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Introduction: Shri. Milind Gadgil 1. India's senior most defense journalist. 2. 40 years plus experience in press reporting as editor and journalist. 3. Reported live events from the battlefield in the 1965 Indo-Pak war. 4. Served on the side of Egypt in the 1973 Arab Israel conflict to provide live military news. Served as a press reporter during 1969 Vietnam War and 1991 Gulf war. 5. Indian Government has sent him as a "Special Well-wisher Lawyer" to several parts of Asia through Naval Warships. 6. In the 1999 Kargil war he contributed news from the Batalik Region. |
7. He has done extensive research into implementation of military
expeditions and commands. He has himself operated and tested the anti-tank missiles
and is an excellent paratrooper himself having received training from US Military.
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8. He played an instrumental role in formulating the syllabus for the subject
of "Defense Reporting" in India.
9. The US Government has felicitated him as the US Army Red Cross for his valorous
work as a paratrooper reporter in Vietnam War.
Opinion:
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of every nation generally keeps a watch on all
important websites giving information about that
country. Any anomalies or errors in print or pictorial form such as maps etc
are detected by the ministry and taken up by the
respective government. The websites and their concerned governments are asked
to correct the distortion. Normally the
government of India should have a department monitoring all the important websites
round the clock. A few unimportant sites may be overlooked for which we will
not hold anyone guilty as there is a jungle of websites on the net but the more
prominent, major ones need to be monitored continuously by the government on
a su-moto basis.
It is indeed a tragic state of affairs that only when the citizens
of India or those of Indian origin residing overseas rise up in protest,
that these discrepancies are reformed. We should collectively bring pressure
on the government of India to introduce a cell which will suo-moto(?) take action.
In this particular case, the CIA is an agency of the US government and so this
matter should be immediately taken up with the US State Dept.
BBC is 90% funded by licence fees through the British government who renews its charter every 10 years. It has just been renewed a month ago for another 10 years. Here too, we can take up the matter with the British government. With regard to CNN we can warn them that we will not only block their website but also the broadcast of their TV programmes to India. Both agencies have a substantial viewership and advertising clientele in India.
If we take such a step it will hit them hard. Their need is most and we will see the result. For that we have to take some action. It is our general apathy as Indians which encourages foreigners to indulge in this kind of mischief repeatedly. The only way to discourage them and prevent repeated offence is to have a constant public opinion which will force the government of India to become active and vigilant.
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