Media Times December 2016
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MEDIA TIMES ﻮر य ﯽ اﻟﻨ गम ﻟ ोत ﺖ ا ﻤ ٰ ा ﻠ ﻈ म ﻟ ो ا ﻦ स ﻣ म त U N IR IV M ER H SITY OF KAS MEDIA EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTRE UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR JOURNAL ISS No. 0975/6647 | Vol: 26 | No 1 MEDIA TIMES | DECEMBER 2016 MEDIA TIMES DECEMBER 2016 06 | Flashfloods And Unity 37 | A Trip To Kousarnag Arif Nazir Danish Pathan 08 | Nanny Care 39 | Rejected By Society, Humaira Ahad Forgotten By Govt Hayat Manan 10 | Lost Aroma 41 Hirra Azmat | Heaven, On The Verge Of Destruction 11 | Ladies Feeling Special Bintul Huda Shahina Rahim 42 | Women in Advertising 12 | Kashmir’s Karate Kid B.M. Hussain Abid Rashid 44 | Restoring Remains 14 | Land of Kings Imran Ali Buth Hasina Jamiel 46 | Mental Conflicts And Creativity 18 | Historical Remains Mu’azzam Bhat of Islamia School Furqan Khushid 48 | Travelling In A Local Bus! Munawar Hussain 20 | Forgotten Boxer Adil Amin 49 | Foodlog Muneem Farooq 22 | A Night In The Mourning Village 51 | How to Shed Procrastination Syed Shahriyar Muhammad Nadeem 23 | Kargil’s State of Education 52 Zakir Hussain | Being Divorcee is Not a Taboo Saba Gul 24 | Boulevard’s French Bakery Ikhlaq ul Rehman 54 | Restructuring Links Saba Khan 26 | From Despair To Hope Peer Viqar 56 | Women with Unmatched 27 | Spreading Smiles Resilience Sabeeha Shaheen Ali Saiffuiddin 58 | Trending Is What? 28 | KOH-E-MARAN History Saher Iqbal Revisited Ubeer Naqushbandi 59 | Ignored Manasbal Lake Showket Wani 30 | Life and Times of a Nomad Yawar Shafi 61 | A Day With Educated Labour Wajahat Shabir 32 | Symbol of Communal Unity Sheikh Adnan 62 | Is Synthetic Turf 34 | Life Before And After Waseem Ahmad 3 | Message from VC 4 | From HoD’s Desk 5 | From Editor’s Desk Migration Ali Pathan 64 | Aharbal Waterfall Ayadullah Dar 35 | When I Lost Faith in 16 | Cover story HAVELI OF POETIC Humanity MEMORIES 66 | Connection To The Past Bisma Farooq Irfan Tramboo Qulsooma Akhtar Feedback and Patron: he Media Times is a suggestions from the lab journal of Media readers are welcome Prof Khrsheed Andrabi © MERC 2016 Vice-Chancellor Education Research Center, University of Printed and Publisher by: Chief Editor: T Kashmir. Its main purpose HoD MERC Faruq Masudi for and on behalf of is to provide a platform to University of Kashmir. Editor: the students and scholars to Further information Muslim Jan hone their writing abilities Graphic/Layout: and to chisel their journalistic Write to: Editor, Aga Shahi skills. The journal builds Media Education Research Centre, necessary confidence in University of Kashmir, Student Editors: them to take on the future Srinagar-190006 Irfan Tramboo, Mohammed Nadeem, Wajahat Shabir, e-mail: responsibilities as conscious [email protected], Munawar Hussain, Adil Amin. media practitioners in the [email protected] society. All the contributions are the students/scholars of Mass Communication and Journalism at MERC KU. Opinions, views, reports & essays in this issue do not necessarily represent the views of the faculty of MERC. The author are solely responsible for the facts stated including the source of the information and references. The Editor or the centre is not responsible for any kind of plagiarism. 2 MEDIA TIMES DECEMBER 2016 MESSAGE t is indeed a matter of great pleasure to learn that Media Education Research Centre (MERC), University of Kashmir is going to publish another issue of its magazine I“Media Times”. Media Education provides tools to help people critically analyze messages, offers opportunities for learners to broaden their experience of media and helps them develop creative skills in making their own media messages. MERC of our university is committed in enhancing media capabilities, developing talent and expanding horizons of knowledge. Publishing of Media Times is one of such exercises where students are being provided a platform where they could gain practical exposure to be better journalists of tomorrow. I congratulate the editorial team and students for their efforts in bringing out this publication and wish them all the success in future endeavors to achieve its goals. Prof. Khurshid I. Andrabi MEDIA TIMES 3 MEDIA TIMES DECEMBER 2016 Once a family, always a family Faruq Masudi Chief Editor 4 MEDIA TIMES DECEMBER 2016 EDITOR’S DESK Journalism at Crossroad niversally, journalism stands for the advocacy of basic human values. These values, interestingly, are similar everywhere, thus the journalism in the east and the journalism in the west should be doing one and the same thing: advocacy. Worldwide, journalism has largely advocated for peace and conflict resolution. While doing so, it has, at times been successful, and at times it had to face Uthe brunt. The point here is that the journalism has got a vital role to