hypothetical name of a lady and quoted that she wanted to celebrate the new year in a club but concerned on the security system of the city and submitted the story in a hope that I would get another by-line. But the scene was not as predicted by me. When he saw the quote he shouted ‘Mr.Manish, have you really talked to any lady? Is the law conditions in Ranchi are so bad? Is anyone getting raped if coming outside home? The girl is from which club?” and even asked the sub editor if the law and order conditions in Ranchi is the same as described by me, her response was ‘Not at all sir’. This acted as a catalyst for Anupam sir and he rejected the story and started whispering with himself. And I think one can expect the condition of mind for a student who for the first time working in a office, an intern, who had just passed his 12 class exams. I was feeling so so bad that the day is a day that I can’t forget in my whole life. I was feeling dishearten, discouraged, very sad, very bad, badly hurt and started weeping while writing the briefs making sure that no one notice. But this incident taught me the greatest lesson that in journalism report exactly what is the condition never create hypothetical names and quotes and do have your proof for your story. This incident made sure that this type of mistake is not going to be repeated in my whole life. At that time I was so unhappy with Anupam Sir and thought that there were other methods through which he could make me understood. But later I realized that the effect of such scolding is long lasting and permanent. For persons like me these incidents have deep impression and it will not allow me physiologically to do the same mistake again.
And the point to be noted is that that was the last day of my internship. And it is the same Mr. Anupam Sheshank himself who asked if I need some letter and I replied in affirmative so he advised me to contact me the director who told me that he didn’t have the letter pad and told me that he will post me the same. When I told Anupam Sir the same, he was wearing the helmet as he was ready for going to home and almost left the office but for me he came and with wearing the same helmet he typed my internship letter and ensured that I got that and finally gave me best wishes for life.

So this was my experience of my internship in Pioneer Ranchi where I worked hard, enjoyed reporting, playing cricket, enjoyed the news room environment. Shared good moments with the employees. Had sweets when the news was aired in the news room that Vijay sir was going to marry. Really a complete funny, informative and learning internship.

Internet and New Media Assignment

When it was announced in the class that we have to do a story as a part of our first assignment I was really thrilled as I was getting the chance to act like a real journalist and have to submit the story and even the second striking thing was that we were told to write our feelings, way of action and all that related to the story on a blog that we were expected to create that I did not had, so it was my first step towards blogging.

The first thing that stricken the mind of everyone in the class including me was what story we should do. And I think everyone like me wanted to submit the best story and wanted to get the maximum marks as output.

I pondered over so many story ideas that used to come in mind but did not satisfy my thirst for the best. Once I pondered that last year I read so much about a newly introduced technology in India i.e. CLOUD SEEDING. I was amazed that can we have artificial rainfall with the help of certain chemicals, and I found it right. As I belonged to science stream in my intermediate studies, and I always found of these types of new things, I decided to go for that.

The next thing was what should be the approach to file a good story, which must need a proper approach. So I planned a blue print how to do that. That included

1. Collection of full info. Of the technique from Internet and newspaper
2. Talking to experts
3. Focus on India
4. General views of common people

So I went for the first step and searched on internet on this topic and came to know about the history, uses in India, success rate, merits and demerits and the chemicals or techniques used. It was really great to know on this alien technique to such a great extent.

Next thing was to get the views of the expert on the effects and future of cloud seeding. I had heard about Dr. Madyastha, Coordinator, Malacology Research, Western Ghats. So anyhow I got his phone number and asked to give me his valuable views and he humbly mailed me his views and advocated that it can’t take the place of nature.

Even I talked to Mr. Manoj Kumar, Associate professor, Biotechnology. Sikkim Manipal University. He also gave his views and emphasized on Environmental Impact.

Dr. Padmanabha Udupa, Professor, Department of Biochemistry also shared his views on the concerned views. But what I found among the common people that majority of the people were unaware of the technique.

Hope this technique will develop more and lastly I want to say that It was really a very good assignment and through this I learnt how to go for a story. For this I am really thankful to Raviraj sir.