Swami Dharmbandhu, founder of Vedic Mission Trust said, “Indians are far ahead than others in terms of wisdom and thoughts but they are way behind when it comes to organisation. We will have to learn to co-exist peacefully and respect each other. Only that nation can stay ahead where people knows who to live together and respect each other.”
He was addressing the concluding ceremony of the three-day orientation function organized by Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication in Bhopal on Wednesday. Vice-chancellor of the university, Prof Brij Kishore Kuthiala was presiding over the session.
Swami Dharmbandhu further said that actual journalist is one who learns from time and circumstances. He said that for discharging the duties of journalist skillfully, one should continuously stay in touch with sources of knowledge.
While interacting with the students on the subject, ‘New Generation and TV Journalism’, Managing Editor of the India News, Yashwant Rana said what makes you a journalist is the restlessness within you to do something. It is important for you to have excellent language skills, reading habit, technical knowledge and passion for doing something new to be a journalist.
Former CBI Director, Padmashree, DR Karthikeyan addressed the students on the subject, ‘Challenges and opportunities for new generation’ and underlined the credibility of the television news. He said that today you cannot find out the truth by seeing the news presented by the television news channels today. You can form opinion about something only after seeing one common fact on at least 3-4 different channels. He underlined the role of journalism in the society by citing the sayings of the intellectuals.
President of the Network 18 Group, Umesh Upadhyaya and Mukul Kanitkar of Bharatiya Shiksha Mandal, Nagpur also expressed their views.
Vice-chancellor of the Journalism University Prof Kuthiala said that although media is considered as the mirror of the society, it is the society which will have to think as to what kind of reflections it wants in the media to be projected. Today, there are plenty of challenges and opportunities before the media. In the concluding session the monograph prepared by the university on local journalists late Madam Mohan Joshi and late Banwari Bajaj was also released.