Mehak's Blog

"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith."    — Billy Graham, evangelist  Every morning as the rays shine over the temple of education at Sector 31 NOIDA, young students raise their hands and offer a 'Namaskaram' to the Sun, then they join their hands and pray for better opportunities and a happier tomorrow. Sandhya Randev , Shekhar Randev and Padma Sharma wake up every morning to answer these kids' prayers and give them hope for a brighter future. They have managed to keep these kids in school, spending every ounce of their energy on learning and playing rather than being out on the streets while their parents earn a living. Over the summer, these kids were given classes on school subjects such as Mathematics, Sanskrit, Science and English as well as other classes on Spoken English, Disciplinary Training, Self Defe

For all those who haven't already figured out from the title what this is about, let me acquaint you with Cobrapost, which is a non-profit news website and TV production that is acclaimed for its investigative journalism. On March 26, Cobrapost released Part 1 of its sting operation called Operation 136 in which it revealed the current rate cards of two dozen of the country's biggest media houses. In the operation, Pushp Sharma a senior journalist went undercover as a man claiming to be a Hindu nationalist and asked the influential conglomerates to run his campaign to promote Hindutva polarization and meddle with the electoral process. The disguised investigator offered anything between 6 and 50 Crores to run a campaign till the 2019 Elections. And although none of us are really surprised that the outcome of such proposals was acceptance with extreme optimism, the presstitutes' recorded responses could leave the everyday passive news recipient astonished.