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An Aam Aadmi's letter to Mr.Narendra Modi

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Dear Shri.Narendra Modi ji Firstly, congratulations for being the PM hopeful for this vast nation called India. While your detractors are ruling you out, most of the Indians are already seeing you as their future PM especially the stock markets that are bouncing up in joy every day. That in itself is no mean task and you deserve all appreciation for that. As an aam aadmi , I would like to draw your attention to the issues that bother us, not that you do not know, but to reassure ourselves.   Taxation – Whatever happens in this country, whether it is the price rise or corruption or any other issue, it is the employees of either private or any other sector who are the most affected. As their sources of income is salary , they are easy targets for the governments to tax them heavily at the source with the result they take home less than what actually they would need for a comfortable and happy living. Please find ways that would put more money in employees’ pockets and those e

What makes a media company take political sides?

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The recent remarks on media by AAP's Arvind Kejriwal, the issue of paid news and the Big Fights(NDTV, etc.,) that happen on the subject of media and politics prompted me to write this column. Before you proceed on reading this, let me make it clear that this is not a generalization on media industry as there are always exceptions. I   respect all such media companies who never compromise on editorial supremacy which keeps the spirit of democracy alive. The Prelude 1 .      The moment one talks about media, the first thing that comes to mind is the print. It is only in the last three decades that electronic media has evolved. Of course, the latest development is that of the digital media that includes social media. Print is the longest surviving media in the world. 2.       James Augustus is considered as the Father of Indian Press as he started the first Indian newspaper, a weekly, from Kolkata, the Bengal Gazette in January 1780. 3.      The media compani