Call For An Intellectual Kshatriya

Call For An Intellectual Kshatriya
by Rajesh Tembarai Krishnamachari

In the present scenario where people spend more time taking in media information than interacting with other people, media reports yield a tremendous influence on the readers’ mind down to a subconscious level. Media coverage today has an inordinate impact on the views of the populace in general and the administration in particular. 10000 people perishing in a famine in Sub-Saharan Africa might go unnoticed, but the killing of 10 Israelis is given wide coverage enough to impart a 180-degree turn to the foreign policy of the world’s sole superpower.

It is in this recognition of the new global arena that has spurred certain vested interest groups to pump in billions of dollars to PR firms, advertisement agencies and lobbyists in an attempt to garner public support for their actions. In this regard, Indians in general and Hindus in particular have lagged behind considerably. This paper aims and hopes to provide ‘motivation, guidance and perhaps the inspiration’ to young Indians to take up the cause of the country through the pen and become intellectual warriors or Bauddhika Kshatriya-s.