ABP Majha Fiasco
On April 15 a huge mob of around 1000 migrant daily wage workers gathered near Bandra Railway station, thus sparking a huge ruckus among the journalist community. A journalist named Rahul Kulkarni from renowned Marathi news channel ABP Majha was arrested for allegedly giving away fake/false news on his channel. Many journalists came up to support Rahul Kulkarni and oppose governments action. My take on this entire episode is bit different. What I feel in the first place is that Rahul Kulkarni did give away a news which turned out to be false. He should have been more careful in lockdown situation in a country like India where rumours spread quickly. On this many people argue that why would a non-marathi mob watch a Marathi news channel. This argument is completely baseless because you can't just get away by giving wrong information with full and then argue about whether those people w...