play, given the change of guard that has taken place in the United States of America (USA), it has become pivotal for the journalists to maintain that image, where they always remain neutral, present different sides of the issue, and allow the masses to shape up their opinion. Post change of guard in the USA might also stir some behavioural changes in media in the USA, and those changes are simply going to reflect every where in the world. The change can be: journalist abandoning the path of advocacy, and in other words, journalism that always has stood for the advocacy of human values, may start treading a different path. This path may not encourage moderation. This path may not allow the journalist to stay neutral. This path may not allow the scribe to just present different sides of the story. This path may be a path that will encourage the journalists to take sides. Taking sides, and that too when it comes to a journalist taking sides, it surely is a catastrophe—catastrophe for the society and catastrophe for the very basic founding elements of journalism. Taking sides leads to the formation of propaganda machinery. It actually becomes the backbone of the machinery that spreads falsehood and misinformation. Thus, this propaganda is widely used to achieve different gains: political, economical and strategic. Power centres across the world, are trying to have ‘full’ or ‘some’ power over those who are having deep and penetrative eyes on certain things (journalists in this case). Directly or indirectly, these powers want to have control over them, which is alarming. This is dangerous for the free and independent press, as this indicates that the press that once was independent is disseminating the information that suits a particular power centre, and that helps in achieving any political or economic goal. Thus, again, as mentioned, the propaganda machinery comes into the existence. At this crucial, and decisive juncture the responsibilities is on the shoulders of the institutions that are producing a good number of journalists every year. The need of an hour is to inculcate the basic journalistic values in those who are willing to contribute to this field. They are to be taught: how not to compromise on the basic values, and how it is important to stand on the side of the truth. The institutions are duty bound to infuse a sense of deeper understanding and quest to know more among the aspiring scribes, because if the truth is to be brought into the limelight—that’s what the prevailing times are demanding—there has to be a deeper understanding and analytical bent of mind. There is a need that such institutions should make it clear that the outgoing scribes should not become a part of propaganda machinery, the machinery that kills the basic motive of journalism, and shrouds the noble profession with a cloth that turns it into something that’s murky. Let there be undeniable hard facts. Let no sides be taken; let lies and fabrications find no place in the world of journalism. Muslim Jan MEDIA TIMES 5 DECEMBER 2016 Arif Nazir Water Water everywhere Not a drop to drink. FLASHFLOODS AND UNITY 6 MEDIA TIMES MEDIA TIMES DECEMBER 2016 SO MANY PEOPLE WERE CONTRIBUTING FINANCIALLY AND OTHERS BY WORKING CONTINUOUSLY FOR MORE THAN 8 HOURS IN THE CAMP. he gut-wrenching images elders as well as the youth, with courage of September 2014 when and cooperation, for no reason but to flashfloods hit the valley save humanity. still haunt me. It is the most All the five mosque committees Tdevastating natural disaster that the covering the area of Hyderpora under J&K has witnessed in last hundred the supervision of Syed Hyder Muslim years. Bait-ul-Mal started the first relief camp It had rained for almost past one week; of the valley to provide food and shelter most parts of the city were inundated. to the flood victims. The water level in the river Jhelum had Both the local youth and the elders crossed the danger mark. The situation were working restlessly to serve a rising reminded me of Coleridge’s lines from number of victims that had already Poem Ancient Mariner; gone above 6000 in the first five days in Water Water everywhere the camp. Apart from providing food Not a drop to drink and shelter to the flood victims in the However, it was evening time, and I camp, relief was also sent outside the still remember my father called me and camp to the areas where access could said something very important, full of be made. Till now, it was all coming emotions and something that no book from the efforts of the people, who can teach me. “Dear son, you know were contributing from wherever the situation is more than worse in possible. Relief trucks loaded with rice most parts of the city. Now, we have a bags, vegetables and fruits were coming responsibility to help those who are in in from different villages of the valley.