No takers
After saying how media can change perceptions, filmmaker Ashutosh Gowarikar (Pardes, Jodha Akbar et al) asked an 600-odd strong audience in Thane "how many of you think media is good?". Not a single hand went up triggering a ripple of laughter. Several journalists present, including writer-historian Ramchandra Guha, journalist Kumar Ketkar, and several senior scribes from Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur had to join the laughter from the audience that followed. (The occasion was a memorial lecture organsied by the Jigdyasa Trust.)